{"id":41506,"date":"2025-11-12T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=41506"},"modified":"2025-11-12T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:24:45","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignstilo-magolide-says-he-wasnt-shocked-by-riky-ricks-tragic-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/12\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignstilo-magolide-says-he-wasnt-shocked-by-riky-ricks-tragic-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Stilo Magolide says he wasn\u2019t shocked by Riky Rick\u2019s tragic death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_187343\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187343\" class=\"wp-image-187343 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Stilo-Magolide-says-he-wasnt-shocked-by-Riky-Ricks-tragic.jpg?resize=600%2C359&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Stilo-Magolide-says-he-wasnt-shocked-by-Riky-Ricks-tragic.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fakazanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Stilo-Magolide-Riky-Rick-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fakazanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Stilo-Magolide-Riky-Rick-400x240.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-187343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stilo Magolide on Riky Rick\u2019s death<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rapper Stilo Magolide has reflected on the heartbreaking passing of his close friend, Riky Rick, revealing that while the news devastated him, it didn\u2019t come as a complete surprise.<\/p>\n<p>During his appearance on <em>The 3rd Element of Hip Hop<\/em> Podcast with DJ Lemonka, Stilo opened up about the late<em> Boss Zonke<\/em> hitmaker\u2019s death and shared why he had long sensed that Riky might one day take his own life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did believe it. I wasn\u2019t shocked,\u201d Stilo said. \u201cI was more like, \u2018Oh snap. I didn\u2019t expect it to come this soon, but I always expected it.\u2019 Just the type of person he was, you know? He was always someone who wanted to live life on his own terms. Everything he did was his way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Riky Rick, whose real name was Rikhado Muziwendlovu Makhado, took his life on February 23, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning rapper was one of the most influential figures in South African hip hop and a founding member of the Boyz n Bucks collective, which included Stilo Magolide and several other big names in the culture.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the loss, Stilo explained that while Riky\u2019s passing didn\u2019t surprise him, it still left a deep emotional scar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just more disappointed that maybe the people around him at the time didn\u2019t have the strength to hold him much longer or convince him that we still had more time,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s things to do, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A short clip from the interview quickly went viral, sparking intense conversations online.<\/p>\n<p>Some social media users praised Stilo for his honesty and vulnerability, while others speculated that he might know more about Riky Rick\u2019s final days than he revealed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2Freel%2F808172908663275%2F&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"429\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Stilo #Magolide #wasnt #shocked #Riky #Ricks #tragic #death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Stilo Magolide on Riky Rick\u2019s death Rapper Stilo Magolide has reflected on the heartbreaking passing of his close friend,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41508,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41506\/revisions\/41508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}