South African duo Stiff Pap have teamed up with Carhartt WIP for a limited edition run of exclusive t-shirts. The t-shifts are stocked exclusively online by the South London record label Cotch ...

Michael Lawson speaks to Johannesburg duo Stiff Pap, whose new EP ‘TUFF TIME$’ delivers an uncompromising sonic vision that "breaks the perception of the rainbow nation" In the aftermath of the ...

As the rock band Muse was gearing up to produce a new album, their label had an idea – make a greatest-hits album. They’d been pestered about it for years but it didn’t feel right. So, they set out on ...

Johannesburg - The warm-up events intended to introduce audiences to the Afropunk Festival culture have built up the excitement on the streets for the grand finale, to be held at Constitution Hill, ...

Stiff Pap is a South African electronic music duo making a name for themselves locally. They have opened for international artists such as Slowthai and Vince Staples; they also headlined Boiler Room ...

Against The Clock is a series where we give an artist 10 minutes in the studio and see what they come up with. Stiff Pap are producer Jakinda and MC Ayema Problem, a Johannesburg-based duo whose music ...

Stiff Pap is a South African electronic music duo fusing Kwaito, Gqom and Hip Hop to create their own unique sound. Their new album navigates the harsh Johannesburg environment as two Black men who ...

Cape Town based Stiff Pap have been making a name for themselves since dropping their high energy single ‘Dlala’ at the end of 2016. Describing their sound as a combination of gqom, kwaito and hip hop ...

A few songs into her set, Sho Madjozi asks her performance deejay to “just throw a beat and I’ll see what I can do.” When the beat, a hard-hitting gqom instrumental, is eventually given to her, she ...

Mshindi Boya (23), better known by his production moniker, Jakinda, is a genre chameleon. With a style that mixes industrial music, kwaito and gqom, the genre-blending producer is quickly carving a ...