It’s been a long way coming but we came.
Come check us out at Alan’s Place, Esselen Str, Sunnyside.
Official stockists of Butan Wear, Head Honcho, Plug apparel and Supreme Being apparel and footwear.
Other dope brands coming soon.
Nuffsaid.
Eish this vid san.
Here’s a few jammies for you liffies taken off Straight From The Cape Flats.
Download Link | La Xhosa Nostra | Celebrity Chicks ft Mitch | Deal With Me
Dropping soon. Word up Sergio.
Okay i havent listened to these boys yet but i’m vouching for them on the strength of a convo i had with Ill-Skillz’s Tonny Jinxx when i expressed surprise nay shock at the fact that Cape Town finally has a colourful bling looking group repping it and he seemed to approve of them.
O picked this up at the Head Honcho website. Word up Nick.
Download Link | T-N-T - Run The Block (Mixtape)
And now we sit and wait for the tracklist and a joint or two. Cap City stand up!
A little something from the ETC fellas i been meaning to put up for a while but better late than never i hope, ma bad.
Tracklist and download link after the jump.
Go here to check it out.
This looks like definitely worth a listen so i might just go out and cop it later today. Tumi on the same song as Brickz. Wow! I remeber him telling me once how he’d never perform at the same show as Pitch Black Afro and since i personally, as im sure many of you do, consider Brickz to be from the same ilk, I guess Tumi has changed his perspective on things a little. I could be mistaken.
Real talk: Cant front wont front never been into homeboy’s music too hard but this is grown man biz here, i effs with this joint.
First single off his new album Afterparty I believe. Hit the jump to see cover.
Sorry no tracklist yet.
Sleepless in Seattle](http://maliq.bandcamp.com/album/sleepless-in-seattle-my-mind-on-cap-city-2) was on Seattle-based Jake One’s beats and one each from Vitamin D and Bean One. Cap City on My Mind which I present to you now is solely handled by the big homie Trompie and includes remixes of the Sleepless in Seattle half and also some cuts from Official Bootlegs Vol. 1 mostly done by Nyambz. The cipher is now complete and I trust yall should be ready for my next offering, the Ilmatic-inspired A Mic & A Dream anytime now. Just let me get done with this fasting first I got yall. O been meaning to say, a now very belated Ramadhaan kareem if you’re reading this on an empty stomach. I cant’ lose. Let’s go!
Download Link | MaliQ - Sleepless In Seattle/Cap City On My Mind (Official Bootlegs Volume Two)(Mixtape)
Ladies and germs, straight outta Durban, South Africa… King B and Ewok are Illuminating Shadows.
Shouts to the homie Ewok for hitting me on the hip and giving me the heads up about this project which I honestly didn’t see coming. You might wanna hit the jump to read his breakdown of how it all came about but also because the download link is right after that.
Remeber the Michael Jackson Tribute Beat Tape with Battlekat, Instro and them? Of course. Here’s the Louis joint with the usual suspects Battlekat and Thir[13]teen and others.
Download Link | Louis Armstrong Beat Tape Tribute
I’m assuming this should be available at Ritual right? Coz that’s why he had that instore there with Liquid K-ZN right?
Disgusting? Interesting.
Good morning, look at the valedictorian/ scared of the future while i hop in the Delorean
Out 07/09.
This was a good initiative for lack of a better word put together by some peeps in downtown Jozi marching from Ritual store to the Drill Hall in Johannesburg to commemorate the June 16 Soweto student uprising. Props to my man Flow for the dope photography.
Dem Roach Boys is back at it again.
Hit the jump for a word from the peeps behind this project.
I see what yall tryna do though Durban i see you.
Warning: keep your best heat rash ointment at hand, this tape is fire. Well the few joints I’ve heard thus far anyway. Thanx for the heads up again B.
Tracklist + download links after the jump.
Here it is. Oh all beats by Jake One except The Answer by Bean One and Gimme Gimme by Vitamin D. Special thanks to Ras for the studio time, Abdul for the mixing and Hakeem for the artwork. Chuuch!!!
Tracklist + Download Link | Maliq - Sleepless in Seattle/My Mind on Cap City
Courtesy of Shelf Life Store. Who else?
This is actually suppose to be the final final final PNS cover (I hope), not the one on the latest Hype review section. Still don’t have the final tracklist though eish long story.
Honestly I never hearda this cat so I’m putting this up strictly on the strength of Wax Lyrical’s heavy involvement on the production. Them Press Play boys (Thir13teen, Wax Lyrical, Jabu) don’t play.
Hit the jump for the tracklist.
Available at Ritual, Cnr. Bree & bla blah blah comeon now if you don’t know it by now I doubt you’ll ever know. Sorry no I dont have a trackilst for you. Honestly I just put this up coz I remember my lil bro Killa M asking me if I knew this cat and I wasn’t sure mainly becoz you see there’s another level below the underground Jozi scene that I’m not shooled in. Anyway I remember seeing this CD cover at Ritual sometime ago so that’s how I know.
On that note, Phil O’s latest instalment Who Buys Hip Hop? is here.
As you might have or might not have heard, one half of The Anvils, Nveigh, is preparing his solo debut for a mid year release. Wait a minute that’s anytime from next month ain’t it? Word from Roach is this might not be the final artwork though. Stay put!
Hold on I’m putting up another Nveigh post in a second.
Nice artwork. Okay now I’m really stoked over this project. Downloading the podcast I type…
Spotted at AG
Haven’t listened to this yeat but I’ll bet you it’s fire.
Hit the jump for the other cover + download link.
Thanx once again Boogie. Got a tracklist for us?
Finally an African president that’s comfortable in English as he is in his home language. So this is what it feels like to be French, German or Japanese. Wow. Okay let’s move along.
Dates and supporting artists line-up for Durban and Joburg shows on the backside of the fliers after the jump.
Haha. Classic. I just had to post this.
Available nationwide May 11 but I understand you can now get a copy from Ritual in Jozi and Mabu Vinyl and African Music Store in Cape Town.
Related: I can just see the flood of typing errors that is also about to burst among media types and fans alike with this album title lol.
Hit the jump for the trackilist.
Zubz speaks to Nthabi about her music.
Taken from the upcoming mixtape History In The Making. EC stand up!
Download Link | 10 Digits ft. Main X & Q - Bounce (Prod. by IQ)
R150 at Computicket. R175 at the door. At least they’re not pulling that R300-a-pop shit on us like the Mos Def and SV shows. Charge the same crowd R30 for a show with not only one but two or three good local acts on the bill and mofos squeal. You all are hypocrites, SA heads, shame on you. I ain’t even mad, I gave up a while ago. Just saying!
Taken at AG.
Aww these are hot baf’ethu, they just capture the energy in the group.
Like I always say, if I wasn’t Ba4za I’d be Driemanskap.
Hit the jump for more.
Tickets available now @ Computicket.
I’ve been waiting on this for a while.
Download Link | Proverb - Off The Books (Mixtape)
Hit the jump to see the flyer for Proverb’s birthday shindig in JHB.
Wow would you look at that, with no comments from this blogger.
It’s about that time of the year again. Also worth noting, Raiko and I are putting together a mixtape for Freedom Day so look out for that. I will confirm the line up for the fest soon with yall. Oh and please note there’s a little entrance fee of R30 this year. Yes, only.
I’m getting this tape from Ace of Spades over the weekend so please remind to put it up next week if I haven’t by say Tuesday.
All details on the flyer ^. We on our gotta stop playing with these kids like Michael state of mind right now baby.
The CD’s front cover is going to be double so you can choose to slide it into the jewel case with the above ^ image or the one below.
Other features on the album include Nyambz, Four Seasons, Cream Of Beats and others. Holler at sandilesi@gmail.com or damolaowolade@gmail.com to get a copy.
Easily one of the most anticipated hip hop albums of the year. But you already knew.
Hit the jump to read what Zubz himself had to say about the structure of the songs and the first video episode from Zubz TV.
Recessionproof price. Dope line-up. What more do yall want?
Available at good music stores countrywide Ritual, cnr. Henry Nxumalo & Bree str., Newtown, Johannesburg.
Hit the jump for tracklist.
Dropping soon on Destruction Entertainment. Word up Sergio.
Get your abstract on.
Thirteen - Post Modern Innovations
Hit the jump to see the poster for the album launch taking place in Cap City.
It still says it was pushed back to February 2008 on their Myspace page so we’ll wait and see how they plan to go back into the future.
Classic. Makes you wonder doesn’t it, if and when Hip Hop really dies, what could possibly take its place?
What’s new?. That joint does look kinda Stevie Wonder slash Flava Flav-ish. No not that there’s anything wrong with that, right? Ah well.
This came with a special delivery from one of the D’s finest saying: 031 still ain’t nothing to fcuk with, bwoy!
Mediafire Download Link | Black Moss - The Benchmark Vol 2 (The Pre Tape)
Hit the jump for back cover with tracklist.
More details @ his new website.
You already know how fussy we are about posting anything not related to the SA scene but we shouldn’t even have to tell why this is a great look for Hip Hop in general right now.
Hit the jump for the rest of the covers.
Props to Joburg’s swagger boy, the M.a double, for scooping a nomination at this year’s Metro Awards for Best Hip Hop alongside HHP, ProKid, Zuluboy and Tear Gas.
Dropping 15 October. We ain’t even gotta tell you how anticipated that B.Sharpa joint is right now on the streets from Cape Town to Polokwane and beyond.
The cover below is for volume 1. Props to Bondizza from Crackboys for pointing that out and sending this one through.
Looks dope. Not sure when the project’s suppose to come out but you can bet your bottom zim dollar you’ll hear it here first. Stay tuned.
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