South African hip hop

#Featured | 7 Pop Culture References on AKA’s Touch My Blood Album

AKA outdid himself on his third studio album – because 24/7/365 is a mixtape – Touch My Blood. His mixture of conventional pop song structure, unforgettable melodies… Read more “#Featured | 7 Pop Culture References on AKA’s Touch My Blood Album”

The amount of racial hatred parated by Whiteness™ on-line has attracted condemnation from the least likely of quarters in society.

Four years ago, a mixtape concept curated by the film duo Drop XVI, producer Nyambz’s Studio Next Door, and emcee B.O.Y Wonder’s Ondaground Productions was recorded in… Read more “#Fotografi | The Grey Series Studio Sessions”

The producer/emcee duo comprising Maloon TheBoom and YoungstaCPT’s recently-released video for their song “Muchas Gracias” was filmed at the beginning of 2017 in Cape Town. A lot… Read more “#Fotografi | BTS @ Yungloon Taliboom’s Videoshoot”

The main stage is a hive for disappointment. It remained true to that reputation this year.

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… Read more “Back To The City: The End Is Coming”

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,… Read more “#Throwback | When #FillUp Was Still A Dream In Cassper’s Dome”

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… Read more “Rouge: Coming In From The Cold, Redda Than Red”

When power cut in the middle of his studio session in November 2016, Gugs-born Uno July took a short break in the Red Bull Studios’ lounge in… Read more “#Phototessay | Behind The Scenes At Uno July’s ‘Isukile’ Videoshoot”

The residents of Mamelodi West and its surrounds gathered at the Solomon Mahlangu square towards the end of May for a screening of Red Bull Amaphiko’s ‘The… Read more “#Featured | Khuli Chana For Red Bulletin Magazine”