It’s not easy because when it comes to South Africa all they know black and white, then there’s me in the middle, so they’re like so who are you? Where do you come from? And before I perform songs, I give them explanations on how to pronounce some words of the song repeatedly. We’re teaching them and making them dance. You recently toured in Australia for the second time, how did that go? I like to do special songs and performances at events that I know are going to be broadcast further than South Africa because that means I’m speaking to a global market so I have to make it work for the entire audience. I’ve performed with Boiler Room before, the first one with Riky Rick, Frank Casino, Distruction Boyz, Nadia and Ganja Beats, we did the whole Cape and Goodhope set. Old collaborators and i’m just glad we produced it exactly the way I’d imagined.Ī post shared by YoungstaKaapstad on at 3:13pm PST What does this Boiler Room event mean to you? Psyko Beats is an amazing producers and shot by Stanley John Films. It’s been a long work in progress, I pushed it back for about two years. Like you said, you dropped ‘Yasis’ video yesterday, what exactly was the concept behind it? I’m not selfish when I’m writing, I’m not talking about how cool I am all the time - it’s about the people and Cape Town.
My formula is to make music, not for me but for the people.
I dropped ‘Bo-Kaap’ a while back and it’s another anthem. ‘Wes Kaap’ is an anthem, I dropped ‘Yasis’ yesterday and it’s going to become that too. You used an important word, anthem and if you look at my songs you’ll see that it is a common trend. Where was your headspace when you created this song and how do you feel about its reception? You released ‘Salutas’ three years ago and it became sort of a Capetonian anthem. I am influenced by the American culture still, for me it’s about taking the influence and not necessarily imitating it but interpret it and package it in such a way that is attached to my own identity. How important was it for you to find a distinctive sound that was independent to the international sound which is essentially the prime influence in hip-hop?
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