Category: Interview
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Nonso Amadi: The Come-Up, Paying Homage, The Nu EP
The vocalist, producer and songwriter Nonso Amadi’s first time out of his country of birth was in 2015, when he went to pursue further education in the UK.
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#Featured | Okayafrica Interview About The South African Jazz Stuff
I did an interview with my homie Sabelo from Okayafrica about the jazz stuff I’ve been documenting over the past few years. I said some things that will likely get me blacklisted from opportunities
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Bongeziwe Mabandla, A Brother Most Beautiful
“It’s a risk album, you know?! I wanted to do something that was different. I didn’t want to be stagnat, and a lot of people that I was working with were like ‘are you gonna do the same kind of vibe for your new album?’,” says Bongeziwe Mabandla (Bongi henceforth), musician, singer-songwriter from his flat…
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#Throwback | Spoek Mathambo: A Bandleader
Spoek Mathambo released his album Father Creeper through the Sub Pop label in 2012. It was a big deal. He was fresh off of creating a movement whose tremours took root in Jozi’s CBD and completely changed how kids coming up then approached their art. He hadn’t released Mzansi Beat Code, his latest project. He…
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I Spoke About Rap Muziki With Marklives Dot Com Bruh Bruh…
And Mandy de Waal did the interview. That’s like, levels of awesomeness because I was always peeping Mandy’s investigative pieces back when Rollingstone Mag SA was still a thing. So, like, yay-urr! Plus I get to speak extensively about South African Hip Hop, and about the South African rap industry. And I never leave the snark…
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Between 10 And 5 & Digify Africa Showed Love, So I’m Showing It Right Back…
So I’ve been included in Between10and5’s #Bayeza: Young South Africans Defining Creative Culture list. Yay, I suppose. Big up to Dave Mann who reached out and did the interview and stuff. Plus, despite feeling all sorts of conflicted about lists in general, I reckon it’s cool that a writer got some play.
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#Video | HHP Video Goes Viral, Gets Featured On @Timeslive Website
So the one time my homie Phil & I headed out to go pay OG Jabba a visit. We were welcomed warmly and got to hang with his band. Both of us were just happy to be around someone whose music we hold dearly to our hearts.
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Graffiti Artist Wane’s City Of Gold
New York-based graf writer Wane was invited to paint during the City of Gold Festival in 2014. Writer and journalist Neo Maditla spoke to the legendary pressure controller about his life-long passion for gaseous fumes, and about why innercity Jozi’s similar to the New York of old.
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Thandi Ntuli-x-Jozi Unsigned
I’ve secretly been a fan of Thandi Ntuli since her university days, back when they used to have recitals in room C7 at the Suth African College of Music. At one point, I found myself somewhere in Khayelitsha grooving along to her house music project named Deluge; such is her range. There have been countless…
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Interview With Kyle Shepherd
At 21 years old, Kyle Shepherd burst into the South African jazz conscience without prior warning. Following in the footsteps of heavyweights such as Marcus Wyatt, Andile Yenana, and Zim Ngqawana (whom he would collaborate with in future), Shepherd demonstrably proved that he is a presence worthy of reckoning. A couple of years down the…
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