1995
International
↑ See it on the mapJohannesburg
South Africa
Motswako · kwaito adjacency · amapiano crossover
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Joburg took the baton commercially. Motswako — Setswana and English mixed in the same bar — gave the north its own flow, kwaito ran in parallel as the township's own dance music, and by the 2020s amapiano had made South Africa a net exporter of rhythm again.
Bloodline · 2 stops from The Bronx
- 1973The Bronx
- 1988Cape Town
- 1995Johannesburg
TransferThe Bronx
Cape Flats crews toured north through the 90s and left a scene behind them. Joburg then mixed it with kwaito, which had grown up alongside from house, not from rap.
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2006
Stogie T (Tumi)deep cut
Tumi and the Volume, then solo — the continent's finest live rap writer.