AKA Lives On Through His Tweets

AKA’s Twitter persona was a huge part of his brand and character. As a result, two years since his passing, AKA’s tweets are still making the rounds on the TL and it has been said many times that “AKA had a tweet for everything.”

Whenever a celebrity rubs people off the wrong way on X, his tweets about celebrity culture are brought back to the TL. Alongside tweets about his love for South Africa, his critique of the country’s ruling party, the ANC, and a whole lot more. 

One can only wonder what he would be saying today about Trump and Musk’s America’s recent actions and words against South Africa. It’s obvious he would stand for Southy, as he said countless times that South Africa, the best country in the world, needs to be protected at all costs. 

AKA was a patriotic South African and he would share his commentary on Twitter during matches, relentlessly supporting South Africa during soccer and rugby matches.  

AKA had a love-hate relationship with Twitter. Being a highly-opinionated and outspoken individual meant some of his tweets would cause controversy, sparking a flurry of responses.  

At some point, things got so out of hand, AKA handed his account over to his PR and management teams. That didn’t last long, of course, and Supa Mega would soon return to take off where he left off, speaking his mind and ruffling feathers in the process. 

A Twitter-era success

Twitter played a huge role in AKA’s career from the start. His career started just as Twitter was gaining popularity in the late 2000s. 

AKA garnered a large following because he was one of the hottest South African artists of that era and also because he tweeted quite a lot. As his arch-nemesis Cassper Nyovest rapped, “You always on Twitter my n*gga, where do you find all the time?” on the DJ Drama-featuring ‘Tse Tswembu Tse Blind’ in 2015 at the height of their beef.

AKA became infamous for his regular “rants” where he would tweet his feelings about music, politics, sport and his personal life among other matters. 

As much as a huge chunk of AKA tweets were deleted (at some point, he would regularly clean up his account), AKA left a large archive of tweets on various topics. An archive that the Megacy (his fanbase) and just about anybody keeps referring to at relevant moments. 

One of the main factors that prolong grief are moments where one wonders about the deceased’s reaction to a current event. Last year, when Meek Mill sent out an ignorant tweet asking South Africans and Nigerians where they listen to music (because apparently we are too underdeveloped for Spotify), some South Africans wondered how AKA would have responded to Meek. 

AKA, whose nickname was Bhova (which means “top dawg”), was like the watchdog of South Africa on X. When Burna Boy came for South Africa about xenophobic attacks in 2019, AKA eloquently addressed Burna and other accounts. 

Almost a year after his passing, AKA is still remembered for his unfiltered takes on X. 

Here are some AKA bangers from X: