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J. Cole Calls New Drake Album ”Phenomenal”

The bromance between two heads of hip hop’s three-headed GOAT J.Cole and Drake has never been in question, just this year these two have been photographed together more than a new Hollywood power couple. The recent show of love is from Cole’s end this time, the North Carolina rapper took to social media to co-sign Drake’s new project as a ”phenomenal tape.”

Amidst all the backlash Drake is getting for his latest experiment, it is good to see some positive take on the album, especially from somebody Drake loves and respects, and a musical juggernaut like J.Cole.

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Big Hash Confirms Flvme Collab and Hints at Aries Deluxe

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Former Innanetwav rapper, singer, and songwriter The Big Hash took to his Twitter account to announce that he is featured on former Wreckin’ Crew member Flvme’s upcoming album, titled ‘Germander II.’ Young Biggy as he likes to refer to himself is on track 6 on the album, a song titled ‘Outside.’

Hash shared a tweet of Flvme posting the complete tracklist on the album, Flvme is yet to give a precise release date for the much-anticipated album.

https://twitter.com/peacebeyondme/status/1531918465640157184

On his official Facebook page, Hash announced that the deluxe version of his mixtape ‘Aries: A Precursor to Heartbreak Hotel‘ is coming soon.

The original which features a Flvme collab has been garnering crazy numbers since its release. Listen below.

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Sjava Explains Album Removal from Spotify

Seems like this is the season of album removals from streaming platforms by SA rappers, barely a few weeks after the late Riky Rick’s debut album ‘Family Values’ was removed from streaming platforms, another elite artist had his albums removed, this time around Anatii’s whole solo catalogue was taken down from all platforms. This time around Sjava’ s ‘Umqhele’ is the latest victim.

Whilst Riky’s album was taken down for clearance issues and later re-uploaded, no news have been heard of the fate of Anatii’sArtiifact‘  and ‘Iyeza.’

Sjava nonetheless took to twitter to announce that the album has ben restored and was only taken down due to a technical glitch.

Listen to the classic sophomore album from Sjava’s days at Ambitiouz Entertainment, whic spawned the national hit ‘Umama,’ below.

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Drake Shocks the World with Surprise Album, ‘Honestly, Nevermind.’

Arguably the greatest artist of his generation, the biggest example of a rap-pop crossover artist, Aubrey Drake Graham pulled a Beyonce in the wee hours of Friday, June 17 2022 by dropping his seventh studio LP to much fanfare from fans all over social media. Steph Curry wins his fourth NBA Championship ring with a Finals MVP performance, and Drake drops an album the same night. It’s light skin men’s season apparently.

The 14-track LP is coming just nine months after the poorly received ‘Certified Lover Boy’, and is a journey in a different direction, although not completely new territory. R&B Drake fans will love this one. Listen to the lead single ‘Falling Back’ below.

The album features production from South African deep house DJ Black Coffee and usual collaborators Noah ”40” Shebib, Tay Keith, and a solo guest appearance from 21 Savage who was also on ‘Certified Lover Boy’s’ ‘Knife Talk.’

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New Music Friday Featuring Eno Barony, Txby, CLE Cashout & More…

Listen to the The latest and banging hip-hop songs from across the continent with new songs from Kwak Kese, CLE Cashout, Txby, Eno baroby and more…

Hear something you like, Follow the playlist, comment with your favorite song or line from your favorite song and you could win 6 month free Spotify subscription.

Tyson Sybateli Talks New Album and Career with Slikour

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South African breakout rapper Tyson Sybateli sat down with legendary hip hop mogul and presenter Slikour, for a special session of his #BackyardSessions interviews. Just a month after delivering his masterpiece sophomore album titled Home. 

UmLazi-born and Pretoria-raised emcee, Tyson Sybateli through his affiliation with some of the biggest budding talents out of the Capital city served an introspective and lyric deep palette over stripped down and grimy, west coast style beats, delivered in the raspy voice and aggression that reminds of Schoolboy Q.

Tyson himself admitted to Slikour that Q is one of his rap influences alongside MF Doom, Mick Jenkins, Pusha T, etc. The latter is very evident in his calm demeanor while rapping.

One question that has been on everybody’s lips since Tyson bust into the scene has been when he will collaborate with A-Reece, an issue he hinted at on his album, on the song ” If Found, Return Home’ which features Reece’s elder brother Jay Jody.

Slikour had Tyson dissecting the album and talking about the roll-out aesthetics, especially why his face is being blurred out on the rollout images for the album, and also why he has a rap career and day job.

 

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031 Choppa Previews New Song with Maphorisa and Blxckie

DJ Maphorisa is the DJ Khaled of South African music, or more accurately, Khaled is the Maphorisa of American music. Maphorisa had put on so many budding artists, from Lucasraps to Sizwe Alakine, everyone has a Maphorisa story as a part of their come-up. His recent protege is Durban native 031 Choppa.

The rapper has employed both Phori and fellow Durban native Blxckie for his latest single. On his Instagram, he shared a video clip of the three artists performing an unreleased song at Konka during the PorylandLive concert, with the caption “SONG DROPPING SOON!!!”

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J.Cole and Ella May Cooped Up in the Studio

After taking a break from professional basketball in the Canadian Elite League, Scarborough Shooting Stars Guard and Multi platinum selling, Grammy winning rapper J.Cole, has been spotted hanging out in the studio with British R&B star Ella Mai.

The two have had a  professional romance since their first meeting in, it is clear that Mai absolutely adores Cole the way she talks about him in interviews.

This is coming barely four weeks after the Brit songbird told Angie Martinez in an exclusive interview that she has two unreleased songs with the Dreamville rapper, seems like their chemistry drew them back to each other.

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Anatii Removes Solo Projects from Streaming Platforms

The South African hip-hop world woke up to disheartening news on the morning of June 13, 2022. Elusive Xhosa rapper, singer, and music producer Anathi Bhongo Mnyango, professionally known as Anatii announced on his Twitter that he has removed all his solo music projects from all platforms.

This is coming just after Riky Rick’s debut album ‘Family Values’ was taken down from streaming platforms, albeit Riky’s album will be restored there is no news about the fate of Anatii’s projects.

The 29-year-old virtuoso has dropped a solo project since 2018’s ”Iyeza’ which spawned hits like ”Thixo Onofefe‘ and ‘Ntloni.’  Fans are hoping that this is a temporary situation and not a goodbye to the game from Anatii.

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Zoocci Announces A Forthcoming Project for 2022

South African producer, rapper and sound engineer, Zoocci Coke  Dope announced a forthcoming yet to be titled project on his twitter account on Monday June 13, 2022. The Pretoria serial hitmaker has been quiet since his deluxe EP ‘Anxiety +’ dropped on the 25th of February 2022, save for production credits here and there.

https://twitter.com/Zoocci_CokeDope/status/1536301494084984832

The EP served as deluxe for 2019’s ‘Anxiety’ album which had guest appearances from Nasty C, Stogie T, Priddy Ugly etc. Nasty C also made an appearance on the deluxe alongside fellow Durban emcee Blxckie.

The Zoocci produced Pheli Makhaveli album by fellow Pretoria native 25k, was nominated three times for the Best Engineered Album, Best Newcomer Of The Year and Best Hip hop Album for the 2022 SAMAs.  Fans can’t wait to see what Zoocci got up his sleeves this time around.

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