The township boy matures
Dumisani Ncube | Tuesday August 2, 2016 14:49
Township Music 2 was released last week Friday. The rapper gave his fans an opportunity of listening to the 14-track album through streaming it on the Drama Boi App.
Upon listening to the first track, Genesis, one will quickly notice that Drama Boi has matured into a grown young adult due to the lyrical content and message he is passing.
The content is way too different from his previous albums Township Music and Wamakeishane, which had more of a carefree content.
As usual he plays around with rhymes, metaphors with his deep Motswako and Setswana speaking abilities.
Township Music 2 is designed in such as way that from the first track till track number six it is more of serious, personal hard hitting factual content.
Within these songs there is a track titled Conversation with mama, which features Gaone Ranthoiwa. On the emotional song the rapper talks of how his father was never there and the advices that his mother gave him to be a better man.
He even redid Christian hymn Ke tshepile wena that has additional Motswako lyrics, but also a heavy dose of gospel influence.
This album quickly reminds one of how the rapper previously stated that he has matured musically. In a previous interview he was quoted saying, “I used to make music for people to dance and rate me, now I am making music to change lives, educate and inspire people”.
The tone of the album gets to change from the seventh track which is Mosutele into a boogie down mood as there is party and sing-along jams such as Party next door which features Rizz.
On this second half of the album that is where you get to see the naughty Drama Boi who also raps about the beauty of women, turn up and how he prefers kissing a woman than beating her up on tracks such as Mosadi yo, Bosigo kao fela and Lamza respectively.
Despite it being a Motswako album it has other musical elements.
The first half of the album, which shows the grown-up Drama Boi, has that jazzy and adult contemporary sound. The second part has that uptown Hip-hop and Kwaito sound.
With many adopting the loud trap sound, Township Music 2 has the relevant mainstream Motswako sound.
Another element of growth is seen on the professionalism carried by Drama Boi. He gave his fans an opportunity of streaming the album, and selling it on iTunes. It is only a few local artists that have taken the strides of doing such. The hard copy of the album will be on sale this month.