Focalistic Reveals Why He Stopped Doing Interviews. Focalistic aka Pitori Maradona has been hitting the industry for quite a while after blowing into fame following his hit song ‘Ke Star’ featuring Vigro Deep. He has been doing the most when it comes to his music career with countless hit tracks which he mainly mixes hip hop and amapiano and thus have been believed to be one of the best in both genres.
Focalistic revealed that he has stopped doing interviews because of how things get taken out of context and that people enjoy making jokes more than the important stuff. He took to Twitter expressing his feelings writing, “I have stopped doing interviews because everything gets taken out of context and people enjoy making jokes more than making sense these days … If you want to hear what I think … wait for SGHUBU SES EXCELLENT 2.”
Focalistic’s music has the mass appeal most trap and boom-bap rappers’ doesn’t have in South Africa, a country that’s known for its affinity to dance music. Focalistic’s raps are in Sepitori—a vernacular spoken in Pretoria townships made up of a variety of South African languages, mostly Sesotho, Setswana and tsotsitaal (slang). His flows contorts accordingly to sit over the undulating beats.
Speaking to OkayAfric on what made him jump into amapiano, Foca said: “As you can see, this is where I grew up, Ga-Rankuwa. The car that just passed now is playing a house song, one taxi’s playing house music, the next one is playing R&B, the next one is playing something else. Amapiano is from Kwaito, so it was a natural thing. It was never a decision of ‘let me switch bands‘… people make it like there’s two different genres; hip hop and amapiano, for me it’s never felt like that, it’s one thing; good music.
