K.O Explains How AKA’s Passing Has Shifted The SA Hip Hop Landscape
K.O Explains How AKA’s Passing Has Shifted The SA Hip Hop Landscape. With all hands on deck in police camps in a bid to solve the AKA and Tibz murder case, the SA Hip-hop scene now has to learn to live without the Supa Mega.
K.O is one of the SA rappers who are still coming to terms with the fall of Forbes after he was gunned down outside a restaurant in Durban. In a recent interview with BBC Africa, the Skhanda World boss was asked how the death of the Supa Mega has changed the SA Hip-hop landscape.
“How did you think it changed the landscape in South Africa because that’s such a big name and a big personality in Hip-hop?” Asked BBC’s Dj Edu. In response, K.O stated that AKA was so powerful that even when he wasn’t creating music, people could feel his presence.
“That gentleman was so polarizing, that like even when he doesn’t have a hard record going you can still feel his presence,” K.O said. “Whether it’s his antics on social media or just his private life and all those things that he was doing. So even beyond that for me as a man and as an artist, I’m not gonna lie to you I’ve pulled a lot from him just from a competitive standpoint, so whereas like, he did that, I’m gonna try to do that.”
K.O also touched on his health competition with AKA saying; “he also used me the same way I was using him you know. And I’m not trying to talk down on anyone back home, but for me personally, there is noone that I can now pivot off. That was the only person that really kept me on my toes.
“When SETE was going he sent me the Lemons record with Nasty, he was like this is how I’m coming back. Im like okay okay, and I’m not gonna lie I was like, I don’t know if you going to set up to this (SETE). Of course, it came and it just landed.”
