Award-winning Ghanaian Reggae/Dancehall artist, Shatta Wale has earned a nomination at the 2021 MTV VMA for his contribution to Beyonce’s ‘Lion King: The Gift album’.

Shatta Wale is competing in the category of ‘Best Art Direction’ for Beyonce’s ‘Already ‘, which also features Major Lazer. He faces off stiff competition from the likes of Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Lil Nas X, Saweetie, Taylor Swift.

That notwithstanding, Shatta Wale shared a short extract of the music video on his Instagram page to inform his fans about this new development.

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“Go shatta wale, Go Shatta movement @mtv Bless up”

Several fans of Shatta Wale have since congratulated him and noted that he will win the award.

Meanwhile, Justin Bieber and Megan Thee Stallion lead all nominees for the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards. The nominations, which MTV announced on Wednesday (Aug. 11), include seven for Bieber and six for Stallion, both of whom are vying for artist of the year against Ariana Grande, Doja Cat, first time nominee Olivia Rodrigo, and Taylor Swift.

Other first-timers include The Kid LAROi and 24kGoldn, who got nods in multiple categories, including best new artist for both, song of the year for Goldn’s breakthrough hit “Mood,” and Push performance of the year for LAROi’s “Without You” set in April of this year.

lady gaga vmas — A picture of Lady Gaga at 2020 MTV VMA

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Other multiple nominees for the show slated to air live from the Barclays Center in New York on Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. include Billie Eilish, BTS, Doja Cat, Drake, Giveon and Lil Nas X, all of whom got five nods each. The show will be simulcast on CMT, Comedy Central, Logo, MTV2, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Pop, TV Land, VH1 and The CW Network.

That notwithstanding, a press release about the efforts to put on a COVID-safe event even as the much more contagious Delta variant continues to race across the nation read:

“The health and safety of artists, fans, staff and partners remain the number one priority, and MTV and Barclays Center are working closely with state and local officials to implement best practices in order to safely bring together music fans from around the globe”.
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rihanna whinced at drakes name vmas speech friendship — Rihanna and Drake in a picture at the 2016 MTV VMA award show

It is worth mentioning that Den of Thieves co-founder, Jesse Ignjatovic will serve as executive producer and Barb Bialkowski as co-executive producer of the 2021 VMAs.

The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.

Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category), the annual MTV Video Music Awards ceremony has often been called the “Super Bowl for youth”, an acknowledgment of the VMA ceremony’s ability to draw millions of youth from teens to 20-somethings each year. By 2001, the VMA had become a coveted award.

The statue given to winners is an astronaut on the moon, one of the earliest representations of MTV, and was colloquially called a “moonman”. However, in 2017, Chris McCarthy, the President of MTV, stated that the statue would be called a “Moon Person” from then on.