The string of achievements appears to be continuing for the multi-talented, Nandi Madida, who announced her new signing with Sony Music. The singer shared a post on Instagram on Thursday, 10 September 2020 to share the good news, merely a week ahead of her upcoming single’s release. She stated, “OFFICIALLY apart of the SONY family! So excited to OFFICIALLY announce I’m signed to SONY!”.

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Nandi’s first single under her new record label, Organic, drops on Friday, 18 September 2020 and is said to be based on Sara Baartman. In a post shared on Wednesday, 8 September 2020, the singer stated, “My new single ORGANIC is dedicated to the late Sara Baartman who was born in South Africa. We see her body being appropriated in mainstream media, but she was never celebrated but rather tortured and abused for her African curves that you see so many emulating today. OUR ANCESTOR went through so much.”

Along with it being her first song with SONY, Nandi shared that she had teamed up with her husband, Zakes Bantwini on the track. The couple announced that they are releasing their first single together in an effort to dispute the rumours that they had dissolved their marriage. The song was written by the couple with the assistance of their 3-year-old son Shaka.

Along with her announcement, Nandi shared a snippet from her interview with Slikour, which saw her discussing the extent of her partnership with Sony Music. She explained that just like her song, she wanted everything to run organically, and felt that if her fans did not like her new career trajectory, it would be clear.

Some of Nandi’s famous friends joined in the congratulatory messages on the post, including Lerato Kganyago, who asked that she send over the track so she can add it to her setlist.

BET Africa has attempted to rectify the Toll A$$ Mo saga that took place a few weeks ago, by promoting their all-female line-up. In a promotional post from the channel on Wednesday, 9 September 2020, some of the guests who will feature on season four of the show were announced. These included Shauwn Mkhize, Khanyi Mbau, Moonchild Sanelly, Rami Chuene and Nthati Moshesh. The post also stated that a longer list of leading ladies is still to come, indicating that the new season will comprise an all-female line-up.

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Behind The Story’s host, Pearl Thusi, had come under fire in late August 2020, after she was accused of supporting alleged rapist, Toll A$$ Mo. The presenter had informed viewers that the former comedian would be appearing as one her first guests, and asked them to submit questions for her to ask him.

Tweeps immediately began lambasting the show for giving Toll A$$ Mo a platform for self-promotion, despite being accusing of sexually assaulting model and actress, Lerato Moloi. Many called out BET Africa for their clear misdemeanour and also question them on if they had tackled the subject matter, or if they were merely talk about the ex-comedian’s marriage and career.

Following the social media uproar, BET Africa made things worse by “acknowledging” the allegations levelled against Toll Ass Mo, and suggested that they would air the episode, and wanted to give Lerato (the alleged sexual assault survivor) an opportunity to respond on the same platform.

Their response did not sit well with many, and caused for Tweeps to drag Pearl Thusi into the saga. Many accused the channel and Pearl for using a rape-story as a publicity stunt for the show, and threatened to boycott Behind The Story if the episode continued to air.

Thereafter, in a turn of events, the channel confirmed that interview will not be aired “out of respect for the current environment, legal proceedings and the basis of impartiality.” The promotion of the all-female line-up appears to be the channel’s way of redeeming themselves falling the entire incident.

Imagine another rapper trending on the day of your album release, isn’t that frustrating and confusing? Well, welcome to SA where there is never a dull moment on Twitter.

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Today, multi-award winning rapper Cassper Nyovest dropped his fifth studio album titled Any Minute Now (AMN), and there is already an uproar on Twitter. The rapper had said yesterday, as he was gearing up for the release of his album that haters will start making noise and they have done that.

In a tweet, he wrote, “It’s about to shake!!!! Cassper Nyovest is dropping an album at Midnight!!! They are about to tweet threads. They already started tweaking,”

Cassper recently shaded A Reece as he announced that he has an album coming titled Paradise 2. In a series of tweets, Cassper wrote “They gone bring the negativity closer to the album release date. We gonna see so many rappers twirling, some might drop on the same day as me. All kinds of weird shit!! We ready doe!!! Focused on making the best music I can make cause nobody can do what I do!!! I AM THE GREATEST!!!

“Just watch. Niggas will do anything for a lil clout. Especially the ones that don’t have any. The most important thing doe, is that #AMN is gonna be unfuckwithable!!!! This album is amazing!!! I am very very very proud!!! Cant wait for September 11!!!!” he tweeted.

Not feeling his vibe, A Reece fans are already taking jabs at Cassper. This follows after Cassper apparently shaded Reece on his song 1 of 1. Reece fans have taken to Twitter dissing Cassper’s album and some even went as far as saying they cannot wait for A Reece to drop an album to save the SA hip hop game.The two rappers have apparently been beefing for quiet some time now, and it became evident when they started trading subtweets and subliminal bars on Twitter but mostly from A-Reece’s end though.

Cassper even offered a feature but A Reece wasn’t buying his story. This follows after fans asked him if he would collaborate with the rapper, and he said he couldn’t get hold of Reece.

“Been trying to find him. Dmd him. I tried though, that’s what counts. I tried a lot of guys and most of them are missing me. I tried,” he said.

Cassper has been saying that he is tired of beefing and he wants to protect his energy.

Multi-award-winning rapper and Def Jam Africa signee Cassper Nyovest, has finally released his fourth studio album after a two years hiatus, titled “Any Minute Now” (AMN). The album’s title was propelled mostly by the anticipated birth of the Maftown rapper’s first child.

Read More: Cassper: “It’s About To Shake!”

Cassper dropped the album at midnight and it has many on the edge of their seats. The growth and maturity that comes with preparing to become a parent is evident on this project with Cassper sharing his growing pains over classic hip-hop beats mixed with a flair of traditional jazz, kwaito, and even gospelThe 21-track album is a diverse, high-energy album with love songs, all testament to Cassper’s growth. The album boasts astounding features with the likes of U.S R&B crooner Anthony Hamilton, Kwaito legend Zola, Samthing Soweto, Langa Mavuso, Tellaman, Youngsta CPT, Busiswa, Nadia Nakai and his homeboys from Mahikeng; Khuli Chana, Tuks, Momolemi, Towdee Mac, DJ Lemonka and the late HHP .

One of the highly anticipated albums of 2020, Cassper has over the years raised the bar with his rhymes, flow, songwriting as well as live performances. Known for his groundbreaking Fill Up series that saw hundreds of thousands of fans gather to celebrate music, the 30-year old Family Tree executive is thrilled with the release of his album and to have the blessing of working with his icon Zola.

“This album is everything to me, I have worked with the best of artists, they each brought their magic to this album. Zola is an iconic artist, I looked up to him as a young boy growing up in the North West, little did I know I would share the same studio and make magic with him. The biggest prize is my family, I am going to be a father and that is a huge blessing. I look forward to it…’ commented the Amademoni rapper.

Cassper has proven that he can do anything, not only is he a great rapper, he can also fuse different genres such as Amapiano, Kwaito and Gqom influences to his sets and he is a remarkable dancer.

The rapper recently shaded haters and said they will start making noise. In a tweet, she wrote “”It’s about to shake!!!! Cassper Nyovest is dropping an album at Midnight!!! They are about to tweet threads. They already started tweaking.”

Fans reacted to the album and they have given it a stamp of approval.

It has been two weeks since Nasty C released his number 1 album, Zulu Man With Some Power and it is safe to say, it has been making waves both locally and internationally. The rapper recently shared a video of American rapper Ludacris bumping to one of his songs on the album.

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Nasty C shared on his Instagram the popular American rapper and actor playing his much loved song Black & White, featuring Ari Lennox. The rapper was obviously in awe and even took it as far as advising him to stream his full 20-track album.

This is not the first time Ludacris has shown some love to South Africa. He once played Prince Kaybee’s hit single Gugulethu featuring Indlovukazi, Supta and Afro Brotherz.Nasty C did something different with this album, he rapped in vernac, which comes as no surprise as his album is titled Zulu Man With Some Power. This move was highly celebrated by his fans and some of the industry mates.

In an interview with ZAlebs he spoke about the criticism he faced for not rapping in Zulu, as people used to slam him for rapping only in English and he wanted to showcase his distinctive Zulu verses.

“As a township boy from Illovu, I felt it was befitting for me to rap in vernac especially because this track is about my struggles and how my hood has inspired me to achieve the greatest,” he said.

Read the exclusive interview here.

His album is considered ‘the number one album in the world’, this according to Siri who proved his theory.

The Def Jam signee is currently working on yet another international feature with popular rapper Big Sean. They two of them confirmed this via their Twitter accounts with Big Sean saying “That’s my dawg! We need to finish something” when he was asked by a fan if he would be working with Nasty C.