Last week when the nominees for the South African Music Awards were announced, the kwaito category faced a lot of criticism. Many fans felt some of the artists nominated—Busiswa, Trendsetters and others—weren't really kwaito. To each their own. Not many genres still exist as they were when they started anyway.

Kwaito as a pure genre is pretty much dead. But the genre still lives vicariously through other genres. Hip-hop, a few years ago, gave birth to new age kwaito a few years ago with artists like OkMalumKoolKat, Spoek Mathambo, Cassper Nyovest, K.O., HHP and a few more adulterating their hip-hop with kwaito sensibilities.