Zambian rapper and singer PatrrickXXLee is ready to upgrade from an arsonist to a psychopath as he readies the sequel to his 2017 album ‘Diary of an Arsonist.’ Since dropping the album the artiste hasn’t done much solo work just a slew of singles here and there and features on other artiste’s songs like J.Molly and Burningforestboy to mention but a few.
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If yesterday’s tweet by Record Producer & Composer, MOGBeatz is anything but true, then it’s another win for African HipHop. HipHop In Africa is slowly taking centre stage as Nigerian Rapper M.I Abaga released his project that saw International rapper NAS feature on it three days ago.
And now, Ghanaian rapper Michael Owusu Addo popularly known as Sarkodie is set to feature, American Rapper Kanye West in a forthcoming song.
The news has been confirmed and there has been a fantastic build-up to this confirmation over time.
A few months ago, during an interview ‘Possi Gee‘, revealed that Sarkodie had worked with an American rapper bigger than Jay Z.
At the time it would be easy to think that it was Kanye West because, in many instances, Sarkodie had been identified as a fan of Kanye West.
In other news, the highly rated Ghanaian rapper and SarkCess Music boss, Sarkodie became the trending topic on Twitter on Monday 22nd of August.
In October 2019, the ‘Adonai’ hit-maker, Sarkodie became the first artist to win the Best International Flow award at BET Hip Hop Awards. The award was presented to the rapper on the BET Award main stage.
On Sunday, 21st August 2022, all the 3 BET Award pages on the bird app (BET Music, BET and Hip Hop Awards) posted the same video of Sarkodie’s acceptance speech after he won the 2019 Best International Flow Award.
They (BET Music, BET and Hip Hop Awards) all captioned their post, Ghana has entered the building! @sarkodie is always putting on for his culture and has the Trophy to prove it! #BET #HipHopAwards #SlaySunday”.
With this development, ardent fans of the rapper have questioned if the BET Award winner would be performing at this year’s BET Hip Hop Awards which will take place on Friday, September 30, with the broadcast premiere airing Tuesday, October 4, at 9 PM ET/PT on BET.
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Years after walking in the shoes of Rusape genius Dambudzo Marechera in his album Letter to Samantha, Chitungwiza based rapper Stiiv takes the urban story from the street to the mic. He addresses societal issues like depression, drug abuse, religion and economics in new offering Every Ghetto every city. The 4 track Extended Play was recorded by Shingirai Tsiga (Doppl3r), the Production, mixing and mastering by Hitlab’s Rayo Beats.
“Rugare tange nhamo
Ndicharamba ndichishingirira
Zvandaiti ndarwuwana”
2.Paunochema
“I left a cup ine munhuwi we Doro nezuro
Mama ndokuziva why arutsa and havana kufara nazvo
I left a note patable I’m suicidal vaiti ndini ndine problem and I know handisi perfect”
On this song he talks about substance abuse and relationship struggles. This is a song cry as he pours out his heart talking about his experiences from love, alcohol, suffering under the system. The chorus is laced with vocals with a perfect pitch blend with Rayo’s magical touch.
“ Vano believer the truth ironically ndivo mapenzi they can’t take it anymore
They need another Jesus piece”
He talks about how religious beliefs have blinded the mental eyes and clouded minds taking away the ability to reason for ourselves. He also talks about how the modern day “men of God” are aligned to debauchery and tend to take a tenth of people’s money for themselves (tithes).
4.Level
“Sorry mama mune drugs mu system yemu nigga“
Stiiv talks about use of substances and a land far away from sobriety. He talks down on a hood famous brandy called “kambwa”, the brandy is a common brand in the ghetto and has seen elevated effects like liver cirrhosis, brain damage to mention a few. The song has a different feel from the rest but Stiiv never ceases to tell a story with a high urban relatability factor.
The 4 track extended play is available on Audiocus, a rapidly growing streaming platform and which has made strides over the last couple of months. Link below
https://www.audiocus.com/album/1/stiiv/every-ghetto-every-city
Kanye made ‘Last Call’ where he shared the travailes he faced before getting signed to the Roc as the outro of his debut album ‘The College Dropout.’ Since then so many rappers have made their own last calls including J.Cole and Logic just to name a few. Kanye did not invent the back story track in hip hop, it’s been forever, almost every rapper has a song detailing their origin story. JID’s latest single ‘2007’ is his won ‘Last Call.’
The track is produced by Latrell James, frequent collaborator Christo, and JID himself.
In ‘2007’ the East Atlanta rapper traces his path to the present, intertwining personal milestones with moments in rap history. Key figures in his life jump on the mic to take over the story between intervals, including his Dreamville label head J. Cole, Dreamville’s president Ibrahim Hamad, and JID’s own father, Carl Louis Route Jr. The concept breaks up the monotony of hearing one rapper for seven minutes straight.
On the track JID also shouts out Kendrick Lamar as an inspiration, specifically citing his debut album ‘Section.80‘ as an influence.
The song is fit for an outro track s JID prepares his next studio album ‘The Forever Story,’ but the song was cut from the album due to sample clearance issues and can only be released as a throwaway.
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Rap Beefs are a primal staple of the genre since its birth in South Bronx, New York. Back in 2014 a rap beef propelled Cassper Nyovest and AKA into superstardom and turned them into arguably the biggest stars to ever grace SA hip hop. This in turn propelled the genre to apex heights in the country.
There haven’t been much on wax altercations in recent time save for a few squabbles between ex members of the former Wrecking Crew, a rumoured A-Reec and Nasty C beef and Big Xhosa’s comedic attempt at dissing the whole industry.
Big Zulu took it upon his broad shoulders to revive the culture in Mzansi by releasing a diss track titled ‘150 Bars’ where he went against the whole mainstream industry except A-Reece.
A-Reece Exemption
When fans implied that Big Zulu was scared of A-Reece and that’s why he left the Pretoria rapper off his hit list, Zulu made a video on Twitter explaining why Baby Boy’s name was missing on the track.
K.O’s Response
With SA hip hop being labeled a dead genre for a while, Big Zulu grabbed the limelight last Friday, and people clamored for their various faves to reply, the scene has been set, and the first emcee to take up the challenge was Polokwane-born veteran K.O. with his response track ‘Omega Freestyle.’
K.Hova’s dis track contained some lethal low blows including the following lines:
“Black coffee lapho engihamba khona, I am getting superSTAR BUCKS.”
“He was raising his voice ngoba ngamshaya nge Blue tick ku whatsapp.”
“Isiphuphile leyontelezi owayithola eJozini”
“Le caracara okhuluma ngalo waligibela no dadwenu”
“There’s more to life than performing eBree nase Noord”
“its just a teachable moment but if it escalates, im up for the challenge”
applying pressure till kuphahlak up’qopho uqabanga kuth ulova ngeke ak’dlele ithambo lenqondo”
Many fans believe this moment will spark a chain reaction that might revive SA hip hop but a few people beg to differ.
Reason Disagrees
Former rapper Reason, who is now Amapiano artist Sizwe Alakine had a differing view, tweeting “ I hate to say this. But. These diss records ain’t gone bring Hip Hop back hey. They only gon benefit Big Zulu and KO.”
In the same tweet, the 31-yeard-old rapper went on and gave a solution to what can save SA hip hop. He revealed that SA rappers must revive themselves first and that way they will be able to save the rap game.
The rapper also dropped his two cents on who will win between Stogie T and Big Zulu as asked by Tweeps, stating that they would have to compromise as Stogie who raps in English would have to rap in Vernac or Big Zulu who raps in isiZulu would have to rap in English to keep a balanced playing field, else one rapper would have an unfair advantage.
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As fans await AKA’s fourth full-length studio album ‘Mass Country,’ legendary lyricist Tumi Molekane popularly known as Stogie T took to Twitter to tease a collaboration between himself and Supa Mega.
Fans are excited for the banging song but it’s to be known if the song will be released any time soon or will be on Kiernan or Tumi’s album.
Both artists have shown that they have remarkable chemistry on wax, ever since their first collab on the remix of AKA’S 2011 smash hit ‘Victory Lap.’
The emcees have also shared the mic several other times on Tumi’s ‘Miss Joburg’ and AKA’s ‘Starsigns.
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Mr. Cashtime is not slowing down for anything, just a week after dropping the lead single to his forthcoming ‘SR3’ album, and responding to Big Zulu’s diss track ‘150 Bars’ with a diss track of his own, the Limpopo rapper has announced the official release date for his much anticipated third solo studio album, ‘Skhanda Republic 3.’
K.O had previously announced that he will host a festival tagged ‘Skhandaville Fest‘ at the Zone 6 Venue in Soweto, Johannesburg. Fans anticipated that the album will arrive just before or on the day of the concert so the artist can perform new songs from the album.
The rapper took to Twitter to respond to a fan who asked for confirmation on the release date of the album, and in the process revealed a September 16, 2022 release date.
K.O. has been quoted many times both on social media and on podcasts saying that he is bringing back the energy from his 2014 classic ‘Skhanda Republic 1‘ on the new album.
The lead single of the album ‘Sete’ featuring Blxckie and Young Stunna signals a new more melodic sound and an energetic and hungry K.Hova.
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The decline of female rappers in the Nigerian hip hop game might be over as in the last five years we’ve seen a rise of more femcees from the +234. Phlow, Lyn, and Tinuke are but a few names to grace the Naijarap game. Now 18-year-old Debstar is joining those ranks with her latest single rightly titled ‘Shooting Star.’
Deborah Sharp-Akosubo popularly known as Debstar is a Port Harcourt rapper and songwriter. Sharp told Hiphop Africa that she started rapping at the tender age of 11 but her professional music career began at the age of 16 when she dropped her first single ‘Walk Away’ which got radio plays and sparked the interest of several publications which led to series of interviews.
Debstar’s sound ranges from boom bap rap to trap, trap soul, and emo rap, and her lyrics center around themes of passion, free-spiritedness, human nature, strength in vulnerability, betrayal, wins and losses.
Sharp is a reserved but confident young woman and during her interview with us she hinted that she hopes to bag a Grammy nomination someday, such lofty dreams at such a tender age, we love to see it.
”Walk away (her debut single) is basically about me being in a toxic on and off relationship and finally having the strength to walk away from the situation, find my worth, and move on. On Remember 2 Remember I talk about my past “tough life” experiences. Depression, hard times, losing loved ones to death and betrayal but overall having the support of my homies and siblings, and also keeping tunnel vision and staying determined while motivating myself.” The rapper told Hiphop Africa.
”I remember everything I went through and use them as a motivation instead of forgetting them. That way, I stay hungry for success and keep moving forward.” Sharp added.
“Growing Pains, my track that dropped on Audiomack on my 18th birthday is now available on all platforms. While it’s a short song, it’s basically about me staying determined through my journey as an artiste and becoming a more evolved version of myself, and looking at all the hurt I’ve experienced, as growing pains (things that were necessary for me to go through to help me grow).”
Debstar is definitely one to look out for after the venomous bars on ‘Shooting star,‘ her latest single which was released on the 19th of August, 2022. ‘Shooting star is available on all platforms for streaming and downloads.’ There’s only one way to go from here and that is up.
You can connect with Debstar on social media via:
IG: debstar_sharp https://instagram.com/debstar_sharp Twitter: debstar_sharp https://twitter.com/debstar_sharp TikTok: official debstar https://www.tiktok.com/@officialdebstar
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After obliterating his verse on Fakaloice’s ‘Ooh Aah‘ fans were happy that Tsibip was finally taking a break from ‘Yanos‘ and coming back to hip hop. Cassper obliged by hinting at working on a new hip-hop project and a single was on the way. Fans of Mzansi hip hop have been on the edge of their seats, especially after Cass made several tweets hyping up his comeback to the game, alluding to the forthcoming single being a classic and needing a Hype Williams video to do justice to it.
‘Put Your Hands Up’ is a hip-hop song with an old-school feel similar to Hip Hop Hooray and Cassper employs The Notorious BIG’s flow and cadence on the first verse of the song, probably as an ode to the golden age of hip hop in the west.
Several fans on Twitter ZA expressed mixed feelings after the track titled ‘Put Your Hands Up’ dropped with some thanking Nyovest for coming back to save hip hop, while others maintained that it did not meet their expectations and maybe it’s high time Cassper brings back the ponytail and the days of ‘Tsholofelo‘ and ‘Refiloe.’
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South African veteran rapper and Maskandi innovator Ntokozo Mdluli popularly known as K.O has made a bold statement about SA hip hop as he prepares the third installment of his ‘Skhanda Republic‘ albums franchise. During an interview with SA Hip Hop Mag, K.O stated that SR 1 is still the only monumental project in SA hip hop for the past 10 years.
The Polokwane rapper has never shied away from praising the Magnum Opus of his solo career. “I am just back on my old ish. I’m back in my bad. We are almost close to the 10-year anniversary of the Skhanda Republic 1, I felt like the album was so monumental in terms of how it was put together the sound and the energy.” The rapper said.
“Years later I don’t think we have seen anything close to it, so it can only take the capacity of the person that created the Skhanda Republic 1. to bring the same energy back. People can expect something not far off from SR1, not the same songs but the kasi mentality, the rawness and speaking uninhibitedly on certain social matters and current affairs that is the headspace.” K.O added.
While this is definitely good news for fans and SA hip hop as a whole, there are many who would disagree with his claim.
K.O just dropped the lead single to his forthcoming ”Skhanda Republic 3′ album Sete’ and fans have been going crazy ever since, clamoring for the album to drop already.
“Sete ‘is a sneak peak into what the upcoming album has in store for audiences. “I am showcasing my growth as K.O, as a man and artistically.” He said. “I had an idea to bring together artists from various spaces, that resulted in a collaboration from the Amapiano sphere with Young Stunna, Hip Hop/trap sphere with Blxckie and of course I came through with the Skhanda ting.” The ‘Caracara‘ hitmaker added.
Wit this information ‘SR3’ might just end up another classic in the bag for K.O.
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