SA HIP HOP AWARDS

(2012 - 2020) sa hip hop awards timelime

The South African Hip Hop Awards (SAHHA) started in 2012. They are organised by Ritual Media Group (RMG).
The very first ceremony was held at Alex Theatre in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, and the ceremony has since moved to Lyric Theatre in Gold Reef City, Johannesburg.
The event was initially televised on ETV, but has since moved to MTV Base. The SAHHAs honour every element of SA Hip Hop and the event has been growing exponentially every year.

The South African Hip Hop Awards (SAHHA) are known for breaking SA Hip Hop artists. Most big name rappers won their first ever award at the SAHHAs, ie Cassper Nyovest, IFani, EmTee, Nasty C, Tumi (Stogie T), Reason, Miss Pru DJ, to name but a few who later went on to become superstars. The SAHHA ceremony is held every year within the first 2 weeks of December

2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Awards Debut	Hip Hop Transformation	20 Years of freedoom	African by nature	Billionaires
Alex Theater	Alex Theater	Lyric theater	Lyric Theater	Lyric theater
21 November 2012	20 November 2013	17 December 2014	9 December 2015	14 December 2016

2017	2018	2019	2020
Hip Hop Politics	Where I'm From	Revolution will be computerised	New world Oder
Lyric theater	Lyric theater	Lyric theater	Digital Show
13 December 2017	14 December 2018	23 November 2019	12 December 2020

2020

South Africa surely made history on the 12 December 2020 when RMG hosted the awards virtually witnessed the 9th Annual SA Hip Hop Award 2020 here are the winners getting their awards.

2020 winners

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The nominated art form must be released or occur in South Africa. Any SA Hip Hop album/mixtape/video/event/song/that was released or impactful or effective during 15th September 2019 to 15th September 2020.

The artist/group must be South African, if not then they must have a South African work permit and their work must be produced and released in the Republic of South Africa.

Outlet Submissions: Only 1x correctly labelled envelope with hard copies of material will be accepted per entry. Include 2x CDs, artist profiles and press releases.

Dropbox Submissions: Only 1x correctly labelled ZIP file will be accepted per entry. Upload digital copies of material, artist profiles and press releases.

Courier Services: Only 1x correctly labelled envelope with hard copies of material will be accepted per entry. Include 2x CDs, artist profiles and press releases.
Submissions end 02 October 2020

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The Award Ceremony

Printed Africa in the middle with Two Little statue artists climbing the pyramid & reaching for the stars.
Great achievements within the local hip hop culture will be celebrated by focusing on how the past has shaped this phenomenon called “SA Hip Hop”. Accolades will be given to active members within the industry. Winners receive a statue that is called the Pyramid. The show will boast a number of appearances, live performances and tributes by today’s leading musicians

Blow Them Away

Sa hip hop awards 2019

The theme for this year is the revolution will be computerized and with the 4th industrial revolution fast approaching, we're honored to be in the forefront of it all with the Hip Hop culture, this will be visible from the stage design, the skits we're doing and the performances on the night. It is always an amazing thing seeing the Hip Hop congregation come together, which is seeing the dancers, the graffiti artists, the producers and everyone in the room being happy for each other and congratulating each other because we're all so happy that Hip Hop has come so far. We're currently shooting interviews for the South African Hip Hop Museum that we're currently building and just to hear the stories from people like Lance Stehr, Ready D, Falko who will be our Honorary Award recipient and Emile YX? who will be our recipient for the Ubuntu Activism Award on how Hip Hop in South Africa was like in 1984 is proof on how far we've come and that indeed the revolution will be computerized" said the Director Osmic Menoe.

We have had some made some major changes to the categories and aim to raise the bar even higher, the changes include merging the MVP and Hustler Of The Year Award together to become one, the Best Video award will be awarded to the directors of the respective videos instead of the artists themselves and we have also had to remove out the Kings Of The Province, Best Graffiti Artist and the Best Dance Crew categories due to a declining number of submissions over the years

Public voting

Public Voting Methods.

Public votes are only open to the Top 7 categories: Best Collaboration, Best Remix , Best Female, Best Hip Hop Radio Show, Best Male, Best Video and Song of the Year.

2. Online – public can register at www.sahiphopawards.com. One vote per IP address.

ONLINE VOTING CLOSES ON THE 26TH OF NOVEMBER 2020
SMS VOTING OPENS 26 NOVEMBER AND CLOSES ON THE 3RD OF DECEMBER 2020

The South African Hip Hop Awards (SAHHA) are an annual Hip-Hop award ceremony, run by the Ritual Media Group (RMG), that will take place on 20 November 2019 at the Lyric Theatre Gold Reef City, Johannesburg. Great achievements within the local hip hop culture will be celebrated by focusing on how the past has shaped this phenomenon called “SA Hip Hop”. Accolades will be given to active members within the industry. Winners receive a statue that is called a Pyramid which symbolises Africans reaching for success. The show will feature live performances by some of the nominees and will be pre-recorded for TV broadcast purposes.

After a three-month selection process a board of four industry gurus were chosen to fill advisory positions. The role of the advisory board serves to guide the awards in terms of fairness and for the awards to go strength to strength, as these candidates have no hidden agendas in the Hip Hop industry

2020
9TH ANNUAL SA HIP HOP AWARDS

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Announcement

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South African Hip Hop came together once again at the Gold Reef City Lyric Theatre on the 20th of November 2019 for the what is arguably the biggest night on the South African Hip Hop calendar, the theme was “The revolution will be computerized and this could be seen everywhere during the show from the stage.

Nadia takes the stage

We were proud to have K.O on our stage this year for the past 5 years the Skanda republic champion has boycotted the awards for 5 years. In support of hip hop & growing the culture the sahhas will always welcome artists who are not happy how the awards handled in future we will like him to participate again.

Song of the year

One of the longest running brands in South Africa Butan took the Best Local Brand after two years of them losing it and the show transcended into Emile XY and Falko being awarded one of the most important awards

Show highlights

and this could be seen everywhere during the show from the stage. the lighting, graphics, skits and even the trophy girls were dressed in futuristic outfits which blended well with the “strictly formal” that all patrons and nominees had to wear to witness the awarding of the pyramid to the highest achievers.

fill up gets an award

World renowned rapper Cassper Nyovest also took home Hustler Of The Year and Best Promoter for “Fill Up”, this comes after his Family Tree signee Nadia Nakai took home Best Female making it her first SAHHA trophy ne of the most contested categories is “Lyricist of the year” and after

we crown best female

of the night, the Ubuntu Activism and Honorary Award respectively for their work and contribution towards the industry. Some of the performances of the night included Gigi Lamayne with tribute to all the GBV abuse victims.

computerized Theme

The show started with an electrifying performance from Youngsta CPT who was also one of the biggest winners of the night taking home Best Album for 3T and Best Video for YVR, alongside him was Flame who took Best Male and Best Newcomer with his debut project titled “CandyMan”

artist khuli chana

7 years of gunning for the title and a song about the category later, rapper Ginger Trill finally took this one home and fans couldn’t be happier to see this Another surprise was Beast winning Best Collabo for “Hello” featuring Sjava, which was pleasing to everyone in the auditorium.

Crazy lu Tribute

Touchline, Yanga Chief with a performance of the song that took song of the year “Utatakho”, the proceedings also had a tribute to fallen solider, rapper and TV presenter Crazy Lu who was a part of phenomenal group “Jozi”.