Black Coffee and the late rapper Riky Rick are two of my favorite things.
It was held a memorial ceremony to commemorate the life of award-winning rapper Rikhado “Riky Rick” Makhado, who died by suicide last week.
The ceremony at Wanderers Stadium, which was also broadcast live online, was attended by his friends and family, who lauded him as a leader who wanted to see everyone in attendance.
Others expressed their displeasure with Riky’s last words to his family being broadcasted over the world’s media platforms.
The suicide letter that was leaked shattered the heart of award-winning DJ Black Coffee, who expressed his sorrow on social media.
Seeing Riky’s last words printed in a newspaper was something that didn’t sit right with me, so I wanted to talk about it. Why was it necessary for a black guy to write something as delicate and sensitive as Riky’s last remarks in a newspaper? Isn’t it a shame that we’re humiliating ourselves so much and that we’re not investing in ourselves as black people and ensuring that we gradually become the generation we’ve always wished to be? Riky didn’t deserve to be treated like way. “He was a great human being who radiated love everywhere he went,” the eulogy said.
A time when Black Coffee was not in the proper frame of mind, Riky reached out to him and asked to meet, but they never did, according to Black Coffee, who also sent out a suicide threat over Twitter last week.
He said that after hearing the news of his death, he chastised himself for not working more to match his expectations.
In my own personal emotional difficulty on Wednesday, I succumbed to the temptation of sending out a tweet in my moment of weakness. Then I realized that people were now worried, which was something I didn’t want, so I removed the message. The following morning, I awoke to the news of Riky’s death. The first thing that sprang to mind was that he had seen my tweet. I used to be the strong one he called on, and now I’m the weak one. I couldn’t bear Riky’s death; I was inconsolable because I felt I had done something wrong.
“I even started blaming myself for not putting up enough effort to visit him. I realized I should have done more, such as contacting him via his mother. However, after watching his interviews and on-camera interactions with a variety of individuals, I realized that he had always informed us that he wouldn’t be around for much longer.”