Cassper Nyovest says AKA and KO’s singles aren’t “hip-hop”

by Johana Mukandila

Ahead of his boxing match with Priddy Ugly which is set to take place this coming weekend at the Pretoria’s Sun Arena. Cassper along with Priddy Ugly held a conference at the Moloko Pretoria. During the conference, the musician threw a little shade for AKA and KO’s latest chart-topping single, saying “Sete” and “Lemons”, aren’t actually hip hop songs and are instead more Afrobeats leaning.

“I’m not hating on that. I was just highlighting that for me it’s something that I’ve observed everyone else can play with sounds and it’s all cool. As soon as I do it I’m not a rapper anymore, that’s what happens when you’re the biggest, man, everyone’s got something to say,” he added.

“If you listen to ‘Sete’ and you listen to afrobeats, it’s the same,” he said. Although his comment may be perceived as “potshot,” he also acknowledged that the new single was is a “hot song.” “But it’s a hot song. Fortunately for everyone else they can explore, but as soon as I touch another sound it’s, ‘Yho you’re disrespecting hip-hop’. It’s tricky,” he said.

Cassper also shed some light on Afrobeats, amapiano and how the sounds of the African continent are merging. The South African rapper said that he thinks that Africans right now are one and are therefore getting closer to each other. “Amapiano plays in Nigeria just as much as it plays in South Africa, which is dope. So for me I think we’re all influencing each other. There’s Nigerian guys and Afrobeats guys making amapiano, and now we have some of our big artists starting to make Afrobeats,” Cassper said.

The record producer and songwriter also touched based on his recent release which publishes in print in Insider on Saturday in Saturday Star, and Pretoria News Weekend and many more.