AKA’s team has announced that the late rapper’s posthumous album, Mass Country, has been certified gold just over two weeks since its release.
The announcement comes after AKA joined a handful of South African artists in breaking the one million monthly listeners mark on Spotify earlier this week.
With the family’s blessings, AKA’s team at Sony Music Entertainment Africa, T-Effect and Vth Season continue with aspects of the planned roll-out for the album, given AKA’s undeniable impact and contribution to the local music scene, the album comes out on the back of unprecedented public attention and support.
Talking to HYPE, T-Effect co-CEO and AKA’s co-manager Nhlanhla “Nivo” Ndimande, shard some insight on the making of the album. “It’s been a two-year process working on this album from him giving us the vision and just telling us what exactly he wanted to do. It was tough in the beginning because we were like, ‘Wait, you want to mix country music, Maskandi and Hip-Hop? How does that even make sense?”’ But as the music began to take shape, AKA’s grand vision became clearer and clearer.
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“What AKA wanted to do was create an album that the people of South Africa could embrace and cherish. “
The leading singles off the album “Company”, “Mbuzi (Freestyle)”, “Lemons (Lemonade)” and “Prada” have charted across the country, propelling the album into gold status.