AKA reveals what REALLYstarted the Cassper Nyovest beef

Johannesburg - It's been one of the longest

and most fiercest public feuds in South

African hip-hop history, but what exactly

started the feud between Cassper Nyovest

and AKA?

The beef has seen both rappers release diss

tracks aimed at each other in recent week,

first AKA (listen to it here) and then Cassper

(listen to his response here).

AKA sat down for a tell-all interview with

MTV on Friday evening, where he revealed

that the roots of the beef between him and

Cassper are a little, well, "lame."

"He was coming up, I think it was around the

Gusheshe time, and I've always looked out

for new artists. We had even started to work

on music together. One day I think he had

put his video out or something, and the next

day he went off about 'I don't have the

support, no one is really holding me down,

and I'm going to put this song out and show

everybody.' I think we kind of fell out,

maybe because of things he said on Twitter

as people do," AKA explains.

"I think it really escalated from there

because, you know, once the lines were

drawn he would say things and I would say

things and the people around us would too,

and it just gathered steam until the point

where it's been two years," AKA adds.

But that doesn't mean there will be an end to

the feud anytime soon.

"Hip hop is all about flexing so it's no

surprise that in an art form based on

competition and ego and confidence, that

two egos won't get along."

"When it comes to Cassper, maybe I've

become a bit of a victim of my own success,

but at the same when it's time to go head-to-

head, I don't back down. I don't back down

from a challenge. I don't view it as a

distraction. I view it as 'it is what it is'," he

adds.