Karizma - Zimbabwean Hip Hop Artist
Channel: Story Untold ZW🇿🇼
Date: 2023-08-19

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In Episode 51 of Untold ZW we sat with Zim Hip Hop veteran, Karizma. With a career starting in the late 2000s, Karizma has participated in Zimbabwe's Hip Hop landscape in different capacities. He started out as a writer/performer of Hip Hop and has delivered two albums NGNGV2 (2014) and Fakazi (2018). 

Karizma has a ton of experience along with accolades like winning Best Diaspora Award (Zim Hip Hop Awards 2016) and Best Video Nominee (Zim Hip Hop Awards 2016) for his song Shisha Pipe.

In addition to music - he has experience on the video production elements and is also now playing an active mentoring role for artists coming up in the music industry. We spoke about all this and more in this episode.

Listen to Karizma's music - https://open.spotify.com/artist/13QOmnMZPGRlITgs5l9Tjs

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Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
MTV & Big Brother deals 0:20
Knowledge transfer in Zim Hip Hop 5:14
Rap has shifted and older voices are welcome now 7:31
Importance of cross genre collaborations 12:08
previous generations of Zim Hip Hop didn't collaborate 15:56
What makes the current movement an ecosystem 18:56
Fakazi album & complications around the rollout 20:54
New music? 24:44
Creatives have to be on the ground as well 30:01
Why it's important for musicians to put out their music 32:31
How important is radio today? 42:00

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