Tag: Lesotho hip-hop
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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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Litsoa-Kotleng [Khaolo 2] | O.G. Skillz, Anonymous, Lemekoane
![Litsoa-Kotleng [Khaolo 2] | O.G. Skillz, Anonymous, Lemekoane](https://ntsoana.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/litsoa-kotleng-episode-2_picture-by-tseliso-monaheng.jpg?w=1024)
Mokotlana o n’o sa imametse bekeng ea ho feta, ke kahoo khaolo ea bobeli ea Litsoa-Kotleng e ileng ea batla e lie-lieha.
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Litsoa-Kotleng [Khaolo 1] | Misinisi, Kommanda Obbs, KOT Inferno, MC Melo
![Litsoa-Kotleng [Khaolo 1] | Misinisi, Kommanda Obbs, KOT Inferno, MC Melo](https://ntsoana.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/bonono-x-house-of-thethana_shoot-9941.jpg?w=1024)
Re qala ka ho fetisa liteboho ho bohle Twitter ba faneng ka maikutlo a bona kamor’a hore ba mamele khaolo ea pele.
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Litsoa-Kotleng – Podcast Ea ‘Mino Oa Rap Lesotho [Khaolo 0]
![Litsoa-Kotleng – Podcast Ea ‘Mino Oa Rap Lesotho [Khaolo 0]](https://ntsoana.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/sibusiso-mokhachane_picture-by-tseliso-monaheng.jpg?w=1024)
E s’e le nakoana joale bacha re tlhalielaka literateng ka ‘mino oa rap Lesotho. Bang ba rona ba hotse ba o mamela, ba o tsoakants’a le Kwaito e neng e le kholo mehleng ea li- 90s.
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The Tale Of Disser Disser…
Lesotho hip-hop has found a worthy contender for its first critic. Disser Disser, an elusive facebook character of whom I’ve just learnt about this morning, is a straight-talking, no-holds-barred, keyboard-savvy observer who’s taken full advantage of the web’s ubiquity (and relative anonymity) to, for example, respond to rappers’ invitations to their recording sessions with the statement…
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Lesotho Hip Hop In 2013
Lesotho’s rap scene is undergoing immense growth at the moment. The level of interest from the general public is at the highest it’s ever been, a prospect which has attracted some form of investment from the corporate sector. While emcees have always been releasing music, it’s only been in the past two years that a…
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Basali Remix
This could be the most hilariously sexist song to ever come out of Lesotho’s hip-hop scene. Everything about it seems designed to offend feminist ideals, from the all-male make-up of the song – yes, Lesotho hip-hop still lacks strong female presence in 2013 – to the lyrical content (sample lyric *translated*: “women, don’t even deny/…
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The Library
I got to hang out with an amazing bunch of producer friends about two weeks ago. Besides taking a few snaps, I managed to capture golden moments on film. One includes Sanhedrin getting uber-excited when someone (I forget who exactly) mentioned that they had a bunch of samples to give away. I even managed to…
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Interview With Hymphatic Thabs
When I was coming up in Maseru Lesotho during 2001, I had no idea that ten years down the line I would be writing about an album that for months on end I struggled to even get a hold of a cassette version of. Even at the height of Napster (and the subsequent rise in…
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Ts’epe: a new cultural awareness
On the way to Hlotse, capital town of Leribe (one of Lesotho’s ten districts), one passes a place aptly-titled Crossong – a T-junction that can take one to either of three places: Northward-bound (Hlotse, Butha Buthe, Mokhotlong), Southward-bound (TY, Maseru, Mafeteng), or Westward into the heartland of Maputsoe. Infamous for its youth’s rough living, muggings,…
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