Nkosinathi ‘DJ Black Coffee’ Maphumulo applauded local rapper Riky Rick for his hard-hitting Metro FM Awards acceptance speech at the Durban ICC on Saturday night. Rick attacked Metro FM for not supporting struggling artists.
The Sidlukotini hitmaker found support in DJ Black Coffee, who expressed his dissatisfaction on social media.
I guess we've been quiet for too long.....Respects to @rikyrickworld for speaking the truth.....🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
— #PIECESOFME (@RealBlackCoffee) February 26, 2017
In a series of tweets Black Coffee continued to criticised the awards, starting with the radio station itself. He wrote:
"Just watched the #MMA16....maybe it's time @METROFMSA do what they do best and remain a Radio Station?"
He went on to criciticise the Best Remix category which he claimed did not have an actual remix that was nominated.
"So on Remix category....there was actually no Remix?....Meanwhile the Alicia Keys remix was on high rotation and played across the World?"
— #PIECESOFME (@RealBlackCoffee) February 26, 2017
WATCH: Riky Rick blasts radio stations in #MMA16 acceptance speech
He also mentioned that the awards were “definitely” not helping artists, hence ''artists before us died poor".
"This is definitely not helping the Culture..Most Artist before us died poor...we are trying to fix our https://t.co/O07wpGbMaE us instead."
— #PIECESOFME (@RealBlackCoffee) February 26, 2017
Though Black Coffee was in the country, he did not attend the Metros as he was performing at one of the hottest music festivals this weekend, Ultra.
EFF's leaders Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu also added that the awards are politically influenced:
"We love Caiphus Semenya&Letta Mbulu,we need a proper event 2 honor them.Not this Mom Rubby's shebben called #MMA16 corrupted by Mabala noise"
— Julius Sello Malema (@Julius_S_Malema) February 25, 2017
"Record Labels spend a lot of (*stolen) money to vote for themselves & their artists to win #MetroFMAwards, & then the awards become bogus!"
— Floyd Shivambu (@FloydShivambu) February 26, 2017
Local actress and The People's bae, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi's girlfriend, Mmabatho Montsho also put her two cents in, she wrote:
"Music is medicine. Sad that an art that sacred is tainted by political corruption to a point where even its celebration has no credibility."
— Mmabatho Montsho (@MmabathoMontsho) February 26, 2017