5 Steps to Achieving Award Acceptance Etiquette

Here is some guidance as to what to do when accepting a music award. This mostly pertains to rappers. Please follow accordingly.

1) DO NOT bring your entire hood on stage with you to accept your award. It’s your award, you worked for it, so YOU accept it. Bringing your wife and family, that’s fine. But the whole hood? All 800 of your home boys do not need to be on the stage because there simply is not enough room, if nothing else makes sense to you.

2) If you must bring your entire block with you, keep them quiet. No one wants to hear Chicken Wing, Biscuit and Fuzzy Slippers talk because we don’t know who they are and what they have to do with anything. Furthermore, by the time they all get done yelling into the mic, giving shout outs to Mookie, Ray Ray and June Bug, and it’s your turn, the music has already come on, cuing you to get your butt off stage.

3) Don’t diss. When you win an award, humbly accept it and move on. Please don’t stand there and say something like this, “This is for all the m***a f****s who didn’t believe I was going to make it, blah blah blah.” Dedicate the damn award to your supporters and pay the haters no attention. It makes you look super bitter and confrontational when you point people out. Plus, if you’re specific, you might have trouble at the after party that night.

4) Watch out for the “I thank God” speech. When you have openly claimed you have conversations with the devil and those sorts of things on your album… Getting on stage and thanking Jesus for your award might not make too much sense…

5) Lastly. Please be timely. When your name is called, walk swiftly to the stage and get it done. A show is trying to run on a schedule here, so don’t run around the facility, gallop up the row and stop to do a little dance, or c-walk your way up the steps. When you do finally make it to the mic, say what you need to say and bounce. Don’t stand there and fake like you’re speechless, because if you have as much confidence as you put off, you knew you were going to win anyway.

I thank you for reviewing this guide. If followed, I believe we can advance in award shows.