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With Dakar II still remaining the highest selling South African hip-hop album since it’s release in 2016, Kwesta is back with his 4th studio album. 

The lead single, Fire In The Ghetto drops 5 March 2021, and it has the perfect blend of what a fire in the ghetto would be, working with Troublle and Gobi Beast who have creatively made the song an easy sing-along with Troublle’s harmonic voice and the “bump your head” beat by Gobi.

“Power my People, My father my leader, my mother my teacher, my brother my keeper, my sister my healer, my Sarafina, baba wami my leader, empower my dreamers” will definitely be the township chant of 2021.” 

Kwesta keeps the main ingredient to his music which is the authenticity of the township story, a working recipe that Mr DaKAR knows exactly how to use in all his records. He has always been one to tell the township story through well produced music and Fire In The Ghetto is exactly that. 

“The inspiration behind Fire In The Ghetto was frustration and also care, when you feel like the powers that be and the people who are in positions of leadership, have turned their backs on ikasi, especially now with the pandemic,” Kwesta says.

“It seems that the ikasi must take care of themselves without the perks of being under South African government,” Kwesta adds.

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