{"id":59451,"date":"2019-01-28T09:40:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T09:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=59451"},"modified":"2019-01-27T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T10:36:10","slug":"my-grandmother-wept-when-i-won-my-first-vgma-award-trigmatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/my-grandmother-wept-when-i-won-my-first-vgma-award-trigmatic\/","title":{"rendered":"My Grandmother Wept When I Won My First VGMA Award \u2013 Trigmatic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian rapper, Trigmatic talks about his first VGMA. Moreover, he recounted that his grandmother shed tears when he won his first award at the Ghana Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>According to the rapper, his grandmother could not hold back her tears of joy when he won the \u2018Best Rapper of the Year\u2019 at the 2011 edition of the awards. He made these statements to Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cShe [shed tears] the whole night\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, Trigmatic revealed that he took his grandmother to experience the awards on that day. This was because he was confident of winning and wanted her to share in his victory.<\/p>\n<p>Trigmatic, since winning the \u2018Best Rapper of the Year\u2019 in 2011, has gone on to win \u2018Best Collaboration of the Year\u2019 at the 2013 and \u2018Record of the Year\u2019 at the 2014 edition of the Ghana Music Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian rapper, Trigmatic talks about his first VGMA. Moreover, he recounted that his grandmother shed tears when he won his first award at the Ghana Music Awards. 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