Twitter React To Headies Not Disqualifying Burna Boy After Portable’s Saga

Music lovers on the Bird app are airing their opinions as regards portable’s 2022 headies disqualification

By Ademola Bashorun

Nigerian music lovers on Twitter have aired their opinions as regards why Burna Boy was not disqualified in the 2022 Headies Award after Portable was disqualified.

The conversation sprung after popular journalist Joey Akan called out the headies academy for choosing to disqualify Portable because he is a smaller artist.

According to the decorated music journalist, the headies academy are supposed to reward artistic excellence and not serve as a moral tool to censor their behaviours.

Your job is to cast shiny trophies, and hand them over to people who have shown artistic distinction, while making your own bank.

It's a music award show. A platform to celebrate artistic brilliance. Not a moral tool for censoring behaviour.

You're not the police or NBC.

— Joey Akan (@JoeyAkan) July 27, 2022