"THIS WILL BE OUR GENERATION'S WEDDING SONG"

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And we agree, Roki's “Chidzoka” is now old and she can’t "po po po po!" down the aisle.

So...here at PUSH, one of our writers tends to go hard on vocalists when he does reviews. actually, we suspect he is a hater. So we sent him this song early last week, and waited for the hate-speech to come.

Unfortunately for us, we didn’t get the show we had banked on (glad we didn’t make a wager) but what we got was so much worse. He fell in love with the song and he has had it on repeat all week.

This has got to be the best sing along track so far this year, and we are a way past halfway in 2014.

With that up tempo that midtempo happy go lucky feel that has that “Am I Wrong” (Nico and Vinz) touch, we were hooked from the onset. Chashe's smooth voice jumps in as soon as the song starts and this is when it happens; hook line and sinker!

Lovely, catchy and simple lyrics that tell the story of young love. To be honest, you won’t know this song is Zimbabwean until the Shona comes in the chorus. The effect the song has on people is the same; first there is the general appreciation of a nice seemingly well written song...then when the Shona comes in, the song just gets deeper love, "tiri bhande nebhrugwa, zviya zvekupenga". Sounds exactly how any young and old couple wants to love each other.

The last time we had heard Tinashe Makura was on the MMT LP where he featured twice and he hadn’t gotten the best reviews from us. Now Tinashe, well he has definitely made fans out of us. The way his voice comes in, bringing a beautiful contrast to Chashe's and creating the wonderful blend that turned a great song into an awesome one!

Chashe and  Tinashe Makura - "Zvekupenga" a well written and wonderfully produced record. From now on you will see...the expression for deep love will be #zvekupenga.

We are curious about how exactly how the song came about, for us and for the great people who read our blogs. So we will hunt them down for you.

You can follow them on twitter @tmakura @chashemusic

The song is available for purchase on the link below:

https://soundcloud.com/tinashe-makura/tinashe-makura-chashe-zvekupenga-we-gotogether

@PUSHZW

TWO FORTHCOMING COLLABORATIONS SET TO ROCK THIS AUGUST

NAVY SEAL AND THE ART DEPARTMENT : THIS AUGUST!!

If you don’t know Navy Seal by now then WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING TO!! The Bulawayo emcee whose released chart topping Jae Mac Beatz produced, single “Elevated” (four weeks number 1) is teaming up with re-formed group Art Department to release an album “While you were sleeping”. The trio, Art department are the same guys who dropped “pop one” under much respected label “Mic-A-Blaze”.  After that, they kinda fizzled out, but THEY ARE BACK! Illsicker, Fly Scarecrow, Tone Lakeside together with Navy Seal will this August release their album “While You Were Sleeping” a reminder and sorta “game straightening message to all those who have been sleepin on ‘em. The album has some pretty talented producers working on it including, Itayi “PHD” Mupawaenda  (Harare), Michael Mhonda and Michael Chikwanda aka First Class (Bulawayo), Veiltorn (Bulawayo), and Thabang “T.R-Hitz” Ratshee (Botswana). We heard the first song off the project “Ride with us”, WE LOVED IT. Its like street rap is back. (we were getting tired of too many songs that sounded immature). The song features vocalist Alaina and has a pretty straight up message. Check the video out here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE4kYxB2N1w

BOYZ REMUKUTE (REMIX) MONDAY 11/2014

Riding SEVEN DEEP on DJ Krimz Beatz production comes the remix to “BOYS REMUKUTE”.  Sinbad90 has teamed up with the apparent best vernac emcee Noble Stylez, Baller, Sharky, Millz, Covil James and blogger/rapper/cartoonist McPotar. We  have been  fortunate to receive the promotional first and they did not disappoint. It’s a single that you must hear. Packed with entertaining metaphors, similies that will make you snigger and say “.. but these guys though”. Just the weekend and we will give you the link to it!!

“I DID NOT STEAL XNDR’S BEAT!” FTR

Of course the Nyarai FTR Mazango did not say it as dramatically as that but certain proceedings from the internet that we saw were just as dramatic.  A week and a half ago, GZE released a song “ I made it” which featured former Major Playerz vocalist Chyllur. The song itself was really good, what proceeded afterwards, maybe not so much.  Apparently, Rehab President Alexander “Anonzi Xndr” Mutumha was not so amused by the fact that the instrumental used, (which he claimed that he made) was credited as FTR’s production alone on most blog publications, radio and also that it only had FTR’s tag.  (a tag being what most producers place on beats as an identity of where or who produced it “Mustard on the beat” or “Turn the lights off”  Rico Loves Tag). After reading the rant that Rehab Producer had on the issue on social media and his comments on a radio show about the issue, we caught up him and he told us that, he was disappointed at the fact that even though, he is the one who plotted the original instrumental that FTR then edited and added on, none of the creative credits came to him.

We did not know why FTR who, we must say, is one of the best Hip Hop – R & B producers right now would do such a thing so we asked him to see his side of the story. And he said that he would like to clarify that the song was produced by Alexander "AnonziXndr" and himself. He went on to say that it had been unfortunate that when he received the initial components of the instrumental which he was asked to build, complete and arrange, there was miscommunication between himself and the executive producer of the project. FTR, then assumed that the instrumental belonged (or was made by) the executive producer.

FTR then told us that he only found out that Xndr was the co-producer of the song (by virtue of being the guy who came up with the instrumental) after the latter posted his grievancies on his facebook account. He (FTR) said he got on touch with the executive producer and Anonzi Xndr and though the issue may have drawn “bad blood” the issue has been rectified at radio and the new online link of the song is www.datafilehost.com/d/4cb443c4

the credits of the song stand as thus

Track Title                         : I made it
Artist                                 : Gze featuring Chyllur
Composed by                    :Alexander "AnonziXndr" Mutumha & Nyari "F.T.R" Mazango
Recorded and Mixed by    : Nyari "F.T.R" Mazango

Mastered by                      : "Cutty Beats"

It is our hope as PUSH that the two producers may still work together like they did on Marukaz Remix --> http://www.reverbnation.com/rehabzw/song/21029489-anonzi-xndr-marukaz-remix-ft-ftr

 FTR is currently promoting another one of his masterpieces titled African Beauty which also features Chyllur which you can find here

 http://www.hulkshare.com/ftrftrftr/f-t-r-african-beauty-feat-chyll-1

@pushzw

"BHOO" THE CATCHIEST SONG THUS FAR

Save your smack for someone who might actually listen to it. Schingy is probably one of the most original rappers we have in this industry.

"BHOO" a song done by Schingy who recently celebrated his birthday was released a couple of days ago. We got it late and we also have it on repeat. The song is very catchy, very very catchy! we like the simplicity of the beat (produced  Success and Team Rehab President Xndr) by  and his delivery. Some critics have critised him for his seemingly "shallow" content. Its the same guys who probably will only like Hip Hop with people who pronounce their english words with an uptown twang and maybe think hip hop which talks about Politics and socio economic issues is the only one thats real. However, we have come to embrace his style (If you can accept 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne then you will understand). He is the only one with the heart to shoot videos in Egypt, in grave yards and maybe thats why he has one of the biggest followings in Zim, Nigeria and thats only with a couple of tracks.If you think we are lying, have a listen to his song "Bho" on

https://www.hulkshare.com/shingiraimaunganidze/schingy-bho-0774044648

MMT SILENCES CRITICS.... YET AGAIN

Watch this before you get to read the following article


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9AFAxRaZDQ

We just wonder if McPorter will still keep tweeting that joke about curtains (pretty funny but now over done fellow blogger). We wonder if the people who were on the fore front of  rubbishing the Trio on their inability to make a dope video will swallow their pride and accept that the boys did well. Its been a decade probably since the "Come To Party" video by Major Playaz and for the first time, we have seen a better video than that. The boys did it without a Hot air balloon. Nice. The angles, graphics and lighting, we like very much, even though Tatea is still the only predominant yella' bone in the video. We bumped into Tatea a day or so ago and asked him why they chose to do the video even though the song had been released a while ago, he told us that "Zvidhori" of all their songs had the widest reach and that even though it was released way back, was still current. After watching the video, we just could not help but agree. On a Vevo account too, wow.. thats progress (things that have never been done by some of the big names in African Hip Hop). Andy Cutter showed why people have been making noise about him recently. Great stuff check out -->

http://thatmmtmusic.com/

@pushzw

ZIM HIP HOP PRODUCERS TEAM UP FOR MARUKAZ REMIX AND KILL IT

Anonzi Xndr teamed with SimbaTagz, FTR and Kritical to remix  MARUKAZ,. If you remember well, the original featured Marcques and MC Cut  a pretty dope jam with a beat boxing typa beat. The remix carries the same beat with edits here and there but what FTR and Simbatagz did to this one is nothing short of amazing (word to tehn). We are still just coming to terms with how good this track is, we shall decide later who killed who but just listen to the track here-->

http://www.reverbnation.com/rehabzw/song/21029489-anonzi-xndr-marukaz-remix-ft-ftr

THE UNFORTUNATE PROBLEM WITH ZIM HIP HOP BLOGGERS LIKE US

We are guilty of a lot of things, one of the biggest one is that we are suckers of the big names. That’s probably the biggest problem with us. It’s unfortunate that many of us fail to keep us with the current releases, sometimes, it’s really because the releases aren’t anything to talk about. Okay, that may be the problem, sometimes to legitimize our content, it’s about talking about something worth talking about ‘WHERE DID THE GOOD MUSIC GO??” 

That’s not to say they there is no good music out there, it’s there, but the question is, what type of A class are you, are the “barely made it to seventy five percent type” or are you the “A” plus type of artist who makes music that we can say “DAAAAMN !! That’s a dope track” to. We put up an email, and we diligently listen to the music that is sent in. Sometimes, some of the productions are embarrassing, the reason we then don’t talk about them is that if we said flowery words like “the banger from so and so” that would be a blatant lie. We don’t want to lie to our readers. We would rather keep quiet about it and scout for music that has been made by people who actually sound like they aren’t just in it as a spare time hobby. 

Yes, we are bloggers, if you had a hot jam last year and created a buzz, we will blog about you, WHY? Because last year, you worked hard enough to get people’s attention (and ours too) and you are something to talk about. The secret to it is, don’t just make music for the sake of pushing a rhyme on a beat, having metaphors and punch-lines that sound like something we ALL have heard before, be something worth talking about. 

 

So, not that to say we don’t make mistakes, we might make them here and there but we stand by what we feel. IF YOUR SONG ISNT BETTER THAN ANYTTHING THAT WE HAVE ALREADY HEARD BEFORE THERE IS A HIGH CHANCE IT MIGHT NOT BE TALKED ABOUT. Why we live by this is simply because we love progression not regression or stagnation.That, is OUR PROBLEM..DEAL WITH IT

Here are some tracks and projects which we like from recent releases

The Come Up:  Trk   à http://t.co/GjzReUPF64 

A very well crafted mixtape. Probably the best we have heard this year. Good work

New Era: Marques à http://t.co/f1oJzYwfjJ

The song has a very live feel to it. A very different side of Marcques. The type of song we would go to a show to sing to

KleanKatz: Illceey feat J Barz  à  http://t.co/51UVyg11eP

We are fans of Illceey, he has accomplished more than your top five Zim Rappers any  on given Sunday. He drops another single just for you.

MC Cut : Ndomupei à https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fhtwnzfynstzw%2Fndomupei-ft-tinashe-makura&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFMUv7nbug5j45aqQqsSPoBkKW4nA

A really heartfelt song that many people will be able to relate to. A story of love, coming of age and survival.

Flabbz Ashton with Vuyo Brown and Nashie : Praise him

 http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reverbnation.com%2Fjesuspositiveflabbz%2Fsong%2F20671016-praise-him-flabbz-feat-vuyo-brownhillz&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFamPRtJepnWoKDGAZX4u9NyLOFOQ