Tag: Cassper Nyovest
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#Satire | Rappers Against Racism
The amount of racial hatred parated by Whiteness™ on-line has attracted condemnation from the least likely of quarters in society.
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Back To The City: The End Is Coming
When the final Back to the City takes place in 2021, oral recollections of past festivities will serve as testament to what happens when a bunch of rap kids who used to gather around rap ciphers at Ghandi Square in Jozi accidentally spark a revolution, all the while juggling having to grow up and take…
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#Throwback | When #FillUp Was Still A Dream In Cassper’s Dome
Imagine if Cassper Nyovest failed to fill up the dome. How would South African Hip Hop look at him? What would #TeamAKA think and say? Most importantly, how would social media react?
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#GuestPost | Cassper, Respect Us Pls!
Back in 2015, Cassper set his sights on the TicketPro Dome in the peak of his popularity following the release of his first studio album Tsholofelo, and filled up the 19,000 capacity venue. He doubled the ante the following year and attempted to fill up Orlando Stadium in Soweto, which sits 40, 000 people. On…
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#Fotografi | XXL Featured My Image Of Cassper Nyovest @ #FillUpTheDome
So, this happened. My mentions went into a meltdown and I had to self-banish from Twitter for a week. These things, they happen you know?! And we live. Ah well…
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#Throwback | Maftown Heights 2015
Maftown Heights is 6 years old this year. I’ve been to 3 of them since 2013. Shout-out to Africanhhb for trusting me to represent them every year.
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Cassper Nyovest – Doc Shebeleza
Naming songs after public figures may seem to be the new wave, but a momentary look into rap music’s past will reveal a subculture-worthy trend for hip-hop culture’s tendency to remix – and hence reconfigure and raise awareness about – people in the public sphere by invoking their names, from Outkast’s ‘Rosa Parks‘, to, most …
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#RapDfndr: 001
“It sounds very ‘urban’” was the first thought I had when the song’s opening chords sounded; synth-laden lushes with hard-panned electro-stabs to boot. Quite a phenomenon, isn’t it, this obsession with pedestrian EDM sounds? Bar from my reservations about appropriation of fringe cultures by the mass market, it is a decent song. Kenya’s Camp Mulla, introduced to…
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