HHP Speaks Setsw-English

By Quibell Ramantswana , 06 Mar 2009

He has done it….Again!HHP is taking South African Hip Hop to another level. Having already been nominated in the 2007 European Music Award for Best African Act he proves he is no One Hit Wonder with his 2009 nomination for the African Music Awards held in London this April.

“This is a great achievement… I don’t even need to win this award for me to feel like wow, I’m winning territories. I’m winning people over so that keeps me going over and over again”.

Born as Jabulani Tsambo, the multi-lingual Hip Hop star is known to mix different languages onto a track to which he calls ‘Setsw-English’.
If you haven’t heard that language before listen to The Mzansi Show with HHP to hear more about it.

“…I’am NOT the King Of Hip Hop in South Africa…”

Hip Hop Pansula is no quitter having proved in his ‘Celebrity Come Dancing’ Debut in 2007. He was written off by most people before he had even performed his first dance but went on to be crowned winner. “I just told myself that I needed to go out there and look like I had skills and like somebody who used to dance when they were thin and now they can’t because of the weight. Lucky enough I finally [won] it; it was an ‘Obama moment’. I’m even thinking of writing a book because I’m yet to know how I won ‘Strictly Come Dancing’”.

“I wouldn’t mind if I’m being classified as one of the pioneers of South African Hip Hop but the king..? No” HHP dismisses the suggestion vehemently. “I wouldn’t take the title of the King of Hip Hop, there is a lot of Hip Hop Mc’s in South Africa…I’m a total different package altogether”.

“…It’s like being a father at the age of 14…”

Ok, not King of Hip Hop then but certainly so at Lekoko Entertainment, his own recording company seems HHP certainly has his work cut out… “The disadvantage of running a record company, especially as an artist yourself, is that as an advertised brand people are expecting an album so new. You have to think like an artist and at the same time you have artist looking at you [for] help. It’s like being a father at the age of 14 it doesn’t work…”

HHP will tour the US from the 31st August to 29th September this year.

Kwaito.co.uk & The Mzansi Show wish HHP all the best at the African Music Awards in London.

Listen to The Mzansi Show on future radio 96.9 FM or on line at www.futureradio.co.uk. If you missed the show then catchup at www.kwaito.co.uk/themzansishow