Nadia nakai

“Starts out with a pipe dream…I had to make moves of faith.” These were the opening words of South African rapper AKA on his 2014 single ‘Congratulate.’ Who knew he was going to have such an illustrious career after penning down such words?

Indeed the ghastly murder of the rapper has left a huge void in the African Music and Pop Culture scene. It is as if since the late rapper’s breakout single ‘Victory Lap’ in 2011, he never took the pedal off the gas. It is only right we remember this multi-talented, once in a generation musician who has been taken from us too soon. We are going to discuss the life and career of AKA, affectionately called ‘Supa Mega’ or ‘Bhova.’

Career.

AKA is a South African rapper born on January 28, 1988, in Cape Town, South Africa. as Kiernan Jarryd Forbes. He later went on to grow in Johannesburg, known for replicating the US Hiphop culture and developing a more commercial music scene. In 2002 when he was 14, AKA, alongside his two friends Vice Versa and Greyhound, formed a hip hop g

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