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On this episode of The Hip Hop African Podcast, Dr. Msia Kibona Clark sits down with South African hip hop pioneer DJ Prepared D — legendary turntablist, founding member of Prophets of Da Metropolis (POC), cultural educator, neighborhood builder, and one of the crucial essential figures in shaping Cape City’s hip hop id.
“We have been the primary technology, so no person understood this music — they watched their children rework in entrance of their eyes.”
Prepared D displays on discovering hip hop throughout the last years of District Six, simply earlier than households have been forcibly eliminated beneath apartheid. He discusses how listening to Rapper’s Delight for the primary time created an sudden bridge between U.S. hip hop and his personal lived experiences, and the way the trauma of displacement and the political local weather of the Nineteen Eighties deepened his connection to the tradition.
From the rise of Cape City’s early B-boy crews, to the formation of an African-centered hip hop motion, to his highly effective contributions as a DJ, radio host, mentor, and intergenerational collaborator, Prepared D presents a uncommon and deeply private account of hip hop’s improvement in South Africa. He additionally appears to be like ahead — reflecting on the evolution of DJing, the challenges of the modern scene, and the community-based initiatives he’s constructing right now.
“If you wish to be good, you have to be ready to be a pupil for all times.”
It is a wealthy dialog about tradition, politics, craft, and legacy — from one in all hip hop’s most revered international pioneers.
