HYPE Magazine Dec/Jan 07/08 Issue

[Mr Dymize]

The Revolution Is In Fact In Effect.... We Just Need To Pull Our Shoes Further Up.\

Good Work Mizi... MAD PROPS to KAP... nucca deserves the cover..

This is inspirational... Just shows that one doesn't have to give it to The Man to succeed.

[TATEguru v.2K9]

Good looks I'll quad up when I land on the continent in a couple of weeks.

Who has already purchased besides "the White devil"?

[N.A 187]

just got my copy yesterday, sup with the Murry issue tho. wasnt he geting interviewed-why Bongani Fa**ie yepping his yammer like he's Keith's manager? Havent bumped the mixtape but it looks promising.
It would be great to get new artists on eery volume that comes out...you know break bread with nukkuz!

[Young Zooloo]

Gud look that his on the cover- Ben Sharpa, i hope all the media support these cats
is gettin will pay off. Cos ive seen many artist who get all the hype and end
up becoming "nothing". I see Mr Selwyn on a daily here in Randburg and it looks
as if he is back to a 9 to 5. From music videosm, heavy radio rotation and magazine
covers and all back to square one. Why? becos he didnt get there by soley by merit
but becos he knew people who new people and he was in the right place at the right
time. I know for a fact that to make it in this game has very little to do with
your talent but has everything to do with who you know. Im just saying......

I aint tryna hate on the artist cos his doing what i would do if i were in his
shoes, try and get as much out of the people i know in the right places as possible.

But it doesnt do anything for Hip Hop if most of the content is bias. Theres many ways
to make it and many people to talk to. All i know is most editors, radio joks, video joks
and connected artist with very little impact to make in the game come and go...but
true artist who are real to the chore last until the end of time.

All the best to Ben-Sharpa, and Spaza as a whole!!!

[rob_one]

Let's give some credit to Selwyn. Quitting a secure job to follow rap takes serious balls.

[cash]

Quitting a 9-5 to rap takes balls no doubt!
But then further down the line, quitting rap and going back to the SAME j.o.b u had, thats what i call FALLING BACK BAD!
dont u think?

Respect to dude tho! "Get ya paper by ANY MEANS NECESSARY!"
quote from Martin Luther Crack!

Ima quad up like 4 wheeler bikes tomorrow, already got my double up on Monday! Two more copies n im str8. All u broke a** niggas atleast double up! All the really broke maf***ers, OK, i feel u, get 1 copy
Whadup 187!

[Blizzard]

All u broke a** niggas atleast double up! All the really broke maf***ers, OK, i feel u, get 1 copy

LOL

[cash]

ps. on the T-shirt thing!
I think its a whack idea.ie. Buy one local hiphop CD a month!
u cant force niggas to buy garbage albums!
the T shud read" Buy Good Shit, let these whack maf***ers Starve!!!"

But buying more HYPE mags! thats a better way to promote SA hiphop! the mag is a channel for artists to get exposure! the more we cop! the more get printed! the more STATUS the mag gets! the more outlets it reaches! the MORE WE GET EXPOSED! the more money we make! nobody loses!

With buyin Albums! the listener loses! cos the music he's buying is KAK!
upcoming artists lose! cos people so sick of hearin KAK they wont even bother listening to new cats!
The labels get pissed cos they signing KAK cats who aint sellin no more!
They KAK on U, when u try to get a deal!
cos now theyd rather sign afro pop artists who arent a**ociated with KAK!
everybody loses! let these whack niggas starve,retire,grow old, alone and die broke!
lets get rid of the KAK! shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!! jus my 2 sense!

[Dpleezy]

Gud look that his on the cover- Ben Sharpa, i hope all the media support these cats
is gettin will pay off. Cos ive seen many artist who get all the hype and end
up becoming "nothing". I see Mr Selwyn on a daily here in Randburg and it looks
as if he is back to a 9 to 5. From music videosm, heavy radio rotation and magazine
covers and all back to square one. Why? becos he didnt get there by soley by merit
but becos he knew people who new people and he was in the right place at the right
time. I know for a fact that to make it in this game has very little to do with
your talent but has everything to do with who you know. Im just saying......

I aint tryna hate on the artist cos his doing what i would do if i were in his
shoes, try and get as much out of the people i know in the right places as possible.

But it doesnt do anything for Hip Hop if most of the content is bias. Theres many ways
to make it and many people to talk to. All i know is most editors, radio joks, video joks
and connected artist with very little impact to make in the game come and go...but
true artist who are real to the chore last until the end of time.

All the best to Ben-Sharpa, and Spaza as a whole!!!

That's the thing, you have to carve your own opportunities. Meet the right people. Make your own opportunities. We're humans, not machines, so everything in life is about relationships. Being all angry that your not allowed in the 'special media club' where all the opportunities just fall into your lap is not going to get you anywhere. Keep grinding - make your product the best it can be, then go out and market yourself. Let people know you're around. Write your proposals, write your motivation letters until someone feels you - then you'll be in that special media club too. It's not that hard.

A lot of doors will close in your face, but it wouldn't be any fun if it was easy.

[Zee-Supreme]

ya dudes forget that homie has an extra mouth to feed. Fatherhood aint a joke and when the money is low, you gotta move fast. Stay up peoples

[cash]

 

[rob_one]

Although I have yet to read it, I find it very interesting that the mag features a piece on how to get your songs playlisted on radio stations when Ben Sharpa, who must have had (and probably still has) significant trouble doing just that, is the cover star.

Perhaps he'll find it useful.

[Jules Winnfield]

Although I have yet to read it, I find it very interesting that the mag features a piece on how to get your songs playlisted on radio stations when Ben Sharpa, who must have had (and probably still has) significant trouble doing just that, is the cover star.

Perhaps he'll find it useful.

Kinda of a stupid thing to say, ben ain't the problem, his music just don't fit weak a** local radio playlists, funny how his shit is getting bumped in the U.K? Or maybe you tryna be a smart/dumb a**? DICK

[rob_one]

Hmmm. No, actually, I was referencing something D said about Sharpa's tracks not "fitting the format" for radio play. I just thought it was a strange juxtaposition. I would love it if he got bumped here as much as he does in the UK. And let's ease up on the baseless insults.

[N.A 187]

Whatever Cash...

yo Raiko son whats gully?!!!!?

When u dropping a mixtape?