Kunta is a Hip Hop Producer/Mc from Nairobi, Kenya. He began his musical journey as a Hip Hop artist while still in his teens, refining his skill set by studying pioneer Kenyan Hip Hop acts like Kalamashaka and K-South as well as international artists like Rakim, Dead Prez, Nas, and Wu-Tang Clan.
Music production was always a passion to him once he got to record his first joint in a music studio. A self-taught producer, he’s been practicing his trade for the past ten years, where’s he’s been developing his own unique sampling technique by using African samples.
He’s produced records for different artists from around the globe: Kenya, New York, Tanzania, Greece, South Africa and South Carolina. Consequently, with such extensive experience under his belt, he successfully established his own production label known as Kunta Official Beats.
Creative | P.R specialist (Publicist, Copywriter, Brand Manager, Social Media Manager) | Blogger | Model | DJ | Video Editor | Host/MC | Emcee (RAPtVst) | The Hempire Co. Founder
Intro.
Hailing from a township that was home to South Africa's 1st Black Boxing Heavyweight Champion of the World - Mohlakeng, a small township in the outskirts of the west of JHB.
L7 Sativa is what he describes as a "RAPtVst" and is considered one of Africa's emerging superstars with revolutionary Hip Hop music (RAP) & is also the most streamed artist from Joburg west.
Besides giving lectures and talks on HipHop as an indigenous knowledge system (IKS) at UNISA, V as he is also known can be found at protests and peaceful marches expanding consciousness with what he describes as "cRhyme" around the country and is also endorsed by the DJ Sbu owned "MoFaya" energy drink from February 2020 and ACTVST Clothing Supply Group.
Download latest single 7D from his international collaboration with Australia's super producer "7th Note Beatz".
×RAPtVst×
2013 Sprite Uncontainable Emcee Search Finalist, L7 has three EPs out and is getting ready to deliver a fourth one from a planned series of 7 EPs and also has a series of mixtape compilations titled "The Str TV" with the 4th tape scheduled for release in 2020.
*HOST / MC*
2014 NABRAP MC.
2015 - 2017 BoomBox MC.
2018 Food & HipHop MC.
×MODEL×
2015 - 2017 Face of OG Wear.
2013 till present - Ubuntuism / ACTVST Brand Ambassador.
×HipHop Performer×
Billed as one of the headlining acts at the inaugural Tanzania HipHop Conference happening October 2019, L7 and all other international acts were cancelled due to high tensions with South Africa due to media reports of xenepohobia...
Predominantly a HipHop emcee, L7 has gone on share stages with names from across the musical spectrum like the likes of Poet Ntate "Don Mattera" and Professor "Pitika Ntuli", the late "Ben Sharpa", POP stars like "Cassper Nyovest" and international stars like Rapsody, 9th Wonder, Apollo Brown, Pharoahe Monch & more.
As a battle emcee, L7 was an undisputed champion in 2006 battling every week at the state theatre in PTA not losing a single battle for over nine months
Some of the events "L7" has featured on
- Castle Light Cypher (2016)
- Jamla Welcome party (2017)
- Randfontein Show (2017)
- Oppikoppi festival (2018)
- Professor Pitika Ntuli Sculptor Unveiling (2018)
- Lyricist Lounge S.A (2018)
- D.Day 4/20 ( Headliner - 2019)
ACHIEVEMENTS
- 2006 9 (nine) month no loss State Theatre Battle Champion at Club Rendezvous in Pretoria
"Kela Griot Maswabi" is a scribe, lover of humanity and an evolving creative, finding expression in poetry, prose, playwrighting and just about anywhere else where ink marks the spot . Voice of Cell C`s "Black", Inaugural Winner of the Canadian International CASA Play right competition and 2017 headliner at the annual Cape Town festival "Poetry in Mcgregor", she set off the year 2018 in style delivering the BET Human Rights Poem that aired on South Africa's Human Rights Day across Africa.
View the video below
Kela Griot & Ntate Don Matera - Melrose Gallery
Kela Griot's work has been published on Badilisha, Sibahle Online Magazine, Black On White, the acclaimed Conte Magazine #AfrikaIssue, Poetry Potion 10th Edition and the Sol Plaatjie European Union Poetry Anthology for which she was longlisted.
Her love for all things Afrikan led to her collaboration with musicians Luckey Mhebe and Duduzile Uthingo Majola. The experience was so beautiful that the trio formed a band "Asante" which fused Uthingo's signature Makhoyana and Mbira playing with Luckey's vocals and wizardry on keys with Kela Griot's moving story telling. Asante was the resident songoma band at Kisima's Health and Healing cafe.
Kela Griot has shared stages with Mak Manaka, Sello Maake ka Ncube, BCUC, Natalia Molebatsi, Myesha Jenkins, Rre Sipho Hotsticks Mabuse, Sakhile Moleshe, Rre Herbie Tsoaedi, Mkhulu Blondie Makhene, Rre Lefifi Tladi amongst a host of others. She was part of L7 Sativa's ensemble at Oppikoppi 2018 singing back up rocking out alongside POT, BOTM, Obsqo and Shynin Armour on the Bruilhof stage.
Art exists to fuel activism and this is what led to her to a moving collaboration with indigenous instrumentalist Farai Machingambi closing off the the Seed Dialogue by the African Centre for Biodeversity that was held at Constitution Hill in December 2017. "Without protecting that which sustains life, we are as good as inanimate. So there is no point really if what I create doesn't generate, protect or support life." Kela Griot states. Described by Prof. Pitika Ntuli as "raw power" Kela Griot uses vivid imagery, childlike honesty and deep reflection to weave together stories. She describes herself as a deep empath and suspects that is why she is a medium for #heART. She hopes to help humanity art itself back to love, one poem and outlandish creative disruption at a time."
(Pic1) ObsqO (left) &
elsiven sativa (right) at "Bring The Arts Back" in Meadowlands -
Soweto.
Hailing from "Mohlakeng" in the West of Johannesburg dubbed MQbik by its HipHop community,
BOTM (Pic3) as they are also
known were founded in '09 by "@L7_sativa" with "@obsqo" - (Graphic Designer / BeatBoxer) later joined by Producer Sta-B of "@SkyKlinic" & Graffiti Artist "Nhlanhla SA" as an ancestral academy for the HeArtically gifted and use a "Revolutionary Black conscious critical thinking & socio-political approach to
their music (see pic2)!
(Pic2) official artwork for one of the singles "Runnin Away"
official artwork "Running Away"
Having been on the road since
'12 hitting shows with loose singles, they realised the positive feedback from rocking
the stage and have since '13 gone on to record, perform alongside acts such as
"SCF", "Ben Sharpa", "Articulate Artists",
"Prokid", "L-Tido" and promote singles from their debut Album
"le Resistance".
