By Unathi July
One of the most common cliché sayings in hip-hop is ‘Don’t believe the hype’, but this time you had to believe it. A flood of hip-hop heads from around the Cape Town suburbs and hoods invaded the Gugulethu Sports Complex on a blazing hot Sunday for the highly-anticipated Hype Live Sessions.
Gauteng-based Hype magazine and Roach Inc. Entertainment initiated this event series which was sponsored by MTN-Loaded. The incorporation of the park-jam set-up held there which is usually hosted by the All NYs Collective had sparked-off an exciting and vibrant mood which complemented the activities such as your MCing, DJing, Graffiti and Breakdancing that enthralled people to no end. Many of Cape Town’s finest hip hop arts such as Driemanskap, Ill-Literate-Skill, Archetypes, Ben Sharpa, Jitsvinger, Rattex, Mak1 the graf-writer, Ubuntu the former b-boy world champions came out in full force.
A favourite highlight of this event was when Korianda the host terminated Driemanskap’s set before it had actually finished, after they blazed the arena with their fire-breathing rhymes. The felt more like spectators themselves when the crowd drew towards them while they performed and this led to a major chaos.
What a dope showcase, even Mzoli’s fire-extinguishers were present to prevent the blaze… best believe that hype.
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