#TSHOLOFELO GOES GOLD BEFORE #LEVELS

Sipho Ramaru

Having your record going Gold or Platinum is such an achievement in our local music scene, considering the ‘Level’ of piracy in this nation of ours.

Congratulations are in order for the tswana rapper, Cassper Nyovest.

Cassper’s Tsholofelo just went GOLD. The Mafikeng rapper took it to twitter today, making the big announcement;

“My debut #Tsholofelo just went gold. Thank you for all the support. I appreciate it. Love you. God bless”

Tsholofelo is the debut album of the motswako recording artist. . .Released digitally via iTunes on July 18, 2014 and hard copies of 

the project were made available on the 31^st of July under a distribution deal with Oskido’s Kalawa Jazmee and Universal Music.

I guess this is a sign of hard work and effort put in the album by the Doc Shebeleza hit maker, which he began working on it as early as 2011. The interesting part about this, is that the album dropped after #Levels but hit the GOLD milestone first, will it reach Plaque??? We just have to wait and see. . .I wonder how the hommie AKA feel about this.

According to Recording Industry of South Africa (RISA), a music album qualifies for a platinum certification if it exceeds 40,000 copies shipped to retailers and a gold certification for 20,000 copies shipped. This just humbled AKA yo, no lies. . .

I sense a diss track coming through from Cassper Nyovest, rubbing this in AKA's face! watch this space hehehe...

Congratulations to the homeboy Cassper Nyovest. . .Every artist should work with a vision and make sure they grind in the direction of achieving it. SA hip hop is growing and we proud of it!!!!