A few songs into her set, Sho Madjozi asks her performance deejay to “just throw a beat and I’ll see what I can do.” When the beat, a hard-hitting gqom instrumental, is eventually given to her, she ...

MTV Base dives into the New Year with its continued commitment of bringing audiences local content productions that resonate strongly with viewers by announcing the sequel of the bass-filled show Gqom ...

Busiswa, DJ Lag, Karen Nyame KG and Scratchclart talk about the impact of the pandemic on amapiano and gqom, and the global rise in popularity of these genres. Show more Busiswa, DJ Lag, Karen Nyame ...

A documentary about singer-songwriter, dance queen and gqom star Busiswa Gqulu, titled Busiswa: An Unbreakable Story, is set to premiere at this year's Africa Rising International Film Festival, ...

After being in the industry for over five years, you'd think that being on a cover of a magazine would be just another thing to tick off for Busiswa but nah it's a big deal for the gqom singer and she ...

Busiswa has hopped across genres the way Shirazee has bounced between countries. She’s done poetry, South African kwaito and amapiano, hip-hop, and, most familiar to a U.S. audience, gqom alongside ...

While Babes Wodumo’s Wololo may have been the song that kicked down the walls to expose the big sound that is gqom, the sound itself has been thriving underground from as early as 2011 and it was once ...

Produced by DJ Maphorisa (who also released an accompanying track), Gqom Wave is a 15-minute documentary that sees a panel of producers and deejays discuss the importance of this new movement. While ...

This piece originally appeared as part of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List, in the July-August issue of the magazine. At Afropunk’s 2019 New Year’s Eve festival in South Africa, DJ Moma was scheduled ...

In an excerpt from the 33 ⅓ title "South African Popular Music," the author breaks down house music offshoots gqom and amapiano. When Beyoncé put together her companion soundtrack album, “The Lion ...