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The last two weeks have been great for South African music. Beatenberg were on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. AKA was on 106 & Park. Cassper Nyovest was on Sway In The Morning. And Black Coffee bagged the first BET Award by a South African artist.

But some South Africans are choosing to see Black Coffee’s victory as a loss for AKA.

Of course, tweeps triumphing at AKA “losing” is nothing new. When the rapper walked away empty-handed (or should I say “Emtee-handed”) at the SAMAs a few weeks ago, the hashtag #AKAwinanga (Zulu for “he didn’t win”) trended for more than a day. Twitter celebrated AKA’s loss because, you know, he’s arrogant. The rapper who had claimed to be South Africa’s new king of pop a few months ago lost in all categories he was nominated in, including the publicly-vot