Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Kwesta Celebrates 5 Years of DaKAR II Time flies when you’re Kwesta and having fun! This week, the multi-award winning rapper celebrates 5 years of his critically acclaimed album, DaKAR II, with an exclusive airing of the ‘5 Years of Kwesta’s DaKAR II’ special on Channel O on Friday 26 February 2021 at 4pm. We all know […]
K1 Jaxe is the ‘Rap A Verse with Kwesta’ winner K1 Jaxe wins Rap A Verse with Kwesta, a competition on an up-and-coming artists’ platform created by Jameson’s Whiskey during lockdown. The platform is called Jameson Connects: The Stay Inn, a playbook of live virtual events brought to you by Jameson Whiskey. Rap A Verse with Kwesta gave […]
Inaugural Live Better Festival features Nasty C, Kwesta, Distruction Boyz in Durban Come celebrate life and music at the Live Better Festival in Durban this weekend. Hosted by Capitec bank, the inaugural Live Better will be held from 15-16 December at Kings Park Stadium in Durban. Local (legendary) artists booked for the first day include […]
Fans destroy Kimberley event after artist no-show The Class of 2018 Turn Up Kimberley event was more like a ‘no show, tear down’ than ‘turn up.’ “I hope lying and stealing money from people was worth the damage that was done to your equipment. But we Kimberlites never learn. We always allow wannabe presenters like […]
DJ Maphorisa presents his new single, Oncamnce DJ Maphorisa presents Oncamnce. Gqom is making waves internationally, with Maphorisa at the helm with the release of his first single off the album Gqom Wave, titled Midnight Starring. Apart from rocking the charts and dance floors, Midnight Starring went viral after being played at an NBA game […]
Trace presents first annual Roots Music Festival Trace is to host the Roots music festival and plans on this inaugural event to be an annual festival. The first Roots music festival will be held on Saturday, 4 November at Joziburg Lane in central Johannesburg. Considering the name, Roots is a celebration of African music; but […]
BET glitch prematurely announces Nasty C as winner A BET glitch has surfaced as their website prematurely announced winners for their upcoming awards ceremony. A week prior to the BET awards ceremony that are to be held in L.A, their website announced that Nasty C has won the award for the Best International Act: Africa […]
AKA refuses to play despite being paid. Kiernan Forbes AKA fan-ditcher McFlakey. Forbes was booked to perform at the Mzansi Hip Hop Festival in Kempton Park. He was paid R200 000 in fees, but when he got there he sat in his car and then left an hour later. His reason: There weren’t enough people […]
SAMA 2017 – All the winners SAMA 2017 took place this past weekend [26 – 28 May 2017] and saw the return of the awards show to Sun City after trying a few less than successful alternative venues for a couple of years. Kwesta was the biggest winner on the night with the most awards […]
Ms Cosmo new single #Connect gets some cool traction Ms Cosmo has released a new single titled #Connect. The track features the talent of Rouge, Kwesta, and Nasty C. The 5FM host of The Stir UP show is making waves with her track as it is being well received by the local hip hop scene. […]
