by Chinwe okafor
It is a clear case of cold feet and apologies. Kenyan artistes seem to be having issues with Nigerian ones.
Barely two days after throwing a shade at rapper, Ice Prince for his song/video for the song, ‘N Word’, rising Kenyan rapper, Mwafreeka Mwaf swallowed his pride and apologised to Ice Prince in a lengthy Facebook post.
According to him, Ice Prince’s mega star star status ony became obvious to him after his statements generated premium media attention.
While apologising, Mwafreeka offered clarifications on what he meant in his first message which turned out an apparent diss.
It is not the first time in recent weeks that Nigerian acts have been verbally attacked by music acts from other parts of Africa. Another Kenyan act popularly known as Jaguar, recently dissed Iyanya.
Read the post below-
Just realized in the past few days that Ice Prince is a MEGA superstar. No disrespect but I didn’t know.
Anyway my comment on him seems to have made headlines in Nigeria. Funny shit is they describing my songs as chart topping, heheheeheh.
To quote Chief Kamachi “I’m a Underground rapper, my jewels is invisible”
I have never had a hit single in Kenya even my collabo with K’NAAN only topped the charts in South Africa.
Anyway to make things clear, I respect Ice Prince hustle as a rapper. 1 million people must be following him for a reason. What I meant by realistic dreams is I would understand if he rapped about cars like Range Rovers, Audis, Benzes, BMWs. Am sure he can easily afford those and be able to drive them in Nigeria.
I just feel the Bugatti dream is far fetched. With its very low centre of gravity, does Nigeria have the roads to drive that shit on?? No disrespect to Nigeria but I think only South Africa has the infrastructure for such cars.
Also with 1 million followers, I think Ice Prince has earned enough mandate to TRULY express himself on other stuff other than girls and cars. (There’s nothing wrong with rhyming about girls BTW ;))
Still I would want to learn more about Nigeria through his music. One thing I respect about Nigeria is they are proud of their accent, whether in Kenya or America, a Nigerian speaks in his accent and proudly. Nigerians are so proud that even Hollywood treats the Nigerian accent as the “African accent”
In Kenya as soon as we enter the plane we develop a foreign accent etc
So with such proud people I think Ice Prince or any successful African artist doesn’t need to copy paste the American swag.
My thoughts!!
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