One 2 album launch! SBK Stand up!

What are da perfect ingredients 4 a hip hop album launch? Hip Hop lovers! Lyrics lovers! Pandemonium lovers! Da setting was club la mancha in SBK zone 14 Saturday the 14th of March. One 2, two Cats from SBK grew tired of writin n performin for the fun of it, thus an album launch. G’s gota make money at the end of the day.
The whole shibam was supposed 2 start at 10am, but funny enough even the young black species is still suffering 4rm African tym. Is it sumthin inherent in us? The masses started showin their faces at about 1pm. The wheather was calm but signs of rain was prevalent. Hip hop lovers arrived steadily as the day progressed, clad in colorful apparel. Its good to c dat niggas b trying out shit, I came across a lot of t-shirts created by Street cats. Do ur shit niggas. The ice-cream generation has arrived.
The launch started of with Mo’Catalyst rippin the MIC. While engaging well with the crowd, he led us on a lesson about his Verses. The men of the hour took to the stage a short while after the Catalyst. They gave us a few tracks from their album. Their stuff sounded well rehearsed with Naked – Eye giving us a little intro bout the whole shibbam.
One 2 is made up of Naked – Eye and Dismental. They push their Hustle around the Vaal area, perfoming around VUT campus n the Kasies in the Triangle. Both former students at VUT they hav managed to release an album independently. They got the crowd to pump up with life.
R – Senic the MC who represents Tembisa was also in the building he graced us with some with a few tracks. He knows his way around the MIC cause he was the most audible cat throughout the day. Last Day Fam also hit the stage n gave a healing. The
4 man crew went through 4 tracks or so with some sublimeness. A cat named Mothipa got onto the stage n suggested we Hijack the Industry. The dude rhymes with a style that makes him well audable, n the crowd was basically roaring to his punchlines.
Other cats dat perfomed where Ba’Leloko, Big Ben and Zeeko. They all get their Hustle on around the Vaal area. During an intermission a Cipher was started, n cats flexed their vocal cords. As the night drew on a nigga had to pull out, One 2 still had to do a second set. The day was phat in a kasie way, no special effects n shit but electrifying. Big up to One 2 n all the Hip Hop lovers.

Skambane – Kota, Sphahlo.

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The beauty of Hip - Hop

A friend of mine wrote on his blog that Hip-Hop music is equivalent to Jesus Christ screaming ‘Eloi Eloi’. I agree to a certain level with his opinion, yes, we are crying out loud to the world; not to be saved but a cry to be noticed. Niggas hav make it
big, the bling, the flashy lifestyle and pop lyrics is just saying, look @ me i made it. My take on this is, Hip-Hop is so beautiful, it is beautiful to listen to, to write about, beautiful to write n rhyme, interesting to talk abou’ and above all its glorious to be part of. I did ask some of the hustlin b-boyz slash skaters around my township abou what drives them to this project, especially under the hardships and condemnation of the genre ekasi, they said “free spirited”. Their explanation was that the twisting, turning nd head spinning heals their loneliness, the skateboarding cools their rage. Isn’t it charming? I remembered Lupe Fiasco saying, “Kick, push n coast/ so come n skate with me/ just a rebel lookin 4 a place be”. I’m thrilled to the bones with such feedback from the Hip-Hop community, it’s the same feeling I had when I first heard Skwatta Kemp’s ‘Umoya’ nd saw the video. Damn, them niggas, have done it, did it on that one, and when I heard rumors of their album sales, I applauded.

Recently, Jay-Z came out complimenting the Hip-Hop community quoting “Hip-Hop has done more than any leader, politicians or anyone to improve the race relation”. Jigga believes our generation is the least racist generation ever, and I have to agree with the Jigga man 100%. I know, Mandoza has done it, but the Hip-Hop kidz have been doing it from the time of Ishmael and Prophet of da city the barrier has been tested nd now I believe it’s about 2 brake. As the world turns we are preserving our identity as a community through Hip-Hop. Like I said, we lavish in this beauty, during this cloudy global economic crisis, we rap it off. It’s the words we listen to that make us different, think of JR’s ‘kgata le nna son/ kgata le nna’ kidz are climbing step by step to the corporate world thinking about the song. How beautiful is that? I watched with gasping jaw to the classy video of koldproduk’s ‘hush’ , then Muggz and his Jozi crew came with a killer of video, accompanied by killer song… I took a deep breath…I love to love Hip-Hop. We gota get big though, lets get involve in conscience community matters, we should be the voice to the United Nation, the Red cross, we should be intermediating the discussion in Zim... lets make it beautiful.

Hip-Hop Pantsula- Acceptance speech(re-witten)

There is no doubt that HHP is one of the hardest working mc in Mzantsi, beside the fact that the cat has brought Mtswako to its feet, the dude knows how 2 handle his biz. He has created the hype, after some of us thought he was underrated nd he made himself into a hip hop brand. He puts it straight with words like “it takes war / go fihla mo ke leng” and he plans to go big like Russell Simmons. I say, Big up, nigga! The album, Acceptance Speech is but HHP style in its most Motswakisto flavor, the samplin, eccentric flows, the head bobbing beats, light crispy lyrics…the album is acceptable. The first track ‘ toro’ featuring a vocalist Diamond is beautiful and fresh, he talks bout his route from rags 2 riches nd givin advise to the unenthusiastic. Another track on the same tip is ‘get up’ the drum version, quite ambitious but they nailed it, is equivalent to Tupac’s ‘baby don’t cry’, the message nd the delivery is brilliant. Somehow the album falls short, Tumi from the band, the volume came through on a track ‘Darfur’ which was aimed @ headz but I was disappointed. I came to a conclusion that the joint was rushed or HHP didn’t have enough weed to bring out his level best creativity. The remix of the hit ‘music n lights’ was unnecessary attempt but a gud collection for club DJ also with ‘Killowatt’, a shout out to Fats n Suffocate form E-TV’s rhythm city. I like the idea of Hip-Hop and live bands, its an effort most mc’s can’t pull but HHP flows better on a live instrumental, I guess Tumi had an effect on him, however three instrumental songs on a Hip-Hop album it’s a sacrilege. Jabba is a brand, he is tswaking his music like he has done for years, neva mind the criticism. The nigga gows in everything music, House beats, kwaito and some dance hall.
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BATTLE OF THE MONTH

A BATTLE IN HIP HOP TERMS, IS WHEREBY 2 MCS RAP AGAINST EACH OTHER. MCS DISS N THROW SLANDER AGAINST THEIR OPPONENT. THUS WE PUT BARACK OBAMA AND GEORGE W. BUSH. U DECIDE WHO RIPPED THE MIKE.

BARACK OBAMA
A.K.A – B.O the New Dawn

My forefathers had a dream/
now this white bread I eat/
My street brothers pack heat/
i stand on the podium n deliver a speech/
George W Bush/ i plan to incinerate/
U had ur chance/but took a vacation 2 Afghanistan/
Not foreseeing the black avalanche/
i planned n left nuthin 2 chance/
Henceforth/ im more famous than Tim Roth/
Worst Prez of the U.S.A/
i hear the kids chanting as the play/
daddy neva taught u how 2 play/ this game/
White boy u’s easy game/ its hard to defeat the spirit of slaves/ took me out the Jungle, but son I cant b tamed/
The whole world respects me/
the whole universe despises u/
I’m a hustler/ u’s a buster/
The nigga from Iraq made it clear/
I supplement it with lyrical flair/
U aint shit but wealthy white trash/
Me n my peoples r cumin 4 dat cash/
U easy to shake like ur alcoholic daughter/
U easy to break like Mr. Glass
Quit the suits, go work in an oilrig/
Quit rappin on blogsites, u aint no Vanilla Ice/
Im bout to paint the house black/
White America just got jacked/ now pay heed the world is turning black/


GEORGE W. BUSH
A.K.A – G Weezy

Nigga please/ i kills with ease/
U thinking u a G/ but dat aint true/
I called u a nigger/
n there aint shit u can do bout it/
because im bigger/
in every context/ thus u cannot contest/
this right here/
It’s like a street vandal versus a drug dealer/
Nigga u aint scratched the surface yet/
this aint the Klux Klux Klan/
u dealin with a major sect/
U gave the people false hope/
like Terror Lekota telling people they will C.O.P.E/
Now I gosta give the streets more coke/
nigga I run this globe/
The Guantanamo Bay issue/ burned out easily, like fire on tissue/
We gosta a plan to build a new Amistad/
1st stop is Afghanistan/
U lucky u had a white mom/
now u think u own the whole white life/
Nigga u got delusions of grandeur/
my gospel spreads faster than Cancer/
I breath the breath of King Arthur and Lancelot/
Oh shit the pot is hot/
Oh shit the block is hot/
I just increased the temperature/
We is truly major/
will not put all the blame on u/
But in earnest, a black man in the white house/
Truest definition of a sellout/

'de road is not to the swift'

Martin Luther King Jr. had a ‘dream’ and the dream became a reality after forty-one years prior to his assassination, Nelson Mandela had a vision and a plan; the mission came to live after twenty seven years of incarceration, we (the Hip-Hop generation) have started a movement, we have created another genre of music and the objective is to touch the sky. Mzantsi Hip-Hop has been brewed and fermented, cats have been initiated, the music has grown and survived through the barbed-wires of criticism. Cats have created styles and named them; we have Maf town cats preaching Mtswako, Western Cape cats are proudly Spaza, Soweto kidz coming up with rhymes using kasi-lingo and some of Bo-Morapper spiting vernac as in Afrikaans and Xhangani. Our music is rich like our history, diverse like our culture, who can really deny us of our freedom? The freedom of dreaming like Proverb said “I’ve had a dream of Mzantsi mc’s selling millions.” That’s our freedom, the liberty of rhyming nd freestyling. Let’s keep alive the fire of the traditional ciphers, the free-styling, taging, the break dancing, the battles, hip-hop fashion styles, the language, the electrifying shows, the culture, the art. Remember that we are here, the Madiba magic has just touched us, our journey has started.
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Zubs - Cochlea-One Last Letta

I’m gonna say it again, like I did to my peeps, Zubs has the potential of makin’ classics. I have listened to the two of his three offering; "Listeners digest" and lately "Cochlea-One Last Letta", which we are bout to review. The cat knows how to deliver a rhyme in its most authenticity, with courage and skill and a little audacity. One Last Letta comes close to what I refer to about classics. Sixteen of undiluted Hip-Hop tracks; with a touch of professional production, rich in lyrical content…I guess I’m making my point here. The 1st song which carries the same name as the album title epitomizes and sums-up the whole idea behind the album, maybe Zubs’s vision too. There’s no doubt that I like this joint and want you(my fellow Hip-Hop headz) to like it too but there are few tracks you might wish to erase from the album to make it classical. I figured out that sometimes we get tempted to spoil a good something by tapping into the cliché, tracks 'like Private Show' nd 'I got this' are the example of diversion but I chose to forgive him. Well, if a nigga makes timeless mouthful songs like "Love blind, Traditional her, Batanai, Different, life and lost" we should raise our long rabbit’s ears and pay attention. I wanna applaud Zubs, Dzino and other contributors like RJ Benjamin and Peebles together with Outrageous team on a job well done.

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