When Prince Kaybee stated that there is nothing left for him in South Africa due to the constantly changing music market, he infuriated South Africans. With the globe dancing to Amapiano, which started in South Africa, the spotlights on Prince Kaybee and a few other performers have faded.
“You’ve completely changed your style do you think it’s a good move though?”
Prince Kaybee gave a very uncanny response and got dragged for it, “In South Africa its sad, today they love you tomorrow they hate you. There’s nothing for me here. And I share these thoughts with a heavy heart, you can’t teach South Africans new music, all they want is familiarity and an artist can’t keep making same music all the time,” he responded.
When Prince Kaybee uploaded a taste of his new song, a fan wondered if he believes it’s natural for him to change shift his approach.
Supporters reassured Prince Kaybee that his relevance is not determined by South Africans’ ever-changing music tastes, but rather by the quality of the song.
“I don’t think you believe that outside of the twitter comments you read. which genre in south ah has never had an artist go gold/platinum? even amapiano is new but already people are doing crazy numbers so what do you mean all we want is familiarity? sifuna umculo omnandi qha (we want good music.”
“Don’t be too hard on yourself Kabelo have confidence in yourself and your music. Even if it means starting afresh to market your music to a new audience who will appreciate your music do that …People around the globe enjoy different kinds of music. The sky is the limit Kabelo.”
“Be you Kabelo, I still remember you from small street, Bloem ko clubhouse, you have talent, use it and forget about social media and negative people …hela yalo san.”
“Music evolves but people refuses to evolve. One of the many reasons I don’t bother attending these Sunday Soul Sessions is due to the music they play there. It is repetitive and tiring,I am always discovering new and unfamiliar music daily.”
“Be like Cassper Nyovi, he doesn’t care who says what he does what he feels like doing, people will catch up.”
“But we ditched kwaito and accepted gqom, and then ditched gqom and accepted piano with open arms. We are now waiting for you people to come up with something new coz people are only into piano coz there’s nothing else to vibe to. We really try to be flexible.”
“South Africans made you, today you are talking crap. I really don’t understand these artists, infact, all the superstars who are internationally recognised now, they forget the humble beginnings. If South Africans didn’t support you from the word go you wouldn’t be where you are!”
“No disrespect but if you have identify in your music, it doesn’t matter what genre or style u do because you will always bring that uniqueness….in fact that is how great albums were done, it was different styles, all de influences of the artist in 1 project.”
Main Image: Prince Kaybee| Instagram
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