The beauty of music in Eureka

MONKAGEDI GAOTLHOBOGWE
Staff Writer | Thursday November 11, 2010 00:00

 

For proof, check out how Element preaches morality in a sweet flowing, soulful Hip-hop song in Eureka the Coverboy's latest album, Stageworks.  The song is O Leka Modimo, and the featured rapper Notshi's rap is both funny and unique here as he uses his South African tswana slang to amazing effect.

'He was a high school teacher, assembling a pricha gore bana ba tlogele bofefe mare a bo dira; He was a teaser- moropa wa gore fa a le absente ko sgela, skolo sotlhe sa a mo misa; he had it all, dikepe le dikipa, dinxaoza dishades, formal shoes le disneaker.

He was a married man, but a chita, double crossing mosadi ka distudent le mamiza, mosadi a mopitla, a skrecha ka thipa, mosadi ga a sa iphitlha le lapa le a mo freeza, E e, a ka mo senya, this is one of the teachers ba ba tswalang bana ba skolo ko dikamoreng, o tla moreng!

O ne a ipatlela dikete thats why a ne a latelwa ke magapa ka divepe, ba mo tshwarela reipi, le gore o dirile bana ba ba 4 and 2 teachers preg! Often rap music is associated with gangsterism, self-praise, girls, fashion and all those finer things the urban life has to offer.  Eureka the Coverboy, real name Tebogo Motsie, in his latest album, Stageworks, is proving that hot rap tracks can come out even via a hard punching moral message!

Song no.4 on his latest CD, O Leka Modimo, opens with a mind-blowing tune that makes one pause and wonder at its beauty.  The chorus, also made beautiful by excellent artistry by a rap DJ who was brought on board to add scratches, and other effects that make this album so sweet sounding.

But the song is about those risky things we get entangled in sometimes via facebook, as Eureka beautifully pains a story of a man who befriends a 15-year-old girl on facebook, and starts buying her iPods and other fancy things until one day he sees the girl with its mother and now the man falls for her mom!  Another interesting picture the rapper paints here is that of a drug dealer who has been enjoying the high life finally gets caught and spends years in prison.

Element, a featured rapper, also raps about an indisciplined school teacher who impregnated two other teachers and four school girls.  Perhaps the beauty of his music is best captured by the track, My Music, a danceable tune that also features hot South African motswako rapper, Khuli Chana.

O Leka Modimo is one track that will immediately remind local rap lovers of VS's O Icheke, but it is the instrumentation or the beat of this track that gets one hooked to the tune.The chorus is a masterpiece here, thanks to the use of DJ skills to come up with some mind-blowing effects. Unlike the V.S O Icheke story, however, O Leka Modimo touches on various touchy-touchy situations the urban hippies get themselves into, all in pursuit of the good life.

Can it hit the heights of VS O Icheke's popularity?  Only time will tell, but if there is one song Eureka the Coverboy must shoot a video for, the storyline and the music for O Leka Modimo can see the youthful rapper going places.

He is a college lecturer by profession b, but when he drops his rap lines, Tebogo Motsie aka Eureka the Coverboy, few can match his sweet flowing verses.

The instrumental production is on another level.  The vocal production, with sophisticated sound effects only associated with American rap music can be mistaken for an overseas product.