A legend has fallen. All the beautiful sad messages people are posting about Riky Rick are heartbreaking.
Yesterday Riky Rick committed suicide. The hip hop musician has been struggling with depression for years, it then caused him his life yesterday. AKA for one is a musician that went through so much last year when his girlfriend Anele died.
The world dragged him for being responsible for her death, because of his drunk pictures forcing himself through the door to get to Anele, and a tape record that was released about Anele crying to her friends for help. Their relationship wasn’t perfect, they were both seeing a therapist since they were engaged and planning to start a family.
So the long heartfelt message AKA just wrote this morning shows that he knows how lonely Riky Rick was, simply because he walked down that depression route. He is still posting and encouraging people to see a therapist, seek help and open up the way he is.
“Let’s keep it 100. The last 5 people I know who took their own lives, 4 of then are men. I’ve seen so much suicide over the last year and I can’t even feel anything anymore. I’ve spoken to a lot of people, some of them said “He just got a bag frim African Bank blah blah etc…”… that tells you everything you need to know about this fucked up,fake algorithm world we have created for ourselves to live in. Rikywent to Hilton, he grew up around money. I hope very soon we can address the issue of how damage the men Uni this country are. We have no one to talk to, we just pat each other on the back and say, “get on with it, be strong my boi.”…but in reality, we are traumatized l. Generational trauma passed down to us. Ladies we are not perfect by any means… but damn we are crying out for your approval, ypur live and affection. Please, can we RESET and go back to FAMILY VALUES?! Can we(myself included) start gping to church again. Please, can we start some sort of a dialogue about MEN in this country because it is our duty to protect you,to provide and care for you. We cannot make this things work without each other. We are crying out for help. This us so traumatic. Please, let’s not forget about us. Look at stats, we are taking our own lives at record highs. Something has to change.” AKA said, expressing how he feels, what measures to be take to make the situation of men taking their own lives better.
He spoke for everyone, to everyone; both women and men. It’s sad that the world is coming out to cry, suggest and open up just after the death of Riky Rick. He has been advocating for people to love and elevate one another, today we won’t get to see South Africans coming together.