On stage with Mo & the rays at Back to the city festival 2016

Back to the city 2016 was exciting! It was my first Back to the city experience since relocating and I got the honour of sharing a stage with Mo & the rays, there was nothing like it.
Coming face to face with emcees whose work has inspired, built me up and spoke to me over the years was just sentimental, there are no words of describing it.

The whole event felt like a massive family reunion I was surprised at the number of people I actually knew and whom knew me, it was just crazy. I was seeing a lot of familiar faces, a lot of interesting characters and it was liberating to be in the presence of people who chose to come together under this unifying force of Hip Hop, people who delight in similar sentiments and  world views and it was really refreshing to be there. The day had me reminiscing of the times when all that really mattered was those lyrics you kept on repeat in your CD player responsible for getting you up in the morning, giving you some place in your own mind that you could escape to whenever you needed it. That first time you were actually exposed to what a dope verse was and got so encapsulated that you never looked back since.

It has always been about this medium of lyrical instrumentation when it came to rap for me, the thrill of exploring our ability to move with rhythms, morph into ideas and concepts, exhibit exhilarating and acrobatic flows n techniques, skills and playing around with the different ways of delivering all that magic has always excited me. For a good 7 years of my life at some point it was all I could think, eat and sleep. I was just so damn inspired and all my creative antenna’s were just charged. My journey has taken me through a host of lessons and much of my enthusiasm for arts all together has drastically changed but Wednesday was amazing none the less.

Started the morning off at a dress fitting for Mo and then met up with the girls for a beer, couldn’t believe my excitement the minute I saw Apple. We used to mission together in Durban a few times meeting up at shows and doing the usual jameson pub runs. I hadn't seen her in so long that It was just an absolute pleasure to run into her again at an occasion like this, reminded me of how small the circle really is we'd keep reconnecting with the same faces over and over again. From there on we went to run a few errands and collect the tickets, it was such a process but all the events leading up to our time on stage made the night as explosive as it turned out to be. It was a dope event!

watch footage from the nights performance :