Rapper AKA apologizes to his fans for engaging in a bitter-word battle with Pearl Thusi

If you had gone to bed early on Friday night and woke up late on Saturday morning you would be none the wiser of the Twitter drama that went down.

While you were enjoying your sweet sleep a bitter battle of Twitter beef between Pearl Thusi and AKA was unfolding on the social media network.

Pearl herself early on Saturday morning on radio said: “These days if you sneeze, it is news”.

But this morning it was all gone. The tweets deleted, the apologies posted and the celebrity beef cemented.

But why do celebrity Twitter battles fascinate us so much and why does it make headlines these days?

To understand that we first have to look at what exactly happened last night.

What happened:

It started when AKA posted a photo of his new car on Instagram. Stating that even though he’s feeling a bit sick, the car sure did make him feel much better.

(A few weeks ago local hip-hop star and AKA-nemesis, Cassper Nyovest posted an Instagram photo of his new car that made headlines.)

Pearl, who has a history of beef with AKA, took to Twitter and wrote: “So cars are part of pissing contests now. How exciting.”

AKA figured the tweet was directed at him and hit back with a rude: “Shut up wena…We dealt with you eons ago.”

(AKA is now dating Bonang who also doesn’t see eye-to-eye with Pearl.)

Pearl replied: “We??? Kiernan. Grow up.”

She later added:  “Why are you so sure this tweet is about you? Touched much?”

But sometimes in the heat of the moment we tweet something we regret or get involved in an online battle we shouldn’t. So both local celebs quickly tried to clean up the mess that had by now become a trending conversation on Twitter.

Pearl said: “Urgh. I stooped to his level. Lord please forgive me. I’m actually sorry everyone. I’m stopping.”

While AKA tweeted: “I’m sorry to all the fans if I acted out on Twitter today. Sometimes people get the best of you and bring you down to their level.”