Uncle Vinny On Transitioning From Hip Hop To Amapiano Culture. Rising star and amapiano dancer Uncle Vinny real name Vincent Kabelo Ndlovu, is the new kid on the block that almost everyone is talking about. The influential 19 year old gained fame after a video of him dancing to an amapiano song went viral on social media, and since then everyone has been curious about who uncle Vinny is, what he does and where he’s headed.
Uncle Vinny holds the record of the youngest person to host South African Hip Hop Awards. He was also the youngest person to present a SA Hip Hop award to an artist. However, he seems to have recently joined the amapiano train and he explains why.
“For me, first time I got introduced to amapiano, obviously for me I have been a Hip Hop, me and my friends were strictly Hip Hop, and then I said to them ‘guys this sub-genre is too much’, and then we kept arguing and then I finally saw that this is what the world needs from us. Cause I saw people like Wizkid and Burna Boy jump on the amapiano scene. It must raise a alarm to you that actuallly this is the way to go,” Uncle Vinny said.
“The whole amapiano movement is South African and is purely our culture. Its a culture that we created from the roots. I think we must understand that anything we do and give to the world, they’ll take,” he added.
Uncle Vinny made it clear that he is not an artist and will not go into studio as he says he doesn’t have a gift of being an artist. “I think… I am not gonna do a song, I ma never going to be an artist and people must get that straight and get it through their thick skulls. A lot of them tried to get me in studio but it doesn’t work. I feel like its something I wasn’t given by God. I don’t think I have a gift. Yes I can MC, but I dont thin I have a gift to be in studio behind the mic,” he said.
