South African hip-hop artist Cassper Nyovest (real name Refiloe Maele Phoolo) has been accused of being an “AKA copycat” with maskandi song.
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Fans accused him of copying his rival AKA after he released his latest Kwaito single titled “Sponono Sa Mme” featuring legendary Shwi No Mthekalawith some maskandi in it.
The rapper also released a song with Nigerian superstar D’Banj called Something for Something.
Cassper's fans used to mock AKA for doing Wedding songs Look who's following his path now 😂😂
— N J A B U L O (@Njabulo_rx) November 18, 2018
“Cassper’s fans used to mock AKA for doing Wedding songs Look who’s following his path now (sic),” – one Twitter user tweeted.
Another fan also implied that Mr Nyovest is always copying other musicians. “Cassper seems to not know where he wants to go. He followed Kwesta kwi kwaito and he sucks at it. He is now making weddings songs and he sucks at it. AKA is doing well with wedding songs. Whats next for Cassper? (sic),” – another tweep wrote.
Imagine not doing a wedding song just bcs aka did a wedding song which the beat was from casspers song Malome
You aka fans are a joke honestly. pic.twitter.com/yFMqG5IAXy— 🇿🇦MUDLI WAKOTINI❁ (@siphosami_sa) November 18, 2018
Cassper Nyovest didn’t respond to the hate but did take to Twitter to say that the vibey song was made for the wedding season.