Music & Entertainment
TheLastLetter’s “Jaded” turns the unsettling experience of loving someone whose personality changes with intoxication into intimate R&B, bringing Indigo Stella, Rashè and Wichi1080 into a deeply personal story.
Easy Freak first began shaping “Only Like You Do” in 2016. A decade later, Dom Hurd and Jude Kenrick have rebuilt the song for The Touch, turning an unfinished piece of their beginnings into a marker of how far they have come.
Dr Moruti’s forthcoming We Will Dance treats the dancefloor as more than an escape. Built around faith, resilience and hope, the album asks whether movement itself can become proof that a difficult season did not get the final word.
Vusi Mahlasela and Guy Buttery have appeared on each other’s records since 2006. Twenty years later, the two South African musicians are finally turning that studio relationship into a live conversation.
One day after Cleo Sol released Gentlewoman, three of its songs were already inside Apple Music South Africa’s Top 10. The speed of that response says something interesting about this country’s appetite for music that does not need to shout to command attention.
TXC’s collaborations with Davido and their possible future work with Wizkid and Jorja Smith point to a different kind of global amapiano story: not South African artists waiting for validation, but international names entering a musical framework TXC already knows how to lead.
“Ibandla” was already a Top 3 Apple Music hit. Then Nasty C’s reinterpretation crossed one million YouTube views. When the official remix followed, it felt less like a manufactured extension than a version listeners had already asked to hear.
Four days after Inkos’Yamagcokama’s death, “Lashona Ilanga” arrived. Days later, the Limit Nala and Sne Ntuli collaboration was South Africa’s No.1 song on Spotify — showing what happens when streaming technology meets a music community that was already deeply invested.
Fresh from her second Best R&B/Soul Album SAMA, lordkez brings Kwesta into her “Neo Nostalgia” world on “4SHO”, turning a week of recognition into the beginning of another chapter.
