Brooklyn-born rapper Yasiin Bey has released a message about his detention in South Africa with the help of his friend Kanye West’s website.
Echoing West’s new song about Los Angeles, Bey began a freestyle with lines saying there would be “no more parties in South Africa.”
The hip-hop artist who formerly performed as Mos Def was detained for
using a “world passport” when he tried to leave the country where he has
been living for a show in Ethiopia.
South Africa’s
Department of Home Affairs had said that the actor born as Dante Smith
entered the nation in 2013 as an American, but then overstayed his visa
along with members of his family.
Tuesday night Bey repeated claims that his passport World Service was
“not a fictitious document,” and said that there were political
motivations for going after him and threatening to deport his family.
His representative told Okay Africa
that the entertainer was detained for at least two nights earlier this
month for the passport, which he maintains was accepted by South Africa as recently as August.
The artist has traveled to perform at gigs around the world in recent
years, though it is not clear which passport he used to do so.
Home Affairs officials had said after his detention that Bey had 14
days to leave the country, though the former Black Star member said on
kanyewest.com that he was “prevented from leaving unjustly, unlawfully
and without any logical reason.”
He claimed that he had a “right to domicile” where he wanted, but added that he and his family were prepared to leave South Africa forever when they leave.
Bey also announced another departure, saying that he is retiring from
Hollywood and the music industry “effective immediately” and will
release his final album in 2016.
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