Rapper Riky Rick has revealed that he’ll be dropping new music this summer. And no‚ it won’t be another hip-hop song. This time‚ it will purely be kwaito.

Taking to Twitter recently‚ the Sidlukotini hitmaker explained that his new music will be a kwaito offering‚ following the death of Mandoza‚ who was labelled a ‘kwaito legend’.

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While‚ over the years‚ interest in kwaito music has taken a dive‚ the number of local hip-hop acts have widened recently with rappers‚ including Cassper Nyovest and K.O‚ now infusing their sound with 1990s kwaito samples.

Speaking to TshisaLIVE earlier this year‚ Riky Rick — who is widely known for having a sound that’s heavily influenced by kwaito — asserted that kwaito and hip-hop have become one genre in the country at the moment.

“What’s going on now is that kwaito and hip-hop have become the same thing‚ which means now it’s hip-hop and house‚ and other genres‚” he said.

“The house cats [sic] are always the ones that rock the clubs and bring the excitement. While the hip-hop cats [sic] are the ones that bring in the swag‚ the lingo‚ the glitz and glam – that’s what we bring.”