This Beat Tape by South African Producers Pays Homage to the Late Johnny Clegg
South African hip-hop producers pay their tribute to the late icon.
South African hip-hop producers such as Beat Mochini, Arsenic, Lebzotic and a few others have come together to pay homage to legendary South African musician Johnny Clegg, who died last month.
<p>The project, which is simply titled <em>A Beat-tape Tribute to Johnny</em>, sees each producer flip a Johnny Clegg or Juluka sample to make a new instrumental. It's a versatile project that showcases beats of different textures, ranging from the 808-laden flip of "Scatterlings of Africa" by Juluka to the percussion-heavy boom bap of Beatmochini on "Bafazane." </p><p>The project is also an exercise to test just how much you know Johnny Clegg's music, by spotting the samples (I could only spot one). </p><p><div class="preroll-video"></div><ora-player></ora-player></p><p>Johnny Clegg died last month after a battle with cancer. He was one of the most celebrated musicians in the history of South Africa. Him being a white man who made black music and associated with black people was a sign of activism during the apartheid era, and beyond. </p><p>A project like <em>A Beat-tape Tribute</em> to Johnny is a fitting tribute for an artist and humanitarian of his caliber. </p><p>Listen to <em>A Beat-tape Tribute to Johnny</em> below:</p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="300" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/837800639&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe></div>
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