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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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FALZ IS BAHDLY UNPREDICTABLE ON FIFTH ALBUM

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One phrase that can attempt to successfully describe great artists is ”tastefully unpredictable,” Rapper, Actor, and now Singer, Folarin Falana, most commonly known as Falz the Bahd Guy encapsulates that phrase almost second nature, in his music projects. The rapper on Thursday, June 9, 2022, released his fifth studio album, three long years after the  socially conscious, highly successful, and critically acclaimed ‘Moral Instructions.’

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The rapper had hinted in his roll-out documentary that the album will take a different direction from all of his previous works. Fans who went into the album expecting a rap record like 2017’s ’27’ or a socially conscious effort like 2019’s ‘Moral Instructions’were somewhat disappointed at first listen.

The thing about good art is that it has to be refreshing to the audience, Falz understood this a she went into the lab to create this one. It is arguably his bravest and most volatile work to date, his best?… a little too early to determine, and ‘Stories that Touch’ is some big shoes to fill.

Falz rolls into the album with a big ribboned box of vocal surprise, heavily auto-tune assisted Falz debuts a Trap-Esque flow that makes him sound younger, one would think it was an Alpha P record. Folarin reclaims his throne on ‘Another Me’ the album’s intro.

Track two is a feel-good, night-out song about serenading a lover’s heart, on the backdrop of a mellow saxophone instrumental. At this stage of the album, the listener is filled with shock and can barely grasp what they are listening to.

The next song ‘Beautiful Sunflower’ is more up-tempo than its predecessor and has the tone of a potential wedding ceremony anthem set to an almost empty, minimalistic beat.

Falz featuring Tiwa Savage

Lyrically, the album is nothing special at this point, Falz seems to have forgotten his pen at home and focused more on experimenting with vocals. Tiwa Savage on the other hand matches the vibe of the song, asher hollow-sounding vocals make you feel like you’re drowning in a well.

Parampe is the first song on ‘Bahd’ that sounds remotely like the traditional Falz that fans are used to, the Blaise Beats mirrored a Fela project with the vibrant Trumpets, female choral refrains punctuated by modern drum patterns, and Falz’s vocal delivery also mirrors Fela, this song save for content could fit right into moral instructions.

Even the lyrics are Fela-Esque, ‘monkey never talk whenever e never see banana to chop,” ”If dem wan confuse me I give dem puzzle.”

The most wholistic track o the album to this point, the only track that doesn’t feel like an attempt at something that slightly falls short of the target is Chike-assisted ‘Knee Down.’  This track, carried by Chike’s amazing hook does not feel like something is missing.

Falz also finds his foot lyrically on this one, rapping for the first time on the project, about running through females to forget an elusive love interest. Chike delivers a more energetic performance than he is known for on this unrequited love anthem. Both artists are fully in their elements.

On the next track, Autotune Falz is back, showering praises on a girl, this track feels somewhat empty hearing Falz rap without his alter ego ‘Broda Taju’ accent. However, the artist becomes more confident in the second verse, as he was trying not to tread unfamiliar waters the way a natural singer would, in the first verse.

‘Gentleman” enunciates one of the most important qualities of this album, the unpredictability from track to track, the song reminds of ‘I Do It’ from 2017’s ’27.’

The instrumental is lively, with a high-pitched baby voice sample sprinkled all over at intervals, with some highlife elements on it. The lazy and drabby hook is an anti-climax from the energetic verses, almost ruining a potentially good song. The third verse is arguably the best verse on the album to this point. ”Breakfast in bed, how do you like your eggs, I’m tryna get them fertilized.”

The Cavemen usher in the highlife sonic buffet that is ‘Woman,’ Broda Taju is back, rapping quotables like ”…use my tongue outline your body’ and other explicit one-liners. The Cavemen falsetto vocals interlude the verse.

Up to this point, Falz has fallen short at his hook attempts but rises to the occasion on ‘Tender Love’ crooning on the hook, but at his best while rapping. The engineering on this song is top-notch, possibly the best on the album.

The Doktur Sett produced ‘Inside’ follows suit, Falz delivers the hook with so much professionalism and finesse with Boy Spyce backing him up, proving that Falz is better off doing Fela impressions than modern Afrobeats.

Timaya impresses, essentially turning his portion of the song into a ‘Timaya song,’ the same goes for Spyce’s performance. Every artist delivers solid performances separately but the song just doesn’t come together as one, reminds of Kanye’s ‘City of God’ off ‘Donda 2.’ All in all it is a stellar song, definitely a standout cut.

Falz has previously named a whole track after a soccer player on Ajebutter 22 assisted ‘Ronaldo,’ this time around it is Cameroun’s Roger Milla. L.A.X impresses on the hook, from John Cena to Saraphina references. Falz’s verses are strong contenders for the best verse on the project, both lyrically and delivery-wise. The second of the two is a whole cornucopia of Finesse.

‘Roger Milla’ is a perfect song, Falz being more in his element while rapping, once again, Kudos to him for trying something new all the same.

Prior to the album release, the BNXN assisted and Willis produced the lead single, ‘Ice Cream’ with it’s stellar sound engineering and a Buju hook with a similar formula to his ‘Feeling’ hook, was released to the public.

‘Ice Cream‘ is a perfect song that somehow had the commercial spotlight elude it at its initial release, hopefully, the album drop will help revive fans’ interest in the jam.

The album does not have an overarching theme like all his previous works, but focuses more on a sonic direction, Falz pushing himself to try something new and step out of his comfort zone artistically. Bahd is an album worth listening to, laden with a couple gems and potential hit singles, the replay value and long-term impact though are in question, we can be proved wrong,

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