Wednesday 14 July 2010

K’NAAN DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM SA TIMES


Somali rapper K’Naan defended himself on his twitter page after a South African paper branded him “difficult” to work with. K'Naan is asking for an apology and a retraction from the paper.
“I just read a Times Live article entitled "K'naan is difficult". A piece entirely based on the opinion of "an insider" who is never named. It's unfortunate when one of the biggest paper in South Africa can publish a rumor piece without ever qualifying any of their statements,” K’Naan wrote, “They claim that "the insider" says that I did not want to perform in Alexandra because "its too dangerous" actually, to be completely honest, I prefer playing in the townships cause I enjoy the energy and vibe… and to add insult to injury, we've never actually been asked to play a show in Alexandra. If the Times in Jo’burg has any journalistic integrity, they need to retract and publish an apology.”

1 comment:

  1. Stacia penngart19 July 2010 at 12:43

    maybe instead of this artist 'demanding' an apology from SA, he should check himself and realize his own arrogance.

    Your song was not SO great and you are not such a big name in the industry to make such demands and noise.

    You WERE rude and whiny and you stood by and rode the coat tails of Will I am of BEP.

    No respect for this artist in my book.

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