Nine months after his death, slain rapper AKA’s legacy keeps shining. Aside from his album Mass Country raking in 35,404 units, equivalent to 40,972,588 streams, the rapper is also scooping awards. After scoring eight nominations at this year’s SAMA 29, the late rapper was posthumously presented three awards including Best Male Artist, Best Engineered Album, and Best Collaboration for his hit song Lemons (Lemonade) featuring Nasty C.
It hasn’t been an easy journey though for his parents Lynn and Tony Forbes who were present at the ceremony to collect the golden trophies on his behalf.
“It’s difficult every day. Life goes on and people go on with their lives and we have to, but I wake up with this every day. My life has changed and a part of me is gone,” Lynn told TshisaLIVE.
“I am a different person, but we soldier on. I believe if I talk about what I am going through, there’s one person that might be helped through what I say and I hope this is what it does.”
AKA’s first South African music award was for Best Male award artist, so adding a second one to his multitude of awards “is a three-sixty moment” for the Megacy, said Lynn.
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