How Asaph’s Unique Sound Has Made Bulawayo Proud in Hiphop Circles

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By Kinyua Mwangi

Zimbabwe is the home of great music and Zimdancehall is a big deal for the Shona people who feel that it delivers a moral lesson in the best way possible. This fact has made it quite difficult for Bulawayo-based artistes doing different genres to thrive at the same rate as those doing Zimdancehall.

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However, this is a dynamic that Asaph, a talented rapper based in Bulawayo over looked and changed the whole scene. A few days ago, he was nominated for the MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA).

It was not an easy thing as he had to battle for the ticket among four other great artistes such such as Winky D, Jah Prayzah, Gemma Griffiths and Sha Sha. Somehow, he landed the Listener’s Choice Category Zimbabwe nomination and will battle it out with other big names in Zimbabwe.

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Lifting the lid in his art of doing music which has now become a success, he told the Sunday Mail that he has found a liking for working with the beats first above everything else. This is what has given his music a different feeling in terms of beats, a tact that has earned him a place in the table of big artistes in Zimbabwe.

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Every time his music is played, Bulawayo come to mind. “I’m a person who works with the beat first, once I get an instrumental that I like then I build off of that,” he said. “I really like to believe that most of my releases are different from the last one…If I was raised by the city and influenced by the city then I guess the music will sound like the city. It’s something that we want but I don’t think I was consciously striving for it. I’m just making music. People love what they love and I’m glad they’re saying, ‘okay, this is starting to sound like Bulawayo’. I love it when they feel like we have found a signature sound,” he added.