“Shut up! Shut up!”
The angry screams of police minister Bheki Cele losing his composure in Gugulethu this week have been turned into a catchy tune by musician Dave Scott.
More popularly known as The Kiffness, Scott turned the verbal tirade into a doef-doef remix after repeated requests from his fans.
Ian Cameron of Action Society SA challenged Cele on his service delivery, causing the irritated minister to lose his temper.
After referring to his struggle credentials and yelling that he refused to be spoken to “like a garden boy”, Cele bellowed at Cameron to “shut up”, and “get out”. Security personnel then removed Cameron from the venue.
“I am in the middle of moving house so I don’t have a studio and I don’t even have wi-fi but I kept getting messages from people asking the same thing – every time I opened Facebook, Twitter or Insta, there were all these requests,” Scott said.
So, determined to have a go, he realised that “Shut up! Shut up!” fit perfectly well with a drum and bass rhythm.
“So I set my laptop up in the kitchen and filmed it on my phone. When it was done I could only manage to upload it to Twitter and TikTok without wi-fi. And it just took off.”
The song was uploaded on Thursday and quickly went viral. In less than 24 hours the view numbers were closing in on the million mark.
I don’t know what Cele was thinking when he went off like that. I guess the guy got under his skin
“I am used to lots of views on my stuff that has more global appeal. But this is very South African, so it’s doing well for something so niche market.
"My political satire usually splits the audience with strong loves and hates but this one seems to be enjoyed by pretty much everyone regardless of their political views and the response is generally very positive,” Scott said, adding that Cameron’s retweeting of the video had helped.
“It’s really cool to see South Africans digging this drum and bass tune. I don’t know what Cele was thinking when he went off like that. I guess the guy got under his skin.”
Scott is no stranger to satirical music. He parodied the national anthem, Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, with his version, Nkosazan’ Dlamini Trafficker, which criticised minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s ban on tobacco products during lockdown and caught harsh criticism for his Julius Malema parody to the hit song Jerusalema.
Here it is, lol pic.twitter.com/dyMwJDD9JZ
— The Kiffness (@TheKiffness) July 7, 2022
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