Notshi is out to get his detractors.
The motswako rapper from Itsoseng, near Lichtenburg in North West, says he has been written off as a washed-up talent, but he believes in second chances.
At the height of his career he featured on albums of motswako royalty from HHP to Mo'Molemi and Tuks.
Now he wants to recreate the magic and allure he oozed back then.
And if his infectious new single Get'em is anything to go by, the naysayers better take cover.
It's a catchy mid-tempo track hitting some high notes. Just the formula to keep revellers on their feet.
"I talk about people shutting doors in my face, detractors who said I won't go far. I'm out to get them. It's comeback season. I'm stronger, wiser and grown up," he says.
The slightly built 25-year-old born Kabelo Oageng, has had his fair share of the industry's ups and downs. After working with Lemonka he released his debut Insert Coin in 2010, but the next year they parted ways.
Notshi went back home and in 2012 Khuli Chana remixed his song Mabarebare and named it Tswa Daar, which was on Chana's multiple award-winning album Lost In Time.
The song won for best collaboration at the Metro FM Music Awards in 2013. Notshi remembers how he missed out on his moment to be on stage when he could not get hold of Chana because his phone was off. He ended up buying a ticket at Durban's ICC, sat in the grandstand and saw his name going up in lights as the co-winner while Chana accepted the award alone. In his acceptance speech he didn't mention Notshi.
"My excitement fizzled out. This was my first award ever and he didn't even acknowledge me. I didn't have beef, but I was sad and hurt. He said he was over-excited and it slipped his mind, and I understood."
But Notshi says three years on he has not seen or touched that trophy.
"Khuli and I are okay. We meet at gigs and greet each other, there's no communication like before, not that it bothers me."
Notshi says Get'em is the first project to come out of Lunchboy Entertainment, a company he started with partners Thabiso Tshabalala and Donald Masha. He plans to release another single and album later in the year.
"Whatever used to make me feel I was not doing enough or break me down or leave me depressed will not happen again.
"I now know how to deal with people who make me feel like I'm washed up. I was only 17 when I started working with Lemonka and 20 when I worked with Khuli Chana.
"Now Notshi is stronger and Kabelo grown up.
" I didn't even know where to collect my royalties. I was just excited like a kid being told he's going to be on TV. Right now I'm focusing on being the best I can be and to inspire the young ones to know how the game works.
"I believe in second chances because you would have learned your lesson and now you get to correct what you did wrong."
mofokengl@ sowetan.co.za
They dissed him, so he's back to get'em
Notshi is out to get his detractors.
The motswako rapper from Itsoseng, near Lichtenburg in North West, says he has been written off as a washed-up talent, but he believes in second chances.
At the height of his career he featured on albums of motswako royalty from HHP to Mo'Molemi and Tuks.
Now he wants to recreate the magic and allure he oozed back then.
And if his infectious new single Get'em is anything to go by, the naysayers better take cover.
It's a catchy mid-tempo track hitting some high notes. Just the formula to keep revellers on their feet.
"I talk about people shutting doors in my face, detractors who said I won't go far. I'm out to get them. It's comeback season. I'm stronger, wiser and grown up," he says.
The slightly built 25-year-old born Kabelo Oageng, has had his fair share of the industry's ups and downs. After working with Lemonka he released his debut Insert Coin in 2010, but the next year they parted ways.
Notshi went back home and in 2012 Khuli Chana remixed his song Mabarebare and named it Tswa Daar, which was on Chana's multiple award-winning album Lost In Time.
The song won for best collaboration at the Metro FM Music Awards in 2013. Notshi remembers how he missed out on his moment to be on stage when he could not get hold of Chana because his phone was off. He ended up buying a ticket at Durban's ICC, sat in the grandstand and saw his name going up in lights as the co-winner while Chana accepted the award alone. In his acceptance speech he didn't mention Notshi.
"My excitement fizzled out. This was my first award ever and he didn't even acknowledge me. I didn't have beef, but I was sad and hurt. He said he was over-excited and it slipped his mind, and I understood."
But Notshi says three years on he has not seen or touched that trophy.
"Khuli and I are okay. We meet at gigs and greet each other, there's no communication like before, not that it bothers me."
Notshi says Get'em is the first project to come out of Lunchboy Entertainment, a company he started with partners Thabiso Tshabalala and Donald Masha. He plans to release another single and album later in the year.
"Whatever used to make me feel I was not doing enough or break me down or leave me depressed will not happen again.
"I now know how to deal with people who make me feel like I'm washed up. I was only 17 when I started working with Lemonka and 20 when I worked with Khuli Chana.
"Now Notshi is stronger and Kabelo grown up.
" I didn't even know where to collect my royalties. I was just excited like a kid being told he's going to be on TV. Right now I'm focusing on being the best I can be and to inspire the young ones to know how the game works.
"I believe in second chances because you would have learned your lesson and now you get to correct what you did wrong."
mofokengl@ sowetan.co.za
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