A seminar on SA Hip Hop will be held on the 5th of April in Cape Town (venue to be announced).  Shaheen (Prophets of the City), Ready D and Adam Haupt are scheduled as speakers.  This is something you cannot afford to miss. Read on for detailed information…

Cape Town based Faculty of Hip Hop has released Vol 2 of their Ghetto Series CDs. 3 time African Hip Hop Indaba Award nominees, The Innovators have been included. They have 2 songs on the 12 cut CD, Timeless and 2 Questions. The later deals with the issue of xenophobia, whilst “Timeless” is a dedication to important figures in African Hip Hop’s history as well as telling the story of being a young & ambitious individual…

We will be moving our web server into a secure vault on the IS backbone. This means that our website will be unavailable for 20 – 30 minutes sometime tomorrow evening (Thursday 31/03/05) after 20h00. Please accept our sincere apologies for any inconvenience that this might cause.

The April/May Issue of HYPE hits the shelves on the 11th of April 2005, together with the second mixtape Smirnoff Spin HYPE Sessions Volume 2 featuring some of South Africa’s illest MCs of all time. The line up includes Outrageous Record’s new release Proverb, Hip Hop Pantsula’s Re-mix featuring Skwatta Kamp’s Slik as wel as Selwyn. Pretoria is well represented with Ba4za and Joint Custody.

Multi-talented actor, composer, producer and performer, Will Smith, and Grammy Award-winning rap star Ludacris are to headline at MTV base 100th LIVE!, an exclusive concert to celebrate the launch of MTV base, MTV’s first pan-African music channel and MTV Networks’ 100th channel worldwide. Talented African artists, Lebo Mathosa, Mandoza and Seun Kuti will also perform at the open-air concert on 20 April 2005 in Johannesburg, South Africa, playing to an audience of up to 10,000 fans. Highlights of the show will subsequently air on MTV channels around the world in May 2005…

Wal T’s debut album, “So many things, So little time”, has been shaking the streets of Johannesburg & creating an ongoing buzz on the internet, since it’s release in March 2004. Many people have been curious, hungry to know what the buzz is all about. And, so they listened to the CD & some of them asked a golden question: “Why didn’t we know about this wonderful music before?”…

Our music label, Hunting Records, was established in 1998, in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is dominantly a Hip Hop organisation, and elements of R & B, Gospel, Rave/Dance & Hip Hop Kwaito can also be found in our music…

WAL T’s "So many things, So little time", the new album from an independent South African Hip Hop artist, Wal T. Produced by Wal T. Featuring D.O.C., Fikile & Nondumiso…

The ability of the South African music industry to nurture and develop new talent has never been more prevalently on display than what it is in the recently-announced list of finalists in the 11th annual MTN South African Music Awards (SAMA’s). Clearly the list says: “South African talent is alive – and thriving.”

Eminem Would Have Had To Take The Stand To Explain Details Behind The Series Of Songs Calling Black People ‘N***ers,’ ‘P**ch M****ys,’ and ‘Sp**r Ch***ers’. The Source To Announce Its Plans To Release The Full Recordings In The Coming Weeks As Evidence Of Corruption And Corporate Irresponsibility In The Hip-Hop Industry Mounts…

The International DJ Conference have been postponed to 5-6 August 2005. For more information and updates log on to www.djindaba.co.za.

Ocean Records is now actively accepting submissions for Inde Sessions: Vol.2. Some of you may be familiar with Vol.1, which featured inde act’s from all across the US & boasted appearances by Al Tariq of The Beatnuts, Roc of Heltah Skeltah, Supreme of The Representatives, Prophetix, Doujah Raze, Krumbsnatcha, Wojack and more….

Just when you thought it was safe, DJ Rondevu is back to turn the hip hop world upside down yet again. Brooklyn’s Bad Boy on the 1 & 2 is at it again with the 4 Horsemen pt 3 . This is much more than a mixtape…

As a freshman horror author in the publishing world. Deon C. Sanders, a father of six, is on his way to writing numerous bestselling horror novels, inspiring poems, and feature film screenplays. However, his passion is horror writing. His first horror novel “Miss Mary Weather: A Southern Nightmare” has been a success in the minds of horror readers and has been well received in Chicago and in other major city bookstores.

A young woman from Whaleyville will be the hostess of a hip-hop music video show to be aired on a Los Angeles television station on Friday, April 1, and Friday, April 8. Lesley Bunting, 23, is the third winner of a new reality television music video countdown competition. She won the opportunity to be on the show through an Internet site, www.winyourowntvshow.com and hopes it could help jumpstart a career for her in television.