Khuli Chana Celebrates His First Amapiano Single Major Milestone After 1 Month.South African rapper Khuli Chana officially tapped into the amapiano scene following his hit single ‘Buyile’ produced by amapiano mainstay Tyler ICU and features Lady Du and Stino Le Thwenny. Khuli Chana, aka Khuli Yano, returns after a two-year hiatus with a fresh single that marries kwaito and amapiano instrumentation.
Khuli Chana dropped the visuals to accompany the hit single after it was well received by fans. It has been a month snce he did o, an the music video has already ammassed over 400k views on YouTube. The star took to social media to celebrate his recent milestone, and wrote: “we did it Chana’s 400K views on the #Buyile music video in 4 weeks (1 month) La Ntlatsa , Ke rata too much. youtu.be/yBQx5O0_PIo.”
Loosely translated, the song’s title Buyile means “returned”. A decade into his solo career, the track speaks to the rapper’s growing flexibility with genres. Khuli Chana’s ability to fuse the popular amapiano genre into his relaxed motswako rap style has all the makings of a hit. Buyile is an exciting collaboration between a veteran and New Age artists. Earlier this year, Stino Le Thwenny featured Khuli Chana alongside K.O on Mshimane 2.0, the remix of their hit Mshimane. Currently, Tyler ICU seems to be the bridge between hip hop and amapiano after producing other similar genre-crossing tracks — Dr Peppa’s What It Is and Riky Rick’s Ungazincishi. On Buyile, he delivers another potential hit aided by the familiarity of Lady Du’s vocals.
Speaking on his transition to amapiano, Khuli Chana said, “I think as a musician you need to be free and open minded and to be fun. What I found was that hip-hop was not fun for me anymore. The culture of politics, always competing, competition that is not healthy. Who has got more money than who to egos.”
