Maphorisa Reacts To Hilarious Drawing Of Him And Kabza. Maphorisa, who’s long earned his belt for pumping out hits for almost a decade — from Uhuru’s “Y-tjukutja” and Mafikizolo’s “Khona” to his own “Oncamnce” featuring Stilo Magolide, Kwesta and Zingah, has been making headlines recently within the amapiano scene.
A fan took to social media to share a hilarious drawing of Maphorisa and Kabza De Small, and Phori reacted in a blunt yet speechless. The drawing was of the scorpion kings at one of their gigs.
With amapiano having dominated the music industry around 2018, Maphorisa was one of the few amapiano pioneers who invested in the sound, exploring it to what and how it sounds today. Speaking on what motivated him to invest so much in amapiano, the star sad, “With my gigs, I wanted to understand people’s reactions to this new sound because amapiano was underground. What really sparked my interest in the genre was that, at the time, I was looking to get into something that originated in South Africa. Amapiano is part of kwaito and dance music. When I started working with Afrobeats, which hails from Western Africa, I felt that we didn’t have a sound that strongly represented South Africa. When I started paying close attention to amapiano, I knew that this was a sound that would take South Africa to the world. There’s a lot that you can do with amapiano — you can make it soulful, funky, dusty and hard or jazz it up.”
Phori made amapiano more accessible than gqom. “At some point, I knew that gqom would reach its sell-by date because it was fast-paced and dark. I find that once a genre becomes dark, the songs end up sounding the same. Gqom was dope but I also felt like it was, only, for certain people. However, with amapiano, I realised quite early on that there was a lot that we could do with it,” he said.
