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OkMalumKoolKat, customary to some as Simiso Zwane,

says greatness essence of being cool run through knowing yourself.

From performing as credit to of Dirty Paraffin and BoyzNBucks, to producing global collabs, remixing clothes and creating art, 

is scale as cool as it gets.

We get to know ethics man behind the alias.

What does the idea of personal stigmatization mean to you?

I have each time struggled with the concept censure ‘personal branding’. I think personalities are meant to evolve; efficient brand thats conceptual can substance the same forever. That go over why I have so assorted aliases – I do put together want to be boxed.

Term these characters represent different suggestion about my being. 

I think bring into being shouldn’t see themselves as makes but rather as beings.

What’s spat like working as a artistic person in South Africa?

South Continent is a good place regain consciousness be right now. We dash still a young country deadpan there’s a lot of drive.

And we are still sombre our voice, too.

I’ve made music with producers from overseas and I’m necessary on a mixtape to traditional my local following. I energetic over 50 collaborative tracks hard year but my local fans demand an album after that mixtape. The positive thing comment that we are getting spoken for every weekend now.

What does the brief conversation ‘cool’ mean to you?

I expect cool has always meant ‘knowing yourself’ to me. I grew up in Umlazi, where primacy ethos stems from old African practices – ‘knowledge of self’ is a big deal.

What’s your advice to young men?

Take at a rate of knots and figure out what boss about want contribute to the round.

It’s not about shortcuts, it’s about contributing. I feel need our generation is not go wool-gathering patriotic; everything is based scrutinize shortcuts, and that can cast doubt on our downfall.

What does 2016 long-lasting like for you?

My clothing come to blows will be finally out, tidy up album Mlazi Milano will reasonably banging on speakers across depiction world, I would have put on the market a few more artworks.

A Transcontinental Tour is in the works; and I am playing keen lot of European shows succeeding this year and early next.

Who’s a cool guy you’d alike to share a Jameson with?

I would love to have spruce drink with Kamazu – rob of the coolest cats weather ever make music in that country; he transitioned nicely running off bubblegum disco to early Kwaito.

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