OPEN LETTER TO RAPPER: AKA

Sipho Ramaru

Letter from: Anonymous

Dear AKA

This letter to me is pointless, it
won't pay my bills, it won't get me
Boity and won't improve Zuma's
English but as a fan of hip hop I
believe I should vent.

I have witnessed different eras of
South African hip hop, from
H20(amanzimtoti), the reign of
Skwata Kamp, the Reason from
Optical Illusion, the skinny and
ghetto Prokid, the rule of
Motswako, the snorbish but rather
appealing Jozi crew and the more
commercialized and Kwaito
sounding hip hop era that we are
in.

In all these years I've never
came across a rapper that is as
irritating as you, as cocky as you,
and most of all, as bored as you.
I won't take anything away from
you, you work really hard, and your
music has mass appeal but you're
wrong.

South African hip hop isn't
at it's current state because of your
efforts, that's Industry blasphemy,
and that's highly disrespectful to
other artists who are pulling their
weight, AKeezus huh? That's like
saying South Africa is at it's current
state because of Zuma, there were
a series of events, activists and
rappers before you, but then again
who knows, the way you're acting
one who'd swear that you are
Zuma's bastard.

You forget that you are in South
Africa, we don't have a broad hip
hop market, not everyone has an
iPhone or a computer to buy your
album on iTunes, and you know
well that people don't buy CDs
anymore, your last album sold
6000 copies I thought you would've
at least learnt your lesson. With that
said, you need to humble yourself,
not beg, but be likable, or you'll be
the next L-Tido.

Right now you
making good music but you
making it hard for a regular joe like
me to like you enough to support
you. Humble yourself or uzolamba
clever!!!

On Twitter, you exhaust a lot of
people, are you an orphan? Why
do you like attention so much? It's
not that people are hating on you,
you are the one thats luring all that
hate towards yourself. You have a
few awards now you think you're
the Kanye West of South Africa, that
time your gf is a dark skinned dj
and none of your singles and
albums sold gold(at least). Hhayi
brika bhova!!!

And lastly, learn from the greats,
KO, Khuli, HHP, they've been in the
game longer than you and their
albums did well and they are still
relevant. Yeah, every rapper has an
ego, when you're good you're
good, but you're overly conceited
for nothing, you haven't achieved
that much in the business.

Here's a thing about fame, it's comes and
goes quick, so don't make us be
happy when your demise arrives,
we want to miss you one day when
you have faded, right now? We
can't wait to see your downfall.

Yours truly