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June 1997: Dubbing a copy of Wu-Tang Forever, packing my Mom's Nissan Box Sunny HB13 (5 seater) car with like 6 of my boys & rolling all the windows down and driving to Prince Edward vs St Georges Reunion Day rivalry rugby game blasting Re-United/ For Heavens Sake yelling "WU-TANG, WU-TAAAANG!!!" at the top of out lungs while dimes were turning their heads & Feds (prefects) were hating.
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SA Hip Hop has come a long way.... I think I’m blessed to have always been a part of it from the beginning.... I've followed this movement for years 4rm the POC days, Lee Club days, days when Mischief Amu and Spex ruled the airwaves, back in the Shimane and Selwyn days, Back when Tumi and Young Weapon were called Database, Days of Rap Activity Jam, days of Invaders, Hypergenics, Cla**ified Mceez, Shorty Skillz, Raw.... I can go on and on....

My memories of the Jozi Hip Hop are just too many to try and mention them all. With all the changes that SA Hip Hop has went thru which memory/event/battle...etc do you think changed the Hip Hop scene, or is a highlight in your memory....

Mine has to be when Proverb and Pro-Kid battled at the Rand Easter Show for the PRO name.... the weather was shady on that day it was somewhat drizzling and chilly perfect wetha for Hip Hop gear.... It was packed like that people waiting for Proverb to arrive Pro-kid had been waiting for him for hours... MY vote was with Proverb on that day, sadly he lost the battle... that is one of my memorable moments in Jozi Hip Hop.....

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There will never be a better moment /period in SA hip-hop than the Le Club era. EVER !!!!
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I was very young during the 'golden era' of Le Club, so I missed all that. I do remember suddenly waking up to how exciting the local scene was: Godessa killing it at Mega Music Warehouse (now Ba**line) in Newtown - winning tickets to the show from The Star, getting dropped off by my dad, seeing Tumi and the Volume (then unknown) do support...Godessa running on and murdering it. Made me a fan of them ladies for life.
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'96 another dude called Tebza "The Erazer", hands me a tape with sh*tloads of local raps that I've never heard before.
Tha most memorable joint wuz that "Wake wabona mos' " by Amu and Shorty Skillz (with sum gal..forgot her name tho)

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Yo masibone :-\

2002: My cousin Siyabulela lent me D12's devil's night. Yo! With lines like, I didnt get most of the lines coz I was only 11 but I knew that F**k was a swear word. So I stood next to the HI-fi so I cud stop it when daddy pa**es by.

After this Hip Hop was rare for me (believe me, where I'm at the Hip Hop most people here pride themselves about is till rare) but I'd here some Biggy, Mase, 2pac, Eminem (what I'd say was mainstream then).

late 2002: Heard and saw Skwatta kamp doing Manyisa on Jam alley (Then i realised that our version of Hip Hop aint kwaito). I listened to D12 again and found it humourous in a dark way but Eminem's "This is for those kids who get picked" :-[ on got me hooked.

Then DRE, Snoopy, Warren g, Busta Rhymes etc.

Hype mag came through and gave me access to Hip Hop (this was in 2005 mid to late)otherwise the I scripted "I am who I am" when my bro had just got Fruity loops from varsity... There's so much, but definately most other things came through coz of Hype mag and the tapes and the occa**ional internet connection when my bro was on holiday.
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I was very young during the 'golden era' of Le Club, so I missed all that. I do remember suddenly waking up to how exciting the local scene was: Godessa killing it at Mega Music Warehouse (now Ba**line) in Newtown - winning tickets to the show from The Star, getting dropped off by my dad, seeing Tumi and the Volume (then unknown) do support...Godessa running on and murdering it. Made me a fan of them ladies for life.

this was in 2003, if memory serves correctly.


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I'll just go for first memories...Uqabuka kwam (when i became alert  :-\)

I'm jealous because i never had a bigger brother and the only hip hop i heard was from TV and Radio...and in Apartheid SA ...it was bull like MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, ...nevertheless i knew that that was the type of sound i related to. So throughout primary school battles i was reciting rhymes that i heard on the radio...

Come 1999...i gained access into the hip hop world through friends that i met in high school. They checked what i was listening to and told me to throw that is outta my mind. And they started "operation pimp his mind"... i had to travel back and listening to all the ish i had missed for the past couple of years... Illmatic, Gangstarr, ATCQ, etc etc...

Cliche time: And the rest is history
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