Zuma Reveals The Biggest Lesson He Learnt From Killa Kau. In his sit down with JazziQ on JazziQ & Friends podcast, Zuma opened up about how he has managed to stay the same person he has always been and not allowed fame and success to change him. He shared that it is the reason why no one in the industry especially Amapiano space has a problem with him.
On how he learnt to stay humble, Zuma credited the late Killa Kau, real name Sakhile Hlatshwayo for the important lesson. “The person who taught me Ubuntu, and this still hurts me… is uSakhile [Killa Kau]. That’s the only guy who welcomed me into the industry because Sakhile was human. Sakhile was never “Killa Kau”, when Sakhile is in studio or anywhere, he was always bubbly because that’s who he was,” Zuma shared.
On how he helped him in his early career, Zuma said, “He would advice you with positive words for your career to have longevity. So Sakhile, like you’ve mentioned, we loved him and we were his fans but like from the day he met us, he told us he would talk to Tumelo and hook us up with Mpho and provide merchandise for S.G.O.D because he had realized that it had been two days and we kept wearing the same jeans. Instead of you repeating the clothes, it’s better if we give him some merchandise and he did that. He provided merch for us and brought Mpho Makuwa to studio and that’s how we met.”
“Sakhile was the brother of this industry. That’s why they say, ‘the good die young’… but we’re still here and what are we doing? I keep asking if Sakhile was still around… I know he would be very far with life but I know for a fact that I would be very far with my career too because that man always told us things that would always make you see yourself as a human, not an artist, not living a music video lifestyle, acting like a video vixen, busy twerking. Twerking even when you have nothing but like yeah you can say that n*gga played a really big role in my life. Not as Amaroto, I don’t know about Charlie [Reece], but mine individually as Zuma,” he concluded on Killa Kau’s impact on him.
