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The women who got the hip hopping to their tune

Hip-hop turns 50 this year and to celebrate this milestone we look at women pioneers in this male-dominated musical subculture

  • Gugulethu Tshabalala
9 min read
Sad note: Hip-hop artist Riky Rick committed suicide. Many black men find it hard to talk about their emotions and hip-hop’s abrasive culture makes it worse. (Oupa Bopape/Gallo Images)
KHULICHANA

The lives of Riky Rick and HHP reveal hip-hop’s hard-knock mentality

Not only is this Mental Health Awareness Month, it also marks four years since we lost HHP to suicide. Shingai Darangwa looks at the effects of the hip-hop mentality

  • Shingai Darangwa
10 min read
Music producer Evens Radebe works on a song with his partner Augustine Mbatha as dancer Jayden looks on. Photo: Oupa Nkosi
AMAPIANO

The evolution of amapiano

Sound that has taken the world by storm is in danger of dying out in a lacklustre industry

  • Oupa Nkosi
8 min read
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HIPHOP

Rapper gives reason to ‘flashy’ SA hip-hop

Many are not convinced by the boom in SA hip-hop, saying it’s become too commercial. But SA rapper Reason explains it’s a just reflection of society.

  • Rhode Marshall
4 min read
BARACK OBAMA

Politics as usual for Ludacris, but Obama not impressed

Ludacris’s new song, Politics as Usual, may have cost him one of his biggest fans, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

  • Errin Haines
5 min read