Article 26: The impact of social media in today's hip hop.

So things change, times evolve, but the more things change the more they stay the same, but the only thing that is constant is change.

The fashion scene, architects, even the hair and accessory scene, and the music game is also in its own transitional and changing stages. We see old trends going out and new sounds taking over.

While a lot of things remain the same, many change with the times. The music scene has for a good part changed. New soun, new way of recordin, producing and distributing music is all thanks to technology. The phenomenon that technology is has enables me to be able to get music from the US as soon as it is released. Availability and accessability of music around the world is amazing.

Artists now post new songs weeks on weeks on weeks on social mediums for public consumption, but is the public really taking in the music and listening? Is this a futile exercise? How do you artists keep track of all this? What does putting a track out there and posting up a link on every group you are a part of help?

That shit is really annoying because evrypne does it, and I know because it annoys the fuck out of me. A person I hardly know sending me links? Why the hell would I give up my time and click on that link just because its there? You think I would do that after O have seen and still see nothing potentially making you different? Releasing music is easy, it gets hard when you go about it in the wrong way. Be different first, work with people from different fields of expertise. If your sole purpose is to record a song and give it away and not even care how long you should promote it then you should get out of the studio and give the right people a chance to work on their projects. Releasing a song goes further than uploading it online, you have to make sure that people are listening and talking about it.

If you drop a song to me, do you stop to consider if Im your target market? Do you even know your target market? Many rappers just apply that rule of just throwing stuff out there and hoping someone listens. Now doing that, how will you know who your target market is? How will you know who is downloading your stuff because you need to know that peraon so you know they will buy your tape or album.

You need to have a circle, or a method that helps you understand your direction, your market and your progress. You need to know that Facebook aint your only hustle; it is there to help you advance if you are paying attention. Its just one of the many platforms that are there to help you as an artist to get word out.

Its not where you do everything, because you can be big on Facebook but shit on the streets.

Social media have made artists lazy in a way. Ya'll now spend your time hustling for 'Likes' and links you seem to be forgeting that the real hustle is out there. You go hustle then promote your art on social networks. Everything cannot be done on these mediums, it cannot be achieved there.

TheNASHmag Ed.

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Article 22: If I got the chance by Tania

If i got the chance to go back in time,turn back the clock, get a second chance to undo the things of the past, to go back and start all over again...and if this means i had to loose my lil girl,my joy,my sunshine, my realest love, the person who matters most to me than me.
If it means loosing the love i felt when i felt it. If it means loosing all that i learned. If it means taking away the experiences i had that led to me being the person i am. I wouldn't change a thing.

Regrets are a waste. They take away the essence of the experience, the lesson in the event, the reference for you to look back after you have moved away and moved on. Regret denies you of what you deserve. We learn as we do, as we experience. We grow as we live, as we learn. There is lots we can't undo unless it is an error on your pc screen. We live by hoping to do right and if we don't, we learn from our wrongs and try to correct them or to never to them again as we continue to lead our imperfect lives in this complicated world.

I would never want to undo anything in my life, with the hope of getting a different outcome because it would lead me to a different world than i am in right now, and that would be unfortunate for me.

Article 21: Corner Joint Mondays

Corner Joint has released a statement to address the technicality of today's installment of "Corner Joint Mondays".

Corner Joint's Sp said the following on Facebook, "The link for Corner Joint Mondays has broken, we apologize for any any inconvenience to anyone who tried to download the track. we have uploaded the track again and its available for download again" The link to the track appeared to be broken so they have uploaded the track again for the people to download. The song was doing over 30 downloads in its first few hours which is better than last week's numbers. People in Ga- Rankuwa has given positive feedback since this project was started. It gives people the opportunity to be able to access the great music produced right here in G- town.

To get the track, simply follow the link below

LJ Lattrel & Sp- Baby Khante keng?

Article 20: If I hear "How to" one more time: Tania Moeng

There are many things out there that are stereo typical.
There are so many rules telling woman, men, kids, elders, everyone how to be, how to behave, how to dress, how to speak, how to relax and how to be. Rules and regulations are set and standards and expectations are placed.


In the typical black community, a girl child has to know how to wash the dishes and all the other household chores, while the boy child is not taught how to do the very same things, because he will just get wife who knows how to do all those things. A man is told that he is not supposed to show emotion, not supposed to cry. A woman’s place was said to be the kitchen. A woman was forced into marriage and was not supposed to leave, even when she was not happy.

Parents would never talk to their kids about the “birds and the bees”, a daughter would never talk to her mother about a boyfriend and a father would never talk to his son about how to treat a woman. Mainstream folks never did these things. A family would much rather keep a secret than help the victim of the secret because they cared more about what people would think than the well-being of their own.

Why do you think all these things were done, why do you think people did all these things? Isn’t it the rules of the world? Isn’t it how things were always done, isn’t it how their elders lived, isn’t it what the magazines and blogs write, isn’t it what it is said on TV and what we hear on the radio and stumble across on the internet?

Some of these things are not done anymore. More like them are emerging though; they have the same dire consequences as the previous social rules did. If you are a certain way, you get labeled, if you wear a weave you are fake and less African, if you keep your hair natural you are not moving with the times and rural. These trends and ways of doing things are not for the good of anybody, they are just as bad as the previous ones. Times are changing and people’s perceptions and understandings become broad as they learn and as they are exposed to diversity. In the same breath people are also exposed to new society and new thoughts. Social thoughts and relating in the world that has become global is also a problem.

People are being told how to be, just like in the past when people where told what to do. As much as things are changing, they still relatively stay the same. We are being fed the rules of living, being told how everything works and how to follow and fit in. A guy to wear white socks or white shoes is a somehow offending someone out there who is a fashionista and did not like how it looks. Why is that person having a problem with another person’s personal choice? If you are on a date and you like a guy you must play with your hair and do something with your lips to show a guy you like him. What if you do not have hair to play with or you are not even the kind to do that?

There is a lot of “how to…” articles out there telling woman how to get and keep a man, how to behave on a first date. They tell men how to treat their mother-in-laws and how to keep their women happy. As if we are just one big thing off one thing. HOW TO EVERYTHING! Are we duplicates? Are we all supposed to just live by these rules and guidelines that some person put up together based on who knows what? I thought being different, sticking to being who you are and not trying to be what you are not was the thing to do.

We face many challenges in our lives and we really should not just follow suit just because it is how it’s done, or it has long being done. Let’s do things because we want to do them, because they feel right to us, because
we want to do them. There shouldn't be any other reason!

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Article 19: Straight off the streets "Corner Joint Mondays"

Corner Joint Mondays is looking like a success.


Corner Joint Records have embarked on a road to challenge themselves to give you as much music from Ga- Rankuwa as the hard as they can. They have launched a project called "Corner Joint Mondays" which is an exclusive day when they drop a track every week. Today they released a track called "The first time" and it was dedicated to the ladies to show they do remember ya'll when their in the studio. The track has been received with much respect and love as it was downloaded just 10 minutes after being uploaded here at the studio.

Look out for the event invites on Facebook during the course of the week to make it easy for you to acces the music. Also look out for "Rate Em Thursdays" here on the blog to see and rate the exclusives of our underground music.

"A child is raised within the community"

The link for "The First Time by Sp, CIA and LJ Lattrel
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Article 18: For the broken hearts by: TheNASHmag

We have all been in relationships, and we have all gotten our hearts broken.
As people we are different, we think different, feel different, act different and grief different. Recently, I have been speaking to someone who feels misunderstood, she feels that the people closest to him will never look at him the same again. All this has been caused by her previous relationship as she feels that she can never trust anyone again. She is a very expressive person and she does not believe in living life by society's riles. She is both creative, ambitious and a go-getter.

When one is in a relationship, we tend to trust the other person with the most deepest secrets hoping they do not use that against us, hoping they will understand the path we chose. This is a very bad move when you are dealing with a partner that obsesses over the little things you do, a partner that does not respect your privacy, that does not trust your judgement.

This post is for all those people who thought 'soul mates' exist, who thought 'true love' is not only a reality in fairy tales  People will hurt you, they will make sure your life crashes and burns just because you smoke weed of have a lot of friends of the opposite sex. True love is just a figment if the imagination, something we read about and see on TV, it's not something you can really believe in or count on. People will let you down, they will try their utmost best to ruin your dreams, take away your hopes and just plain fuck with your entire livelihood because you don't see life like they do and after all that shit their best excuse is saying "I only did this because I love you".

Shit, if you love someone you should always be able to look past their mistakes, look past the little faults and fuck ups, look past the bad habits. You should be able to be there for them when you need them most, you should be able to remember what you did to hurt them instead of the shit they did to hurt you. You should be able to be there in their darkest hour. If you really believe in love then I suppose you have the power to forgive and get that no one is perfect. You should be able to say "baby your imperfections make you perfect for me"

Do you believe in love?

Article 17: My name aint known no more...

I was born, bred and raised in the township.

Imagine being born in a place where the instruments of darkness tell you the honest truth and triffels, and betray you in deepest consequences, when the best day is Friday and somebody else's birthday but, a tear drops the next day.

Cause of drive by's and sad goodbyes are an everyday picture, the preacher preaches the same old scripture.

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, as I lay this black body to rest at least I know one thing, what will be will be because of time.

Some eyes, some eyes, the black man struggles to the next day while the white man is wondering which Country can I go to next.

Everywhere I turn, left, right and center I see the same coloured victims, victims of HIV, STD's my black beautiful sisters, victims of masihlalisane.
Three years later, she finds out she's been diagnosed with HIV.
I cant't begin to imagine that hard feels. A tear drops from my eye, as I drop down on one knee an d ask the Man up there, why me?
And then piece by piece, and breath by breath, and word to words this idea came to head, victory victory victory.

And then the so called abo guluva nama tiye, had nothing to fear because of my tears, every ghetto is fillied with thugs, poets and Emcees who are hungry for knowledge, if only they could grasp the concept of UNIFICATION.
Instead of misinterpretation, I know for every action, there's a reaction, so take one step towards the action of re-liberation.
And then, the reaction will reveal itself in the form of victory (so called FREEDOM).

I was born, bread and raised in the township, some eyes, some eyes...
Until we meet again, CIA signing out.

By : CIA

(Corner Joint Music)