


Internet Jetset Zuper
Whether you know him as the International Pantsula or Mfana Future, as one half of Dity Paraffin or a regular collaborator with LV, there is no denying that OkMalumKoolkat is the most interesting MC spitting rhymes in South Africa at the moment. So it’s great news that he has dropped a fresh new song […]

Wunga Heads and the Untreated Dead
The song Wunga is perhaps the strangest track on Durban/Johannesburg hip-hop group BIG FKN GUN (BFG) album Pop Models. As the follow-up to the sleek title-track, the video sees the group ditch the setting of a club for a tour down Johannesburg’s streets as our protagonist, a “junkie” (artist EvlJon) wanders aimlessly around bruising […]

The Con Declares the South African Music Awards ‘Finish and Klaar’
Every year the South African Music Awards, commonly known as the SAMAs, becomes more of a joke. The whole blinged-up, banged-up event has mutated into a giant industry pat-on-the-back, skewed to favour the entitled. So, this weekend as the SAMAs come around for the nineteenth year, The Con will not be paying attention. Here’s why. The […]