JOHANNESBURG – South African singer AKA has caused an internet storm after accusing his social media followers who don’t buy his music of being “full of dog shit, walking around like I owe you something.”

In a July 25 tweet, AKA said he had over three million followers on social media, and wondered why he doesn’t sell at least a million albums.

“Let me tell you why, coz like 500k of you are like ACTUAL fans, the rest of y’all full of dog shit walking around like I owe you something,” he said.

AKA is currently promoting his latest album, Touch My Blood. His tweet prompted scores of his fans to send post their pictures with his CD – which he happily retweeted.

But not everyone was impressed, as he was quickly roasted.

Quipped @cynthiajoshua7: “And with 3.3 million followers you only follow 11 people. Why don’t you follow back those 500,000 loyal fans?”

“Some of us are following Mercedes Benz, I don’t think they expect all of us to buy their cars,” Zakhele Dlamini shot back.

One follower calling himself Ax simply posted a picture of a pirated copy of the album, and said: “Nazooooke (There you go).”

Refusing to back down, AKA escalated the attack with another tweet.

“3.3 million followers and it takes me weeks to get to 40/50k sales. Where yall at?! What are yall doing?! I’d rather have 50k hardcore fans than 3.2 million fake ones,” he said.

Leaving no doubt he meant what he said, he drilled home the same point in a third tweet: “Listen, don’t you dare call yourself a supporter, a fan, fam, part of the legacy or anything close to that if you haven’t bought #TouchMyBlood in any way shape or form.”

AKA will not care much about the controversy he has sparked – as long that would lead to more sales for his self-released album.