Last night on The StirUp

The Stir Up Local  Top5 :
#5. Notsi - Kgora [New Entry]
#4. Solo ft Nothende - Back to you 2.0 [New
                                         Entry]
#3. ShabzMadallion - Picking Up The
                                       Pieces. 
#2. DJ Elque ft Lection - Dress To Kill
#1. Blacklez - Freedom Or Fame

Ms Cosmo had a telephone interview/ conversation  with Kid X as PassnSpecial was the "New Heat".  Kid X revealed that he'll release 2 more singles after PassnSpecial and that we should only expect a full project next year. He described PassnSpecial as a new age genre called Skhanda rap (a mixtures of kwaito and Hiphop ). The term "Skhanda "  is not foreign to me,the first time  I heard it was on The Fullclip from MT  (also a rapper). But I thought it was just an ad lib - The evolution of hip hop.

The King of the RapFactor was crowned last week but already Ms Cosmo has opened doors for the next  one to be crowned. All you have to do is download the beat on Ms Cosmo's SoundCloud, rap over it and email it to: music@mscosmodj.com.

Nicki Minaj, J.Cole, Kid-Ink, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are just but the beginning of The TribeOne festival

I thought I was dreaming when I saw that Nicki Minaj, Kid-Ink and J. Cole are coming to Mzansi.... So like a hip hop fanatic and overall music lover that I am,I headed to my nearest search engine, Not only did I find a confirmation, but that "my source" failed to mention that multi award winning Macklemore and Ryan Lewis will also be amongst the international acts performing at the TribeOne Festival,one of the biggest festival on the continent . Oh and wait for it?! All this awesomeness will be happening in my city -of Tshwane, over the weekend of the 26th to the 28th at Cullinan. It will be J Cole's second visit to the "Mother Land" and the first for Nicki, Kid-Ink, Macklemore and Ryan.

I've termed it- "a Musical Potjiekos ", with 3 major stages and 62 LIVE stages hosting over 150 artists. It's gonna be absolutely epic... Head on to tribeonefestival.com/tickets/ for more info on ticket pricing.

#PassnSpecial

In a year we have 4 season,Summer,Autumn,Winter & Spring and each and every one of those seasons have fashion shows themed around them and with those fashion shows comes a whole host of trends. It's kinda like a way of life.  

In the hip-hop industry if  you're good everyone wants you on their track,you start trending. That's the case with Kid X,he's been featured on almost all hip hop bangers this year. One of them is Cara Cara, the biggest hip hop song right now.

Kid X was  one half of award winning  duo -Cashtime Fam which was the brain child of Teargas. Cashtime Fam is longer though  as both halves are pursuing solo careers  under a rebranded  Cash Time  Life. I think I've bored you enough with the man's summarized biography,let me get to what made me write this post in the first place...

Pass And Special written "PassnSpecial" is the Kid X's debut single,I think it's safe to say- the most anticipated song since "Doc Shebeleza" and "Congratulate". So much so that the title is trending on Twitter.

Kid X has managed to murk all his verses on other artist's tracks,it will interesting to hear if he'll murk himself on his own track & then resurrect... LOL!

#PassnSpecial  is due to grace our playlist on the 27th [this Friday] or if like me,you think that's too "far" heard on to @KidXSA's timeline as he'll be releasing a snippet of the song in less that 10 minutes. Here's the link >>> slikouronlife.co.za/music-kid-x-pass-n-special-snippet/111/

#Diskopaas

Last night's StirUp with Ms Cosmo was equally if not more buck than the last. The local top 5 had a new entry and other songs moving one notch up:
#5. ShabziMadallion - Picking Up The Pieces (New entry)
#4. DJ Elque ft Lection - Dress To Kill
#3. Blacklez - Freedom Of Fame
#2. IceMan - Dlala Ka Yona
#1. Hi-Def - You Got It

"The Rapfactor" saw Dynasty  lose his top spot in the last week of the competition, which he held for 5 weeks to Lwansta who was then crowned #TheKingOfTheRapFactor. So close but yet so far.

When I logged in to Facebook this morning, I saw the boy has a song titled "Winner". I don't know if the song was recorded after or what?! But judging from his lengthy status,he didn't think he was a contender. Kudos to him!

# Download his track titled "Winner" Feat. Sixfo ( Prod by Sixfo)
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Ms Cosmo also dropped AKA's new joint "Run Jozi" ft K.O. Personally I think the production is on another level of hella ,but I'm a bit sceptical about the lyrical content. Their verses have the "Versace" flow,which just kills it for me. But hey?! The masses seem to dig it because the song is currently #1 on SA iTunes together with his album #Levels due for release July 8th... "BUT THAT'S NON OF MY BUSINESS" LOL!

Catch Up

So it has been quite a while since I typed my thought on this or that and so much has happened between then and now.  I've been meaning to do something along the lines of a YouTube local music videos tally. I headed to the net to see who amongst our hiphop artists has the most views, so here you go...

Standing at 166 tonnes and... oh nevermind. Standing at No. 1 is Cara Cara at a whopping 400k views almost 3 times more views the video with the second most views  which is ofcourse Aka's Congratulate which bither way was released 6 days before (something to ponder or maybe not). I digress, at No.3 is Doc Shebeleza [125K] which was released on the same day as Cara Cara,the 4th video is Ifani's Ingoma Ezimnandi (sp ) [124K] followed by L-tido' Steve kekana (remix) [83K]. That sums up the top 5 and the "bottom " 6 I shall  list in numerical oder:

6.   Amantombazane (remix ) [37K]
7.   Da LES ' Fire [28K]
8.   L-tido ft Ice Prince- Fresh and Clean [12K]
9.   Imma Tell Her- DJ Capital [11K]
10. Speedsta- Hangout [10K]
11. Reason- Bump The Cheese Up [7K].

Well there you have it the top 11,
I can't help but wonder though if these artist didn't view these videos themselves?! LOL! I'm just being silly.

In other but some what related news, Cassper Nyovest just announced the release date for his debut album "Tsholofelo" named after his baby sis- 31st of July just after his twitter rival-Aka's release which is due on the 8th . Speaking of Cassper Nyovest, If you can recall T.bo Touch got him a 2 Series live on his show last week, Cassper tweeted with joy and appreciation on the day. Only to decline later that week,it's either a sweeter deal landed on his lap or his pride "trigger" got delayed... And as expected Aka made a mockery of the whole thing on twitter. Below is the album covers of the two albums, pretty dope covers. Save the dates and support your favourite artist(s).