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The self-crowned “Fresh Prince Of RnB”, or as he refers to himself, “The RnBeing”; Jay Claude, is an ambitious and impressively eccentric South African vocalist, rapper and songwriter. With his creativity rooted in RnB and Hip Hop music, Jay Claude possesses miscellaneous talent and vocal range that sets him apart from other acts. Born in Johannesburg, and raised around music in the south of Italy and California, with his father as a musical director and mother as a performing singer, he took to music from a tender age.
To kick start his music career, Jay Claude collaborated with American rapper T-YY on a record titled “Things You Do” which hit 1 million streams on Soundcloud. He further collaborated with numerous South African hip hop royalty acts such as reputable award nominated producers Co Kayn and Tru Hitz, Stilo Magolide, Jimmy Wiz, Big Star, Stogie T (Tumi), DJ Speedsta and Zakwe on his current hit single “Roots” featuring Stogie T. In May 2018, he released his first compilation titled “The Street Tape” in collaboration with producers, Street Carnivore and Tru Hitz.
With a successful introduction into the music scene, he built an impressive repertoire and a continuously growing fan base. 2019 serves as the year he debuts as a solo act. “I feel like it’s time the people get to know Jay Claude; what I am about and just expressing myself through music in hopes that I get the love back.
Serving as a prelude to his solo career and as a lead single off his upcoming EP; Jay Claude, takes us on a road trip down memory lane with this nostalgic 90’s era themed RnB and Hip Hop summer jam “90’s Jump Off”. On the record he features Stilo Magolide and tags Tru Hitz on production. "This record is something people will feel familiar with but yet is something they haven't heard. Their ears be buggin'! ".
Whether a nostalgic throwback ride to memory lane or an actual road trip, this is a must be part of the playlist on cue for the aux.
Stream/download "90s Jump Off" here: smarturl.it/90s-jump-off
 
Keep in touch with Jay Claude
Facebook: Jay Claude
Twitter: @JayClaude_
Instagram: @JayClaude_

Awarded the best rapper across all universities in South Africa, Fya Philly has consistently proved what it takes to be one of the hottest up and coming artists in South Africa.
Reigning from Sunny Side, Pretoria the Capital City, raised in Centurion and after high school moved to London, England-harnessing a diverse Hip Hop culture, came back to South Africa to show case his unique taste of international class sound and production- Fya Philly is part of a rap group from Johannesburg called Hustle Plus Music. Making New Age Music, a combination of Trap, Electro and Hip Hop infused with etheric African sounds, Fya’s
style of Hip Hop is one that rocks the most epic parties and on a smoother side of the coin, also puts babies to sleep.
Fya Philly brings the heat this time round, with his claim to fame, winning the #OMGWAP
Rap competition, sponsored by Old Mutual, that featured thousands of rappers across the country, and winning it entailed a studio session, allowing his latest single ”No Love Song” produced by Hit Record making, multiple award winning team of producers, ‘Ganja Beatz’ to flourish. The music video to ”No Love Song” premiered on Channel O on the 18th of December 2018 and has since been doing its rounds across the all African TV station.
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What do you think made you win the #OMGWAP competition? 
The will to want to make it happen, if you really want something you go out of your way to attain that goal,and I think that's simply said but harder done, because being an artist is not enough in this day and age, you really have to grind hard as an artist to take your craft to the level were they crown you the best.
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Besides You, Whom do you think should have won the competition by that time?
Like Slikour said "I'm the one that Set the bar" ,roughly translated, there was no one else who could have won the competition at that time and I mean, there was alot of people in the event,like tens of thousands type, so its pretty difficult for me to pick who it could have been, I knew that I was aiming for the bulls eye from the moment I entered into it, all the other artists videos + audios combined with the live performance aspect of the height of the competition just didn't cut it for Old Mutual, there are big artists that came to watch the new breed of the best through OMGWAP, and you had to be on your A game, at that time, I was ready.
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What do you think of the #OMGWAP winner of 2019 Siya?
From the brief time I spent with him I could tell that he was ready to be the new #OMGWAP winner, he is also a good live performance artist for real, I'm sure he has a bright future in music ahead of him.
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What got you into Hip hop? 
My environment,  I just grew up around a family of musicians and the older I got the more I focused my inherited musical abilities into an output like Hip-Hop, Its such an amazing genre, timeless and all music encompassing, Hip Hop has all the genres into one,you can fuse everything into Hip Hop man, what a life! Beats and lyrics are just everything to me,I get in a trance, Fyaaa!
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If it wasn't for Hip hop, where do you think you would have been doing?
If it wasn't for Hip Hop i'd be doing Radio or Dramatic Arts man, I graduated from Yfm's Yacademy in 2014 and I've emersed myself in radio ever since, on my campus UFS I had a show for 3years called #KovsieKontraband, some new age wavy type of late night shows so, i still have a knack for radio,on air and off air coordinating but you'd most likely find me in the musical studio you feel me.
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What is the good and the worst thing about hip hop in South Africa according to your experiences? 
That's a tough one because everyone feels so emotional about this subject but, I feel like Mzansi doesn't really support the Hip Hop industry, they don't appreciate it, people want to go to the club and dance to house,  they doing appreciate a live artist in front of them, they love the DJ more lol, so I think we just need to support local talent more, especially the Hip Hop because we need to compete on a mass international scale, the money is in commercial mainstream music.
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Radio and Your Music... if you were to choose one, what would it be?
I'd choose my music man, if there had to be a zombie apocalypse there would be no radio stations, but i'd have my 16 bars and some homies to beat box for me till the end of time.
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What is that one mistake that you think upcoming rappers do and it blocks their breakthrough? 
They have to be themselves number 1 and make their own sound, don't copy, I mean you can do it for fun to show that you aren't stuck in the past, but when it comes to giving out projects, they must be really original and dope, that's how you gain recognition that lasts and it doesn't happen over night,  one must keep on being consistent you feel me, patience brings roses.
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Fya Philly, what's the story behind this stage name?
Ishuu, Fya is the ebonic (black way) of saying Fire, and a Philly is another name for a Joint, so the stage name means light a blunt, but it just came out through high school times and all that,  everyone just calls me Fya though.
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Is there any coming projects from Fya Philly that fans can expect? 
Yeah man, as yall know I got my debut mixtape titled FyaStunna Lyfestyle which is me and one of the dopest beat makers from Bloemfontein called 3Dee Stunna, I got the 2nd edition to that mixtape coming, then I got an ep titled Old Days Gone, that one is going to be a classic,been working on it with my producer Valentino Sauzer from Europe, so those are my tapes and did I mention I got 2 Hot music videos from the FyaStunna Lyfestyle  tape? No Hesitation and Trap Town, no days for the TV premier right now but yall can definitely catch those on YouTube,  shout out to my director Henry Charly from We Heart Studios, the stuff is just perfect cinematography.
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Shout Outs
Lol ,damn I just felt like I was shouting people out just now but uh, man my whole team works so hard , they are scattered across the country and across the world, we all in this one huge vehicle heading for greatness and I just Thank God everyday for the Blessings and my Mom for support bro you know? Family is everything and the ones closest to you mean the most and influence who you are,so I'm  trully blessed man, shout out to all my supporters and everyone reading this too.
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On Sunday the 8th of September 2019, a Singer Rowlene threw a party at Rockets Restaurant in Bryanston…
The Party was of the Exclusive Launch of her single entitled Curtain Call that dropped on the 13th of September of the same Year.
So many People including other Celebrities went to witness the sweet sound of Rowlene’s beautiful Voice and her Success.
The event was sponsored by Steve Madden and Flying Fish.
We spoke to Rowlene getting to know her better from her music background to where she is now and where she's going in her music Journey.
She spoke more from her big break single "Boy bye" to her latest single "Curtain Call"
Before the end of the interview, she had a surprise from Shekhinah and she was so happy she couldn't help it but to scream and be emotional.
Talk 2 Jay was Hosted by Jabulani Jay (#Talk2Jay), Captured by Mapitso Rathebe
This is what went down... please don't forget to Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
Thank you for watching

#CurtainCall #SteveMadden #FlyingFish #Rockets

Multi-talented talented singer/songwriter and producer, Sojiii  continues to scale up the charts with his debut single titled Tombo which debuted number on iTunes.
Stream/Download here: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1456409784?ls=1&app=itunes
 
Sojiii has been topping charts since he released Tombo accompanied by an exotic music video shot in Canada by Seed Visuals which has already hit over 200k views on YouTube. Tombo made its debut on iTunes and apple music chart and topped the chart 7 days straight first week of release.
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The music video as shot by Seed Visuals sees Sojiii drop bars over an artistic description of the fast lane. The rising afro beats king proves his versatility on Tombo which holds a distinct sound so unique and refreshing it brings breath of fresh air on the highly-competitive afro beats circuit.
 
Make sure to request Sojiii’ new single Tombo on your favourite television music show. Follow Sojiii on social media for updates on his upcoming debut project.
Connect with Sojiii:
Instagram: @therealsojiii
YouTube: https://youtu.be/S_n5WEZeoTA
 
Contact:
For press enquiries – [email protected]  / 011 069 8155 /
For bookings –    [email protected]
Watch Sojiii’ music video for Tombo here:

I’m telling a story that really came out of frustration because my phone only rang when someone needed me to do something for them. N****s wouldn’t be like ‘hey, how you doing?’ or nothing. They only cared about themselves and what they could either get out of me or from me. So I had to start nipping it in the bud and telling people about themselves; and as a result, I lost a lot of friends and became distant with a lot of family members as well. And this is where the title of the track come from (“Friends and Family”) because this is basically my message to them. Stream Here

Credits: Friends and Family

Producer:                    Benihana Boy
Arranger:                    Twon Lamar (Antwon Guidry)
Writer:                         Twon Lamar (Antwon Guidry)
Performer:                  Twon Lamar (Antwon Guidry)
Mix Engineer:             Twon Lamar (Antwon Guidry)
Master Engineer:        Mike Bozzi

Social Media: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

"Well I did this song for my girl during a fight so I'm asking her to also think of my feelings and tell me we'll be okay....telling her how much she means to me and things that I'll do for her...asking her to not think about herself only and to also think about me...
Listen to Think About Me by DJ HopeStar on #Applemusic https://­music.apple.com/za/­album/­think-about-me-single­/1477963914
#Dezzer
http://­www.deezer.com/track/­740577522

On Sunday the 8th of September 2019, a Singer Rowlene threw a party at Rockets Restaurant in Bryanston...
The Party was of the Exclusive Launch of her single entitled Curtain Call that set to drop on the 13th of September of the same Year.
So many People including other Celebrities went to witness the sweet sound of Rowlene's beautiful Voice and her Success.
The event was sponsored by Steve Madden and Flying Fish.
 
If You know any of the People on these Pictures,  Tag them and let them know we appreciate their presence on that day of the Event
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Andy cloud A rapper who started rapping in 2013. I released my first mixtape the first I started rapping and I'm now ready with a classic project.
I started with writing poetry at school around 2002, My love for music and writing grew into me wanting to express myself on beats. My style is unique and is rich in poetic content.   I also like telling a story in my music. I pride myself in being unique and not sounding like the average rapper. I have worked on my current project for 2 years and I am ready to submit it to distribution  companies. I am originally from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape but based in Benoni.
 
Who or what got You into Hip hop?

I started off from just loving words, I respected people who could use words poetically. My love for words grew and I writting poetry in high school, Prior to my love of words, I had been listening to kwaito and hip hop, Saving my lunch monetly at school to buy the latest cassete. I initially wanted to author books but my school teacher told me people don't buy poetry books. I used to perform poems at school events. Later on in life I wanted to fuse my love for music and my passion for poetry, What better way that in Rythm and poetry.

If you were not into Hip hop,  what would you do?
Id probly be miserable. Music has been an emotional outlet for me, Im a creative who needs to vent for sanity.
Careerwise I am currently a Car Salesman who has ambitions of going into business.

What is the Good and the Worst thing about Hip hop around Your hood?
Im from Ikwezi in the Eastern Cape. The worst thing would be people listen to hip hop in their  homes but when they get to the clubs they play other genres, Hip hop is not seen as turn up music. Good thing would be that hip hop lives regardless of whether there are platforms that showcase it or not.

What is the Motive behind your Songs especially the latest One?
Love has always been my biggest inspiration. The latest single is about a crush I had on a 19 year old, I was so  infactuated about her, I was also concerned about her well being as I felt she was making crucial mistake by not choosing me and her lifestyle was out of hand.
The song is me giving advice to her, I also sound bitter because she does not choose to be with me.

How is the Response from Family and friends that you are in the Hip hop Game?
Im old, like in my early  30s, They give me those crazy looks but out of  concern. This has always been my childhood dream. They also respect my music though and I can tell they want the best for me. I just hope this music thing funds bigger dreams

What are the Wise words that keep you going as a Rapper?

There is a time for everything. My time is also coming.

Who is your Main Influence towards your Music? 
I am a rapper who is also a fan of great music but to name the most impactful to me... J Cole, Drake and Teargas

What is the Story behind your Stage Name?
I struggled to find a name, I have always been fascinated with clouds. They can be so dynamic and beautiful. There was also a Tv series called Highlandeers that had a main character called Duncan Mccloud. I loved how he called his own name. So clouds and Duncan Mccloud ended up ....Andy Cloud. (Makes no sense I now) Like I said I battled. Andy comes from my name Andile.

Few Years from now,  where will You be as a Rapper?

I would like to open up the industrt and help create platform for up and  coming artists, I have struggled to be break into, I still am struggling. I have learnt things about the industry I would like to teach to other artists, Making a success of other people is sonething I would love to one day do. I will later be involved in music as a song writer when I start having a family. I want to be a businessman who does music because he still loves it.
I also want to study a bit.
I want to be as rich as I can be .
I am very ambitious. Trust me

Shout Outs
Pfunzo mayne beats
Psykick and lesson makubele
(Dudes who are working with me on my upcoming project)

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My music is on slikouronlife and soundcloud

http://t.co/AlJPiSZo9I?amp=1

https://www.slikouronlife.co.za/song/74068/andy-cloud-ugade-labafana

Social media handles

https://mobile.twitter.com/anonkwelo

https://www.instagram.com/andycloud10/

https://www.facebook.com/andile.nonkwelo.1

Moz Kidd returns with the timely release of another much awaited single dubbed “On the bench? Okay…” off his upcoming mixtape titled Michael Jordan on the bench earmarked to drop in September.
Watch “On the bench? Okay…” here:
https://youtu.be/3P1PO4Ed59I
Basking on the massive acceptance enjoyed by his previous single Look What I Did, the 22-year-old rapper, always finds a way of telling his story on beats that other artists would usually only consider as instrumentals to “have fun with”.
“I feel like I’m starting all over again. As I mention in the song, consistency hasn’t been my thing, so for the past few months I have been trying to restructure and find a way to be consistent with releasing content as an artist. I’m done working on my project #MJOTB and I’m excited to get it out. I chose this song as the first one to release with a video because it sets the mood and fits the theme, of the energy I’m bringing on my project,” expresses Moz Kidd.
As of yet, only the music video is available as the song will be up for streaming and download in the upcoming mixtape. Moz Kidd, has proved to be one of the most promising and talented artists around and if the new song is anything to go by, the 22 year old law student is definitely bringing the heat.
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Connect with Moz Kidd: 
Twitter: @MozKidd
Instagram: @MozKidd
Facebook: Moz Kidd
Contact:
For press enquiries – [email protected]  / 011 069 8155 /

South African Hip Rapper Tiga Maine returns with his much anticipated flying single entitled "Tonight", this time around he came up with an unique sound.
Showing people that as a musician you have to be versatile and bring a fresh sound into people's ears.
Tiga Maine is behind everything on this song including beat, vocal
mixing and song mastering.
The new single is built on a slow tempo, afro and soul-fusion-inspired beat, filled with afro drum kits and soul wavey elements. It's a love song that is dedicated to his new most beautiful girlfriend.
Listen to "Tonight" below.

Slikour Onlife:
https://www.slikouronlife.co.za/song/94314/tiga-maine-tonight

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