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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
A REECE

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
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.
A REECE

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
Thandiswa references Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko, who was murdered by apartheid police in 1977, on her latest album.
BIKO

The sonic soul of Steve Biko

Musicians have carried his ideology forward – but what would he make of today’s politics?

  • Sabelo Mkhabela
8 min read
Rhythm: Kesivan Naidoo and The Lights will perform in Cape Town.
ARTICLE

Diary: Kesivan in the Cape, Boundless at Kalashnikov, and Stogie T headlines Fête de la Musique

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Lesego Chepape
  • Charles Leonard
2 min read
South African rapper and poet Tumi Molekane. Photo supplied
AFRICA

Diary: Kentridge auction, Africa Rising in Jozi, and Stogie T’s Shallow

Your essential dose of art and culture

  • Lesego Chepape
2 min read
Smokin: Stogie T pushes the envelope of the rap genre by his intelligent references to current affairs
LOUIS FARRAKHAN

Like God’s eye, T’s rap sees all

Some see his work as a form of journalism but it’s to beats that weave between boom bap and trap

  • Sabelo Mkhabela
6 min read