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Writing cool articles And Putting a spotlight on Women In African Hip Hop. Hip for intelligent Hop for the Movement.

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@illythehost
illythehost.
1 year
Whenever Nas about to drop this niggha acts different
@DailyRapFacts
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1 year
Jay-Z took a photo with all of his Grammys 🐐
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i wish Kendrick Lamar did drop this but nah my GOAT didnt want to mess up the game, and yall continued with your disrespect. lol dont play with Kendrick. "You finally famous for who you date not how you rhyme."🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Big Sean really wanted the smoke? smh
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@illythehost
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11 months
Cold Cases.
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Most lawyers have a phuza face, why?
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@illythehost
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Greetings Phil I have a lot of respect for your work, but I don't like the caption you used. Why did you refer to him as a "former rapper"? I want to remind you that he is releasing a new album this Friday and he recently dropped a single, some beautiful visuals, and even a…
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SPOTTED: Ricardo Moloi aka Priddy Ugly The former rapper was at the @DumaCollective Kickstart 2024 event in Johannesburg. #KgopoloReports
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@illythehost
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2 months
Drake fans are cry babies 🤣 J.Cole fans are accepting the smoke and reassuring the streets ukutsi their hobo looking goat will reply.
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@illythehost
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3 months
No maaaaan AKA left us with Bangers no ways. 🤣🤣🤣
@akaworldwide
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5 years
Apparently the dollies are saying ... “but if Nigeria loses, who’s gonna buy the champagne?! 😂😂😂”
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@illythehost
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OKAY LEMME SEE YOUR TOP 5 but do exclude 2pac, Notorious BIG, Nas, Eminem, Jay-Z, Rakim, Ice Cube, Mos Def, Jadakiss! Wanna see something.
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Big Sean delivers a dope Tiny Desk Concert with some of his best music. 0:21 Memories 1:24 Nothin is stopping you 3:24 Blessings 5:14 Play no games 6:58 Light 10:08 My Last 11:57 Marvin & Chardonnay 12:34 All me 14:16 Beware 14:55 I know 16:47 Bounce Back 18:35 One man can…
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3 months
@aliciakeys The way he grabbed you 😭😭😭 1000 bodies
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@illythehost
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8 months
South African Hip Hop Djs, @NadiaNakai_ is calling y'all out. I hope you are listening and ready to play new music. We're tired of "all I do is win with" .....
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@illythehost
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Big Sean dropped a book💔 the Jcole decided to drop a project 😭😭 bro the industry hating that nigha
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@illythehost
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11 months
I remember yall saying you don't feel this freestyle! Royce was dropping knowledge here.
@nfr_podcast
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11 months
Give me an example of someone rapping like the rent is due
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@iFinns Mmmmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm
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@illythehost
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2 years
@KingDon_za 1. He was wrong to go thru her bag. 2. It might be iwasho (something to cleanse her body or something) 3. Or she’s going thru stuff which doesn’t require western medicine but requires African ones. I don’t see anything wrong here 🙏🏿
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11 months
Dude said this is the shiiiid turns Jesus to a freedom fighter!
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11 months
Give me an example of someone rapping like the rent is due
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1 year
What song made you a Rapsody fan?
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@illythehost
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3 years
Y’all always tweet bout how SA Rappers dont rap🤣🤣then Priddy Ugly drops a fire Album.. straight up raps no Yanos or kwaito then you call him names🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 kindly don’t bother telling us bout HipHop if you not acknowledging other cats Raps..
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2 years
@WonderMahlobo @MeloMhlungwane Oscar Mbo okolota batho! Yeo yena should come back
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@illythehost
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4 months
i wonder what did Priddy Ugly did to yall to disrespect him like jena
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@illythehost
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2 years
He was like F** it I’m performing COMPOSURE!! @akaworldwide don’t hold back!! What a performance!! @BacktothecitySA who was drive that dope car!? osmic!?
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@illythehost
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8 months
Bro?? The whole @Casspernyovest dedicated the whole song to @akaworldwide ! this is a game changer😭😭😭😭 I pray both camp come together to celebrate this song. Wooooah?
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@illythehost
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3 months
Stogie T responded to Rashid Kay and Zingah. Lol, that 'Gentleman'," he said killing me. Do you think Stogie T is overreacting or does he have every right to protect his legacy? Is he wrong for addressing the gentlemen?
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@illythehost
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3 months
If he wanna be relevant & be "best rapper in Africa" for real, MashBeatz can bring the best out of him.
@soulties_sa
𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒
3 months
HIP-HOP ICONS⚡️ MODELS: @Shane_Eagle @MashBeatz_
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@illythehost
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10 months
I LOVE THIS ALBUM.
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3 years
@KingMonada 🤣🤣🤣 HiHa
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5 months
I hope she's still around and tomorrow she's coming to your show.
@reece_youngking
A-REECE.
8 years
Back in 2014 Performing #WOOSA for a crowd of 9 people (nah , for real). She's the only 1 who knew the song.
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@KidTini #Movie So KT went to pheli to shoot this Vid? Damn We love SA Hip Hop! Let's enjoy em Visuals @Ambitiouz_Ent
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5 months
@MokoenaKelz Kick that young G out of the house, he can survive in the streets. God bless your family ❤️
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@illythehost
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4 months
We Outside, During the week! HipHop. We all here for broskie @OriginalJayJody !! We love hip-hop this side !
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4 months
YoungstaCPT on Come to my Kasi
@StrAightMARVIN
Marvin Straight
4 months
No one has ever killed a feature like Cassper did Ngud’
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5 months
South African MCs are just elite when it comes to MC'ng Who comes close to Stogie T in Africa when it comes to Raps? We all know that he isn't for illiterate Haters right? You would think they did this beat specifically for him, not Benny the Butcher and J. Cole. If they were…
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@illythehost
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8 months
Imagine judging a rapper's album based on number of streams 😭 I listen to rappers with only 100 Spotify monthly listeners and I be enjoying the music AF
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@illythehost
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11 months
Lyrical Masterpiece? I'm saying @ProVerbMusic with "Writer's Club" ft. Tebogo Moloto. I don't think there's any South African Song getting closer to this level of wordplay and rhyme scheme. Bathong ProVerb was fighting lol. Such a beautiful video too. Maan we love ProVerb.
@wowthatsavibe
Vibes ✨
11 months
what song would you call a lyrical masterpiece?
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@illythehost
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3 years
Y’all Can Go Peep The Whole Interview On YouTube .. AKAnagana gore AKAsekwagale At All. #AKAkhulume #AKA
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@illythehost
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3 years
♥️
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1 year
let's take it back a bit.. Who dropped A 10/10 Debut album? 1. Album that touched on a wide range of topics 2. Great beats 3. The longevity of an album’s popularity. 5. Album’s impact on SA Hip Hop culture i might have left other things like sales & all but who you picking?
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5 months
I personally think we got the best rappers in Southah. maaaaaan how do you share your pain on a beat and make it sound so dope? @LokiTunez who pissed you off bro? As fans we always knew you got it but this? This is another freestyle a South African rapper spitting over Benny…
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3 months
You need to witness this @ least ka one in your life!! Stogie Madafucken T
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@illythehost
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11 months
Another 9/10 album Production - 10/10 Beat selection- 9/10 Storytelling- 10/10 Bars - 7/10 (isiZulu sam' siBird) Emotions- 11/10 Connection- 10/10 Features- 10/10 Marketing- 5/10 Visuals - 1/10 Such a beautiful album.
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@TheVendaGuy Sneng neng they kidnaps your child or wife cos they think you got money 😭😭😭😭
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@illythehost
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2 years
@2le_Fuze @DebonairsPizza you better hit up the boys & bless them with more Pizza!! This is some dope stuff lol
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@illythehost
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2 months
Because of this verse KidX wasn't featured here. Emtee was supposed to do the hook only.
@Maluda012
SPURRA🐐
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Stogie T: Okay bro, you got a minute. Emtee:
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@illythehost
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2 years
@casspernyovest .. @SlikTalk_SA is READY TO FIGHT YOU!! YALL SET UP THE DATES! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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11 months
For those who weren't outside back in 2015. Here's @SizweDhlomo 's Freestyle. [I don't have the battle he had with that other rapper during Siz & Scoop days] Guys, don't say I don't plug yall with good things! NB: This got nothing to do with "Rent is due"
@nfr_podcast
NFR Podcast
11 months
Give me an example of someone rapping like the rent is due
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10 months
you Listening to Thato.saul?
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1 year
GODLIKE is such a well written song. the raps there so beautiful.
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@illythehost
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1 year
Joey BadA$$ edition: Which one did the most for you?
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@illythehost
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8 months
Homie made a hard rap song from album titles and giving flowers to rappers from generations to generation. @manifestive is HIM. we can have that best rapper in Africa conversation again beloved if y'all game.
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5 months
@kushmamirsa mind you he was building libraries for kids in Limpopo
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10 months
WORDZ is making music. WORDZ is making music WORDZ got back to back 10/10 albums WORDZ got back to back 10/10 albums WORDZ doesn't have to prove himself to any, he is HIM WORDZ doesn't have to prove himself to any, he is HIM. I pray he continues focusing on this Music.
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5 months
@LookUs_JNR She needs to come up with a different approach, on some "I do bring up a group of twitter promo vibes (group of girls) to do things to you before my turn"
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1 year
yall mad
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11 months
This Issa Mixtape??
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I will need you guys to direct me to any freestyle in South African HipHop you think can Top this one. I'm not even going to tag any rapper who's on the video or people in the booth. Whenever I watch this video, might be on YT or in my collected archives folder I be like damn,…
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Nighas acting as if Rollouts aren't important 😭😭😭 Not everyone is A-Reece! Not all rappers have a fanbase like A-Reece! Lena want us to talk so early that time we not in the mood😭😭 NB: Being surrounded by superstars doesn't make y'all one (SA rappers get that shiid in…
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@illythehost
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10 months
Nah bruuuuu I hear Cole, but pay attention to the butcher! Wooah.
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@illythehost
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6 years
To @castlelitesa and everyone who was involved in this big successful event.. from PR, Musicians, Fans, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Security, Dancers, bands, like everyone. .. thank You. . @Boity @Rouge_Rapper @Nadia_nakai @NoMoozlie @YoungMAMusic 💯 #HipHopHerStory
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5 months
Remove 3, listen to one for the rest of your life
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2 months
So y'all saying J.Cole can smoke Kendrick Lamar if he decides to reply? 🤣🤣 You guys really wanna see Kendrick mopping the whole North Carolina with Cole? I mean you all know it won't end well right? That Bob Marley wanna be should be careful
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@illythehost
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3 months
I Hope You Bought It
@kuanele_
leparagadi.
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mo shein ba rekisa cassper
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Listening Session! @TouchlineTruth & @ginger_trill .
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5 years
"They gon photograph an African prototype of a Starving kid, but not show you the Royal Blue Aston Martin whip" - @TumiMolekane (Stogie T) @RealSway In The Morning! Go Peep Out The Whole Interview & Freestyle
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At some point it was AKA CassperNyovest K.O But Since AKA is no more, Cassper is doing Gospel and K.O doing Afro Pop, I guess now we got to give it to A-Reece Nasty-C Blxckie
@DjZanD
Dj Zan-D
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SA Big 3?
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Gogo Maweni admitted on Gigi Lamayne 's podcast that she used muthi to end ex-boyfriend Thabo Rakhale's soccer career, now my question is vele all she talks about is muthi and exes she bewitched? kanti yall don't go to initiation to heal people?
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1 year
"Your fave rapper issa popstar Darling.. "
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1 year
My Fave rapper no longer raps cos of her.
@frwontou
pronounced (fron•2)
1 year
liesl laurie
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It's time to bring back those Gatekeepers in South African entertainment Again, People get entertain by mediocre while kids who really do this from the heart will never get such platform Lol but ere nna ngwana wa Mahlako ke homole, akrr bare ke phela ke complainer But the…
@matladi123
Matladi a Ngwato
5 months
Alostro on stage 😂😂😂..
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1 year
2016 AKA became the first South African English rapper to have a platinum-selling album. Siyavumelana right?
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3 months
@Okay_Wasabi Sepedi, Setswana, SeSotho, English! Mix masala 🤣🤣🤣 i should try isiZulu too
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@illythehost
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4 months
The MC'ing level here is top-notch. The Botswana Cats are already fighting in January. Who do you think got the best verse in your Opinion?
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@illythehost
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2 months
MIHI - Shane Eagle.
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@illythehost
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4 months
You just don't like CassperNyovest
@RealSihleIV
S I H L E / T H E P L U G
4 months
Albums that changed SA Hiphop 🔥🙌 Which album did I leave out??
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@illythehost
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1 year
Should've kept working with his previous team/ business partners/management.
@Didiiiiiiiiii_
Didiiiiiiii
1 year
Shane eagle ??
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1 month
Tell me this ain't some other levels! @usimamane is the Kultsha! @tonydayimane is the Kultsha. This is hip-hop #CottonFest
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@illythehost
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8 months
This is the only Answer, Ice Prince never recovered.
@SihleIV_
✯𝐒𝖑𝖎𝖒𝖊 (R&B Version)
8 months
What’s a forgotten AKA feature that is a banger??
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11 months
Go buy Kendrick Lamar tickets. Yall been complaining about promoters bringing washed up artists. Im waiting for BacktothecitySA to announce WuTangClan & Nas lol Denzel Curry is heading to Cape Town If you don't attend any then stop complaining
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@LupeFiasco Lmao with a tweet ! Now imagine on a record.
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2 months
You can say whatever you want to say about Reason but you can't take away his creativity. His Lethal Pen, His Storytelling.. Dude issa rap genius.
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6 months
@Solphendukaa Numbers don't lie like women! Shebe is Him. Twerka maaaaan
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10 months
L-Tido been outta the game for years but his Verse is 10/10 comparing to Jody & Reece, go pay attention to his song, the references, bars and all. Don't hate. Focus on graphic design, you good at it.
@deadxxalive
Sine.psd
10 months
L-tido is pap yeses!😩💔
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1 year
Stogie T 's Tiny Desk Concert Loading....
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7 months
Shane Eagle better make sure the album tops everything dropped this year because we've been getting 8/10, 10/10, 9/10, 9.5/10 and 11/10 kinda albums & mixtapes.
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1 year
let me take you back: telefone(Noname), The Bucket List(Saba), Indigo Child(Raury) or Aura(Elhae)! which one had the most spins from you?
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@akaworldwide I had to come back to this tweet! Doro was that dude
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I don't care what y'all say.
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6 months
Hey Mega, we did it again. This time ne go nyewa blind! Us against the world, that annoying light skinned YouTuber & That annoying DJ thought we were gonna take an L 😭 But fede we won! Maaaan Siya's leadership still outta this world, eh mfana? It was crazy. We Miss You…
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@akaworldwide
AKA
5 years
We can learn a lot from the Springboks as a cowntry. 🐮 Men of all colors, backgrounds and upbringing all united in WORLD CHAMPION LEVEL EXCELLENCE. #StrongerTogether
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Best African Collaboration This single is taken off @ProVerbMusic album -FourthWrite , it features @manifestive Many years later we still bump this song because we haven't witnessed such a great display of lyricism, South Africa x Ghana connects. I think I have been saying…
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6 months
@_ShaunKeyz If it was a really calling yes, Bo Palesa ba actor aker 😭
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3 years
@FionaBlaze_ 🤣🤣🤣 I work with champagnes & wines .... and Hello.. I know lotta people who don’t pay attention to details when coming to tastes and packaging of the bottles but we move 😭😭
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2 months
"Sing About Me, i'm Dying of Thirst" Kendrick Lamar's best song. Or you got something better in mind?
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It's important to bump this joint after last night speech. Nas been doing this for HipHop.
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@illythehost
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10 months
A-Reece and M.anifest collaboration would shake up the continent lol trust me.
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2 years
A-Reece be feeding his fan base & HipHop community with some crazy music! I tell you it’s going to be a long year for lotta camps! By the time he drops iAlbum definitely some of y’all rappers won’t catchup.
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They're all Classics Right? If they were both to come perform in South Africa, same day, but different cities. Which ticket you buying?
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And yet we have people who doesn't want to step outta retirement just to reply to a diss song.
@LamaTheCule
Lama 🇨🇩
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Lauryn Hill stepped outta retirement just to smoke a legend 😭🔥
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@Spotify
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my dream collab? gimme _____ and ______.
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