AKA’s mom, Lynn Forbes addresses urban streetwear brand, Ama Kip Kip tribute t-shirts for AKA incident.
Ama Kip Kip has faced backlash for wanting to sell AKA-tribute shirts without the permission of the Forbes Family. It was reported that the brand donated the shirts instead of selling them for planned R600.
In a recent chat with SA Hip Hop Mag, Lynn Forbes addressed the incident. She said,
“I would like to address that, we are good now with Ama Kip Kip. We’ve had our moments with them and you know they’ve kind of actually donated all the merchandise to us that they have done at the time,”
She continued,
“Nevertheless, despite Amakipkip’s donation of the t-shirts, AKA’s mother conveyed the family’s objection to the brand producing and selling the tribute t-shirts without their involvement or explicit permission.”
She shared the problem her family had with their intentions.
“The issue for us around that was… and I know really, people do tribute stuff and I dont have an issue with tribute stuff but for me and Tony in that situation it was, Amakipkip making t-shirts and selling them without any kind of checking with the family if that was okay or saying we making this but we would like to sell them,”
For us at the end of the day, let me tell you, there are two reasons why we are doing what we’re doing, to preserve Kiernan’s legacy and to make sure that Kairo benefits from anything that happens here.”
Watch the full interview.
