Catching up with GudFellaz
Last week we set down with one of Cape Town's most promising crews GudFellas. We talked about a lot of stuff including their upcoming mixtape
(1st Attack). Check out the whole interview.....
Nigrand Bafethu?
Awe we all good mei king. Hope u are too.
Ngubani/Ngobani iGudfellaz?
Gudfellaz is a hip hop crew and consist of two members (Mzk & Lemzin)
When the crew was first introduced to the public we saw 3
members but now we only see 2. Is Matto Murv still part of Gudfellaz?
Initially when we started we were 3. It was me Emzetkay, Lemzin and Matto Murv, but we parted ways with Matto Murv early in 2012 due to some
problems we were experiencing with him. Now its only Emzetkay and lemzin
on the crew.
Not so long ago we saw you
guys performing in Baxter for the Hip Hop Kas’ lam freedom show. How did that
come about?
We saw Hip Hop Kas' lam's post, calling all the artists to submit their music
in order for them to be considered to perform at the show. The concept
was 'Ifreedom Yethu' the songs had to be on that concept of
Ifreedom. Aahh they wanted 3songs on that concept, biography and two
pics.Unfortunately for us we didn't have songs that were on the concept
but we were so eager to perform on the show, I mean Hip Hop Kas'lam is the
biggest Spaza Show in South Africa so we couldn't miss the
opportunity of performing there.We then wrote all those 3 songs in a space
of a week lol. We submitted and fortunately we were shortlisted amongst
other 9 acts. People had to vote for their favorite artists on that top
9.The 3 that gets most votes qualify as the winners.Fortunately people
voted for us and ya we qualified we came 3rd before Emage and Axo.
You gave people a great
closing performance, where did you get all those actors?
We had a very interesting set on the show that night. We had actors on
stage, 1st the idea was inspired by attending the previous shows of
Hip Hop Kas'lam. We always felt like there was something missing when cats
were performing on that big stage.Then our turn came.
Emzetkay came with
the idea of having actors on stage. Since the Concept was Ifreedom yethu
we felt like we had to stick to the concept. We wanted actors to
portray/illustrate what we were saying on the song,on they lyrics.We
wanted to have that 1976 setting yabo. So ya we came with the idea and
Emzetkay directed the whole thing. The actors were from Iselwa drama
group. Khayalethu hooked us up with them, we had a meeting with their
director and everything is history.
You guys are dropping a new
mixtape next month titled (1st Attack). What is the meaning behind 1st
Attack?
'1ST ATTACK' aaahh this is Gudfellaz's 1st release by the way. Basically it
means its our 1st Attack to the game,We coming with full force, finally
we taking a further step in chasing our goals(Attack), siyahlasela
nje. The title is broad mahn. We announcing our 1st arrival.
Who did you work with on the
mixtape? (Features and Production)
On features we got Rivlin Clique, Chapparol, Andiswa Zanele, King Jnr and Matto Murv. On beats we have Inffo, Black Scientist, Mashonisa, Shaka Zulu, Gary
Ascenic and Dilaska from Password.
And the name Gudfellaz? Why
that name?
The name Gudfellaz represent our personality. We Gudfellaz, singama jita
agrand. We got that humanity, we love music.We stay away from trouble as
possible as we can. U will hardly find us being involve in beefs and shit
like that.
We all have haters. I saw some
guy tryna take jabs at you guys on the Headwamaz page after your interview on
Radio Zibonele. How do you deal with such?
Haters lol. Ey we don't deal with haters we just let them hate you know. For
us it actually means we achieving our primary goal of being recognized. If we were not working hard we would not be in a
position of being hated you know. There's something good we doing for people
to take their precious time and talk or write about us,they giving us
that free publicity.We cherish that lol.
For people that want your
mixtape, how can they get hold of you guys?
People can inbox us on facebook if they want our mixtape.They must search 'GudfellazSA' on facebook.
'Emzetkay Mzk Gudfellaz Ntluko'
'Luyanda Lemzin Kwepile',on facebook.
They can call these numbers-0827422889 or 0734934179
BBM pin -29398D0B
-26506103
