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Mutshidzi Madzhie, also known as MBOY808, is one of the local artists who are steadily making a name for themselves in the music industry.
MBOY808, who comes from the outlying Mudimeli village, said that music was a language of emotion in that it could represent different feelings and barge into the soul with no boundaries or limitations.
“I was always challenged by the fact that no one understood me or really knew how I felt as an artist,” he said. “So, soon after I had realised that people started to understand me better after the release of my first EP, I fully turned to music in times of sadness or happiness.”
MBOY808 has been making music as hip-hop artist, songwriter and beat-maker since 2014. He was only 14 years old then. “During the early stages of my music journey, I was demotivated by the politics around the music industry, up to a point where I wanted to quit the rapping scene, but my mother, Julia Madzhie, encouraged me to follow my dreams,” he told the media.
He was inspired by fellow artists such as MacJ Macfam and Travis Scott, because, for him, their rapping resonates towards trap music.
MBOY808 was recipient of the Best Hip Hop Artist award at the Mudimeli Youth Community Awards. He then focused on his extended play project with the help of his long-time friend and beat producer, Limani “GranytBeatz” Ndou, and the project was released in 2019. With only five songs to the project, it was named Success.
He featured the two-time Tshivenda Music Award winner, Fizzytoofab, on a song called Revolution, which focused on xenophobia in South Africa. The Success-project granted him radio airplay and interviews throughout Vhembe and beyond.
With the assistance of Fizzytoofab, MBOY808 started working on his full-length project, titled Real Life Mixtape, which was released in January this year. So far, he has worked with artists such as Rafalypse, Brenz, Vicious, and MacSwagga.
MBOY808 is available on most social media platforms and his music can be accessed via online stores.
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MBOY808 is making a name for himself in the music industry.
By: Tshifhiwa Mukwevho
Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.
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