21 Feb 2013

He started his music career 10 years ago.

Then he was working with PC Squad, a Kanye based Hip-Hop outfit of the Kanye anthem fame. Now he hopes to make his own footprints with his debut album titled Ke tshaba mang due to be released in March.

The single, Kanye anthem, became a popular RB2 hit back in 2006, thanks largely to host DJ Sly’ love for the “Curtain Raisers” hit track. 

The mix album, comprising works of various upcoming artistes had been recorded earlier in the year by Kanye based Audio WoodHall Records.

Now, Lopang Nelson Bosholo, affectionately known as Pisty Cardo to his legion of fans, is coming back from his musical Babylon. 

He hopes his sparkle will this time around be greater.

He has cooked his own genre, which he calls Afro Hip-Hop, a fusion of Hip-Hop, Afro Jazz and traditional music.

While in the past his music targeted mostly a youthful audience, this time around he sings more mature, real life inspired songs for all age groups, admonishing, exhorting and giving guidance and advice.

 He is working on the final touches as he has been baking it for quite a while in a measure of quality.

The album features the hit song   Ke Tshaba Mang which is the title track. 

In this song, he collaborated with renowned kwaito maestro, Coloza.

Another hit is Ba Ga  Maila in which he collaborated with various artistes ranging from Kgokgonono, Dixon 5, Coloza and Rouch King.

Pisty ascribes his love for Hip-Hop to having grown up listening to the genre especially the likes of American rap icon Busta Rhymes. Locally he was inspired by the Ditlhase cousins Aupa and Alefeng and his best friend Coloza.

The message in Ke tshaba mang is clear: Pisty is the boss in his genre and will not have anybody lord it over him.

“Music is my thing dude, I live to do it fully bra, and to everybody out there watch out here I come,” he chirrups ‘Afro-Hip hopishly.’

And yes, anybody can string words together to suit one genre or another, he says.

All that one needs is commitment. And hard work.

But, especially young people, they must do it with much vigilance, for out there lurk crooks in sheep’s skin, ready to bleed aspiring musos of their hard earned money. ENDS