Inside Riky Rick's #MMA16 war

Rapper Riky Rick was praised as a ‘hero’ and ‘advocate of the people’ after he used his acceptance speech at the Metro FM Music Awards to lambaste the music industry and even the awards themselves.

Mzansi knew that something was wrong when Riky started out his Best Hit Single winner’s speech by saying that he wished he was more excited about winning the award‚ but that fans who knew his raps would know why he was a little disillusioned by it.

Fans of the rapper immediately knew that Riky was referring to the lines of a song he released last year. But in case you didn’t know what he was talking about‚ Riky later took to Twitter to spell it out for fans.

Riky then took a swipe at the music and radio industries saying that 90% of the music on radio was “garbage” and encouraged young artists who were being blocked by radio to push their music on the internet instead.

Riky was just getting started when his mic was cut‚ leaving him confused and angry.

TV audiences watched as he later addressed the issue in an interview backstage‚ telling audiences that he had a lot on his chest and that it was time for the powers that be to stop playing with the people because they were “not stupid“.

He later took his message to Twitter.

Twitter was never ready and flooded the service with messages supporting Riky- making the rapper the most talked about topic in Mzansi.

Black Coffee shades Metro Awards: Maybe they should remain a radio station

The gloves are out‚ fam! It seems Riky Rick has opened a floodgate of shade towards Metro FM and international DJ Black Coffee is the latest to voice his opinions on the controversial awards that took place this weekend.

Black Coffee was in SA at the time of the awards but was not at the ceremony as he was on the bill for music festival‚ Ultra.

But he caught up the next day and watched what is supposed to be South Africa’s ‘premier awards show.’

He then took shots at the remix category

Riky Rick caused a stir after he took to the stage during his acceptance speech to lambaste radio and the awards itself and said artists shouldn’t rely on that recognition but rather put their music on the internet.