May 22
The South African music industry as a whole bro also Datafilehost was big back then.π₯
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Datafilehost and Nyovest!
May 21
Fakaza was the worst best thing to happen to south African music industry π€πΎπ₯
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May 20
Song sounds like something you'd find on datafilehost back in the day
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I was in charge of the strategy to make datafilehost relevant. Without me there's no Cassper Nyovest and SA Hip-Hop. I birthed the best era.
May 3
We never had a Soundcloud era because of data costs & lack of Wifi access⦠We had a datafile host era & that was thanks to Cassper Nyovest. Game changer!
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him not knowing about it highlights how thereβs always been a divide between what i will currently refer to as datafilehost hip-hop and the SC/UG within SA hip hop zeitgeist
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No oneβs ever going to highlight the fact that the datafilehost(Nasty, Kid Tini, WTF) era existed in an entirely different echochamber to the soundcloud era(molley, hash, xxxlee) bc of data costs and underlying financial segregation caused by apartheid, in this essay I willβ¦
May 3
We never had a Soundcloud era because of data costs & lack of Wifi access⦠We had a datafile host era & that was thanks to Cassper Nyovest. Game changer!
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Apr 29
Datafilehost and fakaza really had the streets. Lol glad we in the streaming era and creatives can get paid directly πΈ
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Apr 26
Bigger where? On datafilehost or streaming platforms? Or bigger in your living room?
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βruined the gameβ is narrow minded asf when you consider that amaOGs havenβt stopped dropping music and people were dropping βtrashβ on datafilehost the same way niggas is dropping today, so nothing has changed but the landscape and narrative
Apr 18
Now I understand why Hip Hop is being criticised so much. These Nepo kids ruined the game and yβall are giving them flowers for it. Itβs not funny anymore.
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Mar 22
Downloaded SA HipHop music on datafilehost...NO STREAMING PLATFORMS!!!
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Mar 12
They always wanna reminisce about K.O & the good old datafilehost days π
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Mar 11
Datafilehost era crazy, pirates uploaded Touch My Blood there and did 363k downloads. ππππ
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Mar 11
Kid X dropped 3/4 Pace on Datafilehost and it got SAMA Nominated. Beautiful.
Mar 11
We really had bangers dropping on datafilehost when SA Hip-Hop peaked
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Mar 11
datafilehost was the ish even for upcoming artist it was lowkey the plug at the time.
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Mar 11
We really had bangers dropping on datafilehost when SA Hip-Hop peaked
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Mar 11
Kid X leaked that shit on Datafilehost because K.O was too busy with his own album π€£
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