Tshepo Bareetseng

Jazz Cartier is finally getting the recognition he deserves. After dropping his highly-celebrated sophomore mixtape, Hotel Paranoia, last year, the 24-year-old spitta signed to Capitol Records this past April and just wrapped up headlining a nationwide tour that saw him perform in 18 cities across North America. The self-proclaimed “Prince of Toronto” was born Jaye Adams in The 6ix but lived all across the globe since his stepfather worked for the U.S. government. “I used to watch Catch Me If You Can a lot, so I started to make up identities for myself,” he recalls. “At every school I was something new.” Jazz found his home in hip-hop, becoming a fan of spittas like Lil Wayne and Z-Ro. He began identifying as a rapper in the eighth grade while in Kuwait. But, his childhood hobby and coping mechanism became real during a 2009 trip to his hometown. Jazz’s dad called in a favor that landed him in the studio with Canadian rapper JB. It was there ...

Chester  Bennington’s death last month is still raw for the people who knew and loved him. JAY-Z recently honored the late Linkin Park frontman during a show at the 2017 V Festival. In footage from the show, Hov stands on a dark stage in front of what looks like an enormous gold balloon animal. “Can you guys light it up tonight. For Chester from Linkin Park, one time tonight,” Jigga urges the crowd. “Please make some noise so he can hear you all the way in heaven tonight,” he adds before rolling into a rendition of the Linkin Park and Jay mash up, “Numb/Encore.” JAY-Z seemed to have a closer relationship with Chester than most in the rap world. In 2004, Hov joined forces with Linkin Park on a collab project titled Collision Course, that spliced together songs from both Jay and LP’s catalogs. The six-song EP was commercially successful, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and has obtained double platinum status. Chester’s suic...

Kodak Black doesn’t stop working; he made about three new songs in the studio the same night his new mixtape, Project Baby 2 , dropped. Now, he’s dropped yet another new song, along with a video. Watch “F*ck It,” directed by Yung Mike, Wavylord and Kodak himself The record, produced by Charlie Handsome and Rex Kudo, is actually a song that didn’t make Project Baby 2, yet it continues to show why Kodak is one of the most consistent MCs out right now. If you want to know who’s behind the beats on Project Baby 2 , read the full production credits for the tape to find out, and if you missed it, watch the video for “Transportin” that Kodak just dropped

By Tshepo Bareetseng Being young these days in South Africa seems expensive and hard. It means you have to wear some expensive clothes. A youngster who lives in Braamfischerville south western of Johannesburg Maggz Alzira (20) says he feels like he is living for the people, his appearance must always be on point. If I don’t wear nice clothes and have a smart phone I feel left out, I feel like am nothing where else my friends have them”, says Maggz. Statistics South African National Council on Alcoholism (SANCA) show that a lot of ‘alcohol abusers’ are mostly likely to be the youth. the youth of democratic South Africa has all the resources of being highly educated and become better people in the future, but instead they decide to smoke and drink throw their future away. According to Karabo Maoto who is also a young star from Johannesburg says today’s youth is not inspiring each other; instead they influence each other to do engage in wrong activities lik...

By Tshepo Bareetseng Watkin Tudor Jones who is also known as ‘Ninja’ was born in the 27th September 1974 in Johannesburg. He attended school at Park town Boys High School; he quit school just a year before his graduation. Jones is a South African rapper and record producer. He has been in the Hip-Hop music industry since the year 1998. He is known for his Hip-Hop and Electro music. Jones is also a renowned graphic artist and creator of a range of ‘nasty’ fluffy toys. He also used to be an actor and doing commercials for Nando’s. He is known for many nick names such as Ninja, The Man Who Never Back, MC Totally Rad and Yang Weapon. Watkin Tudor Jones has a few albums under different guises. He was in a group called Max Normal and he was a lead vocalist, in the year 2001 the group dropped an album called ‘Songs from the Mall’. In the early 2002, Watkin left Max Normal. He moved from Johannesburg to go and live in Cape Town where he joined the ...

By Tshepo Bareetseng Lerato Molapo who is also known as “Lira” was born in Daveyton Township in the Eastern side of Johannesburg. Lira stated singing and performing at the age of 16. She was inspired by the great: Miriam Makeba, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and many more others. Lerato studied Accounting but decided to use her singing skills to pursue her dream which resulted in her first demo release at the age of 18. Lira was discovered by a producer, kwaito artist called Arthur Mafokate in the year 2000. Arthur signed Lira to his record label ‘999 Music’ and helped her release her first debut Album ‘All MY LOVE’ in 2003. The Album earned her the Metro Fm Awards, South African Music Awards and Channel O Reel Music Awards. In 2010, she shared a stage with American singers Alicia Keys and John Legend at the FIFA world Cup Kick-Off Concert performing a cover song ‘Pata Pata’ which was originally recorded by the Late Miriam Makeba. She...

By Tshepo Bareetseng Five New Lil Uzi Vert Songs Premiere on Shade 45 Lil Uzi Vert has been making a lot of noise lately, some people like him personally, others like his style, but others just think he is jist over doing this Trap thing. Well, his real fans have been wating for Lil Uzi Vert ‘s new project titled  "LUV Is Rage 2" for a while now. Fans were hit with a huge surprise when five new songs from the Philly rapper premiered on Shade 45. The trapstar / rapper Someone in Uzi’s camp must have been anxious to premiere new music, because five new Uzi tracks played during DJ Drama and Don Cannon’s Gangsta Grillz show this past Friday (July 21). None of these song titles have been confirmed, but the one labeled “Walking Around With a Band” is a song produced by Cardo, while “Loaded” sounds like it’s got 808 Mafia production on it.  Young Thug is also featured on “Bag,” while it sounds like Carti was meant to be ...