SAMA Nominations Unleashed

On Thursday the much anticipated South African Music Awards nominations were released and we gotta say there’s tough competition up in there and it just lays out the standard of our music industry(proud). 

Here on SEl&EL we also human which means of course we rooting for certain people like Ricky Rick, Nathi and Black Coffee.

Let’s slaughter a few of the categories and give you our predictions and this time we promise to do a follow up to see how we faired

Here we go:

Album of the Year
Francois van Coke - Francois van Coke    
Emtee - Avery    
Nathi - Buyelekhaya    
Tresor - VII
Black Coffee - Pieces of Me

This is a very tough category, ask us and we’ll tell you there’s only 3 contenders up in here. As much as we’d love Nathi to win this one Black Coffee has been fiery off late.

Female Artist of the Year
Judith Sephuma - One Word    
Zahara     - Country Girl    
Fifi Cooper - 20Fifi    
Karen Zoid - Drown Out the Noise    
Zonke - Work of Heart    

Ladies stand up, this one’s for you. Like the first category this one is also tough Fifi, Zahara and Karen all had an amazing year last year but something our bones tells that us Karen might just win this year, she sure has put in a lot of work

Newcomer of the Year
Riky Rick - Family Values
Emtee - Avery    
Tresor - VII    
Fifi Cooper - 20Fifi    
Nathi - Buyelekhaya    

It’s super obvious who we rooting for in this category so we just cross our fingers on it

Best Rap Album    
Emtee - Avery
Kid X - 3 Quarter Pace
Da L.E.S - North God
Riky Rick - Family Values
Zakwe – Impande

The ish genre in our country right now and we think this battle is just between Emtee and Ricky Rick and we are with Ricky on this one

Best Dance Album    
Black Coffee - Pieces of Me
Mi Casa - Home Sweet Home
Mobi Dixon - Tribal Soul Special Edition
DJ Merlon - Original Copy
Junior Taurus & Lady Zamar - Cotton Candy

Generally we are not that crazed about dance music most probably because of our lack of skill in dancing but this is also one of the categories that are keeping us on the edge of our seat. Again Black Coffee is bound to take this one but if fate proves otherwise let it be Mobi Dixon

Best Collaboration
Dbn Nyts ft. Zinhle Ngidi & Trademark - Shumaya
Shekinah x Kyle Deutsch - Back to the Beach
AKA ft. Redsan, Burna Boy & Stoneboy - All Eyes on Me         
Major League DJz ft. Cassper Nyovest, Okmalumkoolkat, Riky Rick & Carpo - Sylza Tsotsi
Khuli Chana ft. Patoranking - No Lie

We not going to say much about this one because most of the songs are done and dusted and Shekinah and Kyle’s track is the freshest so they can go ahead and grab this one

Nomination list was adapted from

Channel. 2016. All the nominees for the 2016 Samas | Channel24 . [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.channel24.co.za/Music/News/all-the-nominees-for-the-2016-samas-20160421. [Accessed 29 April 2016].