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Bubbling Under #4 – Kumnandi

Birth Name: Luyolo Ndayi Occupation: DJ/Producer Stage Name: KUMNANDI Genre: Hip Hop / Gqom Born in Port Elizabeth in 1995, Luyolo is the youngest of 3 brothers. He credits his older siblings for his love for music. At an early…

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Album Review: Cardi B – Invasion of Privacy

Words by Ziyanda Ntloko Cardi B has had a truly remarkable rise. From the moment she appeared on VH1’s massively popular reality show franchise Love & Hip Hop, a star was born. Although no one could’ve guessed it at the…

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Drake’s Top 20 Best Songs To Date

Words by Ziyanda Ntloko To be a Drake fan is to never be satisfied. Since his début in 2009, Drake has meticulously crafted himself from a seemingly non-threatening Young Money rookie into a wildly successful artist and pop culture phenomenon.…

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10 Alternative Artists To Watch Out For in 2018

Words by Ziyanda Ntloko The opening half of the year always presents the exciting prospect of new music not only from industry stables but those who are also on the cusp. Here’s my list of genre-breaking acts who I anticipate…

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Bubbling Under #3 – Kennedy Green

Our entries for #BubblingUnder are getting better and better as the weeks go by. Thanks to everyone that’s sending us their work. This week’s spot goes to Kennedy Green, a R&B and Soul artist that’s shaking things up on the…

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Kid Tini – The Future of SA Hip Hop?

Words by Glenn Kisela My first impression of Kid Tini was that his demeanour reflected his music accurately, particularly his flow – calm, but intensely confident. He seemed sure of himself and there was no self-doubt to be detected throughout…

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Bubbling Under #2 – Hashtag Deep

Our second artist featured in #BubblingUnder is a Soweto-based artist by the name of Hashtag Deep. We are simply blown away by the maturity in his music and had no choice but to feature him. His style reminds us of…

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Bubbling Under #1 – Parley Wang

After much anticipation- and what many would call a long hiatus- Tembisa’s very own Parley Wang has followed the release of Four Seven which pays homage the place he and Snazzy B’ affectionately call home- with yet another song titled…

Belonging: A Hip Hop Hue – An Op-Ed by Mercia Tucker

I grew up in Wentworth. A community in the South Durban basin, it’s one of the bigger areas that were allocated to coloured inhabitants in the city during Apartheid’s spatial demarcation but at just 2.5% of the eThekwini Municipality’s population,…

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Wrecking Crew – Sound of the Youth

By Kabelo Moremi Sometimes treasure comes from a purely trash situation. The Ambitious saga of questionable deals and disgruntled artists wasn’t a pleasant thing to witness. However, that disaster spawned an avengers of young artists known as the Wrecking Crew.…

Youngsta – The Defiant Voice

Words by Mercia Tucker Africandrone, a non-profit entity, funded a photography project in 2017 aimed at showing the separation between the working class and the bourgeoisie’s Unequal Scenes. Headed up by Johnny Miller, the project portrayed that “communities of extreme…

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The Queen Bee Analogy & the Optics of Female Rap

Words By Ziyanda Ntloko There can only be one: an exploration of hip-hop’s intrinsic bias against female MCs and why the Nicki vs Cardi beef is predetermined For anyone who watched the 2018 Grammys, one of the few highlights of the…

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