Top 5 SA Musicians Who Were Constantly Dragged By Black Twitter In 2019
Top 5 SA Musicians Who Were Constantly Dragged By Black Twitter In 2019
For the year 2019 annual these are the most dragged celebs on the Internet, TIME evaluated contenders by looking at their trending time on Twitter – social media and their overall ability to get fans talking. Here’s who made this year’s unranked list.
1 Mampintsha
He was arrested following Babes Wodumo, real name Bongekile Simelane, laid a criminal complaint against him. The course dragged for months to missing court dates and re-uniting with Babes and doing tours together immediately after the whole country stood with Babes Wodumo.
Durban-based musician Mampintsha, Also finally addressed rumours surrounding his mysterious weight loss. Following fans accusing him of sickness and other ills connected to what might be the reason behind his slim physic.
Black Twitter trolled him, even accusing him of taking illicit drugs, Big Nuz star explained to his fans that he is happy with his current weight and rubbished the social media speculation that he is sick.
2. Black Coffee
What started as rumour and speculation has been confirmed. DJ Black Coffee and his wife, Enhle Mbali, are getting divorced. Enhle confirmed this in a video statement on Instagram on Sunday.
The pair were engaged in 2010. They had a traditional wedding a year later and a white wedding in 2017. City Press reported in July that the couple had split, but the pair refused to confirm the claims.
Divorce rumours have been circulating for months. Earlier this year, there were rumours that Black Coffee was having an affair with David Guetta’s ex-wife, Cathy Lobé, after she posted a video of her and Black Coffee hugging.
Black Coffee took to Twitter to deny the claims, saying Cathy was “nothing more than a business partner and shall remain so for the foreseeable future”.
3. Babes Wodumo
Mzansi appeared to have “disowned, ” musicians Babes Wodumo and Mampintsha following the couple got caught up in the saga abuse.
To make it worse the introduced a tour, when the tour was first announced after three months of controversy, they still thought it is a good idea and even released a promotional poster for it. Since then, Babes Wodumo’s Twitter account continued for some time to wreak havoc, slamming international star Davido and blaming Nigerians for the drug scourge in SA.
From Babes Wodumo’s has claimed that her account was hacked, refuting control of the content shared on the platform, although that did not halt social media users from dragging her following numerous concerning tweets on Tuesday evening in response to the ongoing debate about xenophobia.
Her Twitter account seems to be on a rampant concerning all the drama and crucified the Nigerian artists, prior to going into an attack on foreigners.
4. Prince Kaybee
Prince Kaybee has come under fire for the comments he made about music producer TNS during an interview.
Over the weekend a snippet video of the renowned DJ speaking to MacG on Podcast and Chill with MacG surfaced. In the video he was speaking badly about TNS. Kaybee spoke about the early days of meeting the now “made” producer, and revealed how broke he was.
Prince Kaybee and vocalist Msaki may have won big at the Dance Music Awards South Africa last night, but what got them trending was the drama that ensued.
They won Best House Record for Fetch Your Life, and his booking manager accepted the award, but it seems that’s where the problem started. His booking manager did not mention Msaki when accepting the award, and Prince Kaybee did the same when he shared the news with his fans on social media
5. Faith Nketsi
Faith Nketsi has surprised fans with a new seven-track EP, titled Disrespectful.
Faith, aka Twerk Queen, took Mzansi by surprise when she announced her interest in SA hip hop earlier this month. On social media, she shared a video of herself rapping to a beat, surprising many with her flow and punchlines.
She received a lot of hate and side-eyes from social media, but a few celebs stanned with Faith’s new venture and DJ Maphorisa gave her his full support. Maphorisa’s support runs deep — he helped release the EP under his record label, Blaqboy Music. It looks like Lord Porry, who’s known for producing hits, believes in Faith and her talent.
