It is a clear case of cold feet and apologies.
Kenyan artistes seem to be having issues with
Nigerian ones.
Barely two days after throwing a shade at rapper,
Ice Prince for his song/video for the song, ‘N
Word’, rising Kenyan rapper, Mwafreeka Mwaf
swallowed his pride and apologised to Ice Prince
in a lengthy Facebook post.
According to him, Ice Prince’s mega star star
status ony became obvious to him after his
statements generated premium media attention.
While apologising, Mwafreeka offered
clarifications on what he meant in his first
message which turned out an apparent diss.
It is not the first time in recent weeks that
Nigerian acts have been verbally attacked by
music acts from other parts of Africa. Another
Kenyan act popularly known as Jaguar, recently
dissed Iyanya.
Read the post below-
Just realized in the past few days
that Ice Prince is a MEGA superstar. No
disrespect but I didn’t know.
Anyway my comment on him seems to
have made headlines in Nigeria. Funny
shit is they describing my songs as chart
topping, heheheeheh.
To quote Chief Kamachi “I’m a
Underground rapper, my jewels is
invisible”
I have never had a hit single in Kenya
even my collabo with K’NAAN only topped
the charts in South Africa.
Anyway to make things clear, I respect
Ice Prince hustle as a rapper. 1 million
people must be following him for a
reason. What I meant by realistic dreams
is I would understand if he rapped about
cars like Range Rovers, Audis, Benzes,
BMWs. Am sure he can easily afford
those and be able to drive them in
Nigeria.
I just feel the Bugatti dream is far
fetched. With its very low centre of
gravity, does Nigeria have the roads to
drive that shit on?? No disrespect to
Nigeria but I think only South Africa has
the infrastructure for such cars.
Also with 1 million followers, I think Ice
Prince has earned enough mandate to
TRULY express himself on other stuff
other than girls and cars. (There’s nothing
wrong with rhyming about girls BTW ;))
Still I would want to learn more about
Nigeria through his music. One thing I
respect about Nigeria is they are proud of
their accent, whether in Kenya or America,
a Nigerian speaks in his accent and
proudly. Nigerians are so proud that even
Hollywood treats the Nigerian accent as
the “African accent”
In Kenya as soon as we enter the plane
we develop a foreign accent etc
So with such proud people I think Ice
Prince or any successful African artist
doesn’t need to copy paste the American
swag.
My thoughts!!
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