Lingo says...

 The official poster and flyer  It’s that time of the year again, where we take it back to the city, where it all began, that time where New town comes alive and the rest of the Johannesburg just shuts down for the day. Where music, art,flim and fashion come together under one roof. If you still asking yourself what back to the city is all about and staying under some rock, don’t worry ill fill you in. Back to the city is one of the biggest hip hop festival here in Africa that happens every year on the 27 of April (freedom day) that aims to celebrate Hip hop and all the different elements that make up hip hop and the urban culture. The event started back in 2007, now on its 6 th year and it started with just 3500 and grew to over 11 500 people in the last year , with the target for this year 14 000 . The event takes place Outside Ritual Stores, Cnr. Bree and Henry Nxumalo Streets, Newtown, Johannesburg, the show starts at 10:00 am until 23:00 that’s 13 hours o...

During this holidays I had the pleasure of visiting one of my Venda friends place, they had a wedding at his place and he invited me and how can you say no, the black person in me couldn’t just turn down a free experience, where I got the chance to dine and fest to their Venda delicacy’s and get to experience their culture and also got a chance to taste some home brewed beer. They started playing some Venda music, here I was expecting them to play some English orientated sound seeing that it was wedding, they kept to their roots and played Venda music, and the way they danced to that music is almost the same way I dance to my favorite hip hop music. It triggered this question in mind when last did I listen to my own cultural music, I won’t lie the first thing  I do when I get to a music shop I go to the hip hop side and take for granted my own music and here I am telling people how proud I am about my Tsonga heritage but still don’t even know any famous Tsonga musicians.   ...

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau