Images of controversial former music executive-turned social media commentator Nota Baloyi sleeping on a couch in an empty Johannesburg nightclub have been circulating on Twitter since Thursday morning.
The images, which were shared by popular Twitter entertainment blogger @ChrisExcel102, who often supports Nota, depict an apparently dazed Nota snuggled up on the couch in a foetal position with no one else in sight.
Nota had been out of the headlines for a few weeks thanks to a self-imposed social media hiatus. “Paparazzi caught My Goat Nota passed out at the night Club 🤣😭😭.”
Paparazzi caught My Goat Nota passed out at the night Club 🤣😭😭 pic.twitter.com/NSccjcSLUU
— ChrisExcel (@ChrisExcel102) December 1, 2022
Award-winning rapper Gigi Lamayne is among the handful of celebrities to comment on the images after she joked that he must have booked the entire club so he could doze off there.
She wrote: “Guys he probably booked the club to sleep. 🤣🥹🔥😂.”
Guys he probably booked the club to sleep. 🤣🥹🔥😂
— #POVXGIGI (@Gigi_Lamayne) December 1, 2022
Despite being on a social media hiatus, on Wednesday Nota joined yet another podcast to spew his incendiary rhetoric.
During an interview with YouTube vlogger Wealthy Nyambo, Nota blamed Riky Rick for Bafana Sithole’s recent suicide in a rant that has since gone viral.
Sithole was a 17-year-old student who committed suicide after a fellow female student accused him of rape.
“Now kids think that suicide is the way out of any problem,” he started off in a long-winded explanation.
“Don’t celebrate this kid, it’s pathetic ... He’s a pathetic little boy who wanted attention, and then he killed himself so he could get attention. Trust me he was gonna find any excuse to kill himself.”
He went on to add that he felt it was because society is encouraging clout chasing.
“Be the next Riky Rick and everybody’s gonna put your picture up as their new profile picture. Why you think I never posted a picture of Riky on my timeline? I don’t want to be part of that celebration of the stupidity of his actions.”
Later in the interview, Nota praised Sizwe Dhlomo, vilified Mpho Maboi, explained his situation with Emtee and spoke highly of Pabi Cooper’s ambitions.