Know what you're chewing on.

From the audience stats I've been looking at, most of our readers aren't from South Africa. Americans, Russians, and Germans. Some of you are even from wonderful exotic places like Malaysia and Indonesia. That's fantastic! We want to reach as many people as possible. It's an awesome thing to have people from all over the world hopping on board your journey with you. For those of you who don't know about Kwaito, this post is solely dedicated with much loves and cares, to you. 

So, what is Kwaito? It's a music genre which came about in Johannesburg during the 1990s. You can think of it as a form of house music, but with that African flare and personality you can't find anywhere else in the world...duh! It has a slower tempo than the usual house and it usually has extremely catchy melodies and percussive loop samples. Oh! And you can't forget the deep bass lines and quirky vocals. In a way, you can say it's similar to Hip-hop but the distinctive feature about Kwaito is the way the lyrics are sung. They're either rapped, shouted, or sung conventionally.  In a typical Kwaito song you'll hear synthesizer, sampler, percussion, vocals, and a drum machine. The interesting thing about Kwaito, is that the word originates from the Afrikaans "Kwaai", meaning angry.