Founder member of the legendary crews, GroundWorks and Audio Visual, Ben Sharpa has built himself up as a premier figure in the underground Hip-Hop scene all over South Africa. He has been a freestyle ...
Long before South African hip-hop grew wings in SA, the most important thing for a hip-hop artist was bars, bars and more bars. And Ben Sharpa was a legend when it came to those skills. The rapper, ...
As tributes continue to pour in for rapper Ben Sharpa one of his close friends has described the musician's life travelling the world to perform and spread his music as a "dream come true." Damien ...
Fans were saddened by the news of hip-hop veteran Kgotso Semela aka Ben Sharpa’s death on Thursday News of the rapper’s death emerged on Thursday afternoon, with details around the exact cause being ...
The Hip-Hop and arts community across South Africa is in mourning after news that veteran rapper, poet, and activist Ben Sharpa has died. According to still-developing reports, Sharpa passed after ...
“I go as far back being a 14-year-old, bumping into him at Le Club, shortly before it moved to Rippingtons. It was a Saturday afternoon and he was just in this cloud of smoke. It was him, Krook’d, and ...
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Set on the lawn outside, the Bassline stage attracted young, trendy and commercial music followers while at the same time calling all lovers of hip hop. Trenton and the Free Radical opened the stage ...
To his associates, Ben Sharpa is best remembered as O’ Kaptin My Kap’n. The name, taken from a Walt Whitman poem about the death of Abraham Lincoln.
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