The Motswako Republic Tour will stop at Soweto’s popular pub and restaurant Disoufeng to mark the start of Heritage Month. The night will be dedicated to Motswako rap under the theme “Motswako rap is ...

The Mahika Mahikeng Cultural Festival kicked off with a bang on a picturesque Friday night, featuring some of the greatest legends of Motswako rap—Khuli Chana, Tuks, Mo Molemi, and Nothsi—delivering ...

Mo’Molemi, a reclusive contemporary of motswako phenomenon Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP) once wrote about a meeting they had at his North West Bakang farm in the mid-2000s. Having turned his back on the rap ...

Motswako - a seTswana word meaning mix. It is also a cultural movement of some sorts involving hip-hop rapped in seTswana. "Yeah, but it's much more than that," say Morafe, Tuks and HHP, the current ...

For much of his career, motswako rapper Mo’Molemi has attempted to capture and make sense of the precarious position young black people occupy in democratic South Africa On Mahikeng’s Nelson Mandela ...

BEST known as one of the pioneers of Motswako rap, Hip Hop Pantsula (HHP) has taken an unexpected direction with his music by going the popular electro route. HHP (real name Jabulani Tsambo) took his ...

Hip-Hop culture has been successful in spreading its reach, partly because of its ability to encourage its fans to express themselves according to where they come from. The dirty streets of the ...

Notshi (literally meaning “bee”) is causing a buzz in the local rap ­fraternity with his album Insert Coin. The ­20-year-old, whose real name is ­Kabelo Oageng from Itsoseng in North West, has ...

Growing in tandem with Khuli's dreams was Maftown Heights, the momentous celebration of Motswako rap which gathers staunch believers in their numbers yearly. Khuli Chana was once down and out.