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Growing up as a kid every holiday we would drive back home to both my father’s and mother’s homes in Mpunzana (a village deep within Mthatha) and Queenstown respectively, both based in the Eastern Cape, and besides the 8-10 hour drive I used to dread coming back home for several reasons including; forfeiting the pleasures…
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There’s something powerful about a global artist choosing Johannesburg as a meaningful stop on a world tour and Gunna did exactly that (because the music gods know that some artists like leaving africa out of their world and atlas). His appearance at the second edition of the Milk and Cookies fest felt intentional, well-timed, and…
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In 2025 it feels like the route to becoming an artist and superstar has become easier and easier but with that being the case it does make me one wonder what does it mean for the quality of artists and superstars? Yes, it might have been harder to crack the mould back in the days…
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Young Jonn is in a great space of becoming. This is that rare space where personal evolution meets artistic elevation, and suddenly the music starts to sound deeper than the dancefloors it’s built for. His recent interviews and music have that energy. He is still jiggy, still hit-heavy, but also fully aware that life has…
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R&B’s never been short of heartbreak anthems, but few artists have grown with the genre the way Kehlani has. From the days of You Should Be Here and SweetSexySavage, she’s evolved from the Bay’s restless soulchild into one of R&B’s most emotionally fluent narrators. Each era, she’s sharpened her pen, peeled back another layer of…
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THE CURSE & BLESSING OF SOUTH AFRICA: It’s October 2025 as I write this and it’s that time of year that three words get to steal the spotlight and shine to the fullest. Those three words being year-end fatigue. Now the reason why I mention year-end fatigue is because 10 years ago around this time…
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In a world that celebrates noise, Ty Dolla $ign’s genius has always been found in his restraint. He’s the quiet hum underneath a generation’s soundtrack; the man who gave R&B its groove back while hip-hop flirted with melody and pop leaned into bass. His music doesn’t scream; it glides. And with the arrival of Tycoon, Ty finally…
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R&B has been moving through a strange time warp half-frozen in mood-board minimalism, half-trapped in trap-soul fog. For the past few years, the genre has lived between playlists and nostalgia, unsure whether to chase algorithmic love or emotional truth. Then Josh Levi pulled up with HYDRAULIC, a 15-track debut that feels like a lowrider gliding…
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FORGET THE AI LET’S GET BACK TO THE PEOPLE A topic that has been a big one since the introduction of the technological tool or weapon of mass creative destruction, depending how you look at it, and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is still causing chaos as it splits the creative world into two sides. Some creatives…
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Let’s keep it a stack “Am I the Drama?” turned seven years of chaos, confidence, and cash moves into a fire victory lap. When Cardi B finally dropped her long-awaited sophomore album “Am I the Drama?” in September 2025, the world stopped scrolling for a second. Not because it was a surprise, but because it…
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