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AKA and The Soil have been nominated for a BET Award. Congrats!

The 2015 Black Entertainment (BET) Award nominees have been announced on their website and South African rapper AKA real name Kiernan Forbes is one of the 8 nominees in Best International African Act which was won last year by successful Nigerian rapper Davido.

The Super Mega rapper AKA receives this nomination on the heels of controversy surrounding fellow rapper Ifani’s album sales reaching gold. AKA claims that a local alcoholic beverage brand bought 200 000 copies of Ifani’s album and are using the albums as a form advertising. Thus pushing the the sales of Ifani’s album into gold status when AKA’s album, Levels is 2000 copies shy of reaching gold. The Universe has obviously heard AKA’s concerns that a sale is only a sale if an album is purchased by fan, and AKA’s fans have definitely always pulled through for him album after album and now this prestigious nominee.

Speaking of disagreements, AKA and Cassper Nyovest solved their differences during the festive season last year and since then AKA has been touring and performing non stop. He recently purchased a luxurious property in the opulent North  of Johannesburg, we’re sure not far from his best friends house Da Les, who refers to himself as a ‘North Gawd’. AKA and the DA Les will not only be best friends that live in the same area and perform on the same stages, but soon they will both be fathers. Da Les already has a toddler and AKA’s girlfriend Dj Zinhle is pregnant and will be popping anytime soon!

With a baby on the way and non stop shows and performances, he’s got a lot going on. His hectic schedule never comes  in between him and his fans, AKA never forgets his fans and has a communication with them like no other artist. AKA has been touring in Africa relentlessly in the past couple of months and never fails to share with his fans what he learns while travelling via social media, posting maps with captions such as ‘Where in the world is AKA?’ and on Sunday 28th June 2015, AKA will be in the United States attending the 2015 BET Awards that will be hosted by comedian Chris Rock. He will be competing against 7 other african acts including fellow South African act, The Soil. The other nominees are Nigerian acts Wizkid and Yemi Alade, from Ghana Sarkodie and Stonebwoy, Sauti Sol from Kenya and Fally Ipupa from Congo. Will AKA prove that he really is AKA WORLDWIDE as per his social media name and take this award? We’ll just have to wait and see.

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