WIKID

tracklisting

01 . Intro (1:05)
02 . Akekho ft. Township Frekwentsi (4:10)
03 . Ohh Baby (4:00)
04 . Bump Jive (4:47)
05 . Things ft. Township Frekwentsi (5:15)
06 . Kuzolunga (4:30)
07 . The Man (4:06)
08 . Mc Kut la wrek (skit) (1:22)
09 . Doing My Thing (4:43)
10 . What's going on Ft. Nothende (4:52)
11 . Beautiful Days ft. Township Frekwentsi (4:40)
12 . That's how I act (5:01)
13 . Let's take a look (4:38)
14 . Enemy (4:46)
15 . Swing Ft. Nothende (5:08)
16 . Dungeon (4:24)
17 . Wizard of jozi (5:46)
18 . The Man (remix) Ft. Mr Selwyn, Zulu Mobb, Slik, Flabba (4:14)

Work on Anger Management started two years ago so Wikid's relieved that it's finally hit the retail shelves. “It's been a long wait but hell, it's been worth it. Every one of the tracks on the album is rocking.” He's right – from laid back jams, to potent club bangers, radio hits and streetsmart cuts, Anger Management sets a new benchmark in hip-hop.

Album IN STORES
(c) BuvGround Entertainment
(p) CCP Record Company

Release Date: November 2005
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Featured Acts:
Slik, Flabba, Zulu Mobb

Township Frekwentsi is:
Amu, Wicked, Selwyn, Nothende

Album Launch

Amu produced the album. He is considered to be the most talented musician and producer.

Wikid - Anger Management

One thing's for sure, Wikid's got hands down the most respectable pedigree out of all the young guns on the South African hip-hop scene. Why? Well the name his folks gave him is Andile Thekwane and anyone with any knowledge on South Africa's music history will know that the name Thekwane, David Thekwane to be specific, was one of the most envied and respected in the heyday of the 70s. As a producer and musician the late Thekwane Snr earned bigtime respect, but it was as a founder member of The Movers that turned him into a legend.

So it's no surprise to find Wikid turning in a moving version of “Bump Jive”, one of The Movers' biggest hits, on Anger Management, his debut solo album, now out on CCP Record Company through its license deal with BuvGround Entertainment, rapper, producer and songwriter Amu's company. Lacing Wikid's on-point rhyming over the song's signature piano piece and chorus, it's a perfect blending of the old and new on a song that's got some serious radio play in its sights.

Says Wikid, “It's all about giving respect from today's hip-hop crew to the masters of the past, like Pat Shange, Ray Phiri, Jabu Khanyile, Bra Hugh, and of course, my father and The Movers. Because you know, our music didn't evolve in a vacuum. Ezakudala. It's all about the old flavour.”

Anger Management is unafraid to give more than a few nods to the past, with Wikid and his Township Frekwentsi crew, rappers Amu and Selwyn and singer, Nothende Madumo happy to take from a grab bag of musical treasures from the past. It includes the Sound of Music musical - a sample of “Favourite Things” appears on “Things” featuring Township Frekwentsi – and another musical, Annie with a sample of “Tomorrow” providing the musical bedrock of “Kozolunga”, a laid back track that flows with calls to positivity.

But Anger Management is not only about joints that cleverly deploy old time samples (and some funny skits and interludes that put Wikid's “anger management therapy” in a very humorous spotlight!).

Headliner track on the album is “The Man”, written by Wikid, Amu and Selwyn and one of the most controversial cuts to have been aired in recent years. When it first hit the scene a few months back, “The Man” got more than a few tongues wagging and threatened to stir up some serious beef.

“I'm just telling it like it is on the track,” Wikid says. “You know, everyone talks about ‘the man' but not everyone has the dedication, the desire and the cred for it, and some people are in this game just for fun.” Poking fun at everyone from Bob Mabena (“gone are the days of Bob Mabeba taking rap awards”) to Denim (“Denim got a record deal/but they suck”) over a percussive beat, the track gets a remix on Anger Management, bringing in a who's who of South Africa's hip hop constellation, including Slikour, Zulu Mobb and Flabba and turning up the heat on an already hot track.

Outspoken he may be, there's no doubting Wikid's more sensitive side. You only need listen to “What's Going On”, a rap-infused ballad (yes, you read that right) that pinpoints the emotions that flow from a state of confusion. It reveals Wikid, Amu and Nothende as more than simply a fast-flowing, rhyme-crafting, beat-making hip-hop collective but, with Selwyn, songwriters of real substance and strength.

With his musical pedigree, it's no surprise that the 26-year-old Soweto born and raised artist is so multi-dimensional. Wikid himself credits his creative collaborator, Amu, with helping hone his wide-ranging skills.

“I started rapping at Le Club when I was a teenager and it was there that I met Amu and it was an instant connection,” Wikid says. His expansive musical view also comes from living in the Free State (he schooled there for several years, moving away from the political turmoil of Soweto) and then Cape Town where he studied film and television for a while before he dropped out.

But music proved too strong a force and in 1997 he started rapping again, eventually turning up on Amu's The Life, Rap and Drama as well as the Expressions compilations with Amu and Mr Selwyn.

Work on Anger Management started two years ago so Wikid's relieved that it's finally hit the retail shelves. “It's been a long wait but hell, it's been worth it. Every one of the tracks on the album is rocking.” He's right – from laid back jams, to potent club bangers, radio hits and streetsmart cuts, Anger Management sets a new benchmark in hip-hop.