The Hip Hop African

Driemanskap is a hip hop group from South Africa, consisting of El Nino, Ma-B, Redondo, and Dla.  They are represented on Pioneer Unit record label based out of Cape Town.  This hip hop group like many other South African artists believe that hip hop is about bring attention to important issues and representing where you are from.  Driemanskap are the founders of a uniquely South African style of hip hop called Spaza.  Spaza hip hop combines the mother tongue of South Africa IsiXhosa, English, and Cape Town slang.  The record out now is Itsho Into.  Driemanskap started out performing in parks and street jams, and music festivals.  Now they are performing on the same stage with some of the country’s biggest artists like Ben Sharpa, and the Archetypes.