AKA Responds To Sizwe Alakine, Explains Controversial Lemonade Verse. Sizwe Moeketsi Moniker, is a South African rapper commonly known as Reason, he came to prominence after his collaborative work with Ms Nthabi. He has worked with some of South Africa’s respected names such as Stogie T, Moneoa, ProVerb, DJ Maphorisa, Kwesta and HHP just to mention a few. He recently changed his stage name to Sizwe Alakine after jumping into amapiano.
Award-winning rapper AKA dropoed a new track titled “Lemons (Lemonade)”, featuring Nasty C. The fresh track has a few lines that have caused a stir. One line has been interpreted as a shot at AKA’s longtime rival, Cassper Nyovest. Sizwe Alakine reacted to AKA’s verse on Lemons where AKA called out rappers who were quick to jump on the amapiano. The full verse reads “People say “Hip hop died”, that’s nonsense / Thank God they showed their true colours / Switched up piano like vultures.” In a tweet addressing AKA’s sentiments, Reason wrote “Hearing @akaworldwide say “Thank God they showed they true colours/ Switched up piano like Vultures” is problematic to me. Especially from a hip hop artist saying this on an Afro beat record. Like… who you talking about exactly?”.
Reason went on to say “031 Choppa, Big Zulu, Costa, Blxckie, Reason, Kwesta… are all hip hop artists who make paino. Does that line mean @akaworldwide considers all of us as vultures for that? Like? You make Afro Beat records my nigga. Why you the only one that can “switch” genres???
In an exclusive interview we did with AKA, the rapper spoke on Sizwe Alakine’s reaction explaining what exactly he meant. He said it’s about passing a line. “For me it’s a passing line. There was a lot of guys who went hip-hop wasnt the most popular genre in South Africa, in the rise of amapiano , i was still dressing hip hop, i mean when you looked the swag, look at focalistic, he dresses like a rapper. Maphorisa too dresses like a rapper. It’s all hip hop, the way they dress, the way they talk and think, they live a hip hop lifestyle. So you can never say hip hop went away because we wouldn’t still be wearing Balenciaga would we?,” he said.
“So with regards to that line, it was talking to boys and girls who thought that their time in hip hop was over so they were like ‘ayt, let’s go do something else’ i mean theres nothing wrong with changing genres. It was directed to those who implied it was dead, but now they are back doing hip hop because it’s popular again,” he added.
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