South African rap pioneer Spoek Mathambo offers up a spellbinding jam with his new song "I Found You." On the hopeful ode to love and discovery, his powerhouse band Fantasma fires up an electric ...

I used to listen to her song, "No Me Conocerás," all the time and I got in contact with her at some point. Turns out she's heard something of mine and the rest is history. We work together a lot. What ...

At about this time yesterday, Spoek Mathambo was washing dishes in his Malmö kitchen, thousands upon thousands of miles away from his birthplace of Johannesburg, South Africa. But as he explained to ...

The way that Spoek Mathambo describes waking up from a dream, sounds something like waking up into another one in the song, “Grave,” from the South African’s latest record and Sub Pop debut, “Father ...

The tape starts: "... This is a time when the fruits are growing out of something that was sown a long time ago. It’s not like these are the fruits of just liberation. Those kids who grew up so fucked ...

A self-proclaimed rapping nerd, 27-year-old Nthato Mokgata (aka Spoek Mathambo, meaning ‘ghost of bones’ in township slang) is not afraid to go against the grain. With the release of his second album, ...