Musa Keys Explains Why He Gets It That Major Artists Didn’t Work With Him Before Fame. Amapiano, the word being used to describe what’s currently South Africa’s fastest-growing electronic-music movement. Amapiano, or piano to the hip, inherits its genetics from lineages of music made and popularised in the country’s townships. It takes after jazz with its keys, kwaito with its basslines and harmonies, gets its drum patterns and percussion from di Bacardi and its tempo from late ’90s South African house. The amapiano sub-genre gave Mzansi the young star, Musa Keys.
Speaking on making it this far by himself, Musa reflected on back in the days when he was still trying to break into the music industry. “I’ve relied on people so much, if you could go to my old DM’s that I’ve sent brurs, yho brurs mize. Some would even open and mize. But I understand, it makes sense. Sometimes people wont work with you because you’re not at a specific level yet. Which makes sense, we both can’t be new at this. You’re gonna have to start off somewhere. I am a millionaire for example, and you’re a 100k, we won’t have the same vision. Yes I might have room to listen to you and all of that, but sometimes the spaces won’t be the same at that time. When you up your game and at a specific level, that’s when we can keep the train running together,” he explained.
He said some of the artists who mized him before, DM him now. “It happens a lot, so that comes from the energy you gave me from the beginning. I could tell that you genuinely f*cks or you don’t wanna work with me or you’re just putting me on hold,” added.
