#TheBraaiShow: Cake Media Demands AKA Retract His Statement
TheBraaiShow: Cake Media Demands AKA Retract His Statement. In response to rapper AKA’s legal letter, Cake Media is now demanding that the award-winning rapper retract his statement about him owning 50% of The Braai Show. Following the announcement that Cassper Nyovest will be hosting season two of The Braai Show several back and forths between AKA and production company have taken place.
According to Daily Sun on Sunday, Cake Media released a statement stating their demands to the rapper and also claimed that the rapper’s statement that he owns 50% of the show was false. AKA has claimed that he jointly came up with the concept of the show with MakhuduCom.
“Executive producers of the television show, The Braai Show with Cassper Nyovest are demanding AKA (Kiernan Forbes) to retract all comments, accusations and allegations made on all of his social media platforms regarding the showand his purported ownership by 1pm on Monday, 16 August. He must also apologise for the damage he has caused as a consequence of his actions.”
At the time of publishing, this article, AKA had not retracted his statement and his management had not taken down their statement on Twitter. The statement continues to say that the rapper has no copyright over the show and emphasizes that MakhuduCom conceptualised the show.
“Essentially, the action points out that Kiernan Forbes has no copyright claims as show was conceived wholly by MakhuduCom; Forbes’ primary agreement with MakhuduCom applied to the AKA TV app and came post the creation of the show, and his claim to own 50% copyright is incorrect and malicious, among other matters. “The letter points out that Kiernan Forbes has no claims to any copyright over the show. It asserts the show was conceptualised by MakhuduCom and that production company Bar Leader was approached to facilitate production of the concept into a television show.”
Cake Media in their statement allege that the rapper misunderstood the agreement that was in place between them. “It is clear from a consideration of your letters that your client has relied on a flawed and legally impermissible interpretation of the various agreements concluded by the various parties. In particular, it seems to us that your client has misunderstood the various rights and obligations which flow from the partnership agreement.”
The publication reports that AKA’s management team on Friday received the legal letter and the matter is currently being dealt with by his legal team. “The letter was received early Friday evening and will be dealt with by our legal team. We are not at liberty to discuss our legal position so as not to compromise our case at this stage. “We will however note that at no point was our client appropriately engaged, as stipulated in the contract and all these changes took place at a time that he is grieving and had engaged the public and all his business partners/affiliations that he was temporarily taking a step back. No further comment can be made.”
