Hip Hop Pantsula

Jabba’s Back To The City performance in 2016 was a late-career triumph for the visionary MC, but its promise would prove elusive

For a man to whom music was a mission, the local industry ultimately proved too narrow

Monster hits and expressive deep cuts from HHP’s extensive catalog, ranked from best to very good by Sabeo Mkhabela

Jabba was an an innovator who paved a lane and nurtured a genre, but he only ever wanted to be a Maftown hero

Motswako was born from the hunger of Mahikeng’s young people to express themselves and solidify their hip-hop identity.

In between working on Friday copy, this is what the team reads, listens to and watches

Jabba drew inspiration from everything. His approach was collective and prolific.

We failed to protect him when we heard his cries. This reveals to us the precarity of our own lives under racial capitalism

Although he didn’t start the style, Jabba is considered a motswako pioneer, raising the bar for the style and influencing a generation of rappers

South Africa and Nigeria have the most nominees for this years’s MTV Africa Music awards, which are taking place in Durban on July 18.

Lesotho police may have shut it down, but the Lifaqane festival still offers the hope of uniting African voices in the face of discord and opprobrium.

Ahead of his performance at the Lifaqane-Mfecane festival in Lesotho, we chat to the rapper about his bucket list, the Samas and xenophobic attacks.

Maftown Heights has returned to Newtown, Johannesburg, and will be featuring some of the hottest SA hip-hop acts around.

After 13 years at the top of his game, HHP – one of South Africa’s biggest hip-hop artists – tells the M&G why it’s time to try something different.