Pearl Thusi ‘horse’ beef with Cassper Nyovest was a publicity stunt

After a strange twar broke out between actress Pearl Thusi and rapper Cassper Nyovest on Thursday, it became clear by Friday morning that it was just a publicity stunt to promote his latest music video.

Thusi confirmed it on Twitter, but said that she really had fallen off the horse.

After Thusi posted photos of herself riding a horse and saying she had fallen off it at one point, on Thursday Cassper apparently found the idea hilarious and told her that black women shouldn’t even be trying to ride them.

“What were you doing on a horse wena as a black woman?”

He advised her that certain things “should be left to white people”.

She had earlier tweeted that she’d been on Ebony for a photo-shoot and suffered some “minor injuries” when it freaked out and threw her off.

But, she said, “I got right back on to get the job done and because giving up is not in my nature.”

She was apparently unimpressed at Cassper’s mockery and gave him a quick lesson in feminism: “So you believe black women should be limited? You’re (sic) narrow minded self also doesn’t know black people were riding horses on our continent for centuries?! And now as a black woman I must be confined to YOUR LIMITS. Nigga GTFOH.”

The abbreviation stands for “Get the f**k outta here.”

Cassper hit back, asking her if her anger was because he’d laughed at her for falling off the horse or because he’d wondered what a black woman was doing on a horse in the first place.

She told him to “free his mind” and added that people shouldn’t be telling others what they were capable of.

However, it became clear that Thusi was on the horse for his KsazobaLITi music video, released on Freedom Day.

In the video Cassper is wearing a farmer’s outfit and dancing among the fields. He also drives an old tractor around, much to the apparent consternation of a big white farmer coming out of his farmhouse.

A hip-hop dance crew does its moves in a field while there’s even a cameo from choreographer and presenter star Somizi driving a big delivery truck.

There’s also more humour in the video, since the farmer starts to join in by dancing and joining a meal at the end of the video.

The message of the song centres on black people reclaiming land.

The EFF, which successfully tabled a motion in parliament in March to have the constitution changed to allow for land expropriation without compensation, said in a tweet: “Fellow South Africans & fighters, let’s all watch @CassperNyovest’s #KsazobalitMusicVide be inspired on #FreedomDay! It breaks the stereotype that youth, particularly in the urban of pop cultures like hip hop, are not interested in the land. #WeAreReady.”

Watch the video below: