Tag: Okmalumkoolkat
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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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#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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#Throwback | Photographs From The Now-Defunct Puma Social Club…
The Puma Social Club was a party hosted at 81 De Korte Street in Braamfontein every Friday. It used to attract students mainly, with artists, hustlers and corporate labourers providing a good balance between a ratchet night of forgettable fuckery, and great memories made sweeter by the said, inescapable fuckery. So big was the demand that there was always a…
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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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