Boiler Room and Ballantine’s Dish Out an Epic True Music Africa
Words by Mercia Tucker The Boiler Room and Ballantines have made their way to South Africa once again for True Music Africa, a tour dedicated to uplifting talent in the continent to a global audience. In a spectacular display of the strength of cross-continental conversation, Ballantines and Boiler Room hosted the True Music Forum on […]
2 Lee Stark & Stephen of Kent present THERE MAY BE WOLVES
“There May Be Wolves” is a joint EP project by 2Lee Stark and Stephen Of Kent. The title of the album takes inspiration from Game Of Thrones. Stark is part of 2lee’s rap alias which is the same as House Stark on GOT, the house sigil of the starks is a wolf and they also […]
Ye – A Review
Words by Joey Drumz No stranger to controversy, Kanye’s innate ability to say things that shock the world has been matched only by his ability to articulate the message behind some of those statements in song form. Since the release of his College Dropoutdebut, the world has watched Kanye morph himself into a pop culture […]
K.O Drops Two Piece EP feat. AKA and Cassper Nyovest
K.O dropped a two punch combo over the weekend aptly titled “Two Piece”. The EP features two songs … “Fire Emoji” co-stars the Supa Mega AKA and “Waya Way” features Family Tree supremo Cassper Nyovest. It’s quite a coup that K.O was able to get two of the biggest rappers in the game to feature […]
What Shane Eagle’s SAMA Win Means for SA Hip Hop
South African hip hop has come a long way. The evolution from an American-inspired sound to an aesthetic that is distinctly South African has been an incredible journey to witness. The rise of vernac and how South African hip hop has embraced it and come into its own voice is equally as remarkable. The significance […]
[VIDEO] AKA Drops ‘Star Signs’ Video
June is “Touch My Blood” month. You literally can’t escape the hysteria and buzz that the Supa Mega and Beam Group have created for AKA’s third album which is set to drop on the 15th of June. One of the first singles from the album is “Star Signs”, a slow burning rap joint that features […]
Sales Projections for Kanye West’s YE Are In
After Kanye made controversial statements around slavery and showed off his MAGA cap fellow artists and fans promised to boycott his music. Now that YE, his 8th album has dropped, it’s interesting to see how the numbers are looking like. As soon as YE was released it hit No. 1 on the charts and all […]
Nasty C Drops Two Banging New Singles
Nasty C aka The Chosen One is back! The diminutive KZN native has been hard at work on his sophomore album “Strings and Bling” which is set to drop this month. The highly anticipated album will drop via Universal Music, his new homes after he parted ways with Mabala Noise. “Jungle” and “King” (feat. ASAP […]
[VIDEO] AKA Drops ‘Practice’ Video With Reebok
“Are you talking about practice man? Practice?” AKA has been teasing an official sneaker collabo with Reebok for a minute now and it finally looks like it’s about to happen. In celebration of all their efforts the Supa Mega and Reebok have released an exclusive track titled “Practice” which is available for download on the […]
Road To Reason
Words by Mercia Tucker Traces of exhaustion lace his voice as Reason lets me know that he sees his different albums as books in an anthology of his life. He’s been hard at work on the new addition to the collection and while working on it he’s listened to those albums and revisited those depictions […]
Bubbling Under #5 – LUKE
Sanele Mhlungu aka Luke is an up and coming hip hop artist from Pietermaritzburg, eMbali. He has dropped his single Still Do from his EP Third Lane Flows dropping this month under 03THIRD CREATIONS. Sanele Mhlungu was born and raised in Pietermaritzburg, he first got exposed to the music “scene” while doing dancing as a […]
PatricKxxLee Drops Birthday Cake
Follow the release of Dark Side Down featuring J Molley last month, PatricKxxLee is back with “Birthday Cake” – a rogue birthday anthem for real ragers just shy of two minutes long – which he drops six months ahead of his own birthday by the way, so no context there. It’s been a minute since PatricKxxLee released […]