Rashid Kay Explains Why He Believes Caiphus Semenya Is Demanding 50% Royalties From AKA
Rashid Kay Explains Why He Believes Caiphus Semenya Is Demanding 50% Royalties From AKA. AKA’s Mass Country album has been on everyone’s lips ever since it was released in February. The slain rapper has received many plaudits for exceptional work on the body of work.
In the twist of the events, AKA and his record label are being sued by the legendary Jazz artist Caiphus Semenya. This came after reports from SundayWorld that AKA did not pay the Jazz artist for sampling two of his songs. Taking to Twitter, Rashid Kay shared his opinion on why Ntate Semenya has decided to sue AKA after his death.
Rashid contended that Semenya may have noticed how well the Mass Country album has been performing on the charts and identified an opportunity to capitalize on it. The seasoned rapper continued by saying that Caiphus could have spoken with AKA while he was still alive and resolved the matter instead of making the sly move he is currently making.
“After the passing of AKA, his streams and sales doubled and tripled. Ntate Caiphus Semenya saw the opportunity to cash in. He could have approached Mega when those songs were released. That’s a sneaky move from the elder.” Tweeted Rashid Kay.
The Jazz genius is demanding 50% royalties after AKA sampled his song Matswale when making Caiphus’s Song. AKA is also believed to be facing copyrights violation after he also sampled Caiphus’ lyrics on the song Diary which is on the Mass Country album.
According to SundayWorld, Semenya has directed his record label to handle the copyright situation. He also stated that he met AKA once and the late rapper apologized for sampling his song and promised to make things right.
“Basically, he was a nice young guy. He told me that he had done something wrong that he was not supposed to do. He apologised and asked how he could fix it. We spoke about it and he promised to fix things. I told him that the song was nice because music doesn’t have to be in one style,” said Caiphus Semenya.
