Consciousness Lounge

In this interview I talk to one of the UK’s hottest underground mcees – MAS LAW.
A long-time member of Kingz of the Kozmos, a versatile rapper, freestyle artist and also a talented producer.He talks about his debut album I need a BREAK and his plans for spreading his music worldwide.

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2012

Apr

Oratile O’Rrah Majoe

My skin is of the texture of slowly shattering glass due to my heart that is breathing out.

Life sweet thus it is meant to be enjoyed

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2012

Feb

Nombongo

Nombongo tells the tale of how music chose her: “I think as a kid I’d dreamt of many things, but music was not one of them and considering it a career has been a recent development.”

This 24-year-old jazzy soul musician started writing music in 2002 when she was in high school.

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2012

Feb

Taxan Tshabalala

Taxan Tshabalala is a South African poet, writer and performance artist.

This outspoken young man fuses humour with his intellectual and ambiguous style of writing to deliver powerful messages whilst educating and entertaining.

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2012

Feb

The Man On The Ground – Sitting down with Fabian Lojede

Jacob’s Cross is one of my favourite series of all time!! My mom used to even joke saying she hoped nothing serious ever happened to anyone I love during the Jacob’s Cross timeslot because she feared that person would have to wait an hour before I would attend to them.

She wasn’t too far off from the truth actually, so you can imagine how thrilled I was when I found out that I would get to sit down with Bola Abayomi, I went slightly berserk actually.

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2011

Oct

An Afternoon with Olufemi

Artist’s paradise Newtown is abuzz on a warm spring day as a few celebrities cascade a man’s vision and from across the road looms a very familiar figure to the jazz cognoscentes in the country at precisely the set time for the appointment to repudiate any vestige of pre madona ideas one could have of him.

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2011

Sep

Richard ‘QUAZ’ Roodt

My name is Richard Rodriquez Roodt, commonly known as Quaz. I am a writer, poet/emcee, community organizer and a creative activist.

I currently teach creative writing at the University of Johannesburg and I am also the after school programme director for Keleketla media arts projects.

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2011

Mar

Nancy G

Nancy thanks for taking the time out to answer some questions on the consciousness lounge, and for allowing me to delve into the depths and hopefully uncover some of the mystery surrounding Nancy G.

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2011

Jan

D.U.S.T

Greetings world and all the CC peeps, my name is DUST; which stands for Direct Universal Sound Technique. I’m a South African musician/rapper/song writer from Riverlea, Johannesburg.

I’ve been touring the world for a few years; putting my hood on the map.

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2010

Nov

AUTHOR-RISED @ the Musaion

Is it a book launch? Maybe it’s another session presented to us by Writers Forum, a session? Definitely not! 18th of September marks a day carefully hand-picked by God Himself to crown a poet by the name of Kabelo Noel known to the masses as Kilobyte.

He believes that God didn’t have to split the blessings he granted his family with his brothers and sisters as he is the only child

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2010

Nov