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Black Coffee

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“Literally, because I'm just there, like I'm just listening to music. I don't leave literally and I get into trouble. So wherever there was music, that's how I got into it because my cousin, who's also our neighbor, him and his friend had a mobile sound system, so they were doing weddings, like graduation parties. And so during the week, he'll have the sound system connected, like just small speaker and he'd play loud music and I'll go there. So I'll spend days there and then I started like they used to use like cassettes and you rewind with the pan. So that's how I started and I would like learn and I was curious and then they would take me to the day parties. Then I'll be the opening DJ. But I was so curious that I developed a style of playing. I was a little bit advanced in understanding.”
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“That's my earliest childhood memories with music is that in that big family, when it's hard and it's summer, we're just all outside and it plays the music. And how we dance, anything with music, you'd find me. That's why I never knew what I would do with it. But I just knew wherever it is, sometimes they will send me to the shops. And in the townships, sometimes there will be like a big Coca-Cola truck. Maybe they're promoting a new flavor and it's parked in this, they play music. They send me to buy bread and I don't come back.”
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“Yeah, before we moved. To my grandmother's place in the eastern Cape. The structure of my family back then was My entire family lived in one house, or not entire, but my father and his brothers So there was about four families. And that's where music was like a thing. You know, one of my uncles, my father's brother, I had a small Call them ghetto blas So he was the music guy. He loved Reggie. He used to play reggae a lot. That's where my first love for Reggae came from, like anything. As a kid, I used to know different pizza tosh albums, Bob, Molly, and the Whalers and all that kind of music. And every now and then it will be the pop that was happening at the time. And he will take it out. And all of us will be out there and we will dance, you know.”
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“This is why I share it. I share it because of what it does to me. My way of Healing people the same way it healed me. I don't know if I'm making sense”
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“Because it's always been my In that house where I used to leave and all I did was work and that in my room. Music helped me so much to dream of these moments. You know, like if I listen to Michael Jackson, I imagine where he lives in America and one day I'll go there. That's it. It really took me to all these places. So it became my friend. And I had an explanation as to even then what I would do with it. Like when I finished high school, I'm like, I'm going to go to college and study. And my cousins were like, are you crazy? Then what are you going to do? I didn't know. Do you want to be a teacher? I'm like, no. But this is what I want to do as long as I was surrounded by music. That's all I wanted to do, you know, because it just brought me so much peace. Happiness, you know, and”
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“If I'm good at making music My good in public speaking. So, if I play songs nice, am I now a role model to your children more than you? But society will say, oh, don't act this way. My kids look up to you and I'm like, but I'm just a DJ. Was living his life. And all of a sudden it's like, no, no, no, but you can't. You can't tweet like this because it's you. In the beginning, all I wanted to do was just to play music. Like I was that kid, even if I'm not invited at a party, I bring my record box and I wait and I hope they give me a chance. That's all I wanted to do.”
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“It's terrible that it's And there was no one, like I said, my grandmother was quite tough. And I look at how I am with my kids. You can see when you've pushed. A little bit hard in conversation with someone and you are able to bring them back and explain like, look, I'm sorry, I was a bit loud there. This is why. And So that they understand all the dynamics. And the older generation. Was the one that will whip you, you know, and tell you it's going to hurt me more than it hurts you. And that's it. You'll get over it because as a child, you have unconditional love for your person. you will eventually get over it and you're the one coming back making jokes like nothing happened you know um But I didn't have a good role model in anything. I used to avoid, I still do. Doing interviews because there's just again. Society pressure that”
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“Because I'm quick to create a comfortable space. You know, I can meet a stranger and I'm quick to, just like. I'm much quicker to move as well. And it's something that... I feel is not like But it's doable because I'm always on the move. There are things that I'm like I need to work on.”
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“One of them is just being to myself, you know, To a point where I have a very small circle of friends because I was never just a social guy So As a kid, I Had to do all the work alone Because your friends will sometimes come, but then they realize, okay, every day, you know, so they're not going to always come. So I was always like a loner growing up. Then I kind of like. Got comfortable with that, got comfortable with trusting my thoughts and my decisions, you know, like being confident in just myself Without needing people. And that has affected a lot of personal relationships where if I just feel a little bit uneasy. I will just remove myself. And it's not hard for me because I'm like. What I really know is myself. Something I want to start working on.”
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“All the games like other kids were doing. So I grew up with that kind of focus, which I hated because I wanted to be a kid. But then... Taught me so much about. Just work, having a work ethic and That's how I'm able to just pick up And leave wherever I can, you know.”
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“My father remained in Turban and remarried. So he started another family. He worked in a factory. For a company called Bacon, they made sweets and chocolates. That's where he worked and he just didn't have. He was a nice guy, but he wasn't present. On holidays we go see him, you know, he would have nothing to say. He wasn't the guy who's like. How was your day? How was school? Advice type of thing. You know, he wasn't, it was just like the way he was, you know. Yet my grandmother was there. She was the man and a woman. So she's the one who basically, and I used to hate it growing up because I just felt like when am I going to become a child? You know, and play like other kids. And she was like this. She was super straight. She was like, Assetive, hardworking, you know, it's hardly time to do like.”
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“She would make sure I'm up, she would make sure I'm on time and eventually it was my thing. She didn't have to wake me up. She didn't have to tell me when to go. She didn't have to, if there was a problem with the calves I knew, what was wrong, if I needed to get medication from the pharmacy, you know, I understood everything eventually. It became my thing. That's my childhood”
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“learned from her like to be assertive you wake up you go work also the strongest thing that i learned from her is she had calves and she was the only woman in the area Know who had cows, you know, and she was single woman and My job was to every morning go milk the cows before I go to school, every afternoon after school. So I hardly had a childhood time to play as a child. I was always working five o'clock, 5.30 from 11 years old every single day. Was my environment where I'm like, okay, whatever you need, you just have to work. There's no other way. And so for the few years,”
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“When I was born, my parents were married. My mom was super young. I was the first one Two other siblings at the time. My maid very extremely young, probably like 22, 23 already We were moved to live with our grandmother. The maternal side, and she's the one who raised us. She used to work in a general hospital, in a sewing room. But I saw her. Working extremely hard to go for everything she wanted, like I look back. And try too much in how much money she was earning and look at the achievements like changing her mud house. into a big designs, respectable house, and she did this bit by bit by bit. And as a kid, I was there and I saw it. Whatever little money she would have, she'll buy the bricks, they will wait, she'd buy sand, it waits, she buy gravel, it waits everything slowly. So that's what”
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“I stayed for three months in the hospital, you know, and that depressed me even more Music helped me so much, it brought me peace. This is why I share it. It's my way of healing people the same way it healed me. My childhood, where I come from, those things scare me.”
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“That was a scary thing for me when I went to the hospital. No one knew what to do. I would literally close my eyes. I wouldn't know whether it's here or here or here or”
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“Has had this sound and it was a car just rammed through the crowd and I just blacked out. I hardly had a childhood. I was always working and I used to hate it growing up because I just felt like when am I going to become a child, you know, and play like other kids?”
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