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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 South African Hip Hop Awards nomination announcement to talk about her being nominated thrice after she showed us he...
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...
Oooohweee! Chad has dropped his gratitude single as promised and it's clad with boss statements. "Nominated freshman, you talking to a senior..." So...
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 ...
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...
@BergieFreshest On Taking Risks With Events @TweezyZA On Being Consistent #SAHHA2016 @MsCosmoDJ On The Growth Of SA Hip Hop In 2016 @FifiCoop...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
Award-winning Hip Hop superstar, visionary mixtape supremo, MAMA 2016 nominee (Best International Act) and mesmerising live performer Future is set to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
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....
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/...
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...
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...
The homie Dj Capital is dropping some new music soon, his looking for a girlfriend and gives us some #shirtoffcap insight. ...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
Get your ticket and Dj Speedsta 016 To The World Mixtape when you purchase at the Onlife Store. document.getElementById('ShopifyEmbedScript') ...
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...
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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 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...
[View the story "The Dust DJ Vigilante Gives Us His Suggested #SAHottestMCs2016" on Storify] Who do you think should be on?...
