Category: Newspapers
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Rouge: Coming In From The Cold, Redda Than Red
In 2013 Deko Barbara-Jessica Weidi, who is of Congolese descent, was an upstart R&B singer who’d recently started rapping because of the push her producer friends gave her. She was signed to a management company, had a publicist and, judging from the performance she gave at one press conference of the magnanimous fuck-up that was…
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#iWrite | South African Nightlife Guide For Guardian UK
Shout-out to Phiona who put me onto this sweet Guardian gig that required me to play musical guide through some sweet live spots around South Africa.
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#Newspapers | The Future Of South African Rap For Sunday Times
I have an unhealthy relationship with newspapers. I distrust the politics of the mechanism underpinning their operation. But then again, I want my shit to be read by people spanning a wide range of the social spectrum.
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#Newspapers | Shabaka & The Ancestors For Sunday Times…
I got to write about Shabaka Hutchings’ new project called The Ancestors for the Sunday Time’s Lifestyle section. They keep their info behind paywalls over there; the screengrab below is from a version I was sent to proofread. Brrrap! UPDATE: The article can be read on this pressreader link.
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#Newspapers | I Wrote About Youth Culuture & The Internet For Mail & Guardian
“By the time the early naughties hit, I’d become an internet-dependent delinquent prowling night and day for hyperlinks to rap music websites which I’d spot on magazines and see on television shows’ end credits. It was during these solitary digging missions that I discovered AfricasGateway – a buzzing community of like-minded heads fanatical about rap…
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Manthe, Courtnae & Tarryn For City Press…
This story was especially challenging to do. These amazing, beautiful women are all ultra busy; negotiating time to speak became an interesting task.
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“Girls Can Rap Too” For Mail & Guardian
I wrote an article in the latest edition of M&G questioning the word ‘femcee’ and whether women who rap identify with it. Gigi Lamayne, Yugen Blakrok, Andiswa Mkosi and MC Meloh were some of the women who lent their voices. The original title was WTF Is A Femcee? Wish they’d kept that, would’ve been way-out wavy.…
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#Featured | Bra Hugh & Pops Mohammed For Blaque Life Digest
The dread-scribe Percy Mabandu needed a right-hand man to assist with images while he broke atoms down with bra Hugh and bra Pops. The results are in this month’s Blaque Life Digest, available at all reputable stores in South Africa. Pops Mohammed
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