October 25th, 2007
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What better way to get into the chilled out summer time vibes than a night with Khenzero’s Party People at Roka on Saturday the 27 October - R50 will get you in.. the rest is just great music and awesome Party People. This edition features Zimbabwean artist and producer Herby Dangerous.
Herby Dangerous, one of Southern Africa’s dopest hip-hop/reggae artists, having been on the scene in Zim as a producer, mc and songwriter Herby soon realised his talent and skill as a reggae artist, destiny was fulfilled when he decided to bounce from Zimbabwe’s political tension and almost non-existent music industry to pursue a career as a producer in JHB, he hook’d up with Bionic who immediately identified the talent and signed a joint venture recording agreement for Herby’s solo records. Six months later, the album “in tune with the movement” is mixed, mastered and blazing ready for release, in the build up to the release Kenzhero has booked herby to headline and wow the audience at the much anticipated Party People on October 27th. This one’s gonna be fire!
October 25th, 2007
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Let me start by saying I’m tired of complaining about tired rap shows and by no means do I intend to make it a habit to keep reporting on them. It’s just there’s just no way of telling how these things will go if you’re not a sangoma “obhula amathambho” because if i did have such powers, I’d avoid these shows like a cancer. A classic example is in order. The Sprite Rap Activity Jam event at Primi’s in Rosebank’s The Zone last night. Now for all you young’ns who’ve never heard of Rap Activity Jam, in its heydays that was a YFM show cats like Amu, Selwyn and Skwatta Kamp first did thier thang before the record deals and as you will agree with me, before the sound got diluted. The line up was too extensive for me to even remember but as has become the norm at these things with too many acts, it was chaotic. Sounded like karaoke night at some ‘fontein dorpie bar where darkies are (still) not allowed. Maybe it’s because I got there half way through the show but thinking about it now, it’s still beyond me what the hell some of the MC’s were made to rhyme over house beats was all about. Oskido (who left before the show was over) and Rudeboy Paul hosted the whole circus alongside Lee who should’ve just been left to the whole thing herself. A note to the sponsors: just because you have the money to hire a venue and invite a couple of attention-starved rappers to come and make a fool out of themself doesn’t give you the right to host a rap show. To make it worse, I spotted a certain kwaito star in the crowd who just had this look on his face that said “look at these monkeys with funny accents jumping around the stage shouting sweet nothing”. And if he was just there to stroke his ego and remind himself how disorganized Hip Hop in S.A. still is, then he was not disappointed. Morale of the story: Stop killing the culture that we love so much. And lastly, open mics are so 90’s. Let’s get paid.
September 14th, 2007
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Hakeem recently performed at the Ramushu Community Hall in Atteridgeville at an event hosted by the Tshwane Child Welfare to raise awareness on drug abuse amongst the young’ns. Unfortunately we ain’t got any pictures to post but it suffices to say, “HHH is for the chirren!”
Then on Saturday the Bassline is where it was at. Big shout to big brother Tumi and Gift of the Givers for putting the Darfur charity show together. Prior to that, PSA’s featuring several popular S.A. personalities were shot which were played on a screen behind the perfomers on stage. This event was particularly close to our hearts because we felt not enough is being done by the global Hip Hop community to raise awareness on the civil strife in Darfur. Check out some of the pictures of Hakeem, AQ, and Ondaground tearing it up below and contributing their bit to the cause. The line up was quite diverse and also included Tumi, HHP, Siphokazi, Koldproduk and many others.
September 4th, 2007
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Once again, mad props to Roach Inc. for putting together another dope event, this time in the form of the 1st annual Spring Day Hip Hop meets Soccer event. The ladies came out and the rappers and producers from Cap City and Jozi battled it out on the soccer ground for a change. Who won? It doesn’t even matter, just be there next time! But if you must know - Hip Hop won!
August 29th, 2007
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Big up to Roach Inc. for throwing a dope show to celebrate women in Hip Hop doing their thing this side of the planet. The event was hosted by HHH’s own Hakeem and Maliq, much to the delight of the ladies(“,). S.A. needs to watch out for that Cuba girl, sista got rhymes for days, don’t say we never told yall.
Stay phly
August 24th, 2007
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So you wanna know how it went? Dope line-up, whack show. I mean how do you pull that off whith some of finest MC’s in Gauteng on the bill. All I know is Hip Hop promoters need to up their game major in this country. From the promoting of the show to the sound qaulity at the venue.Go big or stay home. You’ve been warned.
