Rap Music

The rapper has come far since her days studying musical theatre. Now, she can’t see herself doing anything else

The Johannesburg rapper, known to switch flows in a minute, has his eyes set on international swag

For much of his career, motswako rapper Mo’Molemi has attempted to capture and make sense of the precarious position young black people occupy

‘I remember that I was supposed to perform about two or three songs. But the DJ ended up adding another song because everybody was just having fun’

The young rapper dubbed ’Africa’s greatest artist’ is blazing a trail for his fellow indie musicians

Aubrey Poopedi defies the odds of blindness, and reaches the firmament of greatness as a rapper

Dodging politics, the new struggle for local hip-hop artists is for freedom through material wealth

One of the foremost emcees out of Cape Town is making her unique sound known on a global stage and it’s bold, unapologetic and real.

Big Sean, who had the crowd going at a rainy performance in Jo’burg, talks about beats, lyrics, Kanye West, and coming to South Africa.

Nigerian rapper Ice Prince is up for the Channel O Africa Music Video Award – Most Gifted African West title. Here’s a peek into what he is about.

Next year will kick-off on a high note for hip-hop music in SA with Big Sean and Kendrick Lamar announcing upcoming tour dates to the country.

Kendrick Lamar has called himself Rap King in Big Sean’s "Control", and because it’s the digital age, instead of gang signs, Twitter’s throwing memes.

He is the former pimp married to his childhood sweetheart; the shrewd businessman who smokes 30 joints a day.

Songs such as Send Me a Cruise (Missile) have landed Omar Hammami with a $5-million bounty on his head – but he doesn’t seem too worried.

Soosan Feroz is a surprising new phenomenon in the conservative Islamic country — the nation’s first female rapper.