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by   CYDNEY CONTRERAS Instagram Let the countdown begin! There are t-minus five days until  Kylie Jenner 's fabulous 22nd birthday and the celebrations are already underway. On Monday morning, the Kylie Cosmetics founder woke up to a literal houseful of red roses. As she walked into the foyer of the stylish home, the makeup mogul stepped onto a bed of rose petals that covered the floor. On a note the 21-year-old  shared  with her followers, it read, "Happy birthday!!! We're just getting started."  J'Adore Les Fleurs tells E! News that because of the size of the space, the rose petals in the video would cost approximately $25,000.  It's unclear who enjoyed the luxurious gift more, Kylie or her daughter,  Stormi Webster ? In videos of Kylie marveling over the thousands of petals, little Stormi is seen playing in the background. At one point she throws a handful of petals into the air and watches as they shower down. ...

Tshepo bareetseng BY  MASEGO SEEMELA Clement Maosa has shared scenes of new music video.  Image:   Gallo Images / Oupa Bopape Skeem Saam  actor-turned-muso Clement Maosa shared snippets of his African-infused music video which dropped recently.  The music video titled  Rhythm Of Your Heart  shows him dancing and singing on a desert-like area with a live band and African print dancers. Although he is known for his acting skills, Clement has been throwing his efforts into music of late. He explained that  Rhythm Of Your Hear t is about being proudly African and the power you possess. "Never turn your back on your roots because that’s who you are. Be proudly African and show the world how powerful you are," he added. Here are some of the scenes from the video.

Cebelihle Mthethwa SHARE THIS ZODWA WABANTU (PHOTO: GALLO IMAGES) Related Links JHB Pride celebrates 30 years with Pride of Africa launch This is where and when you can watch Miss South Africa next week Ouch! Penny Lebyane dislocates elbow during race Cape Town - Local entertainer Zodwa Wabantu is determined to get at least half of her lobola money back since calling off her wedding. Speaking to  Drum  after saying she needs to discuss a way forward with her ex-fiancé, Zodwa has clearly made up her mind – the wedding is officially over and there's no going back this time. READ MORE:  Zodwa Wabantu’s wedding might not be off indefinitely "The wedding is officially off," she said. "It’s not about me taking a break, the wedding is off." The wedding preparations were all set for the alter, from the  lobola negotiations  to the  wedding dress , but, the 33-year-old won't let her hard work go to waste. Zodwa revealed ...

BY  KYLE ZEEMAN Tshepo bareetseng blog AKA has bulldozed into the debate over South Africa and Nigerian music, telling his rivals and fans who think Nigeria is better to fix their lives. The rapper, who is no stranger to the odd Twitter rant, called a Twitter general assembly on Monday evening to address those who claimed Nigeria was better for artists and wished they were from that country.  " You wish you were what?! F*ck outta here, bruv!  South Africa is a f*cking miracle, and being South African is a f*cking honor and a privilege. Don’t let anyone ever tell you any other nonsense!  Don’t ever be shy about being proud of your country. That is what we can learn from Nigeria!" His comments came just hours after his rival Cassper Nyovest told a Nigerian fan that he sometimes wished he was Nigerian because of the support he would get from the country. "Won't even lie. I wish I was from Nigeria too. The love they have for their own artists. The way the...

Tshepo Bareetseng Kamva Somdyala The father of former Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa has died. "It is with great sadness that Uncle Sam has passed on. However, the family is currently preparing a statement to be released shortly," family spokesperson Nathi Ngwenya told News24 on Monday. UPDATE:  'He never truly healed from losing Senzo' - Samuel Meyiwa's family on his sudden death Meyiwa senior died in his home in Umlazi, Durban after reportedly suffering a second stroke. Samuel Meyiwa had a stroke in August 2018,  TimesLive  reported on Monday. He had been in and out of hospital since then,  EWN  reported. In 2014, Senzo Meyiwa was shot dead at the home of his girlfriend, Kelly Khumalo, in Vosloorus in what was initially thought to be a robbery gone wrong. Police have been accused of dragging their feet in the case and are yet to make a breakthrough even though several people in the house witnessed the killi...

Rapper Emtee has addressed the circumstances around his dramatic collapse on stage in July, claiming he was suffering from exhaustion and that he was “played” by being so open about the addictions his critics blamed for the fall. Emtee recently returned to the spotlight after a near month-long recovery break in Bloemfontein. He had gone to ground after a video of him “collapsing” on stage during a performance went viral. The fiasco also led to calls for the rapper to get professional help amidst alcohol and drug abuse allegations. Speaking about the fall on Metro FM Emtee claimed he was exhausted and disorientated prior to the performance and had expected something like that to happen sooner or later. “It was confusing because I had just woken up from a long drive from Joburg to Limpopo and immediately I was jumping on stage. A lot of things were already confusing me. I think I was overwhelmed. I was tired. The fall came from being pulled by the people....

By Tshepo Bareetseng Entertainment, Local, Music, News, Breaking News LinkAge is the name. A passionate 22 year old from Braamfischerville Phase 1 is set to release his Mixtape named ‘Known Stranger’. LinkAge who was formally known as Trigger says he realised in early 2016 that music to him, was no longer a dream, was rather a calling. It’s something he has to do, face it and deal with it. LinkAge is set to release a Ten-track mixtape which he named “Known Stranger”, because people know his music but don’t really know him as an Artist in the Hip-hop industry. “I am a stranger, but I’m known, they know my songs, but they don’t know who I am”, LinkAge added. He says he used to download Free-Type–Beats on the internet to record, hence why he couldn’t release the music on digital platforms, because it was not original, even though he had abilities of manipulating Free-Type-Beats and wrote every lyric on the tracks, ...

2 Chainz “Bigger Than You” [ft. Drake & Quavo] “Bigger Than You,” 2 Chainz’s new one-off single with Quavo and Drake, begins modestly: Quavo sounds plugged in but uninspired, and the beat thumps half-heartedly. Then 2 Chainz saunters up, offering, "Chain so big, shoulda came with a kickstand,” and yes, now we’re listening. He can still stop a rote rap song in its tracks like he’s lunging for closing elevator doors, and this far into his best-guest-rapper-alive dominance, it's tempting to start thinking of him as the best: He has kept his spirit antic and imagination vivid longer than, say, previous holders of this crown, Luda or Nicki. On “Bigger Than You,” he towers genially over Quavo as well as Drake, who rattles off a few decent lines about nothing much and, perhaps studiously, about no one in particular—he briefly remembers a woman who made fun of his singing but otherwise sinks into the background as 2 Chainz...

The year 2018 has been a year for Hip-hop, rappers been producing quality music like never before, youngsters such as Nasty C collaborating with the American Trap star A$AP Ferg on a song titled 'King'. The song has been making waves on the radio. The Skhanda God K.O also released a song featuring AKA titled Fire Emoji. K.O dragged AKA into the booth for the hip hop / trap. Fire Emoji sees K.O bragging about his outputs, which basically means everything he does is fire. The new song is off the Two Piece short EP released by K.O which also includes another hit banger WayaWaya featuring Cassper Nyovest. Buzzing hip hop act J Molley comes through with a new tune named Always Stressed. The tune comes as a follow up to Seven Bottles released few weeks ago which made waves. J Molley keeps the momentum going with IMNOTGOOFY on the beat, his fans must be enjoying the music because the boy keeps working. Female rapper Nadia Nakai and Frank Casino release their own soon named Money C...

The Atlanta rapper Lil Baby is the latest in a string of recent Drake endorsements that also includes BlocBoy JB and Octavian. Baby isn’t as exciting a prospect as either of those artists, but he does seem poised for a breakthrough. His collaboration with Drake, “Yes Indeed” (formerly known as “ Pikachu”), unfortunately splits the difference between dispassionate and marble-mouthed, but there are still quotables hidden in their sharply pivoting verses. “Yes Indeed” is produced by Wheezy, and so Drake connects the dots to the Weezy that made him , reflecting on his rap origins with string of muttered run-ons that hardly seem to break. “When I started out, I just took what they gave me/Did all the favors, they never repaid me/It worked in my favor, ‘cause nobody saved me,” he murmurs. In a roundabout way, the verse—and to a greater extent the song—is Drake coaching up rookies like Lil Baby, all while acknowledging th...

DJ Zinhle has often spoken about how reading empowers her and helps her grow as an individual. And now she’s giving back and will be releasing her own motivational book aimed at African women. Called Meeting Your Power, Zinhle told Dennis Ngango the book will be released on June 1.She said that the idea is to help women. “It’s written with the understanding of the African and South African voice – the African women and what she goes through.” Zinhle said she believes in helping other people and this is her way of giving back. “If helping other people doesn’t take anything away from you, you should definitely do it. If I’m given the opportunity to help people and I can, it’s a great investment. Even for myself, because it helps me grow.” Zinhle said that she often reads to balance herself and get away from the noise. She said that it helps her to get a different perspective and she hopes to do the same.

Image: Instagram. After a very difficult and emotionally draining week‚ Clement Maosa is celebrating his 30th birthday and took time out to reflect on the trials and triumphs he's gone through. The actor penned a heartfelt note to himself and shared it on his Instagram‚ remembering the hard times that have made him the man he is today‚ which include being orphaned at a young age and being bullied. "Just take a look at you‚ you are God’s perfection. You were born under unfavourable conditions‚ but look at you. For years you were ridiculed for being black and ugly‚ but look at you now. Your mom and dad were both domestic workers and couldn’t afford you nice things in life‚ but look at you now. Your parents left you as a teenager with nothing‚ but look at you‚" he wrote. The Skeem Saam fave‚ who also buried one of his best friends‚ Akhumzi Jezile‚ over the weekend weekend‚ wrote out his heart out ...

Nadia Nakai says she is lucky to be a rapper, so that she can spit truths to the nation- like the truth that #NoBadVibes is a myth! The rapper was on a drive this past weekend when she felt the need to address her Snapchat fam about bad vibes between rivals. “I used to get hella annoyed with people who would say ‘no bad vibes over here, no bad vibes. Only good energy.’ F*ck y’all, p**sy *ss n**gers. Sometimes you gonna have bad vibes, you’ll want people to get the f*ck away. It is life, you going to have bad vibes and have people come through with bad vibes. You can’t cut off everybody because they in a bad mood,” she said in a video. She went on to dish a few more spoons of blatant honesty. “I’m in a place where I’m trying to balance myself, try get my energies alive but you need to watch your attitude when you’re around me.”

    Presenter Lerato Kganyago will explore her options. After two years on popular music show Live Amp, award-winning presenter Lerato Kganyago has left the show. Speaking to Sowetan shortly after news of her departure broke yesterday, Kganyago said she believed her time on the Friday night music show was over. "I am happy about the fact that I am now giving someone else the opportunity to experience and use the platform that I have used before," she said. "There is a certain type of shift that is happening in my life right now. I am rebranding and also trying to look at other avenues, but most importantly the aim was never to stay too long at Live Amp. "This is actually a very great time to look at other options if there is any, and merely to give some of my businesses attention." Kganyago joined DJ Warras as presenter in April 2016 and enjoyed the attention of more than four million viewers of the popular weekly show. The sexy starlet, who is fr...

     Khanyi Mbau. Picture Credit: Instagram "People tend to get attached and stuck to whatever image they have and forget that in life everything always has a new model," says Khanyi Mbau. "The house you live in, two years later there will be a new design, the same with the car you drive and cellphone you use. That is the same theory you should apply to your brand." The queen of reinvention takes some time to chat to me after a full day of errands and just before she starts reading her scripts for the week. It's a juggling act she's playing lately, far from the "famous for being famous" tag of old. Mbau established herself in the industry as the Queen of Bling and the Lamborghini-driving party girl. Today she is a far cry from that and is gaining critical acclaim for her stellar performance in Mzansi Magic's new Sunday drama series Abomama. "I am overwhelmed and speechless. I mean, it is still sinking in, I am trying to come t...

22 year old South African actress Natasha Thahane has dismissed claims that herself and rapper A-Reece dated. The New York Film Academy graduate was believed to have dated A-Reece at a point and they even set relationship goals for the Mgani video, performed by A-reece off his paradise album. Natasha told Lasizwe on Massiv Metro last week, that she friendzoned Reece. “I was so good at my job. When people even started believing that I am actually in a relationship with this person. No. Never. I am a professional friendzoner. I didn’t even want to kiss him in the first video. The second one, I was like, ‘hmmm, okay.’ But I am a professional friendzoner.” A-Reece however was nicer in his explanation of things. “We just bumped into each other genuinely and it’s always a nice time because it is Natasha. She is bright. She always has some nice, smart things to say and it always puts me in line,” he told Zaziwa earlier this month.

Maintenance drama is not over for constitutional law expert and political analyst Shadrack Gutto. Constitutional law expert and political analyst Professor Shadrack Gutto had the book thrown at him by his baby mama resulting in him being a wanted man. The news comes after the retired University of South Africa (Unisa) academic and his lawyers allegedly failed three times to pitch at the Atteridgeville Magistrate's Court for his child maintenance case. Gutto, 67, allegedly failed to show up at three consecutive court dates which were meant to interrogate his R11000 extra income from an investment account which he had allegedly failed to declare to the court when an interim order was made towards the support of his minor child. The former Unisa director for the Institute for African Renaissance Studies also allegedly ignored a subpoena which was sent to him by police ordering him to make an appearance at the next court appearance which was scheduled to be on March 1 2018. Accord...

Emtee Image: Instagram As a father of two sons‚ Emtee has said that one of the things he would never do intentionally is smoke in front of other people's underage kids. A controversial Twitter account‚ @AdvBarryRoux‚ alleged that Emtee "happily" smoked weed in front of a group of kids who were his fans. Emtee told TshisaLIVE that he won't deny that he was smoking a cigar when a group of kids approached for pictures ‚ but said it was not intentional. "No man‚ it was all a misunderstanding‚ yes I was smoking but I don't smoke in front of kids. The person who claimed they saw me smoking‚ didn't actually see what was going on. They must have been passing by and just assumed I smoked in front of those kids but that was not the case." The Pearl Thusi hitmaker has always been a big hit with kids who often sing along to his catchy choruses. Emtee‚ who also recently welcomed his second son into the world‚ explained what happened on the...

AKA and hit making producer Tweezy have put an end to their beef and returned to the studio for Touch My Blood, AKA’s forthcoming studio album. The two were at war sometime ago after AKA accused Tweezy for claiming too much credit for the music that they make together. AKA soon started making music with Master A Flat. Speaking to TshisaLIVE, AKA’s manager Tshiamo Letswene said the pair had reunited and were working together like nothing had ever happened. “They had a fallout but they are working together again. It has been positive and they are really getting along well. It’s been great to see in studio. I don’t know who approached who but they have sorted out their issues” Tshiamo said Tweezy worked on several tracks on AKA’s upcoming album, Touch My Blood, due for release in May. While the rapper posted a short clip of the pair in studio over the weekend on Instagram Stories. AKA previously hinted at a more biographical and personal album ...

Music star Samthing Soweto has revealed why the success of music band The Soil hurt me. The singer back in the day left the group to pursue a solo career. “At first I was really a little ashamed of it (being a member of The Soil) because I was not part of the success when they blew up. I was working with them, crafting this whole sound, before it became mainstream. So to see them doing all these amazing things without me in the middle, it was really depressing and I tried to run away from it,” he told Times Live. Sam has since gone on to achieve mainstream success of his own, topping the charts recently with his single Akanamali. “What’s funny is the sound that we eventually crafted with The Soil was inspired by my time in prison. When I was there, there was a type of singing that they did, which is very acapella type singing. It is very prison-based. I took that and thought how could I make it very palatable. The topics went from prison to love and from bass ...