Last month's System Focus column on emerging African and Afrodiasporic networks featured Angel-Ho, an artist bringing ballroom and other U.S. club flavors of black and gay origin into new and ...

Vic Mensa is one of hip-hop's more knowledgeable artists, so it should come as no surprise that the Chicago rapper is always looking to broaden his horizons. On Friday (Dec. 29), Mensa hopped on ...

‘I pioneered Cape Town gqom’ — 24-year-old Simphiwe Sihawu from Samora Machel in Cape Town took the South African gqom sound to South Korea and the UK all in one year. Sihawu, better known as Mr Thela ...

In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...

This collaborative mixtape between Gqom Oh! and the Rome-based Crudo Volta collective showcases some of the best music that gqom—a raw, brash dance music coming from Durban—has ever produced. Save ...

Ten years ago, if you'd asked an electronic music fan where the next wave of innovation in dance music was likely to originate, they might have suggested London, pointing to the myriad variations of ...

Gqom group DCB are ready to make their mark in the music scene. The Pinetown-based group made up of six members: Menzi Mngadi “ICK” Umbhali, Nkululeko “Raggo” Myeza, Sbonelo “Nduku” Dlamini, Bongumusa ...

A TikTok video of a drummer's take on Gqom entertained South Africans. The TikTok of a united Mzansi audience enjoying Gqom beats moved music lovers.

He started off playing and producing hip hop music in 2008. From being his rapper cousin's DJ, Lwazi Gala found himself producing beats for Msawawa around 2010. About a year later, he heard a gqom ...

Gqom duo CampMasters have been accused of stealing KG Smallz' song Umphefumulo Wam. KG Smallz, real name Khotso Potsane, released the song last year which has become an anthem around the world on ...