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Stogie T’s Metro FM nod for ‘Four Horsemen’ marks a milestone collaboration bridging eras and reaffirming hip-hop’s respect for elite craftsmanship
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Stogie T remains South Africa’s hip-hop crusader

Stogie T’s Metro FM nod for ‘Four Horsemen’ marks a milestone collaboration bridging eras and reaffirming hip-hop’s respect for elite craftsmanship

  • Sekese Rasephei
5 min read
Revellers: A sea of festival goers at the Kaytranada Milk + Cookies Joburg show. Photo: Supplied by Milk + Cookies
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Gig Guide: Scorpion Kings to perform at Piano People SA debut, Made In Jozi NYE Festival with Shekinah & DJ Kent, WAV Festival redefining R&B and Soul, Gunna & Majid Jordan back in SA for Milk + Cookies Festival

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  • Busi Lethole
3 min read
Stogie T has been a curator with unusual instincts. On aNomy, Stogie T turns history, faith and inherited trauma into a portrait of a country suspended between collapse and renewal.
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Stogie T: ‘It’s all broken’

Stogie T’s aNomy captures the tension, cynicism and spiritual searching of life in South Africa, weaving history, grief and hope into vivid storytelling

  • Sabelo Mkhabela
9 min read
Hip-hopping: The Back to the City Festival will take place in Johannesburg on 11 October. Photo: Supplied
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Diary: Back to the City Festival; Babalwa Mentjies; A Protea Is Not a Flower

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  • Kibo Ngowi
2 min read
Redress: The rapper Nasty C recently released a new 16-track album titled Free
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Living free: Inside Nasty C’s new era

Nasty C’s Free marks a new era of independence, balance and growth, showing the rapper beyond the beats, bars and bravado

  • Sabelo Mkhabela
10 min read
Strings and Bling hitmaker Nasty C (Frennie Shivambu/Gallo Images)
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SA’s 10 hottest hip-hop artists

With the music genre turning 50 this year, SA hip-hop is still one of the most streamed in the country. Here are the top 10 artists right now

  • Gugulethu Tshabalala
7 min read
Hopeful moment: HHP performing at Back To The City in 2016. ‘What we saw on stage was a man seemingly winning the war; making progress in pulling himself out of the depressive abyss,’ writes Sabelo Mkhabela. (Sabelo Mkhabela)
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The Portfolio: HHP’s silver lining at Back To The City

Jabba’s Back To The City performance in 2016 was a late-career triumph for the visionary MC, but its promise would prove elusive

  • Sabelo Mkhabela
3 min read