Ghanaian music stakeholder, Da Hammer has expressed his disappointment on the way the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards(VGMA) conducted itself in the Artiste of the Year category.

According to the veteran, who is a sound engineer and also the founder of The Last Two Music Group, public voting should not be used as a criterion to adjudge the rapper of the year category.

He pointed out that it is only through public voting that someone like Kwesi Arthur could be crowned the Rapper of the Year over Eno Barony while speaking in an interview with Caleb Nii Boye on ShowBiz on Starr 103.5 FM.

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"It’s just what I heard about how the rapper of the year was handled. I heard it was based on votes and that is the worst thing I have ever heard for a category like the Rapper of the Year."

"How do you expect people to be sincere about their opinion on a rapper? You can’t get fans to be sincere about their opinion of their idol. There is no way somebody who loves Sarkodie will say Sarkodie can't rap or this year he didn't do that good."

"Rapper of the Year can never be in the voting category, it has to be decided by a committee inside the Academy who understands rap. They have to know what it takes to have five mics or one mic. It should never be based on one song but all the material you've put out."

"You need people who understand it to be able to choose the rapper of the year."