Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson has been nominated for the 2018 MOBO Lifetime Achievement Award this week. The awards ceremony, whose name stands for ‘Music Of Black Origin’, is due to take place in Leeds later this year.
Now in its 23rd year, the awards have been won in previous years by music legends such as Sam Smith, Craig David, Sean Paul and Nicki Minaj.
The nomination has come as a surprise in Liverpool’s council headquarters and across the city, as its residents ponder whether Mayor Anderson has, in fact, led a secret double life as a professional rapper. When asked by Mersey Gazette about his involvement, his response was simply “Apart from playing the spoons at family gatherings, I’m not really what you’d call a musician”. Mr. Anderson has no known available music recordings, leading to the conclusion that it may well be a case of mistaken identity.
Local musician and former member of Icicle Works, Ian McNabb, offered the opinion “I don’t believe it for a second, it’s all a smokescreen to hide the fact he’s been taking bribes from Big Pharma, to spike our drinking water with chemicals that turn us into council-tax paying zombies.”
After further investigation, Mersey Gazette can exclusively reveal that the mix-up was due to human error. A recently recruited research intern at the MOBO HQ had been trying to Google the real name of the artist responsible for What’s Luv? (featuring Ashanti & Ja Rule) and Make It Rain (featuring Lil Wayne), a rapper named Joseph Antonio Cartagena, who goes under the stage name “Fat Joe”
