South African rapper, Cassper Nyovest, was in Nigeria recently for the just concluded Soundcity MVP Awards.
The 27-year-old, who was named best hip-hop artiste at the ceremony, had earlier taken shots at Nigerian rappers during an interview with pulse.ng.
Among other things, he said Nigerian rappers were not known in South Africa.
Here are three reasons why the ‘Doc Shebaleza’ thinks he is better than Nigerian rappers.
- Shut down the largest stadium in Africa
Cassper shut down FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 2, 2017 with over 68,000 in attendance.
It was tagged the 2World Biggest Hip-Hop Concert” by Huffington Post.
In 2015, the ‘Baby Girl’ rapper filled up the 20,000 capacity TicketPro Dome in Johannesburg without any supporting international artiste.
He doubled the numbers a year later when he moved the concert to the 40,000 capacity Orlando Stadium.
That is way bigger than the estimated 22,000 that attended Phyno’s 2017 show at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu and the miserly 6,000 at Olamide’s OLIC at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, Lagos.
- MI’s criticism of fellow Nigerian rappers
Nigerian rapper and record producer, MI Abaga, took shots at his compatriots in 2017 with a song titled ‘You Rappers Should Fix Up Your Lives’.
MI claimed in the song that Nigerian rappers were “getting Killed” by their South African counterparts, while other rappers are switching to singing. He then urged them to “fix up” their lives.
That tallies with Cassper’s assertion that “rappers from Nigeria are kinda unknown in SA. If we talk about crossing over, I know that a lot of people in Nigeria know about my music, I know that in Kenya and Ghana it’s the same thing.”
- Sold 10 million album units
Cassper received a certification from the Recording Industry of South Africa (RISA) In December 2017 for selling over 10 million album equivalents. The figure includes streams, digital and physical downloads, caller ring back tunes and everything else he had sold since he first dropped a record. This is another record set by Cassper which no Nigerian rapper has ever achieved.
