{"id":29561,"date":"2023-02-10T23:38:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T23:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=29561"},"modified":"2023-02-10T23:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T23:38:30","slug":"south-african-rapper-aka-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/02\/10\/south-african-rapper-aka-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Rapper AKA shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The rap community and South Africans at large are currently mourning following the disturbing news that indicates that rapper\u00a0AKA has been shot and killed\u00a0<strong>just this evening<\/strong>.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to reports, the award-winning rapper was murdered by his assailants in Florida Rd, Durban as confirmed by the South African police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An eyewitness says he was allegedly shot 8 times in the chest at 8 pm &amp; was the only one gunned down at the scene.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amidst the depressing news, a short clip which was made moments before the unfortunate incident happened has popped up and received a lot of sad reactions in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the video, the rapper can be seen hanging out with a couple of friends and making merry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He appeared very lively and cheerful throughout the short video which has since taken over social media trends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the video below to know more\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/02\/09014E97-804F-45DB-B3B9-6B428640E89F-628x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29562\" width=\"328\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/02\/09014E97-804F-45DB-B3B9-6B428640E89F-628x1024.jpeg 628w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/02\/09014E97-804F-45DB-B3B9-6B428640E89F-184x300.jpeg 184w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/02\/09014E97-804F-45DB-B3B9-6B428640E89F-768x1251.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/02\/09014E97-804F-45DB-B3B9-6B428640E89F-943x1536.jpeg 943w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/02\/09014E97-804F-45DB-B3B9-6B428640E89F-750x1222.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2023\/02\/09014E97-804F-45DB-B3B9-6B428640E89F.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fans of the award-winning rapper have taken to their various social media timelines to mourn their music idol and sympathise with the bereaved family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is sad to the music industry and to South Africa and the entire Africa as a whole<br>Legendary South African rapper AKA, allegedly shot in Florida Rd Durban. Rest in peace Man \ud83d\udd4a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZidF1T7nY5\">pic.twitter.com\/ZidF1T7nY5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Pamilerin Adegoke (@Pamilerin) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pamilerin\/status\/1624172814533009409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The greatest to ever do it in Africa, man, what a legend sad sad day indeed for South Africa\ud83d\ude29\ud83d\ude29\ud83d\ude29\ud83d\ude22\ud83d\ude22\ud83d\ude22\ud83d\ude22\ud83d\ude2b\ud83d\ude2b\ud83d\ude2b ,this was 1 of my fav jams <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/RIPAKA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RIPAKA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dFoR5STxpz\">pic.twitter.com\/dFoR5STxpz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bravado_99 (@DavidKhaba) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DavidKhaba\/status\/1624169206215237675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They killed the greatest rapper to ever come out of South Africa,my heart \ud83d\udc94\ud83d\udc94RIP  AKA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1XtXSxcG2c\">pic.twitter.com\/1XtXSxcG2c<\/a><\/p>&mdash; R A Y M O N D \u271e\ud83d\udca1 (@Kassidy_Osam) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Kassidy_Osam\/status\/1624171386733228032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rap community and South Africans at large are currently mourning following the disturbing news that indicates that rapper\u00a0AKA has been shot and killed\u00a0just this evening. According to reports, the award-winning rapper was murdered by his assailants in Florida Rd, Durban as confirmed by the South African police. An eyewitness says he was allegedly shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,80],"tags":[4899,7994,1079,9514,6083,5914,5455,9026,5321,6225,9515,6737,5058,11973,2627,421,9028,428,11259,5349,244,1213,5350,8033,10943],"class_list":["post-29561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-entertainment","tag-african","tag-africans","tag-aka","tag-akaworldwide","tag-dead","tag-durban","tag-family","tag-fans","tag-florida","tag-friends","tag-killed","tag-mourn","tag-music","tag-one","tag-pm","tag-police","tag-rap","tag-rapper","tag-shot","tag-social-media","tag-south-africa","tag-south-african","tag-twitter","tag-video","tag-watch"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}