Fakaza sparked vehement public outcry on Twitter yesterday, ahead of the official release of SA award-winning rapper Cassper Nyovest’s album. The controversial website notorious for leaking music had many Cassper’s fans and celebs distraught, for doing the rapper dirty.

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This follows after ahead of the official release of Cassper’s fifth studio album Any Minute Now (AMN), twitter was abuzz with news that Fakaza has dropped the album.

Cassper was scheduled to drop the album at midnight but the site decided to ruin his day. It is no secret that the rapper invested so much to this album. Cassper has been hard at work promoting it and he made sure that he produces an impeccable album.

According to research pirating music decreases an album sales by up to 42%. This results in the artist not making more money with the team behind the making of the project.

Artists depends on sales made on their albums, and pirating it takes away money they have invested their hard work on. The award-winning rapper urged his fans to support him by buying his album, instead of pirating it. Fans who wanted to purchase it using legal channels waited until midnight for the official release.

Distraught artists such as DJ Tira, Phil Mphela and Shimza took to Twitter to slam Fakaza.