After over two decades since dropping their self-titled album, we get some new music from the all-male RnB group, 112. Their new song is titled Danger...
It's that time of the year again and you need to step up and put your work forward to be counted in the 6th Annual South African Hip Hop Awards. Since...
Let it be known that this is a competitive sport and there's no space on the list for the slow workers. Maestro teams up with Base One for Top 1000 wh...
Allow me to tell on myself and admit that I snoozed on last week's freestyle till the music fairies went ahead and pulled my duvet off me. I'm awake a...
We finally get the finished product of Dj Sliqe's visual for the latest Injayam Vol.1 single, Oceans. We were on site at the experience and we couldn'...
I frequently reiterate the leaps and bounds that music videos have achieved within the past year and most especially this year in terms of compelling ...
One Shaman goes back 3 years and lifts Cozz' joint Knock Tha Hustle for his latest freestyle in the 16 Sixteens series. I'm starting to catch Shaman's...
We got to sit down with the beautiful Shekhinah, and as Lenoir said - even though we can't keep our eyes off her, we actually managed to jot down some...
Taken off a collaborative EP with Danny Boy and Tommy Bleek, 911 Towerz is tryna make you dance to his money falling on you. This is the aspirational ...
As he prepares to drop his much anticipated album titled Wins And Losses, Meek Milly decided to release the first installment of his short film for th...
We went down to Swaziland this past weekend to check out the annual Hipnotik Festival in Zulwini. We caught the second night's action where the likes ...
We finally get the full track and it's a smash. After North god was kind enough to share a teaser for us, by Popular Demand the track is out and it's ...
Repping for the coal city in Mpumalanga, JayMa10chie is doing this for la familia and for the brotherhood. He's in it for squad success. He sounds mad...
Music so potent. Lyrics so heartfelt. A heart so determined to bleed truth through his efforts. I am so proud of 015 Toxic right now. His plea on Huma...
Been waiting for this track to drop since Nasty announced it yesterday, but it's finally here. Junior gives us his latest single titled 031 which is t...
We just came from the Durban July weekend and of course the biggest talk of the weekend (apart from anything else) is the fashion. We saw some major h...
The Paris Fashion Week happened this past week and we got to see some exquisite pieces on the runways. Drake dropped his latest single titled Signs an...
Our creative is way, way international baby! Khuli Chana is in Cannes (France) right now for the internationally esteemed creative festival that sees ...
Jhene is hot off her breathtaking visual and single drop for While We're Young and it already seems like a new piece of work might be headed our way a...
DJ Milkshake is walking 120 kilometers from Diepkloof, Soweto to Tlhabane, Rustenburg in the aim to raise awareness and funds for rural learners in hi...
From Africa to the world, and the internationally acclaimed Ghanaian god MC, M.anifest, is no stranger to flying our flag high. In yet another interna...
While we were backstage at Back To The City, we went around asking a few cats in the industry who they thought would get the SAMA for Best Rap Album a...
It's Thursday noh? Even us we want to be within and so we throwback to Africa's biggest hip hop festival which took place last month at Maryfitzgerald...
Issa lot-nyana! While the night tipped over into a new day we stayed up to catch Cassper Nyovest's feature on Beats 1 Radio with Ebro where his Black...
This boy is about to be a Problem with this track, otla ka Mathata Fela for real - pun intended. Teq dropped this as a single from his The Decoy EP an...
After releasing his debut album, The Speakeasi, The Verb dropped a single from the album titled The Right One. Initially the album dropped as an EP bu...
We got another one from the finesser DJ Sliqe and he's "punishing" alongside Zingah, Stilo Magolide and Tweezy. What an entire jig! The fellas are at...
Another day another international feature. Hot off his performance at the One Africa Music Festival in London where he was hanging out on Radar radio ...
We caught up with Catalust, Jimmy Wiz,and ShabZi Madallion to talk about how their performance at Back to the City was, which brought us to the discus...
We caught up with Ex Global and A-Reece backstage at Back To The City to ask them how The Wrecking Crew collective was coming along. By the way, The W...
Vegita is dropping a 100 Bars in fierce fashion on this head bopper. He's all the intensity as he coasts down this well suited beat that gives his sig...
TimSky dropped his new single 21 produced by Dramiller and it's hella dope. The youngin really went off! TOO DOPE! Insane beat, sick flow and wordpla...
The AFROPUNK Festival, an iconic global cultural movement with homes in New York, Atlanta, London and Paris is finally coming to Jo'burg too! The firs...
This is obviously an exclusive, Prince never wanted me to post about it but after our phone conversation he was like, "okay Slik, f!% it then just do ...
We're all abuzz with Supa Mega and Anatii's international debut on Apple Music'c Beats 1 Radio on the Ebro show in the wee hours of the morning. Of co...
From Mzantsi to the world, Anatii will be premiering his brand new single with AKA, Don't Forget To Pray Ebro Darden's Beats 1 Radio show later tonigh...
I just love the sophistication in this song. The bluesy strings with a touch of jazz juxtaposed with the distorted vocals is such brilliance. I'm in l...
DeJ Loaf breaks her minor music silent by doing a new version of her joint Birdcall taken off her Sell Sole project from 3 years ago. She's in a good ...
The Migos dedicate their latest joint 11 Birds to their home team The Falcons, particularly the wide receiver Julio Jones whose number is "11" on the ...
Well, DAMN! Ain't that something? Can you believe that the whole album is on the Billboard Hot 100 chart? Each track holds a spot from #1 to #63 withi...
We're headed to Back to the City with Neo Beats and he's Been On The Road now he's tagging us along for the ride. He's all the hustle and I bet he's h...
Look, I honestly cannot let this go. I tried to be cool about it but you need to peep how cool Oktane and Price are on these raps. They do that thing ...
$pace $ave Logic comes through with his new single 2K17, a softly belled banger buzzing with attitude. He's finessing in a laid back manner on this on...
Kxng Crooked's been bodying freestyles left, right and mic centre lately and this time he dropped by the LA Leakers to drop a freestyle on the show. T...
Oh-oh! R-Mean was ready for this Mean Mondays thing. He goes at undoubtedly one of the most classic hip hop beats, Dr Dre's Still Dre. His twist is ti...
Injayethu, uSliqe, has dropped off the visuals for one of my favourite joints off Injayam Vol. 1 with Shekhinah, On It. At first you see that he and S...
First of all, how dope is the Back To The City flyer? Shu! Bergie Jerry, whoever you are, you murked it fam. It's excellent. Let's have a look at the...
19 Has his feet way off the ground in Irie along with his accomplice Kevvin. They're sounding hella thuggy in this short mid-tempo JOINT. With a mix o...
Tyga drops a heavy sounding 100s with Chief Keef and A.E as they flex slow about counting money. They've long secured the bag noh? The joint is drea...
It's here! It's here! The Supa Mega and Sexy Chubby Nig* gift us with the *10 Fingers visual and we like it a lot noh? It's really captivating actuall...
A heart drenching visual and naturally so, as you listen to Reezus bleed truth and pride on The Meters infused with scenes from KALUSHI the movie. We...
Oh yes! We're future casting on Own 2017 and we're not doing it with any less finesse than the usual murderous demeanour expected of the Naai** With A...
Youngsta is fresh off his Australian Tour and it's back to regular programming where the music is concerned. Tomorrow we get new heat from him titled ...
Belly's multifaceted talent is starting to get deserving recognition and this freestyle of his on the LA Leakers show goes to show just how hard he go...
We await the arrival of the motion picture for 10 Fingers and ahead of that Supa Mega thought to show us just how much beamwork went into the producti...
What is this picture saying to me there at the top? But of course, we're talking about our African connects here now. Anatii and AKA's fire collab 10 ...
Come on now! Fosta Juliano is repping for Botswana on here today and he's not too impressed with the current status quo he observes of the music indus...
CAP F%!EN CITY PAPA! Shucks, I actually can't contain my jubilation. This joint goes in and I'm only past the PdotO verse in listening. Iyoh! WHAT LE...
We sat down with Nasty C to talk about his departure with Freeworld Music, being a big winner at the #MMA16 as well as why he would not be part of the...
The March 10th EP is finally here, and shout out to the homie Beatmochini as it's his birthday today. The March 10th EP is all the dash of boom bap an...
You saw the trailer and maybe some of you may have just seen the music video debut on TV, you can now get the joint! Reason drops his KALUSHI sound...
DAMN! And this is only the trailer. My soul is dancing in notes right now. This is the trailer to Reason's new new The Meters: #MarchFreestyle17 which...
Although we don't cater primarily for RnB, we had to speak to J Arrow about this milestone of achieving over a million streams on his single YMH withi...
Ishhuu! That time this is intended to be another rap video but the finesse is never forgotten at home whenever Priddy Ugly steps out on anything. This...
We're on episode 17 of The Sobering Podcast with the fellas and they start of with some minor formalities before they tackle music videos first, for a...
This is major key. Future just became the first artist to land two #1 debuts for back to back albums on the Billboard 200 after HNDRXX removed FUTURE ...
There's no denying that digital as a music platform has shaken up the way of doing things in the music industry in the past two to three years. With N...
Beatmochini is that much closer to dropping his March 10th EP which was actually a 6 track project challenge thrown at him by Osmic earlier on in the ...
We asked the OnLifers on Facebook about which parts of the 16th annual Metro FM Music Awards were their best moments. We gave them some options betwee...
FUCKEM! ???????? https://t.co/UoRX07dzd6— #ALLHAIL (@KhuliChana) February 25, 2017 Thank you 2 the fans 4 SHITTIN on the industry 4 what happe...
World Class acceptance speech by Riky Rick - message to the unheard artists ' when Radio and Tv ignore you your success can be found on the In...
Boy am I proud right now! I blink for a few seconds and my rising star is well on his way to the big time! YASSSSS CHILD! Durban crooner, J-Arrow's l...
1Dile is parleying with the ladies in the visual for Dubai where we see the party slowly build up till the turn up spills over. Umalome is not handlin...
Future announced his self titled album set to drop tomorrow, which is already available on iTunes for pre-order, sometime this week. From observations...
The Grammy's took place this weekend and just to highlight some key wins for the night, shout out to Adele who took home 4 Grammy statuettes on the ni...
Hot off the drop of their My Turn 3 mixtape which spawned crazy freestyles, Oktane and Price decide to share the colourful and rebellious visuals for ...
The opening of this video is funny. The way everyone looks so despondent about the gatas shutting down their happy is both sad and entertaining. Let's...
Now this is the kind of friend you need in your circle. He's not just tryna be rich alone, he wants his homies right up there with him too. Birds of a...
Kid Ink just dropped his latest joint Swish featuring 2Chainz and to put some work on that he was on Power 106 with the LA Leakers where he ended up f...
Taylor Gang, Gang, Gang! Ty and Wiz deliver the visuals for their joint TGOD Volume 1 mixtape in Brand New. First of all, how cool is it that Ty's fly...
Ma-B comes back with a new freestyle to open up the year after we just spoke to Driemanskap last week. On the Dear 2017 Freestyle, Ma-B is shedding hi...
Interviews Interviews are like ads, say something to sell yourself. Imagine Coke frowning folding its hands saying "you know what I'm saying"? Intere...
Gather around for the state of the nation address by Touchline this year! That's right. It's customary for him to open up his years with freestyles an...
Problematic boys these! Entirely problematic! The king of 808's Wichi 1080 rounds up the squad to go at it on this banging canvas aptly titled Squa...
Problematic boys these! Entirely problematic! The king of 808's Wichi 1080 rounds up the squad to go at it on this banging canvas aptly titled Squa...
In part 2 of our conversation with Beatmochini, we speak to him about his plans for the year. He talks to us about accepting Osmic's 6 track EP challe...
Towards the end of last year, you may or may have not noticed some campaigns from your faves for votes on the Avance Media Inaugural Most Influential ...
These guys are such clowns. You gotta love them. This interview on Power 106's The Cruz Show is so hilarious. The ad-libs, their attempts at Speaking ...
It's award season and the first to kick off the year is the 16th Annual Metro FM Music Awards. They held their nominations announcement last nigh and ...
Have you bought the album or nah? You see, that's where these problems begin. But DJ Sliqe is throwing one up for the streets. He drops Flexin' featu...
Hands up for the Urban Disciples! Word on the concert streets is that fans hate being told to put their hands up the whole time throughout a performa...
I have reason to believe so. It's only the 10th of January though, so don't take my word for it and see for yourself. The boys have begun a freestyle ...
The most talked about song finally hits the social world. AKA and Anatii are back in studio together and ten fingers on the bible this is how the SA...
Before AKA goes on baecation he decided to give us a scooby snack and a warning to the haters. Okay I lie, it was not only a scooby snack. AKA just dr...
Back To The City Festival 2017 tickets are on sale from today. They're celebrating their 11th birthday and as usual it's going to be epic. Check the p...
Going into 2017 like ...... YEAH DAT WAY A video posted by ltido ???????? (@ltido) on Dec 27, 2016 at 12:41am PST Hello, 2017!!! Are you rea...
Aich! Watchu know about trading on the JSE with this rap thing? You gotta love Stilo's energy. The jig is beaming right through this interview. He ta...
DJ Capital's got all the juice. Haha! He shares his classic R 1 gold coin, which is tailored by the by. Ishu! He is all the fun. He ropes in Maraza fo...
We caught up with the Rap Lyf familia Kwesta, Kid X and TLT, as well as Reason backstage at the South African Hip Hop Awards to chop up our Top 10 Mos...
First of all, shout out to Mr CEO for the Milestone Award at the South African Hip Hop Awards which he has received for the second year in a row now. ...
First of all, shout out to Mr CEO for the Milestone Award at the South African Hip Hop Awards which he has received for the second year in a row now. ...
Yesterday we dropped the Top 10 Most Downloaded mixtapes and EPs on the site this year, along with the Top 10 Most Downloaded Tracks with Morocco Omar...
We present to you the Top 10 Most Downloaded Tracks on the site this year with American actor Morocco Omari who plays Tariq on Empire. He was in town ...
While On The Ground with at the South African Hip Hop Awards, uSanele lets us in on what to expect from him come the new year where music and art is c...
We caught up with another bright star to look out for in 2017 'cause the mad foundations he's set up this year are sure to spill over next year. Shane...
We caught up with the exemplary Proverb at the South African Hip Hop Awards to talk about him making #1 on Stogie T's Verse of the Year mentions for t...
It's a wrap. Of 2016 that is, and just for supervision and control we have to share some of our observations from within the site. We report on the To...
It's a wrap. Of 2016 that is, and just for supervision and control we have to share some of our observations from within the site. We report on the To...
We caught up with Gigi Lamayne at the South African Hip Hop Awards to talk about being nominated for Hustler of the Year and Best Mixtape as she's won...
We caught up with golden Sowety Baby, DJ Maphorisa, while On The Ground at the South African Hip Hop Awards and we asked him about what he has planned...
We caught up with the ever cool, deep voiced Frank Casino who has been shining even more since he dropped the Whole Thing Remix with Boss Zonke a week...
So now that we all know what the Top 10 most downloaded songs on SlikourOnLife are for 2016, we broke the news to Injayethu sonke, uDJ Sliqe, about hi...
So now that we all know what the Top 10 most downloaded songs on SlikourOnLife are for 2016, we broke the news to Injayethu sonke, uDJ Sliqe, about hi...
Ahem! I need to explain myself. I don't know how I ended up on camera. Every time this happens I manage to make the footage disappear, however, this t...
It's the DreamTeam, DreamTeam, DreamTeam! And they're hanging out on SABC 1 for this summer's juice. You must have seen by now that they stay geared u...
We caught up with the coolest of them all, the legendary Bob Mabena who has more that 3 decades in the entertainment industry and is still relevant, w...
Now, you ought to be excited. One of the stand out emcees of 2016 just said she's dropping a whole body of work soon. That's gonna be something to loo...
This what should be left behind hashtag was trending a few weeks ago. So I chilled. Waited like an animal ready to catch it's prey and decided to re-p...
Last night the 5th Annual South African Hip Hop Awards took place at Gold Reef City's Lyric Theatre where all the hard work put in this year was rewar...
Dubbed the number one hottest MC in Ghana by MTV Base Africa, the legendary Manifest, a.k.a god MC, has released his brand new video to the song 100% ...
We present to you Stogie T's Verse of the Year 2016. He goes through some of his outstanding rhymes of this year, including some honourable mentions w...
We caught up with Gemini Major and Aewon Wolf at the Maftown Heights to talk about their relationship and how they came up together and how Gemini was...
Look! Laundry Day Fresh is doing well on the streets you know, but now we need to plug it much higher which is what Kid X is saying in this here chat....
The boys are at it again and they bring you Episode 15 of The Sobering. They do their usual event reviews, going through some highlight performances a...
We caught up with Cap City kings N'veigh, PdotO and Blaklez at Maftown Heights to chop it up about the work they've been putting in of late. N'veigh a...
@KwestaDaKAR @MTVBaseSouth #SAHottestMCs Top 5 @BigStar_Live On His EP In 2017 #MaftownHeights2016 @FrankCasino_ On His Diversity #MaftownHeight...
@KwestaDaKAR @MTVBaseSouth #SAHottestMCs Top 5 @BigStar_Live On His EP In 2017 #MaftownHeights2016 @FrankCasino_ On His Diversity #MaftownHeight...
We caught up with Big Star Johnson at Maftown Heights to talk about his current joint Top Floor with his familia Shane Eagle. He also let us in on the...
So yesterday, MTV Base kicked off it's controversial Top 10 #SAHottestMCs round table with the panelists and we couldn't help but check coast on what ...
We caught up with one of the new kids to watch out for in 2017, Frank Casino, out at Maftown Heights and we spoke to him about his flavour, what he's ...
So we were On The Ground at the 7th Annual Maftown Heights festival which was a jump off last week Friday. But before we hit you with our interviews f...
We caught up with Miss Pru at the 15 Years of Butan celebration to wrap up her 2016 highlights and Ameni going over a million views on YouTube is one ...
Given how really short these visuals are, it's pleasantly surprising how 24hrs managed to fit in two songs. What's more impressive is the seamless cro...
Taken off their joint project 1017 vs The World, Lil Uzi Vert and Gucci Mane are doing away with people who be bugging 'em. Changed My Phone is the in...
We caught up with Miss Pru at the South African Hip Hop Awards nomination announcement to talk about her being nominated thrice after she showed us he...
We caught up with arguably one of the best lyricists in the game right now, Ginger Trill. Emphasis on ONE OF! We spoke to him about parting with his f...
We caught up with the talented Sjava at the South African Hip Hop Awards nomination announcement to briefly talk about how things have been since he d...
We caught up with Motswako's first lady, Fifi Cooper to talk about why she's been relatively quite in 2016. That's because she's been raking these awa...
This is amazing. So a collective of creatives from Chicago called 119 Productions are huddling up to present to the world a project titled Countdown 2...
We caught up with the bubbly Lex Lafoy at the Butan Wear 15 year celebration and she let us in on how her and iFani met back in 2014. She tells about ...
Oooohweee! Chad has dropped his gratitude single as promised and it's clad with boss statements. "Nominated freshman, you talking to a senior..." So...
This one's for the squad and the mad chillas with the blood. B1, Thiaps and Tweezy are a regular combo and they bring us yet another one titled Inganz...
This is dope! Buzzing Naspoti rapper Moz Kidd who just took number 1 on the Hype Freshman of 2017 brings us visuals for his joint Been Thru A Lot as p...
We caught up with Shugasmakx, a.k.a Smega Forever to talk about his highlights in SA Hip Hop this year at the 15 Years of Butan celebration and he cit...
We caught up with the boy doing things to gets reaction about being announced as one of the nominees in the Lyricist Of The Year along with Solo, Kid ...
We caught up with Lyricist Of The Year nominee, Solo, at the South African Hip Hop Awards announcement over a week ago and he spoke to us about his no...
If for any reason you will not be attending this event, I suggest you close this and move on to the next post. Doctor's orders! I'm really doing this ...
We caught up with B3nchMarQ at the Butan Wear 15 year celebration which took place two weeks ago at the KOL Rooftop. Haha, it seems we needed to doubl...
He's not King Kotini for play-play. Riky Rick has been shifting the landscape in music and fashion throughout the year and so it's only fitting the he...
We gave you a playlist of the Top 10 finalists in Gigi Lamayne's #GigiGoesGold tour competition, and now it's time to vote for your favourite of the 1...
Ayt! So, Gigi Lamayne has been running a competition for upcoming artists who will join her on the #GigiGoesGold tour. After a call for entrants to to...
@BergieFreshest On Taking Risks With Events @TweezyZA On Being Consistent #SAHHA2016 @MsCosmoDJ On The Growth Of SA Hip Hop In 2016 @FifiCoop...
This is the last instalment of Lee Br11 Bogota's trio of singles that prelude his upcoming mixtape titled Storyteller. He tags along previous collabor...
We caught up with the dreamer, Tweezy, at the South African Hip Hop Awards nominees announcement last week and we spoke to him about his presence in t...
90210 was only an Apple music exclusive because Apple loves being the first to ish. But now because Dad/Travis Scott loves us all, the Hype Williams d...
We were On The Ground at the #SAHHA2016 nominee announcement last week and we caught up with Motswako's first lady, the ever bubbly Fifi Cooper whom w...
We were On The Ground at the #SAHHA2016 nomination announcement last week Friday and we had an exciting chat with Saudi about his style. He also let u...
These are some pretty cool visuals that Prince Williams put us onto. This graphically charged music video sure is intriguing to the eye. We see him ro...
We caught up with the bubbly NinaHastie (one word), PSYCHE! about being announced as the new host of the South African Hip Hop Awards alongside Batsil...
We were On The Ground at the South African Hip Hop Awards 2016 nominees announcement last week Friday and we had to speak to one of the organisers, Os...
It's that time of the year folks. The time where our artists shine and get awarded for their efforts for the year. Last week SA Hip Hop Awards 2016 no...
Aight, remember I said to you that you should ask the questions: "Did your fave submit?" and "What is the criteria?" Here are the nominees for the 20...
Here's a consolation from the duo Run The Jewels featuring Boots which they weren't intent on dropping anytime soon but due to the shock turnout of th...
With hip hop growing exponentially in Uganda, the very first ever UG Hip Hop Awards will honour pioneers and upcomers in the genre on the 15th of Dece...
Sheesh! This is some chilling stuff. Wow. Vic Mensa performs 16 Shots taken from his project There's A Lot Going On on Jimmy Kimmel Live and I can't ...
"If Donald Trump win the spot then we back to the basics..." This song couldn't be more opportunely timed. America is looking like a slow fire right ...
It's that time of the year again where various bodies in the industry tally up all the hard work that has been put in by artists and music professiona...
The fellas at The Sobering are out with another episode, and on this one they bring us their 411 with events, albums and commentary on artists. As usu...
Now this is fresh. Snow Tha Product comes through so smooth on 7 Days illustrating her rap skills as well as her vocal and songwriting abilities. She'...
I'm here for the girlies! Well, and for Future and Drake soon after that. Hahah. Future decided to let out a single from his anticipated collab tape, ...
Reporting live from Andretti 10/30, the 10th mixtape that Spitta has dropped this year. Can you even fathom this work ethic though? Fresh off the Sept...
On our last clip from the MTV MAMAs this year, we caught up with trending man of the moment, DAKAR who appreciates the acknowledgement of his hard thi...
We've got the last of our red carpet chats from the MTV MAMAs last weekend. In the first one for today, we caught up with Phat Joe who told us what he...
We caught up with Uganda's Eddy Kenzo, Angola's C4 Pedro and Grammy Award winning Mohombi from Congo at the 2016 MTV MAMA red carpet too. We're still ...
We got more MAMA action for you and this time we catch up with YCEE from Nigeria, as well as our beloved Tresor from DRC. The big question is which Af...
We were out at the MTV MAMA 2016 red carpet this weekend and we caught up with some dope artists from all over Afrika, so we'll be dishing those out f...
All hail Wichi! Sheeesh! Where did Priddy Ugly find this guy? And are there more of him where he came from? Yhu! The pair tag up on this easy going, ...
Ayt! So we just shared DJ Esco's music video for Check On Me which features Future, yesterday and while we await Beast Mode 16, it's evident that homi...
Aha! We're just in time for the festivities! While at DJ Sliqe's listening session at the 5FM studios last week, we caught up with Yanga, and please s...
We caught up with Dj Sliqe at the 5FM studios where he had a live listening session ahead of the drop of his debut album Injayam Vol.1. last week. Ind...
3TWO1 is onto something. I don't get why people wanna keep the positive opinions about you a secret. Love in the open baba! The Cap City rapper comes ...
So Taylor Gang just dropped a mixtape, TGOD Volume 1 which is a display of Wiz Khalifa's ever growing crew. In one of the two duets from Ty and Wiz, B...
The Sterring took to the gram to share some of the overdose with us. With DJ Sliqe's new single Bay' 2 playing in the background and some beautiful la...
Man oh man. These OVO Sound Radio shows really get me going. They are everything and they deliver so much great content, not forgetting hits. Speaking...
We should call him hitboy 'cause he's got all the hits, boy! The South African DJ Khaled, the only SAMA award winning DJ, injayam uSliqe is not slowin...
What is the sound of Jozi? Yhu! This dubstep beat is such a match for DAKAR's smooth rhymes. Can you believe this joint was created in a car? Damn! G...
This King V production is for those month end, homie I want my money back trips. Hahaha! Imagine homies still sleeping and you rock up with a boom bla...
Taking it all the way to Durban from Cape Town, #ContraGang member J1 drops #SquadGoals alongside Durban's Trap Lyties, BACEgang. This one's a promoti...
Injayam uSliqe! The much anticipated album from the first hip hop DJ to win a SAMA is upon us. Popularly known for his hit singles Do like I Do, iLife...
Oh my word. This new Dj Maphorisa EP sounds like an album and to think that he is dropping the actual album on his birthday the 15th of November. I am...
Award-winning Hip Hop superstar, visionary mixtape supremo, MAMA 2016 nominee (Best International Act) and mesmerising live performer Future is set to...
Ayt. Lee comes out on this one reflecting on what it feels like to be a hustler. He tags along K2 yet again in the second single off his upcoming Stor...
KZN producer B1 came up to Johustleburg to up his music career and this here is a good showing. He teams up with the Dreamer, uTweezy for this motivat...
Audio Push is also dropping this Friday and they've been so generous with all the music they've been sharing leading up to 90951. This Hit-Boy produc...
Yo! The road to the 5th Annual South African Hip Hop Awards has officially kicked off with the opening of submissions for albums, mixtapes, videos, ev...
@Lemonka x @TattooLefoko x @speedythegift x @ProVerbMusic x @TuksSengangaZA - Ready Or Not @DJSPEEDSTA x @RealTellaman x @ShaneEagle x @YungSwissPg...
The Game is set to release his autobiographical album 1992 next month and leading up to that he releases this double single in True Colors as well as ...
In this Yeah Lenzo direction, Moz Kidd is just flexing lyrical and you can clearly see he has fun on this joint. Too Young (Part 1) is taken from his ...
In this Yeah Lenzo direction, Moz Kidd is just flexing lyrical and you can clearly see he has fun on this joint. Too Young (Part 1) is taken from his ...
Angolan rapper Lee drops this joint from his upcoming mixtape Storyteller which features K2 and Sacha Felix. He plans to release more singles leading ...
I think Okmalumkoolkat's "siyasebenza" mantra applies wholly to The Game. He just announced that his new 12 track album 1992 is set to drop on the 7th...
MTV Base Africa has just announced the first live performers to headline the 6th annual MTV Africa Music Awards taking place in Johannesburg for the f...
Oh Yes x Oh Yes. Yachty is back with his latest single. Sky Skrrr. The joint is titled "Guap" and he features 2016 xxl freshmen 21 Savage. This is a r...
Kobe Bryant unveiled a venture-capital fund, a $100 million vehicle for investing in technology, media and data companies with partner Jeff Stibel. St...
La Flame comes through with heavy animated music video for "90210", directed by the legendary Hype Williams. Peep the visuals after the jump... ...
After announcing the title and a tour, The Game has unveiled the cover art for his upcoming album on Instagram. The artwork features symbolic referenc...
Cap City Records has a new artist & he goes in. This is Mohay10 entering the scene with 'Four'. This is a very Pitori like. Nonetheless it sounds dope...
Moz Kidd, drops his debut mixtape aptly titled, "What Were You Doing At 19?". After the highly successful release of his hit single I Wanna Know featu...
It's hard to believe that Rap Radar have had their Podcast for a year now. With more then 63 episodes in the vault, it doesn't seem Elliot Wilson and ...
To celebrate its 10 year anniversary, The Shining, one of J Dilla's critically acclaimed project is getting a special box set reissue ft all 12 album ...
Surprisingly Major Key becomes Khaled's first ever number one album on the Billboard 200 Chart, with 97 000 copies sold. It knocks Drake’s VIEWS albu...
The YouTube account has been live for atleast 11 months and in that space of time Ambitious has introduced artists like Emtee, A-Reece Fifi.B3nchMarq,...
Very cool tune by the kid ! Remember to vote on our Underdog Poll and hit share and like on Facebook. function VoteWindow() { url="http...
Yeezus ambitions have reached an all time high, from restructure the music industry’s streaming services, Mr West also wants to run for president. Plu...
The music conference 'Music Unscripted' bought to you by the good folk at 16 Bars Reloaded, is back popular demand. Amongst the speakers include 'The ...
If there was ever a video to describe a Lituation, Dj Scream's "Lit" would be it. 21 Savage, Juicy J and Young Dolph make the music video complete. Pe...
Vic Mensa went off, with Pusha T's "Numbers On Boards" beat as the backdrop. The RocNation artist dropped a potent freestyle that covered a range of i...
Young Buck has been let loose and beasting on the 11 track "10 Bodies" mixtape. The G-Unit member has been quiet but makes a firey return with his lat...
This ish right heeeeere boy sheeesh, Tory Lanez rappin his ass off! I want more of this Tory, yeah sure homey is smooth with vocals but his more letha...
Metro Boomin x Metro Savage have a joint album x ep dropping soon.Its called Savage Mode x I wonder why Metro's name was left out in the title. Peep...
The Webisode series sees Inseezy take us behind the scenes of his hustle of taking over the industry. On episode 2 of "Rolling With Inseezy", homey ta...
Damn. This is kinda awkward. So it seems that Rich Homie Quan may have f'd things about at 2016 Hip Hop Honors. Word is dude forgot Biggies lyrics whe...
Following a six year hiatus "VH1 Hip Hop Honors" the iconic VH 1 event took place recently. The night is hosted to pay homage to a class of Hip Hop pi...
Watch the whole interview over here 1.On Being Worldwide The world is ready for a new story, the world is ready to hear what South Africa and Africa...
Fresh from marking his 2016 XXL Freshmen Free Lil Yachty teams up with Dj Carnage for a really turnt music video titled "Mase In 97". The track is sor...
How are we going to let the week get so deep without us acknowledging Nipsey Hussle. This is called #1 featuring the big dog....
Big K.R.I.T is dropping twelve freestyles for the past twelve hours. A freestyle for each hour. Its actually a dope idea we'll try get you as much...
031 Avengers getting their armor ready battling the industry one single at a time on "War Cry"....
First Monday of the month and you already know what it means, you are about to be served the best dose of all things Hip Hop in the land. If you don't...
Dont get me wrong I was always a Tyga fan but something or a couple of things are an interpretation of something we've seen before. Lets count them....
Only one dude is yet to drop his freestyle. You know who Im talking about. That's Lil Yachty but seeing we got the other dudes peep their 2016 freshme...
Durban based rapper Inseezy is dropping vlog episodes and on this one he hangs out with Breeze while shooting a new video for a song called My Name. T...
This track reminds me bit of tracks in the 2000's when Chingy was still around. It's got a tint of that Chingy sound but with the modern production we...
pH is back again to life up your TGIF mood with another stellar mix of your favourite Hip Hop tracks. bookings@iamph.co.za Twitter: iamph Facebo...
Its youth month and it was ideal to speak to an OG. Mdu was the first generation of black local artists that made money and paved the way to where we ...
100% Local Hip Hop Mix. For y'all that adhere to the new status quo for music will enjoy this mix ! ...
Tyga's 1 of 1 is easily a Drake or OVO inspired song cause sounds a a bit like Work and Controlla.His also shooting a video for the song. I guess th...
Award winning hip hop artist, Assessa releases her much anticipated traditional-rap (tradi-trap) single titled Music. Music is a single where Assessa...
We not going to let the week pass without acknowledging another weekly joint from Nipsey Hussle. What they call you from where you from? Thats the f...
So XXL just unveiled their 2016 Freshmen list. I have been following this list for a minute now and I must say they got it spot on in terms of the fre...
Its the month of June. We here at SOL like to show you who far the culture is growing x the strides our artists are making. Watch out now this is what...
Dj Premier takes it to the slow side of things with Torii. The original joint was dropped a few weeks ago and now Dilated Peoples jumps on the remix...
Santa got that dope. Check out this track which will be on his upcoming project - WaitingAtReception #WAR Peep the track after the jump. ...
Johannesburg's super rap crew Revivolution, prepares to drop their much anticipated debut mixtape Kotas n' Caviar on June 16. The tape, produced by Jo...
The Roots are interestingly the most succesful purist hip hop group to date. The sound has never change but they've made some wise decisions with th...
I wasnt going to post this but I had to cause this is the conversation I've been having with so much managers or people that are influential in the...
We about to get into the youth month and for June 16 MsCosmo and I will be dropping some of the dopest up and coming hip hop joints from our underdog ...
Here's a fresh video drop from the THUGnB champ Dotcom for #10Thousand. Looking at the scenes, I think this was shot in CPT. Dope. If you don't have...
Damn this was a year after Biggie passed. Jayz was still on his way to superstardom thats how long ago this tape was created. Damn the beats still...
Dotcom bout to drop that new new later on this week. You can bet we'll have it ready for ya right here. ???? New RnB Video for #10Thousand dropping ...
Check out the Behind The scenes of the Dubane cats shooting their upcoming video for "War Cry" ...
Redman has collaborated with a rapper and producer JayceeOH and this is the first track from their project featuring Trae The Truth. ...
031 avengers keeping it moving with their Epic Ep. This time all the homies take some time to talk about the EP x what you can expect x more moves x W...
Have a listen to the 031 Avengers' #EPICEP. Dope one coming from the boys from eDubane. Download Here ...
We love it when Hip Hop makes moves. Congratulations to DJ Dimplez ! Please make sure you make your way to Rocking The Daisies & support the movement....
2Chainz drops a video shedding light on Muslim culture after Donald Trumps comments. Its just that this song says nothing about the video....
We just decided to think of all the spitters that dont just rap but have substance in their raps. These cats are constantly dropping new content and n...
Dee1 drops a video for this lyrical avalanche featuring Lupe and K.R.I.T. This is really dope. ...
usic Unscripted is an initiative by the hip hop movement #16BarsRELOADED, created for educational purposes and information exchange between notable in...
OVO affiliate P-Reign drops a new joint cause keeping it 100 is not enough if you can keep it 1000 is possible....
Shoutout to Roosta,Aust_Malema, Family Tree Media,StogieT and Channel O. Lookout for our coverage of the event next week hosted by the Cape Town Naaie...
Shoutout to Roosta,Aust_Malema, Family Tree Media,StogieT and Channel O. Lookout for our coverage of the event next week hosted by the Cape Town Naaie...
If you can't get yourself to the concert then we have another solution for you. You can stream the festival over here. Line Up ...
One of the few rappers thats still spitting and successful from New York Joey Badass spits a morning freestyle on Power 106 freestyle....
Picking up from our last interview check it here. We speak more about Back To The City and how we as a culture our handling our business issues i...
Tumi talks about growing and rebranding himself and why he won't talk about the things he used to talk about 10 years ago....
The next single from the DAKAR album. I saw some pictures earlier on this way with AKA and Kwesta. I think we might see also see a video for this ...
We signed Kwesta 9 years ago and he's only reaching his prime now. It seems the theory that it normally takes ten years to break is proven. We talk ...
If that means I gotta be like what everyone else be like/ I don't want to be liked. Later he added, most artists aren't appreciated in their own time/...
Dee 1 first time I hear him but he nice no wonder Lupe Fiasco and Big K.R.I.T jumped on the remix of Against Us. You like what you hear?...
Priddy Ugly is doing it for the fans with this one. This single is meant to prepare you guys for the release of his deluxe EP. Yup, a deluxe EP of "...
You know I said I won't support anymore songs that use a celebrity chick for the chorus but 1dile is saved by the fact that he can rap. If you digg...
s/O the homie Tdo for reaching a million views. Dlala Ka Yona did some damage in 2015 x keen to see what Tido got in store for 2016. Peep the video b...
Nasrec was packed like a mother shut your mouth.
Stand a chance to win double VIP tickets to this year's Back To The City Festival. Simply guess who the International Act coming through this year is...
Stand a chance to win double VIP tickets to this year's Back To The City Festival. Simply guess who the International Act coming through this year is...
FOR THE THIRD STAGE THIS YEAR AT BTTC 2016, BACK TO THE CITY HAS COME UP WITH A NEW CONCEPT THAT WILL GIVE A PLATFORM TO LIVE BANDS. THEY ARE CURREN...
FOR THE THIRD STAGE THIS YEAR AT BTTC 2016, BACK TO THE CITY HAS COME UP WITH A NEW CONCEPT THAT WILL GIVE A PLATFORM TO LIVE BANDS. THEY ARE CURREN...
2Chainz recently sat down with the breakfast club to talk all things Santa Dab sweaters his music with Weezy x more Watch the video after the jump ...
Elzhi's from Slum Village drops two 16s from his upcoming album Lead Poison. Easy listening like anything from the Slum Village. Dope artwork also....
Veezo from Botswana but now based in South-Africa. You may know him from working with likes of Tshego from Family tree and being signed with Ghetto ...
When Khaled is not snapping he is handling business as a radio jock on beats radio. In this interview he chops it up with original Coke Boy (thats his...
As talks about his business interests, being in studio with Biggie, making Hate Me Now and SouthBySouth with Dj Khaled....
This is Cassper's second best male album in a row now. #BestMale 2 years in a row ???? #TeamNyovest The Best Team! ???????????????? #BlessUsCollecti...
Oh man this just woke me the ef up. This boy got bars and wordplay fordays I had to rewind selecta. We need more of this, we really need more of thi...
ThaRealDomino stays luminated on this one since 16 x hes shining brighter than the sky. function VoteWindow() { url="http://vote.sparkli...
AvGang News is a dope record that was highly slept on last year and the good news is that the music video drops this Friday. Really looking forward t...
The tape will officially drop today on the birthday of his late mother Ivy and this is who he dedicates his tape to. This time last year a mixtape ca...
Young Thug has been going on a hectic radio run cause his project drops tomorrow and he is always riding with his 300 label Boss Lyhor Cohen whose nam...
The come-up kingdom embraces new hip hop artist , The Verb101 , originally from the Eastern Cape this amazing talent takes us through his first ever...
The homie Dj Capital is dropping some new music soon, his looking for a girlfriend and gives us some #shirtoffcap insight. ...
Last year in December Dj Speedsta dropped his mix Dj Speedsta The Guy Episode 1 Season 23.... tjoo what a name. He told us the reason why he wants to ...
Ginger Bread gives us his plans for the year. Peep what you can expect from the homie....
New music from Stilo Magolide is coming with Nasty C, merchandise is also on the way. He says every month he'll be dropping new singles....
More resolution for 2016 Dj Speedsta lets us know what he has planned for the new year. Check his reason for not making resolutions. ...
The Cipher is show dedicated to Hip Hop lovers. Brought to you by The Visual Architects, a Visual Production Firm, dedicated to unique projects. Th...
Getting more of these resolutions from you favourites stay on the lookout for them.In retrospect on a second watch it DjSliqe is speaking like his s...
You know whats Smashis resolution is? Yup you guessed to stay on time. Check out the interview and download the Simlane tape that dropped in Decembe...
So we've predicted whats going to happen this year on a couple of articles. We went to streets to speak to some of the artists and djs to get their ...
Maggz talks about being underrated and how respect doesnt really add to money. He also feels he should work on his consistency and what he felt when...
Kwesta x Reason x Kabomo – Stadium Status Zubz ft Skyzoo & Pharoah Monch – Doctor Goodlungs The Assembly ZA ft Sean Price – So Gone Testify – Tsh...
We are currently in the fourth week of 2016 and SA Hip Hop has been everything except dull. We should of known it was going to be an epic year when Tu...
Congratulations: It seems he also has a page on the BBC website. ...
Get your ticket and Dj Speedsta 016 To The World Mixtape when you purchase at the Onlife Store. document.getElementById('ShopifyEmbedScript') ...
On our first episode of 2016, we interviewed Kideo (from Backyard Crew) about his upcoming mixtape, his plans for 2016 and more. He also dropped a bom...
It's a new year and just as we expect on every first Monday, Javas Skolo and Kitso deliver their tackle and opinion on everything Hip Hop and surrou...
2015 is done and dusted but we have to applaud some of the most career defining moves from some artists who were able to either grow their brands, gro...
So its on we into the new year so lets predict what the future will look like and probably what we'd like the future to look like. Obviously these ar...
Rashid a hip hop veteran from the east who also sometimes dabbles in being the unofficial controversial spokesperson for SAHHA and Back To The City, h...
This was Stanky Dee Jay's exact words on a mail he sent me "Yo bro I just finished matrix and don't want to waste the time I got". How crazy is that h...
UnderdogDay is very close to our hearts here at SlikourOnLife. The concept began as a very small idea where we saw how many artists wanted to be heard...
Tswyza dropped this joint last week and now its followed with a new video. This is the Wrap Up of 2015 you can download the joint over here....
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Here are the responses we got from Twitter when we ran #SlikourAsks on Saturday evening. Click below to see the responses after the jump [View t...
Smiso just announced that music videos for 100k MaCassette Mixtape are on the way. Now this is very vague so I'm wondering which track will get the fi...
You may have seen our "Social Media Reactions" stories throughout 2015. The funny thing is everytime we curated these pieces there were tons of memes ...
Download Here Yo I been told about Tswyza one too many times but last night I got a mail and I laughed my ass off. Seriously though they will be a ...
New single Jan 2016 / New album April ???? A photo posted by ltido (@ltido) on Dec 29, 2015 at 7:14am PST L-Tido is on his grind and 2015 has b...
Jovislash drops a new track and gives a review of 2015 and he has some words for L-Tido and Sean Pages. Well this is something what your thoughts?...
I have been waiting for a Miss Cosmo hip hop track for a minute now and now we have an unofficial commitment from her via a tweet. This is good news ...
Youngsta has been one that stood out this year and also got acknowledged on our biggest come up list. He also has a few opinions on the top 10 list ...
Beats 1 radio stays innovating in the music world and few days ago they called upon Just Blaze to do a mix and Blaze decided to drop some rare x exclu...
2015 SAHHA WINNERS HONORARY AWARD DJ Ready D MOST VALUABLE AKA BEST LOCAL BRAND Butan BEST INTERNATIONAL BRAND Red Bull BEST DANCE CREW Supr...
Hi Onlifers. Last week we dropped the first 10 things which did not happen in SA Hip Hop. What do we mean by this? We are basically looking back at th...
Tracklist Abadwanguzeli x Inkanyamba – We Rool Ndlulamthi – From The Era Uno July – Skelem cApitol A – On Top of the World Freeze – Ingqondo L...
This is precious from Dr Dre's show "The Pharmacy" on Beats 1. Well as long as he has that radio show the exclusives will be amazing....
On behalf of all the non iTunes users I've pitched a solution to the artists that will work for some of us that cant access the iStore. I started the ...
Reason gives his thoughts on the list and what he's taking from it. We agree he has dope singles and like our conversation with another colleague PH...
No one gon say it, I WILL. That list is absolute TRASH. pic.twitter.com/WBz8egBHD3— KiD X #3QP on iTunes (@KidXSA) November 26, 2015 Chilled...
Continuing our SAHottesMcs conversation with PH we dabble into importance of promoting singles and how that can impact the perception of you as an a...
These are artist and Djs who were not in our radar last year or if they were they hadn't delivered any music that got people talking. 1.Nasty C Do ...
Yanga talks about artist being honest on whether they met their objectives this before being mad at the list. He also talks about his aspirations....
Make sure you get the album its one of the dopest to be released this year.PH also gives us his take on the SAHottestMcs list and it seems Reason is...
Well atleast Fanatic is aware that his opinion doesnt count cause of his relationship with AKA, nonetheless though he still wanted to express his vi...
Today is going to be lit. As we countdown to 16:30 bro. But peep how lit social media was/is cause of #basehottestmcs right now [View the story "Soc...
1 General admission & golden circle ticket holders can park at Newtown Junction Mall. Parking at normal parking rates 2 Those parking...
Tumi dropped his list and our onlife community reacted with their thoughts x opinions on the list. Click here to see Tumi's Top 10 verses of the year...
On the 15th edition of InnerView, we feature Mr. No Ordinary Being himself, Reason. Hailed as one of the best emcees in Africa, his success is nothi...
Reason drops a 16 taken from his current single thats available now. Also something thats key to mention is that he'll releasing his album on Frid...
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I think Cassper should tell us what the significance of 16V is cause he always says this to LTido on these here social networks. Anyway Tido is no lon...
There is a fire burning as intense as a super nova in the hip hop industry. This fire however is concealed under a cloud of institutional and bureaucr...
Pusha T drops a freestyle on the track that ruined Drake and Meek Mills relationship also courtesy of Dr Dre's Beats 1 show on Apple Music....
Thats just the way it goes mayne... [View the story "Social Media Responds To #BaseHottestMCs" on Storify]...
Another Cypher from the MTVBase chambers this time we blessed by Fifi Cooper,Emtee and Nomoozie. Look out for SAHottestMcees on MTVBase at the end o...
MTV BASE’S “SA’S HOTTEST MCS” SET TO IGNITE A FURIOUS DEBATE ABOUT THE YEAR’s HIP HOP HEAVYWEIGHTS Johannesburg, 22 October 2015: MTV Base (DStv chan...
The original Shady team D 12 kills it on the free on Sway in the Morning. You going to enjoy this....
The 4th Annual South African Hip Hop Awards 2015, will be taking place on Wednesday, 9th December at The Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City, Johannesburg,...
I love it when Jeezy raps on a smooth track with some old school sample. His album is dropping soon this is just a freestyle....
Prolly the hardest hitting track Kwesta has released as we enter summer 2015. Download the track here if you finna hear the heat Peep what social me...
Kwesta drops a surprise Friday track this evening. Download the K1 God over here....
The other day while I was pretending to be a corpse on my couch when K.O’s “One Time” video came on and it really started to churn some thoughts. The...
Audio Push and Travis Scott get the party started I guess they heard we have a 3 day week. ...
[View the story "The Dust DJ Vigilante Gives Us His Suggested #SAHottestMCs2016" on Storify] Who do you think should be on?...
This topic is going to be discussed sooner than later. Its 2015 and yes the time is getting nearer. For now peep what Onlifers had to say about whic...
What's up. It is the start of a new week but before we start the week with new content we felt it was dope to remind you which stories y'all spoke abo...
Some call it soft porn, some love watching it, some wish they were in Pulane's jeans, bottom line this video lived up to the title of the track. You...
Last one from the homie Jovislash we'll be dropping the whole mixtape soon so you can get all the tracks he remixed....
