My album, or EP (called it that when I was put into a corner to release), featured Blaklez, P Dot O… Like PTA Legends. We discuss how innocent incorrect affiliation affected her musical direction. I mean, you around talents like Blaklez, P Dot, Nveigh, Damola… This is at the time SA hip hop has factions from Vaal Sound with your Optical Illusions, your Joburg was more glitzy and PTA was a bar fest. Otherwise, you were a target of shade in blogs like AfricasGateway” Those people repped their city but more so, RAPPED! Then, it was to prove that you can rap. “The story of making ‘HERstory in the Making’ was a turbulent time for me. I have videos of me in the studio with Nyambz heavily pregnant, eating honey and struggling to breathe through my bars. When I had my first child, then second born 18 months apart, I literally just said ‘this cant gather dust’. We rewind time a bit and find ourselves in her father’s green car where she heard a Hip Hop song by a female.
“(laughs) ever since I was young, I loved being an entertainer. Remember the two-finger record on tape and pray the DJ doesn’t speak trick? Yeah, I used to do that. Would tape Brenda Fassie songs and then perform for my mom. She smiles distantly as she remembers the vivid detail of when she first fell in love with hip hop. Green BMW, waiting for my dad at the Doctor, Ukhozi Coca Cola Top20. “It was horrible but what I remember about it, it had a story and a message.” She raps her first verse to me and ends with, So the chart show played on weekends and songs would shift around but you knew the song gon play and there I started writing my first rap” And j just heard, ‘Oooh, baby.Can I take you home with me tonight? Oh-oh!’ And I’ve heard hip hop songs but never by a woman. I ask her of how her sound changed through the debut and sophomore and what’s the direction going forward. “I was probably what you call a hardcore rapper. Places like State Theater was not play play, you had to rap hard to get on that stage. Having children, having this talent…I had to find a balance.
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