3 Popular Amapiano Dance Challenges You Should Know Right Now. outh Africans first heard amapiano a decade ago, but over the last two years, it has exploded with international tours, music awards, festivals and countless playlists. More hits on platforms making it big on platforms like TikTok translate into money for the SA composers and Amapiano musicians.
Felo Le Tee – “Manca” ft Toss
Like many popular amapiano producers and DJs, Felo Le Tee has been relatively quiet on the music front this year. Fortunately for him, he struck gold early in the year by enlisting Toss, who was riding the wave of his huge “uMlando” success, for his new single, “Manca”.The dance challenge for “Manca” worked like a charm because of how smooth, fun and creative the dance is. Once you see someone doing it, chances are you’re going to want to learn it right away so that you can also join in on the fun.
DJ Maphorisa and Visca – “Ba Straata” ft 2woshort, Stompiiey, Ftears, Madumane and Shaunmusiq
In many ways, “Ba Straata” came out of nowhere. DJ Maphorisa was uncharacteristically without a hit for a while and the challenge seemed to just evolve organically within a couple of weeks. Just a few months since it popped up, it seems like the who’s who of the TikTok world have all partaken in the catchy “Ba Straata” challenge.Despite the challenge being a lot more intricate than typical amapiano challenges tend to be, it continues to be a huge hit on the platform with millions of impressions from across the world.In typical Phori style, the amapiano pioneer capitalised on the hype by releasing a full album alongside Visca also titled “Ba Straata”.
Tobetsa – Focalistic and Myztro featuring ShaunMusiq & F Tears022
Piano hitmakers Focalistic and Myztro have joined forces and dropped the “Tobetsa (Remix)” featuring contributions from ShaunMusiq & F Tears022. Since the song dropped, it has created a Tobetsa challenge that people participate by pointing a finger at someone. Focalistic’s first big break came when he started closely associating with Major League DJz around 2018. During the podcast he explained how he met the DJ’ing duo after Sjava co-signed him on Twitter before Major League followed him shortly after and immediately asked him to come to the studio. From there they worked really closely together for a while before he branched out and started doing his own thing.
