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Inside Holy Ten's Creative Process Holy Ten’s latest single, “Ndaremerwa” is all things austerity and lockdown precarity. Sung with resigned vulnerability and spiraling bars, “Ndaremererwa” is a message and a moment. By Onai Mushava | September 29, 2020 Kendrick Lamar once said he writes songs with prisoners in mind. These poor souls, unlike party animals waiting to hop onto the next wave, got all the time under the sun to process every layer and message dumped at their doorstep. Now that the whole world is in prison, with the covid-19 lockdown, the Lamartian doctrine holds truer than ever and conscious artists are coming for everything. Poptain has emerged out of five years of unrewarded grind to take over Zimdancehall. At 22, Zim hip hop’s Holy Ten (born Mukudzei Chits...

By Onai Mushava If there is no spoon in the Matrix, there is equally no belt in a rap beef. It is a blood sport where a fabrication is not a foul as long as it stings, just like they say in philosophy: “Got a dope theory? Then forget about reality.” Ultimately, rapper fitness is decided bar for bar and it looks good on hip hop that the trending feud eclipses the most recent dancehall disses for sophistication and savagery. First, the scoreline at a glance. In the first round, GZE (Resilience Chakare) savaged Noble Stylz (Prince Butawo) from crown prince of culture to clown prince of clout. Whereas “Fatality” was 6 minutes of cold calculus, Noble Stylz’s “GZE Lecture” was more emotion than precision. In the second round, the former 3rinity rapper was still in form with “Dhaf” but Noble re...

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Inside Holy Ten’s Creative Process

Zim Hip Hop Rises As Bodies Drop