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T A B LE O FC O N TE N T S

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ROLE REVERSAL

NEO RETRO

COVER STORY: THE TRILL-EST TALK

THE FOOD JOURNAL : DESSERT & COCKTAILS

MOZKIDD “I WANNA KNOW” SONG REVIEW

CURRENT LOVE AFFAIRS

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Once every four years there is a phenomenon that

happens, it’s called a leap year. Where instead of the normal 365 days, in a leap year there are 366 days. It’s as though God himself decided to give us an extra day for us to squander however we choose.

But something rather spe-cial happens on this rare occurrence, among other superstitions and practic-es surrounding the leap year one of them is that women get to propose to men and possibly take up other manly obligations: like let’s say… deciding on what

to get their partners for Valentine’s day. A few things are as painstaking as finding a gift that is a close enough measure of your “undying love” for your partner. . Which is why we have taken the liberty of educating you ladies on the delicate art of “boyfriend appreciation

ROLE REVERSAL

LOVE GAMES

BY OLIVER ZONDO

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DONT’S1)Get a tattoo of his name…

ANYWHERE

Although you do get points for commitment, you don’t want to introduce any

unwanted pressure.

2)Buy his flowers

You probably think this is a good idea…Well it’s not. They

will most probably wilt and die. Rather give him some-thing with some chance of

survival like a relationship… ahh wait.

3)Get him a teddy bear

No, just no.

Nothing

Now listen closely this is the worst thing you can do. Yeah yeah maybe he acted like he

wasn’t interested in the whole thing but at least pretend like

it’s his birthday.

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If you one of those that come empty-handed for Valentine’s you can always make up for it with some alone time. He most likely would want to

think things through so get him a beer or two.

2)Love making

Apart from being a great way of building stronger bonds, it encompasses the spirit of Val-entine’s (heard he was a great

lover).

3)Buy him the new Fifa 2016

You’d be literally saving a life… this should guarantee you his loyalty till the next

one comes out.

By the time this issue comes out Valentine’s would be noth-ing but a memory. Confection-ers would have left rose petal tracks all the way to the bank and lovers will have forgotten all about romance. I guess the

point of this article is men and women are nowhere close to understanding each other, although its comes as no sur-

prise as the role of introducing romance into relationships is often left up to us blundering men. So consider this as an in-vitation to all our vision ladies

to show us how it’s done

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NEORETRO

BY

MENZI MBILINI

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NEORETRO

VANS

THE VANS CANVAS SHOE HAS CARVED A PERMANENT PLACE FOR ITSELF IN THE FASHION WORLD WITH ITS SIM-

PLE DESIGN, EVEN THOUGH IT TOOK SOME TIME FOR PEOPLE TO EMBRACE THE IDEA. WAY BACK IN 1966 THE VISION OF DE-SIGNER PAUL VAN DOREN INTRODUCED THE VANS CANVAS SHOES TO THE PUB-LIC WHEN HE CONVINCED A FEW OF HIS PARTNERS TO ASSIST HIM WITH OPENING A SMALL STORE IN ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA. ALTHOUGH THEY WERE MADE OF QUALITY MATERIALS AND OFFERED THE WEARER BOTH DURABILITY AND COMFORT, THEY WERE AN UNASSUMING PRODUCT. THIS RESULTED IN VERY UNIMPRESSIVE SALES UNTIL THINGS TURNED AROUND IN THE 70S. THIS WAS WHEN THE SKATEBOARD-ING COMMUNITY BEGAN TO EMBRACE THE CANVAS SHOES BECAUSE OF THEIR DURA-BILITY AND COMFORT. AS THE POPULARITY OF SKATEBOARDING EXPLODED DURING THE 70S SO DID THE POPULARITY OF VANS.

ALTHOUGH VANS WERE A HUGE HIT WITH THE SKATEBOARDING COMMUNITY THEY STILL HADN’T ACQUIRED MAINSTREAM SUCCESS UNTIL THE RELEASE OF THE MOVIE, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMOND HIGH BACK IN 82. THE MOVIE FEATURED AN UN-DERACHIEVER NAMED JEFF SPICOLI (SEAN PENN) WHO BOOSTED THE POPULARITY OF THE SMALL SHOE COMPANY BETTER THAN ANY COMMERCIAL COULD HAVE EVER DREAMED. THE MOVIE WAS A SUCCESS, THE CHARACTER JEFF SPICOLI BECAME A POP CULTURE ICON AND SOON FANS FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD WANTED TO KNOW WHERE THEY COULD GET THE SAME

PAIR OF SHOES WORN IN THE MOVIE.VANS ACHIEVED GLOBAL APPEAL DUE TO THEIR MULTITUDE OF CREATIVE DESIGNS AND HAVE FOUND THEIR WAY TO THE FEET OF MILLIONS OF CUSTOMERS WORLDWIDE.TODAY VANS STILL REMAIN ENORMOUSLY POPULAR AND ARE SEEN AS THE EPITO-ME OF SIMPLICITY EVEN THOUGH THE DE-SIGNS STILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE WITH

CUSTOMER’S TASTES.

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BANDANAS

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The history of the bandana varies depending on who you ask. Some sources state that the iconic paisley print traces back to India 200 years ago. While other sources state that it became famous as a symbol of independence in America.The bandana first gained prominence way back in the Old West in America where it was initially used as a neckerchief. It was pulled up to cover the nose and mouth of the wearer to protect against dust and dirt. This however led to outlaws using the bandanas to hide their faces when they were committing robberies, and the bandana soon become synonymous with the wrong side of the law.Over the years, the bandana has become ambiguous in terms of its use. With the user only being limited by their imagination. Bandanas were used by rock bands in the 80s as a marketing tool. Bandanas decked with band logos were sold at concerts and in the 90s Tupac helped bring the bandana to the forefront of the hip hop in-dustry. History has a way of repeating itself, the bandana image turned violent again when gangs in the US started using the specific colours of bandanas to signify which gang they rolled with back in the 90s. Despite the negative image created by gangs, bandanas still remain popular around the world.

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THE RABBIT (Volkswagen Mk1 Golf GTI)

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When ninjas final-ly found a car they could ruin perfectly happy homes with. Many many men got bricked in 1974, ask your dad.These days a new hatchback or perfor-mance car is usual-ly conceived in the mind of someone working in the mar-keting department. Most of the time, it’s to lift sales of the more mundane mod-els in the range. But back in 73 the mar-keting team was not involved. The ‘Sport Golf’ as it was called by the engineers was a project developed in secret on evenings and weekends. The entire project was developed by the engineers and because of this the MK1 was devoid of stripes, spoilers and anything else that was of no use to the car. Everything that makes the rabbit the fire flame emo-ji that it is was put there for a reason. It doesn’t have a rear spoiler because it doesn’t need one. It had a front spoiler because it helped to reduce front end lift. The wheel arch was to protect it from stones, not to make it look good. The list goes on and on.

Just a little over 40 years, and 6 gen-erations later and the winning formula remains: compact, efficient use of inte-rior space, small dis-placement but pow-erful engines.

When this flame of a car made its debut it had a huge task to fulfil: taking over the Beetle which was at the time, the most successful car at the time. However due to its practicali-ty, spacious interior and Giorgio Giugia-ro’s design it won the market over, so much so that the one-mil-lionth Golf was pro-duced just 2 years later.

Klaus Bischoff, Chief Designer over at Volkswagen since 2007, said: “The step from Beetle to Golf was truly revolution-ary.

Creatively, the Volk-swagen designers changed from a round to an angular form, thanks to Gi-orgio Giugiaro’s leg-endary design.

Just a little over 40 The main design el-ements of the Golf I, such as the silhou-ette of the upright, massive C-pillar, the prominent wheel arches, and the hor-izontal front with a slim grille and down-wardly protruding headlights are in ev-ery Golf to the pres-ent day.”

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THE TRILLEST TALK WITH

GINGER TRILL

Whenever South Africans think of a town called Potchefstroom, not much positivity will come into their minds, however for a select few (23 000 people to be exact) all around South Africa, comes a man- yes a man, not rapper, artist or whatever of that sort, who has given breath and life to their constant longing for Hip Hop music with substance. The man I’m referring to is none

other than “The Most Underrated Hip Hop artist” (I’m only stating #FACTS people) in the country, Ginger Trill. This is a man that is synonymous with BARS! I MEAN, REAL BARS! Not that… Nevermind, before I dig my own grave. Having featured on various hit singles such as the “Amantombazane Remix” by Riky Rick, the Original “Bump the Cheese Up” by Reason and DJ Dimplez’ “Kwa Mkhize”. Trill, however has many of his own songs and mixtapes too that have, in the context of entire Hip Hop mainstream, gone unnoticed such as his “School of The Hardknocks” banger and those that really follow SA Hip Hop, CANNOT, WILL NOT AND SHOULD NOT, forget nor sleep on his “Lyricist Of The Year (#LOTY) song that he dropped after being snubbed for the Lyricist Of The Year award at the SA Hip Hop Awards. I referred to him as a man first earlier on rather than an artist, because the humility and sincerity in him quite remarkable. He doesn’t command nor enforce neither respect nor authority, respectively. You would never suspect that this the same person who is rubbing shoulders and has the respect of so many of the game’s elite, my interview with him felt like a conversation I was having with one of my homies. With that being said here’s a look into the Trill-Est con-versation I’ve ever had.

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THE TRILLEST TALK WITH

GINGER TRILL

Whenever South Africans think of a town called Potchefstroom, not much positivity will come into their minds, however for a select few (23 000 people to be exact) all around South Africa, comes a man- yes a man, not rapper, artist or whatever of that sort, who has given breath and life to their constant longing for Hip Hop music with substance. The man I’m referring to is none

other than “The Most Underrated Hip Hop artist” (I’m only stating #FACTS people) in the country, Ginger Trill. This is a man that is synonymous with BARS! I MEAN, REAL BARS! Not that… Nevermind, before I dig my own grave. Having featured on various hit singles such as the “Amantombazane Remix” by Riky Rick, the Original “Bump the Cheese Up” by Reason and DJ Dimplez’ “Kwa Mkhize”. Trill, however has many of his own songs and mixtapes too that have, in the context of entire Hip Hop mainstream, gone unnoticed such as his “School of The Hardknocks” banger and those that really follow SA Hip Hop, CANNOT, WILL NOT AND SHOULD NOT, forget nor sleep on his “Lyricist Of The Year (#LOTY) song that he dropped after being snubbed for the Lyricist Of The Year award at the SA Hip Hop Awards. I referred to him as a man first earlier on rather than an artist, because the humility and sincerity in him quite remarkable. He doesn’t command nor enforce neither respect nor authority, respectively. You would never suspect that this the same person who is rubbing shoulders and has the respect of so many of the game’s elite, my interview with him felt like a conversation I was having with one of my homies. With that being said here’s a look into the Trill-Est con-versation I’ve ever had.

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A lot of die hard SA hip hop fans most probably know who Ginger Trill is, for those who just started catching onto to the whole scene, how would you explain who you are and what you’re all about.

Wow, that’s a loaded one… Look I feel like I’ve been able to carve out a space that I’m comfortable in as far as my position in the game is concerned. My whole thing about it is that I just make dope music, I haven’t been fortunate enough to have a whole (PR and Marketing) machine that just pumps ridiculous amounts of money into the brand, in order to get it out there as much as the guys that I’m competing against. You know somebody once told me that I’ve managed to maintain a buzz for the longest time, there’s never been an artist who’s to do that in the country and I took that as a compliment be-cause I’ve never quite looked at it from that perspective. Truth be told, the following has grown every year for the past three years. If you you’re looking for a rapper that can rap, not to say that I don’t make fun music or that my music doesn’t have commercial appeal I’ve just been moving differently using the limited resources that I have and of course there’s room for improvement but we’re not all the upset. If you’re tryna find out who I am I’m in reach everywhere, I’m always doing interviews, releasing songs for free, on radio etc. just in moderation though, I’m not tryna be in your face all the time, because then you’re gonna end up being like “UGH who’s this guy?” cause I know what its like to have music that you’re not particularly fond of forced down your throat and I’m not tryna do that to anybody.

You spoke about not having a (PR and Marketing) machine behind you so how do you ensure that you still create a strong brand and persona for yourself while staying true to your art?

Do you think I have presence

Well in my opinion, I feel like it could be stronger but then again like you said; you don’t have that “machine” behind you so it’s defi-nitely not easy. What is your plan exactly, are you trying to broaden your reach, are you trying to get people to say “Yo Trilly is that num-ber one dude right now”?

Of course! Every artist is here for the love man, that the one drug each and every person that creates is addicted to- the love. You know what I mean? But I’d like it to be organic and uhh.. I don’t know man. The only thing I know how to do is be my-self. If you don’t like it? Cool. If I have to be someone else for you to like me, how long can I put up the act? If I am myself, and you like me for who I am and what I do and the whole design, the whole time? Then I’m willing. But if I have to get love through radical marketing schemes that have nothing to do with who I am, you’re gonna catch me out of character one day and you’re gonna be disappointed, you know what I mean? I can just be myself and if you like it, then you’ll always like it because I can never, not be myself.

You’ve said previously in another mag-azine that you draw comparisons with the likes of J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar in terms of their journey is that some-thing that keeps you going? If not, what is Ginger Trill’s motivation, in such an ADD and cut throat industry that keeps sleeping on your music?

The people who love me keep me motivated man; the people who like what I do and can’t wait for me to drop a project are the ones that keep me motivated. Above all of that, what also keeps me going is that, even if I wasn’t sitting here doing this interview, even before the first time you heard of me, even before the fist time I appeared on a TV screen or before some or other big artist decided to put me on or before some or other label decided “yo this kid is nice, lets do right by him”, I was doing music. I love music. I love creating music. I’m a musician, whether I’m a successful musician or a strug-gling and starving musician, I’ll always be a musician, that’s just who I am. Man the world could be dying or I could be stuck on an island somewhere but I’m gonna create music despite all of that. To be honest, I don’t need any motivation, I don’t need someone telling me “yo get up and go make some music” I WILL create music regardless.

Speaking of the music, I could say that Ginger Trill is a deep soul that doesn’t really speak about the typical “I’m in the club and I got so many girls blah blah” which is currently shown in your mixtape Mo’ Better, where you really get an in depth sense of where you currently are in your life and did you actually draw inspirations from the film Mo’ Better Blues?

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Fully. So I peeped out the film right, Mo’ Better Blues. [Explains what the movie is about] I relate a whole to that, you know? So I decided to create a tape surrounding the whole thing. From the jump after I saw that movie I was like “there we go, I’m gonna do a mixtape called Mo’ Better based on the motion picture. You know if I was like the executive producer of the sound track my mixtape is exactly how I would’ve anted the soundtrack to sound.

You’ve spoken about Brands vs. The Art/Art Form, where even in one of your songs you said, “To brands we just post and entertain, to fans this is more than just a game”. So do you think that brands are disturbing or messing up the entire art form and culture and has that hindered with Ginger Trill’s progress?

Look man, its just like I said in the quote “… To fans its more than just a game” to hardcore fans, we connect to them at a much deeper level, they understand the music and what it translates to, to them as individuals. Its much more deeper than some brand manager out there sitting in some corporate boardroom thinking (squeaky voice) “ah man he swears he says this and the kids like that right now and the girls in his videos are dressed in bikini’s and we know sex sells, oh well lets do it, lets collaborate with him”. They just think that we’re out here to just entertain and they can piggyback off a grow-ing music brand’s success to further their agenda and just give us some crumbs. I was explaining how a lot of us would take that, because it’s food on your table, it’s food for your family; you’re bringing the bacon home.

But I feel like if they took time to un-derstand the culture, they could still sell what they want to sell through us without having to make us change, who we are and what we’re all about through gimmicks. Brands just think that it’s all about the numbers. If they were to invest in a dope talent, you’ll actually find out that you can still get the numbers, way more than whomever the best selling artist in the country is getting. So they’re just looking in the wrong places. Imagine what would happen if they took a come up artist who’s really dope and you look for experts to tell you, why this guy is really dope and you, as a brand, invest in him? That builds a solid relationship and he’ll never let you go. Once he grows and too big for you to pay him or control him, he’ll still be there because he’ll value what you did for him. That’s why I feel like these brands are just culture vultures; they don’t even understand the code of the streets, the code of the culture. If they did they’d get much more out of us than they’re getting right now.

I’ve learnt a lot about what brands are trying to do, which fundemen-tally boils down to relationships, but when I hear someone like Cassper (Nyovest) saying that he’s scared to even act a certain way, because of the brands he’s asso-ciated with, it makes me wonder “why are you signing the dude in the first place, if he cant even be himself”

Yeah! You see what I’m saying; I mean you know who he is. Actually that’s what ticks me off about working with major corporates and brands. They know who we are, whomever they send to go do research on us, knows that: we talk funny, we swear, we objectify women, we speak about our struggles- we are the essence of youth! Pop culture belongs to the youth, at no one point are we sharing the exact same sentiment, there’s different things at different times and you must learn to take the good with he bad. Because at the end of the day this guy (the artist) is not a terrible person, he’s really not a terrible guy. They would probably react the same if they weren’t in the public eye, they have to allow him to react the way he wants to react and it should be his right to react like that to some things, because we’re human after all. Brands will have you feeling like “damn if I post this, its gonna mess up my brand and how people see me” but at the end of the day- people are people. When he (Cassper Nyovest) dropped the type of song he dropped to retaliate to AKA, his die-hard fans understood because he explains why he does it, in the song and his tweets. I’m not saying it was right but it was human. A can of whatever beverage, is not human, you cannot expect a human, who is his own brand, to do the same job as this thing (the can of bever-age). We’re human, we just happen to be in the public space.

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How do you think the SA hip hop/street culture has had an affect on Pop Culture as a whole and do you think that its become the most dominant culture both internationally and locally?

Look, I know that in the world it is. But as far as South Africa is concerned, house music and the predominantly house-heads have started peeping behind t he curtain to see what’s happening on our side, because with hip hop, its beyond the music, it’s a culture: the way we talk, the way we put our shoes together, the whole sneaker culture, the clothes, it all comes together. (Starting to sound poetic) This very space right here (Anatomy sneaker store in Braamfontein), to be in this set-ting, with this type of lighting you know? Instead of having paintings on the wall, sneakers are displayed as a piece of art, they standing there like a Van Gogh piece with the bags and the sock-game (simply socks) and the music in the background, the whole ambience- it’s a whole package, you never switch off. When you’re into hip hop, the culture never sleeps, it’s a part of who you are and I think that’s what drew a lot of people in once the music started to become commercially successful. I also think that is the most dominant right now and it has affected pop culture because it brings more than just music. With house music there is no one, who’s rapping and when there’s a vocalist, the vocalist speaks ordinary, the lyrics are just ordi-nary words. Rapping is so much cooler, it’s so different, and it’s a rebellion.

Like I said it represents the youth, we don’t pronounce words the way we’re supposed to, our grammar is all messed up but we understand each other, you know what I mean? We call certain things like shoes and sneakers, “kicks” and “licks”. Sunglasses are “hater-blockers, watches referred to as the “wris-game”, “chain-game all gold”(simply gold chains) all that stuff, its much cooler, much more interesting, its art, its poetry, it’s a lifestyle!

Knowing your own ability, how do you look at other artists, how have basically watered down their content and actually get to rate them?

Look as long as their doing them and not raining on my parade, I don’t feel no typa way, you know what I mean? But as soon as we start talking, what I do and you wanna come at me about what I’m good at, I’m gonna look at you and say, “what are you talking about”? Don’t talk to me about Bars (lyricial content/ability), you can talk to me about your money and the cars and all that, that’s cool, I’ll step off and bow down to your tree and be like “ay man, you do you, and get your mon-ey baby” because that inspires me. As soon as you come at me about Bars and whatever, I’ll be like: “get the f**k outta here with that, I’ve been doing this for… stop it” and I think the proof has been in the music.

Hip Hop in SA is a fairly new phenomenon as opposed to the US, with that being said the evolution of hip hop out there has resulted in the emergence of Trap and the more vibey type of music to take control over hip hop which has resulted in SA starting in that paradigm. Do you think as hip hop grows in SA, it’ll then become full circle, where artists like you will take over because people will be more knowledgeable?

F**k yeah! It might not even be in my lifetime, but hell yeah man. This rap sh** is beautiful, like… the essence of it, is beautiful. I mean, look at Nasty C. Which school (era) is he from? You see what I’m saying; he’s from that school of thought. I don’t care what you say! He even says it in one of his songs “will I dumb it down a bit? HELL NAW”. You see? He knows who he is; I think that’s one of the things that I really admire about the kid, I’ve never come across an artist with so much confidence and belief at his age as well as self-awareness. He’s in the game! He like… just Diddy-bopped (Trill shuffles his shoulders) in to the game, you know what I mean? While I (at his age) was still tryna figure out what’s going on, you know. It was a whole new vibe for me, I don’t know if a lot of people know this about me, I’m not even from around here (South Africa), and this is like the Mecca of hip hop and the culture in Africa. I had never been to anything like ‘Sneaker Ex-change’ till I came here, I had never been to anything like ‘Back to the City’

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or ‘Maftown Heights’ till I came here or any of these huge platforms where you’ll that the spirit of the game and the whole energy is through the roof. Places where, we (hip hop artists) are all under one area and we’re doing what we love and people appre-ciate it. That was a new experience for me, coming from outta town. But of course it (hip hop music) will always go back to that (superior lyrical content as opposed to trap music), why do you think J. Cole is where he’s at? Why do you think that Kendrick is where he’s at? All of Cole’s albums have gone platinum and this is the same guy that Jay-Z said “I don’t know how we’re gonna sell you”. Like Jay-Z, the God of the game, said told him “ I don’t know what we’re gonna do with you”. Its all about finding the people that like your sh** and giving them the sh** that they like, that’s it!

Yeah, I feel you, because in a previ-ous interview you did, you said “if it means that I only got about 20 000 people that are with me, then f**k it, lets move”. What I got from that is, it’s not just about numbers but quantified and impactful numbers. Where you can say “ I know that A, B & C bought my album because they posted it on their instagram and tagged me”.

Yeah, you see! I’m about that typa rela-tionship with the people that follow me, obviously I won t be able to maintain with each and every single person that follows me but if we deal with the majority, you’ll eventually get to know who exactly is the person who buys the music. You’ll be able to profile people; you know how like the cops profile criminals? More like the psychopaths and serial killers, they profile them to see what type of people they are; and if they can spot those characteristics and behavioural patterns in other people, they’ll put them under that profile. I take the same type of thinking and apply it to finding my true, core fan base. Right now I can tell you that, I know about twenty…(thinks) I got a good 23 000 people, that are definite supporters

(Laughs) so if you dropped an album you could go Gold? (Accord-ing to SA standards)

(Laughs) Maybe! I mean it’s all about how I reach them and the type of communication I use. For instance, right, if I had all of their (the followers) email addresses and cell phone numbers and I knew their names, nicknames, where they live, which clubs they go to, how often they go to those clubs, all that stuff, like a database. Will I not go Gold, the day I drop? Like I said man, I just choose when to make a noise. I really do, I could make noise right now on twitter and Trend. But I feel that it’s not necessary if I’m not doing anything for the fans, for the culture, for the music. I’m not going to just make noise about anything else other than what I do.

When I interviewed KiD X, he gave me his top 5 and you were in it. So for you, who are the dudes you’re vibing with and do they deserve to be on Trilly’s top 5, which would take a lot.

Nah man, not really hey…

Come on Trilly, this is you we’re talking about. I’m sure if you were to put someone in your top 5, its that thing of “yeah if I go bar for bar , with this dude, we can go at it” because this track right here says it all(Ginger Trill- Lyricist of The Year, playing in the back-ground)

(laughs) Nah, I promise you man. (KiD) X and probably everyone that knows me, knows that X is probably my favourite rapper in my age bracket. He’s the only guy I feel, would give me a run for my money any day!

(Laughs) so is that a top 1?

Nah man, its Him (KiD X), Kwesta, Rea-son… uhm I mess with T (Tumi from the V). I think Maraza is very underrated too; he’s a brilliant lyricist and thinker. Damn, I’m already on 5 but yeah man.

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With that being said, when they (South African Hip Hop Awards) snubbed you and gave Tumi, the Lyricist Of The Year award….

(Interrupts) how could you be mad? That’s the God (chants). I was happy it was him, because I bought his album, Return of The King, and I was like “Yeah” as far as lyrics he came through a whole lot more and it was actual-ly amazing to witness, you know what I mean? I really didn’t feel no typa way about it. Oh yeah Ki-ernan! Id actually also put AKA in my top 5, I think he’s a great lyricist but people don’t see it. He’s a really-really dope lyricist and I really mess with his ability. Sh**, I also mess with Maggz though, KO too. You see, there’s actually of lot of ni***s I mess with. Before I’m artist myself, I’m just fan of this sh**, im a real huge fan! But X is my favou-rite though (laughs hard)

Ok so finally what does Gin-ger Trill have in store for us this year?

Ahh man, I was hoping not to an-swer that typa question.

Come on Trill, we’re follow-ing the art man, we gotta know what’s poppin’!

Damn man, I’ve got so much! Lets just say more music! This year I’m dropping way more visu-als (music videos) than I’ve ever dropped in the past three years, all in one year. A whole lot of oth-er innovative things, I can’t tell you about it right now but what I can do is tell you that I’m go-ing into fashion, I’m getting my samples soon, I’m collaborating with a local brand and we have such a great relationship. I’ve just registered my own label, where I’ll be taking artists on a consulting basis, just show-ing them how to get one or two things together.

The type of things, that ar-en’t in their reach but I have access to the resources. You should look out for my guys man, Orion and K-OK, ill be doing a couple of features with them. DJ Yanga’s (Trill’s DJ) single is coming out soon, I got a song called “Swagga-phobia” that’s gonna drop. “School of The Hardknocks” is getting visuals, its just ac-tivity man!

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SONGREVIEW

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First off this song is very catchy man, the first time I heard it the hook was stuck in my head the

whole day.

This song is catchier than… It’s catchier than…

Than a baseball glove covered with super-glue (I’m sorry). I suppose that’s why the music video

has been on heavy rotation on all the major music channels.

One thing about blowing up though is that you can only be the new kid on the block once. I feel

like Moz missed a golden opportunity on this one to come out guns blazing by letting Riky Rick

sliza all over the song and it ended up sounding like Riky Rick featuring Moz Kidd.

Then again it’s not always about who’s better than who (It was Riky, don’t tell Moz) but more

about releasing a solid body of work. Moz and Riky really gelled well on the song and I’m sure

we can expect a lot more hits from the Kidd Moz. I Wanna Know is a laidback song you can

dance to in the clubs or vibe to alone. It works both ways.

No doubt, it’s two thumbs up from me.

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