Thread for the AmaPiano awesomeness that is “Baby Are You Coming?” by Zero12finest feat. ThaMagnificent2

Really love jazzidisciples
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), maandag 7 september 2020 3:27 bookmarkflaglink

that track is the bomb... for real

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), dinsdag 8 september 2020 13:44 bookmarkflaglink

official video is out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGvAKp3fOqg

...and it's the full 7+ minutes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3UVw_SZbMs
MFR Souls - Amanikiniki (on a 20 tracks album called... Musical Kings, Amapiano is all about royalty)

...and about long-ass albums!

for more where “Jazzidisciples (Zlele)” came from: the 5-track Ama Roto EP by Reece Madlisa & Zuma with Mr JazziQ is really good...

...and so is TallArseTee (the original amapiano mc)’s Pampiri EP (Tribute to Papers 707), which has 7 tracks, 3 of which are with the above combination, including “Ngwanona”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br-ah3UIX6o

(I’m mentioning the number of tracks because some of these amapiano projects (even some that are called EPs) can be intimidatingly long - case in point: that MFR Souls album. These two are in the half-hour range. And if you happen to feel amapiano all tends to sound samey: there’s lots of variety here, especially on the TallArseTee)

this banger now has a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9_da2P5JjQ
Focalistic ft. Vigro Deep • Ke Star

Stumbled upon these two articles while looking for sources
https://mixmag.net/feature/amapiano-south-africa-house-music-movement-gauteng
https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/from-south-africa-to-the-world-why-amapiano-could-be-the-next-dance-music-genre-to-rule-the-clubs-1.1065104

Thanks for those! The Mixmag piece in particular is interesting.

Propulsion & Vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0YvDXksIw8
DJ Lace ft. Khanye • Izint Ezinhle

Loving all these *different* versions of amapiano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91SWcOtx0M
Mr JazziQ ft. Reece Madlisa, Zuma, Mpura, Riky Rick & 9umba • VSOP

sorry, wasn't this the Zero12Finest thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaNEExJK-ec
Calvin Fallo ft. Zero12Finest • No Strings Attached

fun TV performance of Busiswa's "SBWL":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01_H7TtNQ2c

Izint Ezinhle is excellent. And yeah definitely something "different" going on...I wonder if I really have any idea what makes amapiano amapiano? Anyway, I got pleasing Tresor-ish vibes from that. I also want to say that I *love* the guitar that comes in at the end, that's how you do it :)

VSOP's amapiano d'ennui is certainly an intriguing move, maybe a little sluggish for repeat listens imo, but very cool to see how much stretch there is in this sound.

yeah, I guess I sh/c/ould have posted "Izint Ezinhle" on the Sun-El thread as sort of adjacent to Blaq Diamond or Samthing's "Omama Bomthandazo", but percussion and bass-wise it is definitely under the influence of amapiano.

I mentioned it somewhere (but not on this thread I don’t think), but KayGee DaKing x Bizizi’s Kokota Piano (Amapiano Vol. 1) is a killer album, one of my favourites of the year. Front to back strong amapiano tracks with a delicious pop crunch.

Of course there’s last year’s massive “Kokota” (see upthread, also for the wedding dance version), and its follow-up “Isabella”, but these two:
Kaygee DaKing & Bizizi ft. Team Mosha • December;
Kaygee DaKing & Bizizi • Sendi Location
were posted here as well, with links that are now broken.

They made a video for “Rambo” (which might actually be the sparsest of the bunch, with not as much of that pop sheen):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJISK2BiHOs

(btw they've since dropped a new project as well, called Double Dragon)

Other broken links that needed replacing:

DeMthuda ft. Njelic • Shesha

De Mogul SA ft. Mdee Mshangane • Na Ku Randza

JohnBravo ft. Caltonic SA • Thuma Mina (Freestyle)

Another very good album I never mentioned on this thread: Semi Tee’s I’m Only Tweentyone (yes, it’s spelled ‘tweentyone’). It’s some dense shit, sonically closer to gqom than most amapiano. Check “Mercedes” and especially “Stayla” upthread.

Weirdly, singles “Gabadiya” and this one (I’m replacing the broken link):
Semi Tee ft. Ma Lemon • Lemonade
are not included on the album.

This other heavy hitter with Ma Lemon is though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FijCIxLVs1w
Semi Tee ft. Ma Lemon • Vumani

(Everybody needs some) Amapiano relaxation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWo9vo9ZgvA
Kota Embassy ft. Cue • Sugar Mama

(possibly outvibing even DJ Stokie’s “Senorita”)

But maybe you want your amapiano to do more... damage?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q438fxYiar0
Quexdeep • Damage

And, crucially:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKsfRZcPngs
Mapara A Jazz ft. Ntosh Gazi & Colano • John Vuli Gate

Seriously, the John Vuli Gate thing is *blowing up* in SA - it comes with A Challenge:

read about it here...

watch it here...

parodies abound...

Checked up on that Ntosh Gazi guy who's on "John Vula Gate", and this, from last year, is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpTCM5n8ZAs
Ntosh Gazi ft. BlackBoyCannon • Tshaba

(it has 25 views, whatever)

this is quite something from Busiswa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Knx9Vi1MRM
Busiswa ft. Mr JazziQ • Makazi

Between Mr JazziQ and Josiah De Disciple, JazziDisciples are having quite a year with all the stuff they’ve been involved with. Probably my favourite amapiano producers after Kabza (w/wo Maphorisa).

that's great, it's cool to hear how busiswa has adapted to amapiano beats

yeah, her vocal on this is amazing, unlike anything I’ve heard her do before

to be clear: *her vocal on this* is unlike anything I’ve heard her do before, she’s been plenty amazing in the past as well obviously

this is fucking great

oh my god, "Makazi" people! i'm not kidding! don't sleep on this!

that vocal breakdown at 4'25 is e-ve-ry-thing

Loving the aggressive hip hop into Amapiano vibes of Da Les’ Elon Musk, featuring some familiar voices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ4eWa7v-Bo

moodypiano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n60B5bPQfx8
Solid T ft. Mr Madumane • Kom Kyk

does this feature the *real* Madumane (ie Maphorisa's rap alias?) or just someone who sounds quite like him and mentions his name a lot? either way, this is one groovy jam.

As a Dutchie, I’m fascinated by the occasional Afrikaans (loan)words and phrases in the lyrics of Zulu/Xhosa/etc music genres. Here the track title is Afrikaans, it means “Come (have a) look”.

Yeah there's a good number of Afrikaans words that have passed in South African English. Braai. Askies. Buckie. Lekker. Not even getting into the food (Boerewors, Vetkoek). When I was staying there the landlord's 5-year-old daughter would be coming to visit us at the cottage, and her English was full of Afrikaans and it was very fun trying to decipher what she was saying. We'd be asking her "did you have a good slaapie Kara ?", "what did you kyked ?". When we returned last year, she had grown up and her English was perfect (and little Boer accent thank God).
I also still can't get enough that South Africans call a traffic light a "robot". 'Short left after robot'.

I forgot an obvious one: voetsek !

one of the most surprising examples to me is “verstaan(a)” (‘understand’) in the Xhosa lyrics of Tresor & Msaki’s “Sondela” (not amapiano obviously).

about that “verkoek”:

https://static.raru.co.za/cover/2014/04/11/130398-l.jpg?v=1397170800

damn, “vetkoek”

does "askies" just mean "I'm sorry"?

yep, same word as “excuse”, but (I think) instead derived from the Dutch “excuus”

the above confirmed ✅

(in Afrikaans it’s spelled “ekskuus” tho, with “askies” being the colloquial version that’s used in other SA languages as well)

dank je!

Busiswa just dropped a new album, My Side of the Story. The tracklist suggests it's very amapiano-heavy.

it must be the December season!

it's good!

i kinda think Makazi is a competitor for best song of the year

beautypiano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlG_6eqLCuo
Zain SA • Ina Iyeza

How about some TanzaPiano?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJXB8kqKMOk
Marioo ft. Sho Madjozi & Bontle Smith • Mama Amina

(made with generous help from South Africa obviously)

The Busiswa album is good, much better than the forgettable rush job that was her previous, Summer Life, two years ago - but not as good as Highly Flavoured before it imo. Wish she would have made good on the promise of tracks 1 and 3, where (like on “Makazi”) she uses her voice differently. Her singing voice on “Dololo” in particular is nothing short of spectacular. Quite the mission statement, I thought, but apart from “Bonnie & Clyde” she doesn’t really back it up on the rest of the album. Still, “SBWL” and especially “Makazi” are among the best singles of the year and there’s two strong tracks from the Mas/Kabza/Maphorisa camp.

loving this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdkPvFE2wac

Falz ft. Niniola - Squander

prime naijapiano!

got around to Busiswa's My Side of the Story and i pretty much agree with breastcrawl - it's not quite the tour de force that Highly Flavoured was, but still a welcome return to form after Summer Life was such a disappointment

anywhere you can buy 320s for ama or just amazon/itunes?

7digital is probably your best bet