list Of Musicians That Suck on Their Own Songs but Flourish on Songs they are Featured on

It seems that lately you can’t make it
into the South African music scene
without being featured on a bigger
artists song. Even after you feature
your solo career just doesn’t seem to
build the right momentum, you find
South African musicians performing
better on features than they ever will
on their own single releases. That’s not good at all if I have to say so myself.

How do you expect to make money
from your solo career if you only
flourish when being featured and not
when making your own music?

We’ve compiled a list of South African
Musicians That Suck on Their Own
Songs but Flourish on Other People’s
Songs it just doesn’t make sense!
Most of these musicians are musicians
that were a part of a group or band
before deciding to venture off into their solo careers, it makes you wonder is it really all worth it in the end?

Speedy

Bongo Maffin case #1 honestly I don’t
know why they split on each other
man. Speedy honestly since your Bongo
Maffin days the only hits we’ve seen
from your solo career are those where
you were a featured artist. The biggest
hit being Lento followed by Ungowami
by Uhuru ..his solo work hasn’t been that great.

DA LES

aka “Mr Let The Champagne Out The Cage” Uhm, the “North Kid” does know how
to throw awesome All White Parties in
his mamma’s backyard. No offense LES but you really do sound better when featured then when you’re out there doing your own thing. All Eyez On Me
was great, Kontrol freaken awesome too but both are songs you were featured in. No beef though but some nice Da Les hits will be pretty cool!

Ma-E

Ma-E apparently uGogo is a hit
for some but lyrically poor for most of
us. Great job on Sgelekeqe, great job
on Steve Kekana Remix on many other joints. See if you had verse’s like that on your own songs Cash Time would be probably be bigger and making more money than what just K.O brings in, hehe #justsaying.

Stoan

Ever since Bongo Maffin it seems
Stoan’s solo career didn’t fully launch
but he’s collaborating one did. He’s
probably made more money off
collaborating than he has on his own.
Everyone for a Bongo Maffin reunion
say “I!” Speedy and Stoan even tried
something together and it didn’t work.

JR

The last time JR flourished was when
he was making the circle bigger
actually but, JR it’s been almost what 5 years or more? but goodness me JR did some pretty cool work on All eyez on me (we all love that verse) even his chorus on Trust It got me thinking ..
boy could be the chorus go to guy in
SA.. In summary .. It’s time to faasa in
your own songs and make them bigger than the songs you’re invited to be featured in.

Maggz

HEAVEN, great job. Amantombazane
Remix , Steve Kekana Remix , Heaven.
Truth or dare, great job. Are you starting to see where the problem is? All of the above mentioned are features and not your own song Maggz, we honestly have faith in you but when you deliver more on features than your own singles we not so sure what we should look out for from your album mate.

Smashis

Another member of the Cash Time fam
all hit features no hit singles. No one is
calling you a bad artist here but for K.O to not be called the King of Cash Time every single person on Cash Time needs to be performing accordingly. We really think 2015 is your year to flourish, now go out there and be great!

Ziyon

When the news of LiquiDeep splitting
up came out we all knew that it was a
recipe for a young disaster or more,
since the split of LiquiDeep Ziyon’s “solo career” has not been so great.. People actually remember his features than his own singles..You know the controversial Tumi ft Ziyon & Reason- In Defense of My Art and Your Love by Kent …Any of the above mentioned belong to Ziyon? No! and to be honest Liquideep sounds amazing as a group.
This solo nton nton ehh ! I think it’s
time to have a reunion gents.

Naak Musiq

The numbers don’t lie, wasn’t Call Out
almost song of the year last year? That tells you what kind of potential Naak has stored in his little voice box but he just needs to let it out in his own music. Heavy K-Yini ft Naak music was also a big deal at some point the only problem is that he’s a feature and not all the royalties go to him. Anyway keep doing what you’re doing Naak maybe soon an album will come from it and we can hear what you’ve really got for us.

Samthing Soweto

Samkelo was just amazing as a
member of The Soil and honestly he
should get back with the group. Sam is
extremely talented but outside The Soil ..his solo career has not been looking too great. I mean remember “I’m lonely” and that Sunday live version they did on that Cafe what-what show on SABC something .. That was boss my people . Get with the crew Sam

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