Finding the Third Mind...

My ipod on shuffle, I suddenly hear the familiar bassline, "Listen to the beat go bumph, bumph, bumph, bumph, bumph, bumph, ngoma e ya shaya". Cue: the light bulb flicking on in my head, "What on earth happened to these guys?"

In comparison to the dog-eat-dog, extremely competitive music industry of South Africa, Botswana is really not a very easy place to be forgotten.

This is purely because it is so small in relation to its giant neighbour. How then did the  trail-blazing Third Mind, Eric Ramco Record's hip-hop dream team, slide into obscurity?  Just a couple of years ago,  Kagiso Presley Azizz Metshe, Modise 'Dee' Moletsane and Mokhabi `Bumpy' Moeletsi seemed comfortably poised to conquer the world, or at least the Southern African music scene, with an African Kora award nomination for best group in 2005 and the Ramco Loco powerhouse backing them to the finish line.

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