PRESS RELEASE#3: DJ MOORISH B HEADLINING 1818 HIP HOP JAM SESSIONS THIS SUNDAY

MOORISH B HEADLINING 1818 HIP HOP JAM SESSIONS THIS SUNDAY

Moorish B will be one of the two headline DJs to play at this year’s annual 1818 Hip Hop Jam Sessions going down at township themed restaurant and live performance venue Ko’spotong this Sunday, 27 November 2016, located in Ghandi Square, Braamfontein, one of downtown Johannesburg’s hip, artsy precincts.

The other headline DJ is the multi-award winning DJ Switch, a local legend in his own rights who has also been a popular TV-presenter, break-dancer and scratch DJ in the local entertainment scene for more than a decade. DJ Switch and Moorish B will also be the official judges, judging rap performers who will be competing against each other during the event’s competition.

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ONLINE MAGAZINE APPEARENCES

Cape Town based online publication IDM (Inside Dance Music) South Africa’s biggest, definitive electronic music authority, currently celebrating 40 000 Facebook likes, introduced Moorish B to its tens of thousands of email subscribers and Facebook fans last week. The brainchild of Dave Mac, ex-editor/owner of the now defunct BPM Magazine and a well-respected DJ himself, IDM is a media channel for DJs, producers, sound engineers, promoters, electronic music lovers & electronic music makers. CLICK here to read the article.

“Honestly, I never heard of IDM until they featured me this week, but after researching their history, how long they’ve been around, how Dave Mac has personally interviewed the biggest DJs in SA and the world, some of which I look up to, and seeing how many thousands of people are talking about IDM online, I was immediately humbled. I mean how many women have appeared on IDM over the years? So I just want to give a special thank you to the IDM team for recognising me.” ~ DJ Moorish B

Zkhipani Magazine, a popular Black youth publication discussing pop culture and important social issues, boasting an impressive print circulation and online presence, featured Moorish B as one of its Top 3 Unsigned Artists of The Week under their websites Hot Talent category on November 3, 2016. Zkhipani is a Zulu slang word for what’s up? If the hype is anything to go by, Moorish B is what’s up! CLICK here to read the article.

“Zhiphani has always been my FOMO handbook, keeping me updated on all entertainment and current affairs news. I used to be envious of people they featured but for me to get featured is just awesome. Ngiyabonga nga kulu” ~ DJ Moorish B

Other online magazines that have featured Moorish B since her last press release include:

·         The SA Mark: Website specialising in documenting South African hip hop culture 

·         Street Voyce: Local website focusing on underground hip hop culture

LATEST MOORISH B MIX

The rush of publicity and curiosity from magazines came after Moorish B released her 14 minute long club mix Trap ‘n’ Trill on her MixCloud account about a month ago. Moorish B’s latest mix The Innerstanding is a more therapeutic mix compared to the club orientated Trap ‘n’ Trill.

“The Innerstanding is a journey through my mindset, Trap ‘n’ Trill is what people want to hear. The Innerstanding is thought provoking and real, it defines me, my type of conscious hip hop,” explains the Moor.

·         Download & listen to The Innerstanding: https://soundcloud.com/moorishb/moorish-b-the-innerstanding

BOOK MOORISH B NOW!

If the media hype is anything to go by, then Moorish B is definitely becoming a force to be reckoned with in the DJing scene. But don’t just take my word for it, we invite you to view and listen to Moorish B live at Ko’Spotong this Sunday so you can witness yourself why people are starting to catch on to her enigmatic style.

Club owners and event promoters whose target market is millennials (youth market: 18 to 35 year olds), looking for a hip hop DJ who knows exactly which songs youngsters are ‘turnin’ up’ to this festive season should consider Moorish B as an excellent option, especially since we have a very reasonable booking fee. Please open the attached Moorish B Rate Card to view our competitive rate. We look forward to your calls and emails this festive season J

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PRESS RELEASE#2: INTRODUCING DJ MOORISH B

26-year-old Bongeka Maphukatha from Johannesburg, South Africa is possessed by the ghosts of the moors.  These ancient spirits transform her from a friendly call centre agent by day, into a fierce vinyl wielding hip hop DJ named Moorish B at night, whose reputation as a turn-up DJ created a buzz on social networks recently after suddenly appearing in the DJ scene early this year.

This happened within a space of six months after her graduation from the strictly female DJing school Fuse Academy in downtown Jozi in December 2015, Moorish B secured multiple one hour sets during 2016’s winter season at upmarket cocktail bars like Capellos FourWays branch, Liquidchef Chef in Rosebank and the annual hip hop culture festival Back to the City 2016 attended by 20 000+ people in Joburg to name a few.

Unfortunately, Bongeka’s demanding 9 to 5 job in the customer care industry, which requires her to work 7 days a week, or more than 8 hours a day sometimes, combined with the back to back bookings that were rushing in, forced her to time out from DJing and turn down gigs for a couple of months.

"I apologise to event organisers whose gigs I turned down, and to any fans who are disappointed at Moorish B’s absence from DJ line-ups around Jozi.  But my demanding job and the music venues requesting my booking contract happened all at the same time and it eventually became too overwhelming. But I’ve found balance now and all I want to do is to jam dancefloors again.” Bongeka Maphukata/ Moorish B

[Have you seen the  Moorish B press release after this one? Read it here PRESS RELEASE#3: DJ MOORISH B HEADLINING 1818 HIP HOP JAM SESSIONS THIS SUNDAY]

She’s back with a fury, her latest mix; Trap and Trill which dropped a fortnight ago is testament to this, created using basic DJing equipment; a four-channel virtual DJ on a 2 channel Numark pro2 controller, Trap & Trill is still getting positive reviews on the Moorish B Facebook page. 

Moorish B is itching to continue the buzz she created in the first half of 2016, any event organisers and nightclub owners whose target market is millennials (youth market: 18 to 35-year-olds), looking for a hip hop DJ who knows how to spin relevant tunes that pack dancefloors, but at a reasonable booking fee, look no further than Moorish B. Please open the attachment to view her rate card.

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·         Moorish B bookings/sponsorships/media interviews please contact Mooketsi

·         Listen to the freshest Moorish B mixes on her Mix Cloud account: Moorish B

·         For Rate card/artist bio/contact Mooketsi

POEM ABOUT THE MOORS

Oh remember the moors, forget ye not the moors!

  Those revered dark skinned conquerors from North Africa,

Noblemen who charged across the Mediterranean millennia ago in spectacular fleets,

Overlords of Africa’s last colonies in Europe,

Docking on the beaches of the Iberian Peninsula,

Fanning out across Western Europe,

On missions to civilise the indigenous Europeans,

Resulting in Europe’s golden era, the Renaissance Period,

An era that glistened until wars drove them back to Africa

Forgotten are their contributions to Western civilisation

Slowly eroding like their breath taking mosques & universities,

That took Europe out of the Dark Ages,

Temples they were forced to abandon,

When they were chased back across the Mediterranean,

Oh remember the moors, forget ye not the moors!

Those dark skinned warriors, who brought light to Europe.

The Makaveli Theory: Did 2Pac fake his death?

“Fuck you!” uttered Tupac before chocking on his own blood and losing consciousness in a policeman’s arms after being shot several times. The revelation of ‘Pac’s last words’ was made in May 2014 by Chris Carroll – the first officer on the bullet-riddled scene of  25-year old Tupac Shakur’s drive-by shooting, which happened on 7 September, 1996 in Las Vegas, a few minutes after he and his record label boss Suge Knight left a Mike Tyson boxing match. But is 2Pac really dead?

Tupac’s ‘fake death theory’ is something of a taboo topic on contemporary hip hop forums. It’s a subject to be kept on the hush unless you want the hip hop Gestapo knocking on your door after midnight with long knives concealed. I too dismissed these conspiracy theories until I did some digging of my own and unearthed so many mind boggling clues suggesting… Pac is alive. It’s been 20 years since Pac’s gruesome murder shocked the world, and still new fragments of the story are coming to light.

Retired Las Vegas cop Chris Carroll says he only revealed the final words of one of rap’s G.O.A.Ts (Greatest Of All Time) in 2014, 18 years after his brutal murder because he “didn’t want Tupac to be a martyr or hero because he told the cops ‘fuck you’” with his final breath. But looking at how so many people around the world are still getting 2pac or Thug Life tattoos so long after his death, it’s obvious that any attempt to stop Pac’s ascent to martyrdom are futile.

Almost every year since his ‘death’ 20 years ago, more evidence is emerging suggesting he faked his murder in order to fool his enemies and stage the biggest comeback in music history. Even Carroll’s statement is a bit dodgy. He says that he called for an ambulance to take Pac to hospital, whereas Suge states that he is the one who drove Pac to hospital. Someone’s fibbing.
I could write a book using this mountain of information, but I selected these three key points as I feel they irrefutably prove that Pac lives.

The hologram Pac actually made a comeback at the 2012 Coachella music festival in California, as a state of the art 3D hologram.  He performed his infamous single, ‘Hail Mary’ from his last album alive; The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory where he began using the name Makaveli, after an Italian philosopher Machiavelli who coincidentally faked his death at the same age Tupac was allegedly merked. The projection shouted “What the fuck is up Coachella?” which is really spooky because Coachella only came into existence in 1999, so how could he have known about it? That’s like the Brenda Fassie holo which performed at the 2013 Hansa Festival of Legends shouting “Sanbonani Festival of Legends.” Could Tupac have pre-recorded the holo specifically for Coachella?

Not Tupac's corpse?!

His autopsy picture After his alleged death (seven days after the shooting), Pac was cremated and his public funeral plus memorial services promptly cancelled. What is intriguing is that Pac always rambled about his funeral in his raps but never once mentioned anything about cremation plus no pictures of him in hospital were ever disclosed. Moreover, it’s illegal in the state of Nevada to cremate a murdered body before an autopsy. A graphic picture of his sliced up torso lying on a morgue table did surface on the Internet a while ago, allegedly to show that an autopsy did take place. But it was soon debunked as a fake – because one: Pac’s body was missing a recent Machiavelli neck tattoo, and two: the image is an identical match to a frame of him lying in bed at the end of the ‘California Love’ music video, so the image must have been edited using some old school software.

Pac's last picture alive a poor photoshop job?

His last picture aliveThe final picture of Tupac alive was him and Suge Knight in their vehicle parked at a red a robot. What is really weird is that if you take a look at the ignition you will see that there are no keys in it. The date at the bottom of the pic is wrong, and since they were stopped at a red robot, why is there no reflection of the red light on the windscreen or on the vehicle’s smooth, black surface which reflected the camera flash so brilliantly?  Also, the picture of Pac sitting in the front passenger seat, looking blankly outside of his rolled-down window has been proven to have been cut and pasted in from another pic.

The epilogue
Some people say that Tupac’s disappearance was linked to powers way bigger than the rap game, because he knew a lot about the Illuminati and was going to spill the beans on the occult societies controlling America, instead of taking their offers to join them. Rumours say he is hiding in Cuba, which doesn’t have any extradition agreements with America. Reports have also surfaced that soon after his “cremation” there were thousands of calls to the police in Haiti saying that Pac has been spotted in numerous locations around the island.
Where Tupac is, why he faked his death and when, or if, he will ever return might be a mystery, but one thing is for certain – the evidence points to him being alive. If hip hop’s secret police come and drag me away screaming and kicking in the dead of night for writing this, never to be seen or heard from again, let them come… I’m not afraid of speaking the truth.
“Expect me nigga like you expect Jesus to come back / Expect me nigga I’m comin’.” – 2 Pac; ‘Untouchable’

Do you think 2Pac lives or do you think he is really deceased?

Article originally published as The Makaveli  Theory by Mahala magazine

LEARNING LESSONS | RED BULL BEAT BATTLE

I wrote this article for Mahala, a free South African music, culture & reality magazine who uploaded it yesterday, June 5 2014. Photos by Luke Daniel. Video by CFTV

Let’s get one thing straight: I’m as fanatical about hip hop as Boko Haram is about kidnapping school girls… so my views on other music and dance sub-cultures are undoubtedly skewed and somewhat condescending. For example, I can barely stand house music or sbhujwa culture and I think anything associated with pantsula is as backward as grown-ass men with cornrows.

Look, hip hop has the best dancers in the country hands down, and if you disagree then consider that 90% of all major dance competitions in SA are won by hip hop dancers. Consider the annual Red Bull Beat Battle, which was held last weekend at Walter Sisulu Square in Soweto. The 100k cash prize and drum trophy has (almost) always rotated amongst hip hop crews, ever since the competition’s inception in 2011. The only exception was when a sbhujwa crew called Prophelaz broke the tradition by winning last year.

So I went into the hall confidently thinking I would see MY culture reclaim the drum and consolidate its dominance in SA’s dance scene… but oh I was so wrong.

There were eight crews, half were hip hop and the other four were sbhujwas and pantsulas. By the second round it was clear that the non hip hop crews were going to dominate.

Take the battle between hip hoppers Supreme 1 and Panzan Entertainment – while Panzan performed, Supreme huddled up and wrote “boring” on a large piece of paper and held it up until their competitors finished performing. But their protest was nothing but a gimmick. When it was Supreme’s turn to dance, they were met with howls and boo’s from the audience and discerning dance heads. Even their ghoulish make up couldn’t hide the disappointment on their faces when the judges and crowd voted unanimously for Panzan to progress to the next round.

The other hip hop crew, Psyko Souljahz, also got knocked out in the early stages and Prophelaz took out Warrior Knights from Durban who wore riot gear to bolster their battle tactics. Sure, but all I can remember is the image of a Warrior Knight member crying backstage after losing to Prophelaz. It just shows that the tide is turning… it will go down in history that 2014 was the year sbhujwa dancers sent hip hop crews home crying to their mommies!

In the end, the hip hop crew Freeze Frame proved to be the last bastion of the culture, and they were too good for their competitors. The destroyed pantsula crew Fire, and eventually went on to take overall victory after squeaking past Prophelaz in the final to take the crown.

But for me (and most people at the battle), the real heroes of the day were Panzan Entertainment, a sbhujwa crew from The Vaal. Panzan fuse elements of Latin American beats and rhythms with basic indigenous dance and their own sbhujwa flavour. Early in the competition, I noticed that one of its members was dancing on steel crutches, which I thought were props… just to add flair to their routine. It was only later on that I realised Musa Motha of Panzan was an actual amputee. Panzan Entertainment made it to the semi’s of arguably the biggest and most competitive dance battle in the country, despite one of their members having a disability. Musa’s bravery and skill humbled me greatly.

But in the semi’s, Panzan  ran out tricks and energy and were beaten by the far superior Prophelaz, who went on to face Freeze Frame and take second place on the podium.

After Panzan’s performance in the semi’s, one of the judges, Somizi Mhlongo, stood up from the judge’s table with a mic and awarded them R20 000 for “showing us that nothing is impossible in this world.”

So instead of gloating about a hip hop crew winning the 2014 Red Bull Beat Battle, I must instead pay homage to Somizi Mhlongo and Panzan Entertainment for teaching everyone a few lessons in life last weekend. I learned that you can NEVER underestimate anyone and it’s irrelevant what music you dance to… what matters is how you use your passion to achieve things haters said you never could. It took one sbhujwa dancer to open my mind to the bigger picture. Respect.

Eminem in South Africa: Review, Pics & Video

This is a video, article and pictorial of the Eminem concert that happened in Ellis Park, Johannesburg, 1 March 2014. All photo's are sourced from Gas Photographic and Rolling Stone South Africa. Video Sourced from Tenn iBair

Only photographers at the Cape Town event were allowed to take pics of Em during his performance. Lucky bastards

“I love Joburg…’Cos I’m fucking someone’s mom tonight.”  Eminem’s hype man Mr Porter was typically vulgar at Eminem’s concert in Ellis Park on 1 March 2014. He said this after asking someone in the crowd if their mom was a MILF (Mom I’d Like to Fuck).

Viva South Africa!

Mr Porter has a big mouth, but Eminem never said much in between songs to the 60k plus crowd of roaring fans who were hypnotized by the supernatural like aura of the self-proclaimed rap god.

Jack Parrow, hosts a hip hop set in Afrikaans...

The concert also allowed me to experience Afrikaans rapper Jack Parrow’s energy live for the first time. He had a full on live band; guitarists, drummers, vocalist plus a DJ who all added that unplugged feel to his set.

It was drizzling a bit when Action Bronson, the New York rapper tagging along with Em’, came on after Jack and first thing he did when he appeared on stage was lighting up a marijuana joint, after which he asked the crowd if they know who he is, where he is from, if they are enjoying the show etc but not without using a whole lot of fucks as conjunctions for his sentences.

Action’s performance was barely average, his raps are pretty sharp though unnecessarily vulgar, while his flow brings back nostalgic memories of mid 90s New York rap. Not really sure if he will become a phenomena in SA anytime soon though.

Action Bronson rocking a Bok jersey while smoking zol during his CPT show, Spliffbokke?.

DJ PH, a local hip hop DJ, came on before Jack and got us warmed up with commercial and underground rap music mixed with a little bit of boom bap. After his set PH received claps from the 10k or so people who had arrived early. Not really sure who the other DJ was but he was so wack nobody even noticed or gave a fuck that his set got cut prematurely.

Eminem came on early in the evening and wasted no time shooting raps like an AK, flawlessly, word for word, with non-of that  lip syncing bull shit most international artists shove down our throats when they perform on our shores.

And like true pro’s, neither he nor Mr.Porter stuttered or got their lines tangled when they rapped the second and third tongue twisting, super-fast verses in Rap God.

A facade with the word Eminem projected onto it just before it dropped to reveal Eminem who was standing behind it. 

Em’ also performed controversial songs like White America & Kill You plus majors like Love The Way You Lie and Monster, using a live songstress for Rihanna’s chorus’s which everyone appreciated.

Mr. Porter or Kon Artis’ as he was known when him and Eminem were part of  the now defunct 6 man rap crew D12, is a hype man’s wet dream and the show wouldn’t have been half as dope if he wasn’t there to shadow Eminem, mimicking and backing every song so flawlessly the songs could just as easily been his.

Eminem brought out Royce Da 59, his home boy from way back in the 90s and early 2000s when the two were giants in underground rap, and the other half of Eminem’s latest rap crew, a duo called Bad Meets Evil, to perform Lighters, a joint which features Bruno Mars on the chorus.

"I'm slim Shady cos im the real Shady...Please stand up" Watch these blondes try rapping The Real Slim Shady here

After that, both Em’ and Mr.Porter vacated the stage so Royce could spit one solo track on his own. Thereafter Em came back on to wrap up  his short but very sweet show, which had so many verbal nukes it’s a miracle the stadium didn’t get razed after the bombardment.

"I feel like there weren't enough fans, people just came here cos its 'Eminem' " Listen to the rest of his opinion here

Ellis Park is famously known as the stadium where former president Nelson Mandela and 1995 Springbok captain Francois Pienaar lifted the rugby world cup together,  but there are many similiarities between that and the Rapture2014 concert…

And this was just the Golden Circle hours before the main show

…Eminem’s show filled up the stadium, it united South African’s of different colours and it stirred up many sentimental emotions… So fuck it, why not rename Ellis Park the Marshal Mather’s Stadium?

Watch what people thought about the concert on our vox pops

My Q&A with Big Sean

The following videos of my interview with Big Sean are from I Speak Hip Hop and Rolling Stone conducted at the Michelangelo Towers, Sandton, Johannesburg on Sunday, 2 February 2014.

Big Sean and I smiling for a selfie

"Rolling Stone SA's Mooketsi Nthite caught up with BET and Billboard award winning rapper Big Sean after his first performance in Mzansi at Axecess Jozi on the 1st of February. They riff on the concept of homosexuality in hip-hop, light skin girls vs. dark skin girls, the rapper's early days and his upcoming wedding."

"In 9th grade I got made fun of a lot cos I didn't have the newest clothes."

"Kendrick Lamar is my homy, he calls me, texts me asks how I'm doing..."

"There is nothing wrong with being gay, I have many gay friends." View interview here

View interview here

How Local Acts Out Rapped Big Sean at Axecess Jozi

All pictures sourced from AXE South Africa

The heavy downpours at the Big Sean gig fucked up everything from sisters’ weaves to expensive electronic equipment, the entire stage even blackened after the water short circuited something, but fortunately electricity to the massive LED displays and the rest of the hi-tech stage was swiftly restored.

Strobe lights and many other fancy features adorned the modern Axecess Jozi stage

It Saturday night, 1 February 2014. We’re at the much anticipated Axecess Jozi gig at Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown, it started drizzling moderately at 11:30pm just when AKA concluded his dope performance which had him bringing out his intimate homy Da Les as well as Maggz to perform Heaven. He also debut upcoming single Congratulations which was well received.  But when Sean ascended the stage after his performance round about midnight, it was raining cats and dogs.

At one point, the weight of the rain water accumulating on top of the main stage’s roof became so heavy that it eventually came cascading down onto the stage like a waterfall. Big Sean didn’t give a shit at all that his stage was getting flooded; he stood topless underneath the waterfall with arms outstretched like the Christ the Redeemer statue, while the thousands of people soaking wet in the rain cheered him on like sports fans at a stadium rooting for their favourite jock.

Water cascades onto the Axecess Jozi stage, damaging electronic equipment, but Big Sean continues performing.

The snazzy VIP section where we indulged in free finger snacks and two open bars

The lucky few people in the tented VIP section who were sheltered from the heavy showers could only watch in horror as some of the nearly 9k people in the uncovered general area scuttled for shelter. Some found shelter in the tented food court.  Some gave up altogether and from VIP I could see droves of people dashing out of the venue to the parking lot faster than Oscar Pistorious chasing a cheeky blonde.

Mad props to the vast majority of the crowd who soldiered on despite the awful deluge, you guys are true hip hop fanatics, and many salutations to the Axecess crew, who took the initiative of running out into the rain, taking the heavy umbrellas in the food court and carrying them to the general area so folks could have some form of shelter from the elements, albeit flimsy. 

Sean’s performance was short and average at best. Firstly, he didn’t even have a hype man but his DJ Mo Beatz rapped Meek Mills verse’s on Burn, a joint which features Sean. And when Sean performed Dance, featuring Nicki Minaj, he actually ran Nicki Minaj’s entire verse while he hopped around the stage like pogo stick until the hook came in. I mean who does that?

He also made inappropriately phallic gestures with the mic stand, such as sliding it in-between his legs and holding it in front of his crotch as if he was trying to pass time to get this show over and done with and collect the money.

But there were moments of glory, the Detroit rapper didn’t disappoint when he performed his other major bangers from Finally Famous and Hall of Fame albums such as Guap, Beware, Marvin Gaye and Chardonnay and the trap laden 10 2 10 where he used a loudspeaker as a mic, just like in the music video, even the opening acts chilling in VIP went ape shit for that one. He also brought out his momma on stage at some point, err, cute?

The warm and partly cloudy weather was way more hospitable when Mzansi’s opening acts ascended the stage at twilight. And coincidentally just a few blocks away, residents of Chinatown were blasting fireworks to celebrate the Chinese New Year. We gaped in awe as the colourful fireworks crackled and blossomed like giant Lotus flowers in the darkening sky, while on the ground,  the high tech stage’s confetti, smoke machines, strobe lights and fire shooting nozzles all came alive like a mechanical monster to start the main event.

Residents of Chinatown were celebrating their Chinese New Year with fireworks just a few blocks away from Axecess Jozi

Reason was one of the first local rappers on stage and arguably the best performer of the night.  He ruthlessly raped the mic when he rapped over some Kwaito beats, but when his DJ from Audio 3D cut the beats, Reason went on an uncontrollable acappella rampage.  He received some claps and bows after spitting I Am Not An Ordinary Human Being , Ricky Rick who is featured on the song came on stage for his verse and fucked shit up with some wicked punch lines.

Some argue that the best rapper of the night was Khuli Chana, the Motswako rapper gracefully rapped all of his classics, plus he also did some throwbacks with his old crew Morafe which was met with overwhelming appraisals from the crowd, the fancy strobe lights and hypnotic graphics in the background LED’s made his performance even more unforgettable. But nobody will forget the end of his show, Khuli shouted “FUCK THE POLICE!” before dropping the mic and swaggering of stage.

Granted, the rain scattered the crowd like insects when Sean was about to perform, but is that an excuse for the b-grade performance he gave us, or was that the best he could do? If so the people who bailed as soon as it rained didn’t really miss much, AKA wrapped up the best entertainment of the night.

Considering this was the first among many forthcoming Axecess parties, it was a completely successful gig. The microphones were perfect, the speakers boomed crystal clear audio and the pyrotechnics synced perfectly with the live performances which were streamed live in 3D to Sky Room and the Axe VIP section.

Reasons performance was one of the best if not the dopest

If anything, Axecess Jozi proved one thing, and that is given the same equal platform as big name US rappers like a modern stage and a passionate crowd, South African m’rappa’s can viciously out rap any Americans.

A polite warning to the next international rapper Axecess will bring later,  come with your A-game and don’t insult local hip hop with a mediocre performance “just ‘cos it’s Africa,” because you will get embarrassed by our emcees.