'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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