Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Cassper Nyovest backs local genres against hip hop DJ purists Cassper Nyovest is calling out hip hop DJs hating on local music genres. Cassper was left irked this past weekend when a tweep tweeted that hip hop DJs needed to play strictly hip hop in their sets and “stop chasing amapiano, qgom and kwaito clout […]
Hip Hop makes maturing cheese pop with flavor, experiment finds Hip Hop makes maturing cheese pop with flavor, culinary experts found. An experiment conducted by Käsehaus K3 and Sound Arts HKB students from the Bern University of the Arts in Switzerland called Cheese in Surround Sound has found that exposing aging cheese to music enhances […]
YoungstaCPT debut album 3T drops 29 March with a bang The YoungstaCPT debut album 3T is so close you can almost hear it. The time is nigh for the highly anticipated release of YoungstaCPT’s debut album, 3T. On Friday, 1 March the rapper alongside CAN DO! took to social media to announce that 3T will […]
Luna Florentino is the Fresh Prince of Rustenburg Luna Florentino presents the 11-track mixtape, Fresh Prince of Rustenburg. When artists fly quietly under the radar, one can’t help but hope they are working on a musical masterpiece offering of notes. Such is the case of Florentino, who put his head down in 2018 and hit […]
Beat Bangaz ‘7785 Disrupters’ is Cape Town hip hop at its finest Beat Bangaz 7785 Disrupters is out now and it’s a banger. Hip hop from all angles, Beat Bangaz is the legendary trio consisting of DJ E-20 – DJ Ready D & DJ Azuhl and they have a new offering aimed at shaking things […]
Ice-T launches techno label called Electronic Beat Empire Ice-T launches techno label, and it’s serious. Legend of Gangsta rap, actor on the silver screen and even member of a metal band, Ice-T has done it all; almost all- but that has just changed with the launch of his techno label, Electronic Beat Empire. The imprint, […]
NATE voices against women abuse in new #NgekeBalunge video NATE raps out against women abuse. The South Coast King and hip-hop sensation has just released his highly anticipated music video for #NgekeBalunge featuring Eindo and MSA, which sees him taking a stance against the recent killings of women throughout the country. “With all the recent […]
Celebrate ProKid at the DANKIE SAN concert, a hip hop tribute ProKid gave us Dankie San, now we will thank him. This weekend, on the 26th of August, the South African hip hop community will come together to honour and celebrate the late Linda ‘Pro’ Mkhize. The event, aptly called DANKIE SAN, will be held […]
DJ Sbu accused of trying to profit from ProKid’s passing, pushed back Could Hustlers Academy DJ Sbu be hustling the death of ProKid? Last week news of the passing of one of SA’s most beloved rappers, ProKid, shook the nation. Having gone through a tough few years feeling rejected by the music industry many speculated […]
Hip-Hop 411 presents, “The Alpha Female Delight Compilation Vol 2” What’s the Hip-Hop 411? The Alpha Female Delight Compilation Vol 2 is the 411! The first all women hip-hop EP in South Africa is back with a new compilation with music from fierce MC’s. The idea takes inspiration from 20 000 women of 1956 who […]
