We got to sit down with UK artist, Monique Lawz during her stay in South Africa and she had a lot to share in the short time we had with her. In this episode of Escopia Sessions, she speaks on her religious journey, business ventures, family values and much more. She also touches on the importance of collaboration as she worked with South African rapper, Kiddo CSA on two singles from his recent EP ‘Worldwide Eye’ mainly the project’s lead single titled ‘Window’. This interview is currently available for streaming on Spotify and Youtube. Watch our interview with Monique Lawz…
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Following the successful release of music architects, Artwork Sound’s much-anticipated new album, The Gospel According to Artwork Sounds Chapter II, the pair has finally released the visuals to their single, Awesome God. Since the release of the second installment of their brand-new album, the duo has been on a national tour spreading the gospel. Their lead single, Awesome God recently struck gold, as it peaked at #24 on Radiomonitor this past week. The latter is a great achievement considering that Awesome God is a gospel single. The pair also released visuals to this amazing singalong. The Awesome God music video…
Following the success of his ‘Skhanda Republic 3’ album which saw him and his longtime producer of the ‘Skhanda Republic’ series Lunatik unite once again. The 14 track album featured hit singles such as ‘Fezeka’, ‘SETE’ with Young Stunna and Blxckie, ‘MOSHITO’ and many more, which had the fans wondering what track 9 sounded like as it was a locked song featuring Ruger due to a clearance issue which meant we only consumed 13 tracks as a whole. K.O now returns with a new single titled ‘Rockabye’ which replaced the initial track 9 on the album. The track ‘ROCKABYE’ features…
2023 has constantly proven to have been a highly progressive year for Hip-Hop as many artists within the genre have continued to set the bar for the next generation of artists through content creation and one of those individuals is A-Reece. He has understood that aside creating art for his fans and core Hip-Hop lovers, visuals always push the content further and amplifies the experience for all listeners and he has done it again with visuals for ‘BAD GUY’. In the music video we explore two scenes where A-Reece is showcasing the reaction from his fans at a gig to…
The JazziQ and Friends podcast is officially back as they premiered their first episode from Season 2 with DBN Gogo and we were mind blown by the conversation as they spoke about her label ‘Zikode records’, the Amapiano culture and her travelling across the globe. They further spoke on the gatekeeping of the Amapiano sound as a lot of up and coming artists in the music industry suffer a lot with opportunities. They also speak on her various talents including singing in French. We obviously do not want to spoil the episode for you so you can watch it below…
It was only on the 1st of April when I found out about the forthcoming release of Bugzito’s debut album ‘Dilo Thlakana’ which was set to drop on the 28th of April. Time then passed by which lead to the release of visuals for the lead single ‘Kao Chaela’ featuring Chad Da Don and Lolli Native. The song boldly set the tone to what you could expect to hear from the project from a storytelling element and sound element. I only got the opportunity to listen to the project fully a couple of days back as I wanted to understand…
Mr JazziQ is a jack of many trades as many may know him for his hit singles namely, ‘Woza’ with Boohle, ‘Hade’ with Dinky Kunene, ‘Le Tin’ with Kabza De Small and Zuma and many more. He has since went the extra mile to showcase his hidden talents such as presenting as he collaborated with Spitz to host a first of its kind, Amapiano podcast where he hosts conversations with your favourite acts within the specified genre at their flagship store in Sandton City. Season 1 did amazingly well as they featured the likes of Njelic, Kamo Mphela, Young Stunna,…
Up and Coming singer and songwriter, Mia is back with her 2nd single offering titled ‘Closer’ which she collaborates with award winning producer, Here Cut The Lights. Closer serves as the lead single to her debut EP ‘The Other Side’ which is set to drop on the 16th of June (based on Apple Music, might change depending varying circumstances or reasons). ‘Closer’ is an infusion of two sounds which is Afro-Beats and Trap-Soul as it touches on a particular lover which she is willing to go the extra mile for as she wants to get to know the individual further…
It has been two years since Blxckie released his debut album ‘B4NOW’ which went on to charting across all streaming platforms and reaching Gold status. The album was nominated for several awards and was celebrated with a 10 date tour across the country and outside. The 12 Track album features hit singles such as the new birthday anthem, ‘Sika’, ‘Ye x4 with Nasty C’, ‘Big Time Shlappa with LucasRaps’, ‘Hold’, ‘Uppity’, ‘David’, ‘Stripes with Flvme’ and many more. This album has since opened up humongous doors for Blxckie as he collaborated with Sportscene for his own Redbat range of clothes…
It was only on the 1st of May when newly formed eventing property namely known as ‘Hey Neighbour’ was introduced to the fellow citizens of South Africa as the maestros of events gather together with founding company, ‘Glen 21 Entertainment’ to bring us a full 3 day experience in the heart of Pretoria at the ‘Legends Adventure Farm’. Many wondered what this event was all about as each announcement poster was just random fun gifs leading to this magnificent announcement. Glen 21 Entertainment took to their social media profiles to not only launch the sale of their phase 1 tickets…