Survivor’s Remorse drops on October 22, 2021. Look out for a track titled, ‘O Por.’
Fresh off his wedding to the delectable and respected Kimani Moore, rapper and exec, Loose Kaynon releases new single, ‘Ko Ina.’
On the song, he documents his first encounter with his wife, his realization and his love for her. In terms of growth, this is age-appropriate music.
Survivor’s Remorse drops on October 22, 2021. Look out for a track titled, ‘O Por.’
Stream the song HERE
Nigerian prolific rapper, singer and songwriter, Ladipo Eso, popularly known as Ladipoe, has announced that he will be thrilling his fans with a new project before the year runs out and the project is Titled “Providence”, the rapper made it clear that he took his time creating the project, one that his fans can cherish when it drops later this year.
Taking to his Instagram page today, October 13th 2021, he shared a photo that made the announcement.
The said photo, which was a message to his fans, also highlighted Ladipoe’s 2021 so far; from being nominated and winning the Headies award earlier this year, to dropping his first single of the year, ‘Feeling‘ featuring Buju, which topped charts across the country, to welcoming his first child and the most recent win; his nomination for the 2021 BET Awards—his first international nomination.
Ladipoe already has a hit song this year with his single Feeling featuring another Nigerian 2021 breakout star Buju with the single getting to number 1 on Apple music charts in both Nigeria and Ghana.
Rapper and songwriter on the steady rise Paxah has finally released his much anticipated “Remote.” The budding artist uses this project to kick off the third quarter of the year 2021. The project embodies 5 (five) records, which features Zambian of the moment Jeamally and Kap10 Jay.
Check out the tracklist below
As part of its dedication to helping the African music industry unlock its full potential, music streaming platform Boomplay’s data will now be added to the data that informs the prestigious Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200, Artist 100 and Billboard Global 200 charts, as well as all other Billboard U.S. and global charts that include streaming data.
This will be effective with data for the tracking week of October 15 through October 21 (Billboard charts dated October 30).
With millions of African songs being streamed on the platform globally, the inclusion of Boomplay’s stream data in the iconic charts provides African and international artistes and music on the platform the opportunity for more exposure on the global stage.
Within MRC Data’s Music Connect platform, Boomplay streams will be included in the ‘Others’ data bucket under Audio On-Demand with data visible on October 12, 2021 for streams beginning on October 8, 2021.
According to Billboard, ‘‘MRC Data’s foundation is built on providing the music industry and our clients with the most complete view of music consumption. We are excited to announce additional data being captured from Boomplay.’’
Boomplay’s Director of Content & Strategy, Phil Choi described Boomplay’s addition to the charts as “a significant step in ensuring African artistes on the platform are fairly and equally represented where it matters and that they have access to similar opportunities available to their international counterparts.
“While this might have seemed far-fetched in the past, we now have one foot in the door already following our partnership with Billboard Charts.”
Boomplay’s streaming data added to the Billboard charts represent streams from its subscription tier and logged-in streams from its ad-supported tier, with streams from each tier weighted appropriately.
Boomplay currently has over 60 million Monthly Active Users & over 60 million tracks.
Billboard is an entertainment magazine published weekly by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of MRC Media & Info.
The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, Billboard 200 and Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music.
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Watch! Like His Father, Cassper Son Is A Bentley Boy. Cassper Nyovest is one of South Ahh’s most talented Hip Hop acts, the rapper wears many hats from producer to businessman but his favourite title has to be dad. Last year, the award-winning artist welcomed his first child, a boy named Khotso. Cassper has not revealed his son’s face but he often shares moments with apple of his eye on social media with his followers. While Khotso may only be one it’s seems he is already following in father’s footsteps when it comes to the finner things in life.
Cassper recently took to social media to show off, Khotso’s new set of wheels which is identical to his father’s. In a video posted by Cassper, Khotso’s is seen driving a kids version of a drop top Bentley. Khotso’s Bentley is also white like his father, and just like his father he has a personalized number plate. Khotso got the Bentley children’s car as a gift for his first birthday, just like his dad who got himself a new Bentley when he turned 30 last year. Khotso’s mini Bentley is said to cost a hefty, R26 000. In his caption Cassper shared that Khotso is a Bentley Boy and is ready for summer. “Asbonge!!! Dankie K Man!!!! Bentley Boyz! He ready for the summer!!! #SummerYaFame,” wrote the rapper.
Cassper is working hard on providing the best for his son and has been open about creating a legacy for his son. Cassper unfortunately missed Khotso’s 1st birthday as he was on a mini tour out of the country. While the rapper was not home for the celebration, he certainly made sure to make it the best he could, he even got a UK crowd to sing Happy birthday to his son during a performance. Cassper posted a video of the special moment and wrote in his caption “Manchester sang Happy Birthday for my son Khotso aka Simba last night. Couldn’t be there for his first birthday but Manchester made it special for me. I’m sure he will feel the love from all the way in South Africa. I love you buddy! You inspire me! I do this for you!!!”
Mufasa now that he is back home in Mzansi he is spending all the time he can with his son. This is not the first time, Khotso has made waves because of the luxury items, his parents have bought for him. Khotso’s stroller, which is international brand Cybex caused quite the reaction on social media. The Jeremy Scott designed stroller costs an estimated R33,604.20.
AKA Gets Personal, Drops New Single On Late Fiancé’s Birthday. AKA has released a new single, on what is believed to be his late fiancé Anele Tembe’s birthday. The award-winning rapper took to social media to share that he dropped a new single called, Tears Run Dry. On the track, AKA gets a little bit personal as he reminisces over the memory of his late fiancé, who tragically passed away earlier this year. The rapper did hint that fans should still expect him to touch on the personal aspects of his life and he is definitely doing that.
In his caption, AKA wrote, “Happy Birthday Baby” as he let his fans and followers that they should listen to his new offering. AKA has been honest with his fans about still dealing with the passing of his fiancé. AKA recently collaborated with Costa Titch on a joint EP called, You’re Welcome. The EP has a very upbeat sound and is something to get his fans going, some fans were disappointed that the project didn’t address the personal issues that he had through in the media. However, in an interview with YFM, he explained why he opted to do this. In the interview, AKA revealed that he would be releasing a project where he would deal with the heavy stuff.
“The first music that people wanted to hear from me, was after I went through all my stuff this year and whatever. And people probably wanted to hear me talk about all that stuff, but I felt like yo, summer is back. I can’t come out all sad and heavy. Let me get the jiggy stuff out the way and do like good vibes. Obviously later in the year, my project is still gonna come out and then I’ll deal with all that heavy stuff, “ revealed Supa Mega on YFM’s breakfast show, YMornings with DJ Ankletap and Kandis Kardash. Fans of the rapper took to his comment section to show him support as he celebrates the memory of his late fiance.
This is not the first time, AKA is publicly remembering his fiance, on Fathers Day he paid tribute to Anele. The tribute was written four months after Anele’s tragic passing. “4 months to this day. … it never goes away. Everyday I pray for her, myself and our families, Everyday I pray for her, myself. and our families. I will never be the same person I was… but I will do the best I can with the gift and opportunity of life that I still have left. Thank You to everyone who has stuck by me and our respective families … you know who you are,” wrote the rapper.
Emtee Reveals His Latest SAMRO Payment. Overthe years, artists have always been encouraged to register their music with SAMRO, in order to obtain their royalties. SAMRO’s primary role is to administer Performing Rights on behalf of members. The copyright asset management company does this by licensing music users, through the collection of licence fees which are then distributed as royalties. When an artist’s music is on a high rotation across SA radio stations, one would expect to get quite the payout, however, that is not always the case.
A recent revelation by award-winning rapper Emtee is shining the light on how much payments are from the organisation. Emtee shared that he has received R30 payment from SAMRO. Emtee revealed this in response to a tweet by popular DJ Prince Kaybee who revealed he had received R100 from the organisation. The rapper’s fans were rather shocked to find out how much Emtee received, some of his fans however argued that at least Emtee got something. Emtee reminded the follower that he is a parent and things are costly.
Royalties are always a burning issue when it comes to the music business. Recently Cassper Nyovest came under fire for allegedly not paying royalties to legendary group, Mahotella Queens who feature on his track called Malome. Producer Veli Shabangu made the allegations against the award-winning rapper at the memorial service of Nobesuthu Mbadu a member of the iconic SA group. “The same energy that he used back then when he wanted the song from them, he must use it to pay them their royalties. Why should they chase after him now?” Shabangu is quoted as saying by Sunday World.
Earlier this year SAMRO revealed that it was unable to pay its members that much needed Covid-19 relief due to missing information, such as banking details. The organisations at the time needed to pay various amounts to artists, the amount depends on the usage of an artists creation. SAMRO CEO Mark Rosin had explained to Sunday World that the amount a be as little as R100 to R250 000. “The distributable value is divided by the total seconds of music [as submitted by the broadcaster], with the result being the unit rate per second. The total seconds of the member’s music used by the station or channel is multiplied by the unit rate.
“License fee is R2m and distributable value divided by 6,000,000, which is a total seconds of music for radio station = R0,33. The R0,33 is multiplied by 2,000 [seconds of music – for a particulate song] = R667. This would mean that the song would have earned royalties amounting to R667, from the specific radio station and the same calculation is repeated for every radio station, TV channel, film, live concert and digital service provider licensed. The overall value thereafter is what is paid to the member as a royalty,” Rosin explained.
The show, which will be organized by the esteemed Duke concept will be Olamide’s third in the US.
On October 11, 2021, Nigerian superstar, Olamide announced a nine-stop tour of the US, tagged CARPE DIEM, in line with his groundbreaking 2020 album, which turned one a day earlier.
The nine-stop tour will commence in Minneapolis on November 5, 2021 and end in the DMV [District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia on November 28, 2021. In between, Olamdie will visit Houston and Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Phoneix, Arizona; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Providence, Rhode Island; and New York City.
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Watch! K.O And AKA Reunite To Perform Smash Hit ‘Run Jozi’. When the beat to AKA and K.O smash hit, Run Jozi drops crowds are known to get going. The 2014 smash hit to put the spotlight on the then young rappers along with Yanga Chief who features on the song. Run Jozi dominated the airwaves and charts at one point. It has been a while since fans were able to catch the artists performing the song. However, recently a few fans were in for a treat when they got to see the rappers reunite for the performance.
K.O performed alongside AKA at Yanga Chief’s Famous Friends event, which aims to unite SA Hip Hop. The rappers showed fans at the event that they still have what it takes to get crowds going. As the reception to the performance was just as warm. The event scene in South Ah is opening up and everyone is in a festive mood. More artists have returned to performing across the country and are booked and busy. Famous Friends is an event for Hip Hop enthusiasts to engage and reignite the spark in Hip Hop and this reunion might have assisted in doing so.
Run Jozi features on AKA’s album, Levels and is one of the singles on the album that reached Gold status. The music video has over 3 million views on YouTube. The song was certainly a big deal in its time and one of SA Hip Hop hottest collaborations. At one point, Yanga Chief was not credited on the hit song, something that got the streets talking but the rapper in an interview with OkayAfrica reflected on understanding why the moment happened. At the event, several SA Hip Hop acts performed, Yanga had explained in an interview with SlikourOnLive, that there would be no formal stage or structure of the lineup and artists would just perform as they go. SA Hip Hop rap OGs Slikour and Suggasmash of Skwatta Kamp also performed.
While the day was all about celebrating all things good in SA Hip Hop it couldn’t be without any drama. A brief fracas broke out after Nota confronted Stogie T and the two had a mini tiff. Nota went on several Instagram Lives and shared several posts detailing what went down between Stogie and him. The Diamond Walk hitmaker responded to everything Nota had to say in a single statement. “Yesterday, at an event touted as bringing hip hop together for the love of the culture, I was minding my own business when Nota encroached my section. I interpreted this as a provocation and gestured for him to leave and an unfortunate fracas ensued,” read his statement.
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