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Black Coffee

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“Thank you. Appreciate the invitation. I was nervous over coming here now. Opening up, and but it worked out well. Thank you.”
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“laughter. People laugh when they are happy. And going back to what I said in the beginning, I think personally that's what we're searching for. It's the human race which is looking for happiness.”
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“Not anymore. I love you as one of them. Because it was never... As like an African family to have that kind of warmth and this kind of conversations, you know. Even our hugs are still a little bit awkward, but they still hugs because it's never been, their generation didn't do that. They would show you and you'd know your parents love you in the best way they will do it, you know. And being a parent, I am so much aware. How I want to teach my kids to be able to say it and Randomly hug them because I never had that growing up. And then in the end, we are the ones who come back and teach our parents, no matter how awkward it gets, teach them to say. And they learn, even though it's like, it's not something they know.”
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“You can't take them all. Because life is so long and we keep discovering things to take, you know, and they all have different meanings, which is where the small boy's journey and because if it was small boys boxes to tick, by now we will be done. You understand? So there's boxes of an adult, like you're saying, you live here and then you extend. And then, you know, upstairs. You keep, and then you're going to be like, actually, I need to buy another building. That's how it is. But all these things... We're never going to stop”
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“It's going to be... Not a destination It's going to be like a series of different things where boxes are ticked, you know.”
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“Actually, no. Day my divorce is signed. How do I celebrate? You know, it can be in front of my mother, you know. So you're right. But remember, it's all the search. What it is searching for happiness. And in the end, I don't think We're going to be able to find and define it”
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“You know what I mean? That's the difference between Black Cough and Natty. I'm just like taking it that far where I'm understanding the different dynamics.”
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“Know like creates this value out of it. Any kind of friends that are, you know, like unknown in the world that come to visit, we create all the memorabilia. Even the suit I wore, the Grammys. Frame it and I've kept it and the shoes and that's the whole idea to kind of like build like a legacy project for my kids who are living next door. In a normal setting where they're not exposed to or having a day with the kids in the pool and then Drake's walk. Is walking in, you know, like”
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“Know, so I'm very much intentional about the things I collect, the art on the wall, like everything that I do, I'm doing to create value in the house, you know, to have Steve come to this house and we take a picture by the pool and it goes to the wall of fame.”
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“But the thing is about the Black Off House, which is before we started recording you and asking me what's on my mind. And I was telling you, legacy, legacy, legacy. I want to build Black Coffee House as a black coffee house. I would be like a future black coffee house.”
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“So that's where you're going to find me on the floor, on the grass, playing with my children. The next door, that's the black coffee”
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“I love it, but at the same time, I even told her, you know, I'm like, I just feel like. This combat, you know, I'm about to finalize my divorce and I live with my mother And the most incredible thing happened. I get a phone call just that week when it was stressing me so much. I get a phone call. So, Namba, I don't know. I'm like, yo, and then this guy is like, my name is Michael. I'm your neighbor. And we have this long conversation on the phone. And then he's like, by the way. I'm selling my house and I'm going away. We're moving to another country. Just letting you know, as a neighbor, And I was like, Oh thank you God because it was like a solution. So I bought the neighbor's house. And in my crazy hat, the neighbor's house, that's where my mom and the children are going to stay. That's a naughty house.”
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“And then toys over and back home, I'm sitting. I'm like. This is my life. You know, like the house I left, I just finished building. Now I live in an apartment like a student. Let me look for a house for myself. Then I looked for a house and I found it. So I have the house, but now I'm like, it's a big house, but it's lonely because I'm from family. I live alone. So I'm like, mom, don't you want to move and come stay with me, which I think is a noble thing, you know, because my mom had like a heart problem. So she moves. And then now I have the warmth of the family, right? It's nice. And I'm like, but is this my life? I live with my mother. I can't bring my friends here. Have a little party because my mom is in the other room. Then it bothers me so much and I think I remember having a conversation with my friend. I'm like, man.”
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“Going through magazine and seeing model girls, you know, like thinking, wow, if one day I can have a girlfriend like this, right? That's Nutty, but Natty never had access to that and never would given where he comes from. But black coffee has. Access to that. And sometimes not use his black coffee to. To satisfy Natty, where it's like, Instead of saying hi, I'm Natty. It's all you black coffee. And I'm like, hmm, yeah. You understand? So it's two different things to a point where even where I live now. It's crazy, but that's how it is where I first bought myself a house. This is with my forest story that's not even final. I moved out of the house. So I'm like, life is going to be so dope, you know, now that I'm a single guy and I live in this apartment and in between tours I go back and like, wow.”
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“Blackoff has all the privileges. It's a joke in my house, and sometimes when I want to go eat in a restaurant and I think late, I'm like, damn, I need to go. And I tell my sister, please book. And then she's like, oh, well, not now. It used to happen like that. She's like, oh, it's fully booked. And then I'm like, no, but just tell them who's calling. And then she's like, oh, yeah. Yeah, table for two, sorted, you know, those are the packs A black coffee packs where it's like If not he called, the restaurant is full. If black coffee called There's a seat for you. There's a table for you. So Nutty is the kid that grew up.”
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“So how is this shift then, even in respecting that person? Because then one is like, I'm the king now. Then another is like, you're still the king. You did this before me. I'm paying so much respects to you. So it's a very thin line between Seeing yourself as king over everyone else or knowing you are and still respecting everyone else. And that's the balance for me. And it took me such a long time and I'm still battling and I'm working on it and I'm a little bit better now in understanding the difference between Natty and Black Coffee.”
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“That's why therapy is such an important thing for us. I mean, I've had so many different conversations with South African artists. Some have had conflict with. And when we meet and try to solve the conflict, I'm like, let me tell you what's going to help all of us is therapy. Because how do I go? From being that boy. Know living in the same community. where like no one even looked at me. And you fast forward. I'm coming back to that same community, like in a Lamborghini and everyone wants a picture. And it's a fact. Just to me, you know, so you need to really work on yourself when you cross that line where it's like, Someone you looked up to As a kid, you saw this guy so successful and you realize that actually. You are the successful one.”
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“No, I think at this point, I mean. This is what we do. You know, if you look at You made a reference about Michael Jordan and Cob. Can you imagine the hours they spent like to get to that level? It becomes second nature. You know, the first thing that comes to mind is that little boy milking cows. This is a blessing. So nine shows. Must have made good money. You to complain”
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“That's why we do. So before hire I'm somewhere else, after hire I'm somewhere else. Like I had a show here on a Sunday yesterday. I have a show on Tuesday tomorrow So sometimes it's Tuesday, sometimes it's Wednesdays, but every summer it's like, For every Saturday, there's a Thursday and a Friday and a Sunday sometimes.”
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“Saturdays alone in Louisa, like 21 of them. And submit then since May, so meaning Thursday, Friday, I'm somewhere else, Sunday, I'm somewhere else every weekend.”
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“Means you're competing against your African brothers and sisters, which is what I really hate. So my point is, I then separate the two. If I want to do a single with an African artist, I can do that. like a Grammy quality kind of work, I can still do it. But I'm fortunate not to have those kind of gatekeepers and authorities that tell me. And I can understand with the deep flaws in them. Their structures are different. But we're fortunate things well.”
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“Then after I listen, EP called music is King, which was purely, purely for like. African markets. Because even now I don't have a label. So, I don't have Have these conversations about what song I want to do and how does it sound. But still, when I do, my team knows I want to separate the two. Africa must be on its own because one day I may wake up and be like, I've always been a fan of Sarificator. I want to do a song on Salificator. And when you do a song with Salif Kater, being a Grammy winning artist, You put the song in an album, that album might not be nominated on the Dance electronic album. Course, the language is foreign. They will take that album and shove it with the world music.”
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“The last album that I did was the first album with a label in the US where there was You know, and it would mostly come as we're not sure about this one. But what I did was I separated my African releases. From the global releases. Therefore, when they're like, we're not sure, I'm like, it's okay, I'll release it in Africa. Where I know it'll make more sense, and also it fits the sound that I'm doing that I want to do. You know, so I remember one of the songs I released was a song called Your Eyes with the South African Arts call Shikana. Brilliant song and they were like listed and immediately after it came out they changed their minds they were like okay maybe not we'll we'll also release the song you know because we were not following what they want you know and we were cool with it you know”
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“That's an easy part for us, you know, because first of all What am I looking for? Like what I just explained to you now is being a more DJ than a producer. So DJing pays our bills. That's our core business. Therefore, That's where we're going to be strongest. and releasing music is Second part of the business. So it being the second part of the business means it's not the main thing. And so there's no pressure in then. Following all the trends that come. And I've been quite fortunate. In my career from the beginning, when I released my first album, I released it with the licensing deal, meaning I did it on my own and I submit it to a label so no one could say. We don't like number five. Take out number seven. Don't you want to fix number two? It was a down in package album. And that's been the nature of my production career where”
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“Because I just feel like then you have to keep chasing the number one. So if I am this year, then I must be next year. Otherwise, then there's a deep that's going to come with that if I'm not. We do what we're comfortable with. Because what we're comfortable with, we can do it again. And improve it and improve it. So the goal is always the same, like not to try and Be comfortable. You can wake me up. Tomorrow and be like, Can you make a song like Drive I can probably better Then oh I can never make that soul again because wow, you know it's in my space you know everything is in my sound bank everything I work with is always around you know And also I think now I'm clearer as to who I am as an artist I'm more of sixty five percent DJ. Where all my energy is, then 35%.”
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“I think Where I think It's just being intentional about what you want. People I work with. From the beginning There's always just like the goal is similar. We don't try to. I don't think we chase number one. We just want quality. We strive for quality. We understand the less is more concepts. I've never treated this once in my country as well. I've never... Gone for like one song of the year. Those things scare me. I just want to release music that has the kind of substance that I love.”
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“I don't know like if it's the awards that drive me or just success itself. Because the narrative that, oh, he's probably like, I get a Grammy that like he wants something more. He wants more. He wants more. And I don't think I look at things like that. I think I just know that I can do more than in a world. I can do more than an achievement. I can do more than... I'm capable That's it. That's what I'm fighting for. And it's a little boy in me who was milking cows, who had no friends, who was like, Can especially coming from where I come from. And that's it. It's never really about I'm the smartest one and I'm going to be the best one. I'm the most gifted one. It's just like I started with nothing. I'm from nowhere, really. And I had nothing to lose. So I threw myself in and I just want to keep going”
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“Said in two years, and I said, in five years, just gave myself time. I said, in five years, I'm going to be one of the most important producers. I don't know if I said off the continent or the country, which actually I'm proud of that because it could have been worse. I could have said, I want to be number one. I want to be the baddest motherfucker. I would have said something crazy, like pump us. My answer was still very modest, but I was clear about. What I wanted. But after saying it, I freaked out because then I realized I need to own this. I need to own it and I need to then start working towards it. And then two years later, which was the question, Released my album and I won my first award for best album, you know, which was Loki. I was the best producer in the genre in the country, you know. But I think”
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“Was a scary thing for me I remember that I'll never forget it. I don't think that was me talking. You know, I just. It was black coffee. Someone I wasn't yet, you know, because I was never that guy I didn't have. I don't want to insult my schools and say I didn't have the right education. But, you know, I look at my kids' schools where they go to. They lend public speaking. They know how to present themselves and they know how to get across a point across. They know how to speak. I'm not from there. Everything that I kind of like have, I had to figure it out myself. And so doing an interview then, being asked this question. At the worst time of my life And give that answer because the question was where do you see yourself? And I said,”
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“I don't have to because I've been there. It's like learning the basic course and you go. An advance course. Go advance driving. Doesn't mean you're going to come on the road and drive like you were on the advanced driving school, you know? It's just understanding and knowing. When I look at this thing,”
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“I didn't play for a club or everyday two hours of my time because, and I used to say this, like, I just want to be ready. One day when someone says, you a DJ, I must boldly say yeah. I look now and I play sometimes. You could, I'm like, wow. Because I developed a style, you know, Playing that Is my own based on understanding myself and what I can do. I have a friend Uanda who grew up with, he's also a DJ. When I started like back in the day, really when I was spending time practicing, I used to be really crazy. And he says this all the time. They don't even know how crazy you are because now I don't do anything. I just play less is more. You know, I'm more experienced now. But my understanding of it is like on a different level, but I'm at a space where I'm like, I don't have to do.”
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“Especially as a DJ. Because I just felt like this thing was trying to rob me of this one thing that I really, really love and I will not allow it. So it made me in that sense, not even in a sense of who's going to employ me, I'm fact. My life is a mess. It was like if there's one thing I'm not going to lose. I won't stop. I have to be a DJ. I have to. I have to. And I'm from the Cassette era to the vinyl. I mean, how do you take a vinyl out of it? package with one hand. And this used to stress me, you know, when I look at it, I'm like, How will I become a professional DJ? And it takes me not or it took me not thinking. I just like did it. You know, like, I'm like, this is one thing I want to do. I just went all the way. I would go to school. I remember there was a time where I would spend at least two hours every day DJing.”
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“There's things like that. You can buy them from pharmacy. I have them. So when I'm home, I use that or when I have people at my house, I use it or when I swim. Even people who know me are like, are you okay? What happened? You know, these were things I was avoiding to be having to explain myself all the time. I was like, I sit and I look normal like everyone else. And there's people promise you in my life today who don't know.”
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“People were like, because the hand thing in the pocket happened when I was a kid, because I used to have the sling and even when I ran with other kids and I used to have to hold this hand because it was just moving everywhere. And one day I was like, I just put it in the pocket. And I was like, damn, this is more functional than having a sling. And I never stopped, you know. And so it wasn't even a thing that was like so deep. It just happened when I was young. And I was like, actually, I feel comfortable like this. And over time, it became, you know, I think because also being... The introvert that I am, it helps me in not explaining myself because everyone, even now, there's a”
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“Because as an artist, I just felt like I did not want to be seen as that guy. Has a disability, you know, where it's like, you know, like, didn't want a PT party. I just wanted to be. Understood and heard, like everyone else, you know. So my first album came out in 2005. That's it. I just worked on music, released it. I used to TJ the way I do and really think, Sky, he plays with his hand in his pocket. What's with that, you know, like, it looks cool, but what's, you know?”
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“I wouldn't know whether it's here or here or here or So over time, I've started feeling things I can differentiate between hot water and cold water. And every now and then, because that's another thing. I study your physiotherapy a lot. And I was a kid and after school I go and I train and that depressed me even more because I was waiting for results. And I thought I'm training for muscle that wasn't coming. So I couldn't see anything. And when I stopped, I stopped everything. I stopped thinking about it. I stopped waiting for it to be better. Yeah, so. Even now it's like If I woke up and it was fine That's where I'm at. Doesn't really matter. I think my life has turned out exactly how it's supposed to.”
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“It has gained probably like forty percent movement and Put it this way when it happened, I would literally close my eyes and I would know it was.”
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“Just wake up and do everything without calling for help. That was the most important thing for me because I didn't want to feel sorry for myself. The most important thing where I was like, I need to learn how not to call anyone for anything. Zero, like then that was a big thing for me”
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“Like, why me? I mean, when you are born fine, all of a sudden, and kids can be mean, so the name calling comes and, you know, because also I thought it was going to pass. And as a kid, even have dreams, you know, I wake up, I'm like, oh, I had a dream last night. My hand was working, and I was doing this. And, you know. And so to me, it was like maybe next week, maybe next month, you know, I'm going to be fine again. And so I went through a lot of that, you know, and then eventually acceptance. This is what it is, you know. I have to leave. I have to move on. And I kind of like stopped thinking about it. Just focused on. What's How do I learn to? Tim”
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“And he was like, no, we don't have to do it. Over time, the nevs will grow back, and that's what has happened, you know. And as a kid, I mean, I was 14. It was life-changing. Things I wasn't able to do Activities. There were just things I couldn't. I was in a music class. I couldn't participate on the piano lessons and we used to play recorders. So I went through a phase where It really affected me. Over time, I was like, actually, I have a life to live.”
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“Where I stayed for three months in the hospital. And even that they didn't know what to do. One morning they were like, okay, we figured it out. They put a cast. So I'll have a cast for like two weeks. But the damage was here, but I was a kid as well. Didn't understand So the danger is called brachial plexus, which is the damage of nerves. And there's nothing you can do to fix damage nerves. They can only fix themselves. So over time, So they tried different things. At some point, I remember I was being taken to a specialist to see if there was life on my arm. Because they were thinking of amputating my So they put this device that had electricity to see if it's going to, I'm going to fill it. And there was just like probably like 5% of life.”
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“Touched me. I think the force of the people that were in front because of the impact They pushed so hard. So what happened is I dislocated my shoulder but severely. I had no proses, no cards. It just came off. Meaning. My nerves that connect the arm to the body were snatched. And being in a small town when I went to the hospital, no one knew what to do. So I'm there. I'm holding my arm like. Don't know if it's broken. They don't know what to do with it. So they just gave me a sling and paint tablets and I went back home. But the pain couldn't stop and then... Following day, then I went to Durban, which is the biggest city to go to like a bigger hospital.”
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“Literally, and he stayed there for hours actually without anyone coming for him. Because I remember. This happened around four in the morning, went to a hospital around 30 minutes later, the cars took us to the hospital. I came back from the hospital around 7-8. I cannot even covered his car he was still lying there on the ground. That cost his life and someone else's life who was also in the crowd. So, by that time, I mean at seven in the morning, I'm back from hospital. The announcement happens. Nelson Mandela is finally out of jail. We're watching this from TV. I'm sitting on the couch. Chaos in the country. People are so happy this man is finally out. I was on the couch in pain, you know, after the accident. And I think what really happened to me, I don't think the car reached to me. I don't think the car.”
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“There was fire. You know, people were angry. So basically this driver switched off the lights. To literally just kill people with his car. And so they bent the car before they bent the guy too.”
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“Nelson Mandela was officially coming out of jail after 27 years. So there was like tribulations around the entire country. This was happening in all the major cities where people were like, we're going to stay up all night until the morning of his release. So this crowd was going to a stadium, which is close to my house. That's where the camping was going to be, the singing until the morning in the stadium. So they went on the streets, basically gathering more crowds. And we were now close to the stadium. And just out of nowhere, we just had this sound. And it was a car just came out of nowhere, lights off, just rammed through the crowd. So I was not in the front, but Maybe like 20% in. I just blacked out And people were screaming, and when I woke up,”
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“Yeah, I was talking to someone about it because it's a story, it was for years hard for me to share, you know, and I'm in a better space now. I'm able to talk about it. Street grandmother, we at home. On the 10 which was like around eight at night, and she was super strict. No one comes out the house that late. We were sitting in the house, I think, after dinner we're here, like people singing outside. We all come out. Everyone comes out to see what's happening and it was people singing. A group of people about to pass our house. We ran to the crowd with my cousins. You know, we were not allowed to, but this was nice. It wasn't a big thing even, I mean for her. But my cousin's went back. I didn't. Why? Music. So I followed the crowd. And the reason this was happening is because on the 11th of February.”
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“Then like classical music, and I didn't understand what I was being prepared for. All these years I kept being exposed to different types. And I'm a DJ. So then my taste. Varies based on understanding these different genres. That's why I was able to in 2010 do a show with a 24-piece orchestra.”
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“We were in the choir. We were singing one of the songs we sang in high school in the choir and one of the school lecturers had us. And she was shocked because we were jazz students. She was like, wow, you guys, you know, this is classical music. Like you sound so nice. There's a play that's happening at the playhouse called The Pirates of Panzans. If you were like, cool. So we went, we auditioned. We got the parts. So we would do chairs studies after school, we go practice at the playhouse. And we went to perform, we did, I was opening the show like I was a tenor, you know. Just anything that had to do with music from jazz when I was young, sorry, reggae, then I went through different stages than there was a time where I was like obsessed with fusion. Than gospel music.”
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“It was such a fascinating thing for the Jazz students because we were there learning scales and like the theory of music and I'm here with my DJing equipment you know at some point actually while I was a jazz student and a DJ I did a classical play All three at the same time Because me and a friend of mine. In the hallway at school.”
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“Temples of the songs. And so I wouldn't just randomly play. I would play songs that were close together in temple. And so all of a sudden the mixes were like almost flawless and people were like, Then I became their main DJ. By 1415, I was like their main DJ and the people booking them will tell them, bring that black boy. I was like super dark as a kid. Bring him, you know. And then I was more cheerious. Then I started collecting records. I bought tentables for my own and they bring the system. I plug more things. And then when I finished school and I moved to another city back to Durban where there was more access to things, then I really got into it. So I was studying chairs and music, but I was a DJ on the side. And sometimes I would bring tentacles into the school studio, you know.”
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