Future Sound of Mzansi
This weekend, The Con wants to bring to your attention two recent mix tapes that dropped in the past few weeks. The first is from Cape Town-based producer Jumping Black Slash and is titled Gqom Bhengz. Jumping Black Slash moved to South Africa from the UK and has immersed himself in the local kwaito […]
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 […]
Who Really Deserves a SAMA in 2014?
About this time last year, The Con published an article, “The Con Declares the South African Music Awards Finish and Klaar“. In it we argued that the SAMA awards had become a giant joke that rewards the mediocrity that is the established music industry at the expense of independent artists who have no label […]