In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...

The TL was left a bit chaotic over whose genre it is after Shimza claimed Dlala Thokzin’s hit Phuze (Remix) is an Afro-house music song. The fight between the Afro-house, amapiano and gqom genres ...

Mlethwa Majola, aka M_Square, is into gqom and amapiano music on his latest single. The Booysens maskandi artist, Mlethwa Majola, aka M_Square, has ventured into gqom and amapiano music on his latest ...

Scratcha’s journey with music began as a football-loving teen. “I’ve got two older brothers, and they used to go raving,” he recalls. One of them was friends with the house DJ and producer Nico da ...

He started off playing and producing hip hop music in 2008. From being his rapper cousin's DJ, Lwazi Gala found himself producing beats for Msawawa around 2010. About a year later, he heard a gqom ...

Head of the Gqom Oh! label, Nan Kolè has been undertaking a massive project over the past few months. Allying with Rome-based radio station Crudo Volta, Kolè has been travelling around South Africa, ...