After years of taking continued stabs at one another, the beef between South African rappers AKA (Kiernan Forbes) and Cassper Nyovest (Refiloe Phoolo) has reached a new low.
Everyone on Twitter and beyond is talking about the video being shared across social media showing young scholars pretending to attend a show at DJ Black Coffee’s popular Konka Soweto nightclub.
This is going to be a shocking blast from the past, and I can bet my millions that no one saw it coming. Oh the secrets of the music industry.
There are still moments in South Africa’s day-to-day business that we can be proud of. Take our amazing musicians, for example…
There are some new kids on the block up in Egoli and their music is taking the local hip hop scene by storm. Ladies and gents, we have two OG’s in the house.
You don’t need to look too far to find some of the most forward-thinking hip-hop out there, as Cape Town houses two pioneers in the game right now.
The South African music scene features some incredible talent, and there is a new outlet for all unsigned musicians, bands and DJs who want to put their name on the map.
The international community can not get enough of Die Antwoord! If you didn’t believe us before when they hit number one of Spotify’s chart, this should convince you.
Afrikaans zef rap sensation, Die Antwoord, have released a statement on their website indicating that they have parted ways with their record company, Interscope – and that’s putting it diplomatically.
Taxijam.tv involves filming well-known local bands playing a song inside, well, a taxi. Normally this involves a set of instruments as well, but for the first time ever a band has performed an song entirely composed on iPads. LIVE in the taxi! Big-ups to the boys from Holiday Murray for pulling this one off. See their nifty achievement inside.
To get to my mother’s desk I had to walk through a curio shop. It was one of those dreadfully cheesy African curio shops, with the carved wooden and stone animals, the beads and the bowls, like you find at any South African airport, the Moyo restaurants and the Durban beachfront. I have that exact same feeling (as if I’m back in that curio shop) when I come across certain music videos made by South African bands. What is with this new trend with our bands who think that by merely smearing white face paint across their videos it will make them mysterious and exotic?