After congratulating King Promise for winning the Artiste of the Year slot in the 2025 Telecel Ghana Music Awards, Stonebwoy is yet to receive a response from the ‘Paris’ hitmaker.
An interview with Hitz FM, however, suggests King Promise might not reply to Stonebwoy’s post on X.
When asked if he had seen Stonebwoy’s congratulatory message on X, King Promise responded that he had only been told about it and did not see it as a big deal. “I’ve been told of it, I have actually. Haven’t been on Twitter today. I don’t think is a big deal, I’ve received the congratulations. I don’t want to talk about it, I don’t really think it’s anything to speak about,” he disclosed in an interview with DJ Slim and Doreen Avio on Daybreak Hitz.
Earlier in an X post, Stonebwoy wrote: “Congratulations @IamKingPromise on your win and your debut entry into the league of AOTY winners. You’re Welcome.”
The two were locked in a duel over the topmost award during the 2024 edition of the scheme but Stonebwoy ultimately emerged winner. The 2025 TGMA got even more competitive when with King Paluta in the picture.
This year, King Promise beat off competition from Stonebwoy, Joe Mettle, Black Sheriff, King Paluta, Team Eternity and Kwaku Smoke to win the most covetous award of the TGMA.
Apart from the Artiste of the Year award, he also took home the Afropop Song of the Year with ‘Paris’, Best Afrobeats/Afropop Artiste of the Year, and Album of the Year with ‘True to Self’ at the 26th Telecel Ghana Music Awards.
Stonebwoy, on the other hand, won Best Reggae/Dancehall Artiste of the Year, Reggae/Dancehall Song of the Year (with Psalm 23) and Best Music Video of the Year.
In the meantime, some have suggested that King Promise might just be reciprocating Stonebwoy’s gesture when he went silent over King’s congratulatory message last year after his TGMA Artiste of the Year victory.
Others have also said that the tone of Stonebwoy’s post sounds condescending.
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