The late great Kiernan “AKA” Forbes was honoured with two posthumous awards at this year’s South African Music Awards (SAMAs29). The event took place at the SunBet Arena in Pretoria on Saturday evening. On the night, AKA was honoured with the awards in the category of Best Collaboration with Nasty C for their song Lemons […]
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Actress Pearl Thusi recently opened up about her grieving process after the loss of her friend rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes who was shot dead outside a restaurant in Durban on February 10, alongside his friend and celebrity chef Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane. Taking to her Instagram stories, the Queen Sono actress captioned an emotional post on […]
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Lynn Forbes, the mother of slain rapper Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes, shared her top favourite songs from her son’s posthumous album Mass Country. The 14-track album, which was released on 24 February, just two weeks after the award-winning rapper’s passing, includes popular hits such as Company (featuring KDDO), Sponono (featuring Sjava, 031CHOPPA and Baby S.O.N), Mbuzi […]
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Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes’ posthumous album Mass Country has officially reached platinum status. The plaque was received by AKA’s family and music agency Vth Season by Sony Music Entertainment Africa. Also in attendance was AKA’s girlfriend Nadia Nakai and his ex DJ Zinhle with whom he shares a child. View this post on Instagram […]
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AKA and A-Reece’s fanbases (The Megacy and The Slimes, respectively) got into an online debate about A-Reece being excluded from AKA’s final album Mass Country. In February, SA Hip Hop Mag reported that fans blamed A-Reece for acting like a “superstar” after claiming that he delayed his verse for a song with the late rapper. […]
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Rapper Nadia Nakai celebrates her late lover, Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, known professionally as AKA’s latest achievement. Mass Country, the award-winning rapper’s most recent release album, has achieved a great deal of success, and his family is proudly keeping track of all the achievements. The Young, Famous and African star took to her social media to […]
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AKA’s posthumously-released album Mass Country is still receiving its flowers from industry mates, including Cassper Nyovest, who stated that Company is one of his favourite songs. Cassper made an appearance on the podcast The Episode where he spoke about being authentic, his Sprite partnership, his upcoming album and the late AKA. One of the host’s said […]
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Multi award winning musician Caiphus Semenya is reportedly suing the late rapper AKA, along with his team for sampling his songs. According to Sunday World, the Dial Your Number hitmaker is allegedly taking the late musician and his distribution company, Sony Music, to court for not paying him for sampling two of his songs. The […]
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AKA’s team has revealed his fourth studio album, Mass Country, has been certified gold just under two weeks since its release on February 24. The news comes after the late rapper joined a handful of South African artists in breaking the one million monthly listeners mark on Spotify earlier this week. “All love to The […]
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Controversial YouTuber Slik Talk has caused an uproar after bashing AKA’s last album Mass County, saying it was “an absolute piece of sh*t” and that the album had no hits. The album was released on Friday, February 24. Slik Talk took to his YouTube channel, where he trashed AKA’s album despite it reaching six million […]
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The death of the South African rapper and Hip-Hop sensation Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, who was better known AKA took a huge toll on his fans who are referred to as the Megacy. The Hip-Hop sensation was killed on the 10th of February 2023, outside a popular restaurant called Wish on Florida Road in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal […]
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The family of late rapper AKA has chosen to continue with the release of his much anticipated fourth studio album, Mass Country in his honour. On the day the rapper was gunned down, he had announced on his Instagram that his album will be released on the 27th of February 2023. View this post […]
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