American rapper, singer and record producer Russel James Vitale, popularly known as Russ has announced that he will be bringing his ‘The Journey Is Everything’ Tour to the Motherland, South of the continent precisely.
Klerksdorp born rapper Maglera Doe Boy has been on a roll since announcing his upcoming project ‘Diaspora.’ The ‘Bodega’ rapper recently released the lead single of the project ‘Dor Do Povo‘ and hasn’t wasted any time in giving fans a visual sneak peek into what the album will bring. Now the street prophet has has dropped new visuals for the intro of the project, to let fans in on what the sound and feel of the 12 tracker will be.
On the song he chronicles his life in his childhood neoghborhood of Kanana where he dreamed about his life today.
He raps about kemetic metaphors on a heavy bass loaded soundtrack in a black and white background while draped in a suit and tie to represent his growth from a young street thug to an adult who made it.
Multi-talented rapper and singer from Pretoria The Big Hash has announced his first single since his collaboration with Durban’s Lucasraps. The rapper has been teasing the deluxe version of his Aries mixtape that dropped early this year, this may be the lead single to the deluxe project.
Young Biggy took to his Instagram account to share the cover art and a short snippet of the song dropping this Friday August 5, 2022.
Klerksdorp rapper is professionally known as Maglera Doe Boy just weeks after announcing that his forthcoming project is ready, has given fans a sneak peek of what to expect from the project, by dropping the lead single to the project titled ‘Dor Do Povo.’
The single and project are both under his new team at Universal Music South Africa.
The rapper who was discovered by Motswako legend Khuli Chana, also shared the cover art and official tracklist of the project.
A spokesperson of Lakreem Entertainment has come out to update the public on the situation regarding Nigerian veteran rapper Eedris Abdulkareems‘s health. The rapper was reported to be suffering from kidney failure months ago and needed surgery.
”As we await the substantive surgery date, which may take place any moment from now as all arrangements have been made, we wish to also use this opportunity to thank and appreciate everyone for your massive outpouring of prayers, love, care, affection, and support.
”The show of love and support from both home and abroad have been quite amazing and truly overwhelming. Most importantly, it means the world to the ailing Eedris, as it undoubtedly represents the required tonic that is most helpful in propelling him to fight and win this battle. We will be forever grateful. May God continues to bless and abide with us all.” the statement added.
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Cassper Nyovest has been in the mood to rap recently, after his brow-raising verse on Fakaloice’s ‘Ooh Aah,’ the North West Province emcee has voiced his eagerness to do more rapping and bring back the hip hop culture in Mzansi.
In a recent tweet responding to a fan who asked him to get his third studio album ‘Thuto‘ back on Apple Music, Cassper revealed that the glitch is due to the fact that he has signed a new distribution deal and the project is just moving from one system to another and will soon be re-uploaded.
No panic. I just signed a new distribution deal so its moving from one system to another, that's all. I also have a new single dropping soon by the way. https://t.co/zesU8gzGTj
The ‘Tito Mboweni‘ rapper also criticized rappers who complain too much about Amapiano leading to a decline of rap in SA and urged them to become more creative to stand a chance to compete instead of complaining, in another tweet.
Hip hop niggas is too worried about amapiano to be honest. Niggas is also too worried about numbers,likes and views. Just drop music niggas!! Amapiano this, amapiano that!!! Haha. The shit is going no where!!! This is the time to get creative !!! Let's get busy!!! I'm inspired!!!
Also on Twitter Don Billiato announced that he has a new single on the way and it’s so good, it deserves a Hype Wiliams video, to match the energy of the song.
My next single is STUPID!!!!! LIKE THIS SHIT NEED HYPE WILLIAMS TO SHOOT IT!!!! I need the visuals to match the energy!!!! I got a classic on my hands!!!! We about to get the energy up!!! This is what happens when you take your time with your craft and let the music move you!!!!
Vocal and sometimes controversial South African media personality and former MTVBase VJ Sizwe Dhlomo has expressed his dissatisfaction with the state of the hip hop genre in South Africa amidst the rise of the Amapiano wave.
The hip hop genre in SA has seen a steady decline in the past few years, with some rappers even branching out into other genres like Amapiano and Gqom and some even giving up rapping totally to focus on the more commercial genres.
Rappers like Cassper Nyovest, Blxckie, and Reason are very prominent in the Amapiano space, so much so that Blxckie played in the Amapiano team against the hip hop team during the celebrity charity match that was played in honour of Riky Rick.
Reason has taken a new moniker to accommodate his new career as an Amapiano artist, he is now known as Sizwe Alakine.
Hip Hop used to be the most commercial and biggest genre in the country from the emergence of the AKA and Cassper era 2011-14 to the era of Nasty C and A-Reece (2016). After the pandemic, the genre has lost its attraction to Amapiano and Gqom and other dance-based genres.
Following a tweet by Dhlomo, fans posited that the beef era helped propel both Nyovest and Forbes to great heights but it was not sustainable to keep the whole genre up for long and that Amapiano is so big because the artists collaborate heavily amongst each other, while said hip hop fell because the rappers are not authentically South African and are trying to copy American rappers.
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Former Ambitiouz Entertainment rapper Anele Mbisha, known all over South Africa and beyond as Saudi, has finally let fans in on his music plans after returning from a long hiatus that lasted since his debut album in 2017 till date. The rapper recently announced that he will be dropping his much anticipated sophomore album soon and is open to collaborating with other artists in South Africa.
Saudi had disappeared from the music scene immediately after his collaboration with ScHoolboy Q & 2 Chainz, “X”, was featured on Black Panther: The Album, in 2018.
Fans assumed he was busy making the follow-up to his debut album ‘DRUGS Inc,’ he had announced would b called ‘Japan 4’ and would drop in 2018, however that album never manifested and fans did not hear from Saudi again save for back and forth legal battles with Ambitiouz Entertainment until he left in January 2021.
The rapper last dropped in 2020 when he dropped ‘The Drip’s Leak’ mixtape which was well received by fans all over S.A.
Saudi is back and has announced a project titled ‘Msotra Don’t Die’ and has asked artists in SA who want to work with him to reach out, however, he has limited the gesture to just established artists. Saudi has said that he has a good feeling about how the project will pan out.
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Apple Music 1’s ‘The Dotty Show’ is a variety show that features Dotty interviewing the artists lighting up Apple Music with the biggest tracks across hip-hop, dancehall, Afrobeats and other booming genres from the Atlantic to the Pacific, down to the Cape of Good Hope.
Dotty hosts a special feature on her Worldwide Wednesdays show dedicated to the hottest sounds from Africa on the last Wednesday of every month “It’s impossible to celebrate the global impact of Black music without spotlighting the abundant sounds coming out of the African continent”, said Dotty.
This week’s episode features cover stars FLVME from South Africa, Sampa The Great, Didi B and Black Sherif’s tracks, and South African DJ and producer, Al Da 3rd.
Tune in to ‘The Dotty Show’ this Wednesday, July 27th at 2p London / 3p Lagos/Paris / 4p Johannesburg / 6a LA / 9a NYC on Apple Music 1.
‘The Dotty Show’ will also premiere “Bona” by Sampa The Great off her upcoming album As Above, So Below, which promises to fuse music, poetry, and visual art with elements of hip hop, gospel, neo-soul, and a touch of psychedelia.
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When SA rapper Nadia Nakia was asked about her relationship with Vic Mensa on Drink or Tell the Truth the rapper revealed that she and Vic had broken up. She said: “We broke up, but it’s fine, it doesn’t matter.” Not long after she began sparking rumours of dating fellow SA rapper AKA who is arch-rivals with her former label boss Cassper Nyovest.
But Nadia’s fans will not let her forget about her former American beau.
During their IG Live, the couple were casually chatting to fans when one comment caught AKA’s attention. The ‘Composure’ rapper read it out aloud:
“Vic Mensa still loves you.”
It was all jokes, though, for the couple as Nadia jokingly asked: “Why are you reading those comments? There are so many other nice comments, why are reading those comments?”
Looks like the couple may be more than just a publicity stunt as Nadia has stated that she would lik to hav Kiernan’s babies after witnessing his dad skills with his daughter Kairo.
“We didn’t plan to become a couple, it just happened. I’ve witnessed how great he is as a father; of course, I’d love to have his babies one day,” Nadia was quoted as saying.
