don motswako's urbantainment - issue #23 - 21/01/2000
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in this issue:
*mamela
*wat gat an?
*eish joe!
*advertise-zing
*sports
*hiphop
*deejay talk
*lastly
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MAMELA!
damn!.. damn again! and again and again!!!
i've just finished listening to the lekgoa album... titled basetsana..
i also just heard a song the other day by TRO that has a line that goes:
"WHO SAYS KWAITO IS NOT FOR THE WHITE OU?"
damn again!!
if this is what whiteys are gonna be doing to kwaito, then i fear the future
of the genre..
jimmy, lenny, living colour... none of them have diluted or
distorted what rock music sounds like.. or is supposed to sound like.
but lekgoa... EISH... NO.. A MOERSE EEIISSHH!!!!
URBANTAINMENT y'all - get down on it.
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WAT GAT AN?
Is the construction of rhymes all you ever think about? If you've got the
rhymes,
we've got the time. DC Art is on the look-out for MC's and DJ's who'd like
to
participate in metaphor. It brings hip hop heads together with poets and
rock
muso's. Call Adam @ 0835916769 / metaphor@netactive.co.za
metaphor - the fine art of the spoken word
DC Art, c/o Bree and Church Streets, hosts metaphor on Art Night (24
January).
metaphor features celebrated poet James Mathews, Lueen Conning, and Shelley
Barry in an event which brings hip hop MC's and DJ's, poets and musicians
(colony
and Soundsurf) together to celebrate the fine art of the spoken word.
Call Diane @ 423-6939 / 0826790603 or Adam @ 0835916769 /
metaphor@netactive.co.za
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MOST POPULAR QUESTIONS ASKED:
WHY?: do academics RESEARCH hipop?
WHY?: are so few SISTAHS active in hipop in SA/ Cape Town specifically?
MOST POPULAR POSSIBLE ANSWERS:
1. If (a) hipop = life and (b) using objective, systematic research methods
to search for the meaning of life results in (c) scientifically finding and
publishing data or research facts that could shed light on a socially
marginalized culture, and therefore (a+b=c) academics are indebted to
society to research and expose any marginalized culture for the enhancement
of the particular culture and everyday human life.
2. Hipop is a very under researched topic in South Africa. In other words,
few people think that hipop is a way of life and thus few Africans have
attempted to inform the public about this so-called "underground culture".
3. Few researchers in SA focus on the role that women play, or do not play
in hipop.
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
I'm organizing 3 *focus group sessions on the topic: Does gender
discrimination in hipop influence women's participation in rap music? If you
have any opinions on this, or know anyone who does, please contact me:
hipop69@hotmail.com/salah@netactive.co.za
NB: a *focus group session is when a group of 4 people come together to
discuss a specific topic and view their belief on what they think could
contribute to change! So...its more like a cipher session, really!
So, if you've ever asked yourself why there are so few women participating
in hiphop in SA or in your township specifically...lets talk!
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"Plum" releasing their new album "Mulp"
friday, 21 january 2000
206 LIVE
The Big Beat Elite with the "White Trash Heavyweights".
Opening set will be done by: "Ethel My Love"
This is gonna be big!
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V.O.D slam party
friday, 21 january 2000
angelo's cantina - west str, durban
ladies free before 11pm
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blue ink presents
J&B party
27 january 2000
pfab cafe - greenpoint,ct
with
odwa
dj fresh
iggy smalls
cover - R20
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"Deep and Groovy"
the Deepest House and 2-Step Garage
saturday, 22 january 2000
206 LIVE
deejays..
Pepsi
Dogstar
Shaun Duvet
Also featuring the Cohen Brothers in the Back Bar!
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CAMEL EXPERIENCE PRESENTS FRANTIC
plus Steve Thomas / Spencer Freeland
12 February 2000 - 22:00
Natal Playhouse Foyers - Durban
R60
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Two HOT Shows on KZ Net Radio www.kznet.co.za !!!
Show #1 - a show dedicated to Barbara Streisand brought to you by the KZ
Net Team in Durban AND
Show #2 - 80's Classix is the name of the game! Also featured is an 80's
mix from another Durban-based DJ, viz. DJ Earthquake. Check out bands like:
Belouis Some, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna, Duran Duran & more...!!!
...Neptune KZ Net Radio, let the music play...!!!
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Movies Opening this week
THE BONE COLLECTOR
Director - Philip Noyce
ASTERIX & OBELIX vs CAESAR
Director - Claude Zidi
XIU XIU - THE SENT DOWN GIRL
Director - Joan Chen
CRAZY IN ALABAMA
Director - Antonio Banderas
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GOSPEL BASH
29 & 30 January 2000 - 14:00
Oliver Thambo Community Hall, Khayelitsha, CT
Cover R30
NO GUNS OR ALCOHOL ALLOWED
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Move & Groove - A House and Funk experience!
Every Wednesday - 9:30pm
Piano Lounge - Cnr Loop @ Wale, CT.
This week brings you
Jazza
Tony Lee
Warren Lissack
Dave Ashton
Cover R10 B4 12 R20 after
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Savanna presents
SAVANNA UP THE CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL
25 - 27 February 2000
Up The Creek, Swellendam, Western Cape
The Usual
Boo!
Sons of Trout
Blues Broers
Brassa vannie Kaap
Robin Auld
Women Unite
Vusi Mahlasela & Louis Maghlanga
Sugardrive
Benguela
Honeymoon Suites
Karma
Valiant Swart
Winston Mankunku
cover R195
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hiphop r&b and funk
every wednesday night
jetlounge, 74 long street - ct
with
adiel
redz
ricky(jhb)
cover R30
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...at the jam(43 de villiers str, district 6, ct)
friday, 21 january 2000
Colorfields
a night of live trance and cyber dub with DJ's playing trip-hop, break and
acid beats to keep it going well into the morning.
saturday, 22 january 2000
Springbok Nude Girls
The Nude Girls will be doing their first gig of this
millenium at The Jam after their succesful tour of London and Germany.
DJ on the night will be Medium Dave to keep the party going all night long.
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...at the fez(cnr burg & hout str, ct)
robbery - deep house
every saturday
with
rob white
barry tobin
r30
thursdaze - funk, 70's disco
every thursday
with
nick birkby
omar hendrix
justine
adam
rob slinger
r10
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eish joe...
Fred's dad was so old that he finally had to put him in a resthome. So the
first night Fred's dad was there he got a raging hardon and the nurse that
was there saw it. She decided to do the old guy a favor and suck em off, so
she did. The next day Fred came by and asked his dad how his first night at
the rest home went. His dad said he loved it there and never wanted to
leave.
The next day Fred's dad had fallen over the bathtub. As he was lying there
an
orderly had just happened to be passing by and saw him bent over the tub,
and
so he quickly came up behind the old man and crammed a woody up the old guys
corn hole. The next day Fred came back to see his dad and again asked him
how
he liked his second night at the new home. His dad replied that he hated it
there
and that he wanted to leave. His son was surprised and said, "But dad, I
thought
you said you loved it here." In which his dad replied, "You don't
understand, I
only get a hardon about once a month, but I fall down almost everyday!!"
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ADVERTIZE-ZING
when you cross the culture of young contemporary south africa
with technology - what do you get?? RAGE.. http://www.rage.co.za
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check out Africa's Gateway.. HIPHOP DEPOSITORY
insightful articles.. hiphop picture gallery etc..
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~africa99
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the african hiphop information highway!
updates on artists, labels, happenings, news... everything
surf http://www.nubianunderground.com and get
down with african hiphop in cyberspace..
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SPORTS
finally.. the squad that will represent south africa in the AFRICA CUP OF
NATIONS and bring home the trophy has been finalised...
they are:
lucas radebe
helman mkhalele
john tlale
daniel mudau
quinton fortune
thabo mngomeni
steve lekoelea
isaac shai
alex bapela
andre arendse
dumisani ngobe
eric tinkler
frank schoeman
glen salmon
hans vonk
mark fish
john moshoeu
siyabonga nomvete
papi khomane
pierre issa
pollen ndlanya
shaun bartlett
OUR BEST WISHES ARE WITH THEM!
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HIPHOP
THE FOLLOWING APPEARED IN THE PREVIOUS EDITION...
"mass dosage, the owner of the HIPHOP HEADRUSH website, now owns the
official
"hiphop.co.za" domain... now he needs to get some more HIPHOP info on the
site and less RAP, GRAF and DEEJAY info..."
MASS DOSAGE RESPONDED WITH THE FOLLOWING:
"If you think Graf and DJ aren't Hip-Hop you really don't have a clue...."
THE EDITOR RESPONDED:
"HIPHOP is a term that refers to a "culture"(in our case an "interest" - it
does not have "culture" status in south africa yet ) that encompasses
EMCEEING, (scratch)DEEJAYING, AEROSOL ART AND B.BOYING.
HIPHOP is a multi-faceted culture... and each individual facet cannot be
referred to as HIPHOP...
RAP IS RAP
DJ'ING IS DJ'ING
B.BOYING IS B.BOYING
GRAF IS GRAF
none of these facets in their individual capacities can be referred to as
hiphop.... because they are not...
TOGETHER THEY MAKE UP HIPHOP... AND THEREFORE ANY STATEMENT REFERRING TO ANY
INDIVIDUAL FACET OF THE HIPHOP CULTURE AS HIPHOP IS FALLACIOUS..
...YOUR SITE IS FINE... I'M JUST RECOMMENDING THAT WHEN YOU REFER TO IT AS
THE
"HIPHOP" HEADRUSH - MAKE SURE IT IS A HIPHOP SITE... ALL FACETS..
OF COURSE THERE ARE 5 MORE FACETS, BUT SOUTH AFRICAN HIPHOP IS STILL
DEVELOPING... SO THOSE ARE IRRELEVANT..
REMEMBER...
4 X FACETS = HIPHOP... NOT 2.. OR 3... FOUR!!...
so to the hiphop headz... now you also know that there is no hiphop
in gauteng... there is rap, graf and deejaying.. NOT HIPHOP..
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DJ TALK
guess who will grace the cover of Y-mag for february... with his "vet kop"?
none other than YFM deejay and SML host THATO SIKWANE.. bka DJ FRESH.
isn't that a bias? between him and fellow drive time show host GLEN LEWIS i
would like to think that glen is the bigger of the two.. industry politix..
damn again!
i got one chiskop vinyl to give away... to anybody who's a deejay in
durban.. if you know any durban deejays who play kwaito... hook me up.
THE FOLLOWING APPEARED INTHE PREVIOUS EDITION:
"do you think that romeo khumalo should leave ben dikobe in the 3 to 6
slot?"
A READER RESPONDED:
"well ben dikobe is one of the metro dj's who has it. he's just like sammy
t..a person
does not get bored listening to them. now, take glen lewis as an example,
the man is
busy practicing his accent and not his vocabulary...! ben should stay.
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LASTLY...
according to my man OOP DADDY(y'all remember him don't y'all?)...
melanie son has a big ass ring on her finger - yes THAT finger. mmmmm...
(ED - I KNOW ONE PERSON THAT'S GONNA BE GLUED TO THE TELLY BETWEEN 9 & 10
2NITE)
when are these Y magazine people gonna call me to offer me a job????
i live closer to you now...
maria - yes you mccloy... how long before we're friends again?
i said i'm SORRY.
i hope FRESH's head fits on the Y-mag cover...
oh.. my honest opinion... the LEKGOA album sucks!
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