Maskandi

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There is a genre of music called Maskandi in South Africa.

And I have noticed something incredibly alarming about the way our Maskandi artists are lifting from other people.

Let's talk about this next.

I think it means storm petrol, which is a kind of bird, so that also seemed appropriate.

I was channeling some of the Maskandi and Baklanga sounds that I grew up playing in Johannesburg, which have these very high short-lived riffs on the top one or two strings of the guitar.

I was really having a lot of fun bringing the syncopated approach of those into the Marco Polo part.

There's a couple of other flavors from around the world, lots of West African music, I think I even listened to some of the Indian music that we've played over the years and really enjoyed.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Hey, there by Maskandi there, don't shoot us.

Let me tell you guys something.

Eish, bro.

Inflation

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but there's a Maskandi artist that sent vocals for GoonFlava to fix them.

Yo, bro, you can't...

There's no chance

... it's just that [speaking isiZulu] uh, we are not doing e- enough justice to Maskandi.

It should have top up long time ago.

So and then, uh, if you look at your style of music-

... and, uh, you are from [speaking isiZulu]

Yeah

... and the expression, uh, uh, your expression is different genres but [speaking isiZulu] featuring mhlambe one of Maskandi people or whatsoever.

[speaking isiZulu]

Yeah, yeah.

It's a Maskandi, uh [laughs] it's a Maskandi Afro pop type of song.

Okay.

And there's... is hip hop, you know, uh, B- Big Zulu tries to think he can rap, so he tried it there.

We have a new song by Sjava.

It's called "Kiss." Um, it's coming from an album, Volume One, which says Digital Maskandi.

So make sure that you pre-save that Digital Maskandi album.

Um, wait, it's actually released.

Yeah, Volume One, Digital Maskandi album.

It's got 12 songs from Sjava.

Um, is it Sjava? Um, yeah, but it is Sjava.

You're probably gonna...