Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh. Picture: Instagram
It has been nearly two years since the tragic passing of the late Hip-Hop rapper Kiernan Forbes, and there are still some who wished they could have shared a few more words with him before his passing.
Remembered for producing hits like Congratulate, All Eyes on Me, and Run Jozi, the talented musician known by his stage name, AKA, appears to have always been destined for life as an entertainer. This comes as his love for the art of music started as a teenager while attending high school at St John’s College and rapidly grew by the time he hit his twenties.
It is here where he honed his craft after establishing a hip-hop group called Entity with his schoolmates. A decision which played an important role in the early rise of who we now know to be the Supa Mega. The group originally consisted of 6 members who were later reduced to three which comprised AKA (Kiernan Forbes), Greyhound (Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh) and Vice-Versa, a friend of the pair. Later each of the members went in various directions and reached success in their personal lives.
In a recent interview with Penuel The Black Pen, Sizwe opened up about his friendship with the late rapper while making an appearance on the Konvo Show, highlighting that the pair lost touch with one another at least 10 years before his tragic passing.
The prominent podcaster revealed that he felt resentment towards the rapper since he felt that he was abandoned and forgotten about, despite them being best friends at high school.
”We hadn’t spoken in a very long time, even though we were best friends at school, and so when I spoke about him before, there was a certain amount of resentment because I felt like, ‘you became famous and then you forgot about us’. I realise that was very short-sighted of me,” he said.
On 10th February AKA sadly lost his life after a gunman opened fire while was exiting the Wish restaurant in Florida Road, Durban. Sizwe says finding out about his friend’s passing was quite difficult.
”When he died, in that moment, suddenly things fell into perspective. I wish we could’ve had a chance to sit down for the last time and just talk.”
Meanwhile, he felt that it might not feel right to attend his funeral since they hadn’t been that close in the last 10 years.
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