Venda Hip Hop still on the Crawling Stage….Will it ever Walk?????

Venda Hip-Hop is the new genre which is followed by youth from all sides of Venda but the movement is still trying to find its own ground as Venda lingo is not commonly used in South Africa as a whole.

At the corners and streets of Venda you will find the young ones in circles battling each other and trying to imitate those who have already made in Hip-Hop game as we got people like Mizo Phyll who won the first ever Tshima awards for best Venda Rap , we also have rappers like Bomo Unlimited, P-Postman. Coofelo ,Adolf, Killah Gee and Nicodermic who are known all over venda for their lyrical and poetic skills and we got Djs and Producers behind this big names like Dj-Limitation, Kay 2 and Chifo Charge. Hip Hop is not all  about rapping and battling that's why we got so many people who are using their creativity and art work to show their love of hip hop , we got people like A4 Mashville who is behind the "Halwa nga Bege" T-shirt and 30-Cent behind a well known brand "Original Venda Hustler"

Tshivenda may be a language used by small number of people but that doesn't mean people from other tribes can't listen to the music that we make .Hip Hop is the universal language , why don't you ask yourself when a boy in Thohoyandou is listening to Ifani the Xhosa Rapper ? Or any South Africa listening to Windeck the song from Angola ? Music its all about the beat and rhymes , the main is to make people to relate to your music /make them dance.

A question that one can ask is : Where is Venda Hip Hop Heading ? Is it gonna be National anytime soon ? Are we gonna see a Venda Rapper on Hip Hop category on SAMAs ? But the answers are unclear .

As I have was going through the Facebook Pages of some of the Well-known cats I can say there is no unite amongst them , they all wanna be the leader of their own team and with no Unite I see no growth. They are listening too much on American Hip Hop where Beef/Feuds is one thing that makes the Hip Hop movement more interesting and forgetting that American Hip Hop is on the concrete ground unlike the movement their trying to push. It is not secret that Bomo and Mizo are not in good terms and it is believed its because they all wanna rule , how can you be a king while you still selling less than 2000 copies the only thing fans are doing is sending your tracks via bluetooth.

People voted for Mizo Phyll because he cooks good music and they wanna see Venda Hip Hop somewhere one day but now he is Pulling "American Swagg" on them and I'm like WTF is he thinking . They post wishes on his facebook page but he doesn't even make time to interact with his followers , We got people like Dj-Sbu/Bongani Fassie and Sean Pages who are always piled with work but they make little time to engage with their fans coz they know they are where they are today because of them .

Venda Hip Hop is all about the Rhymes but no message at all , it seems like every rapper is busy about the booze and the weed expert for one person who i can play his album without skipping a track and that's Bellafonte. I don't think any responsible mother/father can give his/her son money to go an buy music which will be the bad influence on his future.

Good music videos are the puller of the new fans , Venda Rappers are lazy when it comes to making good music videos or is it due to finance ???One can count the good music videos that we have in Venda Rap , its One by Macfam-Red Alarm and my hat is off to the TooFab crew all their Videos in Youtube are on point !!!Keep doing the good job guys.

Venda people have been undermined by many other tribes, Music is another way to show the nation that we can also do it ! Lets Put Venda on the Map ! Lets unite and put our pride aside for the sake of our music and grow and be on the concrete grounds......