Category Archives: INSIGHT

black radio

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I was first introduced to Robert Glasper Experiment at the Cape Town Jazz Festival 2009 where they collaborated with Mos Def and completely wowed me. I’ve always been drawn to jazz music, and don’t get me wrong I do love … Continue reading

my favourite people’s 2011 favourites

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Best. What a subjectively loaded word. After reading through all the ‘best of 2011′ lists on numerous music blogs and magazine sites I got to thinking…What is this notion of best? What makes people think ‘Wow this is the best album … Continue reading

@itskardi

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A few weeks ago NPR released a podcast titled ’100 hip-hop songs you won’t hear on the radio’. It kinda surprised me, because really in 2011 we don’t need the radio to dictate what music we should be listening to, and definitely … Continue reading

Miriam in the Melodies – Sunday Vaabz

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Something I wanted to share… Some of you may have already made this connection, but it’s one that I only made the other day (with some help from my sister) yes, on the rare occasion I am a bit slow … Continue reading

section 80

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Every year XXL magazine nominates a handful of ‘up and coming’ rappers and bestows the ‘Freshmen class’ crown upon them. Most of 2011’s princes had very questionable talent in my opinion. In fact a raised eyebrow accompanied my hand as … Continue reading

the abc’s of rap!

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I am completely head over heels in LOVE with hip-hop. No matter how many times I attempt turning my back on hip-hop, and even though I do cheat , I could never leave. No music genre has managed to invoke … Continue reading

i’ve got the powa [mixtape]

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Tumi Molekane [ of Tumi and The Volume fame ] has finally dropped his much anticipated collaborative mixtape aptly titled POWA, a play on the word ‘Power’ and ‘People Opposed to Woman Abuse’. The mixtape is in large inspired by … Continue reading

Saving is a bitch, with good intentions…

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I’m still lying in bed… dont judge me – this post is not about music – but I guess my day job persona wanted to speak up. Been thinking about writing this for a while now… it’s all just thoughts … Continue reading

who the f is this rugged ass kid?

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There aren’t a lot of MC’s locally who can do what Konfab does. Perhaps I’m a little biased, but nonetheless the Lesotho born,ex Capetonian and now Pretoria based MC has this ability to literally take words and play with them … Continue reading

sampled: ahmad jamal

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A probably useless fact about me: I love astrology. I’m a scorpio, and according to ‘the stars’ one of the key traits of scorps is inquisitiveness and problem-solving. Both are pretty accurate. I love all kinds of puzzles, particularly crosswords … Continue reading