Boss Zonke a.k.a Riky Rick dropped his album artwork for new album #FamilyValues on Wednesday, 25 Feb….. Well this was an excitement for alot of people, until twitter happened. Twitter started ranting on Wednesday afternoon accusing Riky of copying the artwork concept from a photo by US Rapper , The Game who once took a photo holding his baby, almost similar to the idea Riky has for his album artwork.
But that didn’t last long when Riky jumped in to slam all the hate he was seeing on his twitter mentions, “All I wanted to do was take a picture with my baby for my album cover. If it looks like The Game I’m not embarrassed by that”, he tweeted.
He went on to say “I never knew I had so many haters, first time in touched actually. But it’s fine. My life will continue through prayer and hard work.”
Here are the tweets Riky tweeted :
Goodmorning. I've always said I won't respond to negativity on Twitter. But regarding the ignorance regarding #FamilyValues is too much.
— FamilyValuesArtwork (@rikyrickworld) February 26, 2015
First of all, everything I have have ever done has a reference, from the beats I learnt how to produce to the things I rap about.
— FamilyValuesArtwork (@rikyrickworld) February 26, 2015
I grew up listening to slick rick, named myself after him, love him so much even wore an eyepatch as respect. You call it stealing?
— FamilyValuesArtwork (@rikyrickworld) February 26, 2015
I would be lying to you if the influence of past hip hop greats don't influence the videos I shoot or the clothing choices I make.
— FamilyValuesArtwork (@rikyrickworld) February 26, 2015
The problem with you "so called" hip hop kids is you have not Learnt to embrace hip hop as a culture of influencers.
— FamilyValuesArtwork (@rikyrickworld) February 26, 2015
You are so afraid to be influenced by your history and OGs that you end up doing ZERO because you want to be the genius to be "original".
— FamilyValuesArtwork (@rikyrickworld) February 26, 2015
I'm not afraid of my influences. The intro of #slyzatsotsi is influenced by Brown Bash. You think that's something I am hiding? No.
— FamilyValuesArtwork (@rikyrickworld) February 26, 2015
All I wanted to do was take a picture with my baby for my album cover. If it looks like The Game I'm not embarrassed by that.
— FamilyValuesArtwork (@rikyrickworld) February 26, 2015
The first picture I took with my baby yall said I was trying to be Kanye. Now I'm trying to be The Game? Come on people.
— FamilyValuesArtwork (@rikyrickworld) February 26, 2015
I never knew I had so many haters, first time in touched actually. But it's fine. My life will continue through prayer and hard work.
— FamilyValuesArtwork (@rikyrickworld) February 26, 2015
