So you do remember the last time he was here in the 254 he threw some serious insults to us calling us peasants?
I know G but I am bored AF out here plus I couldn't find a flight out this morning#dead. so these peasants are my entertainment till I dip Lol!
The word peasants did not settle well with Kenyans in fact KOT went ham on him. Now the irony of all this is that he is back in the country for a concert courtesy of Thrift Social.
Kenyan artistes are not happy about this at all and you can tell from all the shade on social media.
Big Ted as we have known him has done events for a pretty long time and big events for that matter. The fact that Burn is back is not settling well with him.
To make this whole situation worse is that Burna Boy declined an interview with Citizen TV yesterday on 10 over 10 saying he is not willing to apologize for calling Kenyans peasants. Now this made Kenyans even angrier.
So Big Ted took to social media his sentiments and he said:
I have run concerts in Kenya for many years and one thing I have seen with many of the even so-called "divas" is the respect they accord a visiting country...even in the past when the artist would leave the country without payment they would curse the promoter BUT NEVER the citizens... So I gather that @burnaboygram is in town for another collection from "peasants" first of all on MASHUJAA day...brathe listen our DJs may play your songs...we may even dance to it see Kenyans are a cool lot we live with many of your brothers and sisters here happily and chop life together...We slide easy but we don't forget... And we are also a very very proud people... We work hard for every peasant cents we pay to see you...but we also party hard... We may be gullible to the lies and stories told to us by politicians but we are NOT STUPID...we demand an APOLOGY from you yes you @burnaboygram before you take to any stage in this peasant country...our artists travel the whole world maybe not to your standard or class but we are out there respectfully earning every cent with gratitude to God and those country citizens...to the promoters we shall revisit!
Big Ted is not the only one who is not happy. Nonini also took his grievances on social media and wrote:
I guess Kenyan promoters will never learn. This is unacceptable and for a guy to be this arrogant and disrespectful in our homeland Kenya. To teach hawa promoters a lesson and him as well should people boycott this concert. #supportyourown #buykenya #buildkenya
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I know right, they are angry!
