Category: Fotos
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#Review | Quotable Quotes From Rofhiwa Maneta’s Book Launch
“I was deliberately blurring the lines between being my dad’s biographer, and being his son. It was never gonna be an objective book; I’m writing about my father.”
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Documenting The Process: The Indaba Is… Zine Ting
Siya Mthembu had contacted me a few months prior to ask if I’d be down to hang out while a revolution unfolded before my eyes. Of course I’d be down, was my response. That initial proposition was followed by silence. I made nothing of the whole affair until, some two months into our COVID19-induced lockdown […]
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Reading Lesotho Hip Hop: An On-Line Repository
Tello Leballo, the supreme broadcaster, acclaimed deejay and founder of Sky Alpha HD, known as Lesotho’s first on- 24-hour streaming radio service, started a Twitter thread paying homage to the many people who were instrumental in building the rap movement.
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The Street Art Project
It was a Sunday. I had asked fellow writer and photographer Lidudumalingani Mqombothi to accompany me on a mission of early morning, innercity exploration, and he’d obliged. We started our journey in Jeppestown and blitzkrieg’d our way towards Newtown, stopping along the way to inspect stand-out pieces.
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#Satire | Man Loses Plot, Arrests Another For Being At The Wrong Place, At The Wrong Time
People who’ve no frigging clue how these innercity Jozi streets operate act all forms of shook when their outsider asses encounter even the slightest of discomforts. Such was the case with Herman Mashaba when he decided to take a stroll and catch a vibe in the Summer heat. The Johannesburg mayor, creator of Black Like […]
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#Fotos | Hip Hop’s Flowers For Pro Overflowed
Hip hop has been showing up for Pro, in different ways, since he had a -kid suffixed to his name.
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#Fotos | Strings & Bling: The Album Launch
Strings & Bling is South African rapper Nasty C’s attempt at making a concept album. At 17 songs long, the sophomore, released as part of his newly-inked deal with the Universal Music Group, is a balanced mix of racy rappitty raps and laidback, at times near-poppy songs, some of which sit squarely in the ballad […]
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#Fotografi | The Grey Series Studio Sessions
Four years ago, a mixtape concept curated by the film duo Drop XVI, producer Nyambz’s Studio Next Door, and emcee B.O.Y Wonder’s Ondaground Productions was recorded in Pretoria, South Africa.
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