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Hip Hop Cares Awards 2015 Nominee list

Its that time again . We received a large number of nominees and those that complied with our standards and ethics made it .



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Hip Hop Cares Awards 2015 *UPDATED LIST*
1. Song of the year
- Dj Sputla ft Uno Fam - Bothashoek manners Remix

- Dope King - Ya ba hlansa 

-M.eMcee ft czar - nine2five 

-kaytzo ft toy- Never mind 

- E-mag- fresh'd up
-King Marvel ft Various artist - Party popper
- Wilo Ink - Get there 

- Sgivo ft various artists- Big Booty
- Black Music Entertainment-my s**t dope
- Slabsta - Cant Stop me
- AT Lenyora - Waila
- Hsp- aint knowing about that
- Danny Man - My Life
- Trey Mash - Kasi Trap
- Rap Royalty - Love is blind
- Statik - Yaka Yaka
- Lyrical Ray - No Remorse
- Unk - Situation Right Now
- King Obbs- Tlala
- Monster Saint - Bars on flows
- F JAM- she got me dancing
- Prodtjie ft cali and Happy - moment for life
- Kid Blezz - Nae Nae
- Mray Z- Protocol
- King Teezy - Summer
- J.Murda ft Carlculas - Flop!!
- Suffocate ft Turm -Fobagana
- Mo - Review

- King Teezy & Same Kidd- Niggers from the block

2. Collaboration of the year 

- King Teezy & Same Kidd- Niggers from the block
- Theron ft Pearly Hooks - Crazy
- King Marvel ft Various artist - Party popper
- Obbs, Matt ft Turm - How you feeling
- Black Music Entertainment - You left me
-Pearly Hooks feat Theron & Nose-Beauty on a beat
- Devoted Kay ft King Obbs & MAT- Hold on
- Abstract Narcotic ft Taydos - Turn up juice
- Prodtjie ft cali and Happy - moment for life 

-M.eMcee ft czar - nine2five 
- Mray Z ft Killer flow - Rainy stories
-hsp crew x j cool x slondy- life is something else
- Dope King ft Vitamin D - Ma Swag
- J.Murda ft Carlculas - Flop!!
- Suffocate ft Turm -Fobagana
- Mo - Review

- Sgivo ft various artists- Big Booty

- Dj Sputla ft Uno Fam - Bothashoek manners Remix

3. Infinite Lyricist 

-  M.eMcee- Different
- King Marvel ft Various artist - Party popper
-Chaos K - Basement
- Tif Turf- Money Dance
- AT LENYORA - HALLA BACK
- Slabsta - Cant Stop me
- Trey Mash-?
-Unk - Situation Right Now
- King Obbs- Shook
- Monster Saint- Monster Mode
- F jam ft Killer flow - I got it
- Captain Ray - Nobody knows
- Mray Z - some shots (uncleared)
- King Teezy - Trap King 
- Taydos - 64 bars
-Dope King - Tswara Ngwana
- Turm - Sunday Freestyle
- Fjam ft Killer flow- I got it

- Genesis - Inevitable 

- Thaso- game on remix 

4. Rookie of the year 

- Same Kidd - outchea
- Chaos K - Basement
- Tif Turf - Money Dance
- King Teezy - No Hate
- Pearly Hooks -Diamonds
- Theron - Slaying
- AT Lenyora - Halla Back
- Skillz- Nuthing but yet
- Rap Royalty - Love is blind
- Statik - Yaka Yaka
- Unk - Situation Right Now
- Devoted Kay - Hold on
- Captain Ray- A letter to her
- F jam - chill
- Prodtjie ft cali and Happy - moment for life
- Kaystee - Go away
- Dope King - Tswara Ngwana
- J- Murda- Makasana

-  M.eMcee- Different 

- Suffocare - Kea via 

5.Producer of the year
- King Marvel ft Various artist - Party popper
- King Obbs- Tlala(obby)
- Lynex Beats - Flamingos
- Unk - Situation Right Now
- Sgivo - Nae Nae (Kid Blezz)
- Kaystee - Go away
- Jay axe - aint knowing about that.
- Wilo - Get there
-Dope King - Tswara Ngwana
- Genesis - Inevitable 

- Dj Sputla ft Uno Fam - Bothashoek manners Remix

6. Personality of the year
-King Marvel
- Mafred
- Slabsta
- F Jam
- MRay Z
- master dee

7. Femcee of the year
- Pearly Hooks -Diamonds
- Theron - Slaying
- Devoted Kay ft King Obbs & MAT- Hold on
- Delzee- Skantlwayela boss

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Free Music (click to download)

- Slabsta- Cant stop me

- King Tezzy- Summer time 

-Kid Blezz- Nae Nae

Cassper Nyovest fights with his homeboy

#FillupTheDome is an exciting venture for South African artists. It will benchmark to all "important" people in the corporeal world as to how far  or how capable a local artist is or can be. The journey for award winning artist Cassper Nyovest whose real name is Refoloe Phoolo has been rocky. He had an encounter with AKA at a club before the release of  MIMI which trended on twitter for a reasonable period of time. He addressed the media in the song for reporting lies about him and he further mentioned that it was because they are jealous of his success.  The song was warmly received but later questioned by people on social networks who accused the Mahikeng born star of bragging. In Cassper's defense we made the following observation. It is okay for a rapper to talk about his struggles but he cannot talk of his success ? that is redundant.

Cassper has been replying tweets and facebook posts with the hash tag #Fillupthedome of late . We came across a squabble between him and Fifi Cooper's deejay. This is someone who potentially went to school with him and hang out with him during their come up days. This is a week after Cass' prodigy Chad da Don said he wont help him fill up the dome. WHooa hectic

*note that the status updates where deleted . we were lucky to sceenshoot it before it was removed *

BURGERSFORT WANTS PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

We as Hip Hop Cares Foundation advocated for fair comment , Credible journalism and equality within the Hip Hop arena of our operation scope ( Burgersfort, Nelspruit and Witbank(new)). We congratulate everyone who has created blogs in the name of pushing Hip Hop as a whole while the blogs serve their close friends only.

HIP HOP NEWS

It is difficult to keep your head up as an upcoming rapper. You to know how to battle , diss and make real good tracks. It would seem some have covered the elements above while others hide in plain sight while confronted with the opportunity to prove their "SKILLZ".
Two months ago we(Hip Hop Cares) came under the gun ourselves with Lil chief , Cru mayor , Yoggy Bar and Dizz.  Big Swazi put out a public display of warm klapping on a track called Disaster Rhymes . He accused us of hate , He went in on Dizz (2 whole verses) and dissed Shiela Mmutle as well. It wasnt long before he was silenced by Dizz's response called "BLUNT" in which he calls him out on dissing women and pure rap skills. This lead to the two emcees deciding to finish this battle at our winter event (THIS JULY).

On the other hand , Lil Chief , Cru mayor and yoggy bar did not reply. It is understandable as they were not the subject of the track. The excuses that come with not replying was as follows : He has low sound quality , He is not worth it , he wants attention , I dont do diss tracks  , i just do good music. We at Hip Hop Cares say the above is "UnHip-Hoply" of these rappers.

Just when the dust has settled. Genesis announced that Monster saint is joining their stable, subsequently the trio went to do a feature with King Marvel(Cru mayor's arch rival). Skillz being a member or affiliate of DJ sputla's camp (who leaked disaster rhymes) was also on the track.
#MrPresident did not spare his feelings about Skillz's the track. He went on to call Skillz whack. This silenced the newcomer on social media but he went on to cook a come back in the form of a diss track(link below). When Cru mayor thought he could hide behind the same excuses he previously used, it did not work out. When this story was written he was trending on facebook with funny memes.

The social media splash was so funny that close friends and fans could not hold back but join in the laughter. Everyone expects him to reply and he is surely feeling the heat. He has a choice to either lose credibility with his fans and friends by not replying (he already is) or he can man up and diss Skillz.

Hip Hop is taking over Burgersfort. Pay respect now or forever owe us interest .

Hip Hop Cares Winter event - details coming soon.

Tracks
Big Swazi - Disaster Rhymes
Dizz Thee Alpha- Blunt
Skillz- Taking Shots(Cru mayor Diss)

Freedom or Fame - A breakdown

I recently discovered that Tuks is financially struggling and for some reason this was not news to my ears. The "bona fela” hit maker disappeared from the scene right after the drop if his album "Footprints". 2 years ago i met a guy who was trying to negotiate airplay with me for the whole album,this dude litterally wanted me to throw in 2 songs on every show i presented. If this was not a red flag that Tuks was majoring in broken finances then i must be an ignorant living being. 

The newspapers splashed this with full scale pictures of the Mahikeng originating star. I want you to note that if it was a mere album promotion they would have just had a corner picture of him but i will save that argument for another day. After the news shattered i found myself picking up pieces of an ex legend with Freedom or Fame trolling the background. BlackLez's bars locked me better and I for the first time heard his cry through the teeth of that whining beat. It was not about Tuks losing his house and car any more, it was far from my co-workers who grew up in Mahikeng who for some stinging reason where popping Champaign on Tuks' downfall. 

Blacklez's choice of beats could have not been better, I mean if you want people to hear what you saying why would go for big hats and over-rated 808's? The basic baseline and synth allowed him to rap at a pace that captures every feeling molded on every word. That "Thank you" Mama ad lib when the song begins had me thinking of Eminem when he cleaned his closet out. There is a paradox here is Lez's closet has already been cleaned out for him. He takes justified shots at MOVE magazine for cleaning his closet. Connect this with what is happening to Tuks right now, it would seem the media is holding every public figure hostage and the ransom is living a perfect life. Reason laments about this situation on the remix of the song. On his verse (Reason) he speaks about how he should have been warned that chasing your dream and inspiring people comes with such a hefty price. The pun lands right when he says “So i can choose to drop 10k when they ask for my 2 cents". The way I hear it , Reason feels like you not given options as a public figure and your finances are connected to this prison called the limelight. Freedom or Fame?

You could either be honest in your music or you could just be broke. Lez compares himself to a modern day Steve Biko right? How many artists have claimed to write what they like but ended up sounding like recylced garbage when the hunger broke through their lips? 

"I have learned to deal with lip like Beyonce" is one of the lines that tell you that this song goes beyond another rapper bragging about how "dope" he is. The line has connection to Jay-z, An artist who broke away from drug dealing life which offered him jail time and no freedom at and actually went into the music industry which offered him ...well freedom. The glaring parallels drawn by Lez's penmanship cannot be ignored. The freedom he speaks of here is not only social freedom but its finacail freedom too hence the dropping of struggle hero names in his verse. 

The freedom to break away from the stereotype of black fathers especially when no meaningful relationship exists between the mother and father. The truth will set you free right? Lez's confesses to being a dead beat dad in the opening stages of his daughter's life but now is mending fences. I am not sure if Reason's last line was sponsored or not but Pabi Moloi definitely heard it.

Prokid basically sums it up as he walks us through "a week with a hustler". We go out there working for money to impress "abo mama mia" while Umama is struggling, now tell me you do not consider that as modern day imprisonment?

I personally urge Blacklez to go around making remixes of this song with all the cats in the industry because i am sure they all have a story to tell on this particular topic.

I want freedom, I want fame, I want money ....is it all possible? Blacklez doesnt seem to think so. Unlike Reason, you have been warned.

Download FREEDOM OR FAME REMIX