Felo Le Tee Reacts To Being Called Kasi Drake. Born and raised in the South African town of Siyabuswa, Felo Le Tee taught himself to DJ and then, in the early 2010s, got his start as a producer making moody, slow-burning house tracks driven by rolling percussion and swirling synths. Many of his early releases came out on American labels like Open Bar Music and Nylon Trax, making Le Tee the rare Afro-house artist to cross over stateside. But following his move to Pretoria toward the end of the decade, Le Tee’s sound began to open up to new influences. Today, he is one of the most influential amapiano producers.
Felo Le Tee has taken to social media to express that he’s aware that some people call him the South African Drake, and with being from the hood, every named is given a pseudonym. Drake would be called mDrakana as Felo revealed. And he shared that being mDrakana is hard. “Yo if y’all really say am Drake wase mzansi then let me tell you this Lol dawg it’s hard being mDrakana!!”
Tsholofelo Mokhine known as Felo Le Tee is a musical genius. He echoes hard work and originality within the music industry. Felo Le Tee embarked on his musical career at the age of 14, starting with a collection of cassettes playing on both sides with the other one on cue. With the discovery of computers, he then elevated to digital DJing. As time went by his DJ mentors Thobejan, introduced him to vinyl, he further went on to CDJs. He always had a passion to further his musical career by “doing things differently” as he proclaims.
