South African DJ and record producer Themba Sekowe, popularly known as DJ Maphorisa expressed his concerns about Nigerian DJs speeding their sets when playing amapiano songs in clubs.
The renowned DJ went on a rant on his live to plead with the DJs to lower the songs’ tempos, as speeding the songs was unnecessary. He has always been known to be very vocal about the production of music, in his last social media rant he said that if an artist records using his equipment the song belonged to him. This statement made a lot of X users upset as they claimed that he didn’t want upcoming artists to succeed.
DJ Maphorisa in a live video posted on X(formerly Twitter) of him pleading with Nigerian DJs saying, “Please play piano softer with the tempo, please take it down a little bit; 113, 114, 115 max, that’s fast for us. You can’t be playing Amapiano with 120 BPM. Please, Nigeria DJs, play Amapiano softer and lower the tempo.”
Dj Maphorisa on Nigerian Djs?? pic.twitter.com/GNA4ea2SLU
— MDN NEWS (@MDNnewss) February 18, 2024
X users took to the comment section to express their opinions with one saying:
From today they’ll hate him, and that time he’s not lying amapiano from Nigeria not not pianoing
— Okuhle (@Okuhle_CFM) February 18, 2024
Another user commented:
Did he just confuse people who don’t know fruity loops??
— Turmber ?? Lil Teezy (@thembatutu) February 18, 2024
While another user commented:
They put the tempo on 140 while in piano its 112 pic.twitter.com/XNz2YLdiGR
— throwbie (@outofcontextwr) February 18, 2024
Another X user commented:
Please go to lagos and teach the o???
— Truthfulness (@LongRich5) February 19, 2024
Also see: Prince Kaybee addresses DJ Maphorisa’s claim on owning artists’ masters
