Soweto Magz S01EP04 | Interview With NotBenjamin

This Is The Forth Installment Of The Soweto Magz Podcast, In This Episode We Did Things Differently And We Had Some Guests Which Was Non Other Than @NotBenjamin and My Associate @KayJay.

We Sat Down With @NotBenjamin and He Shared With Us The Story Behind Starting @StreetfestBraam and @UndergroundJHB.

We Recorded The Episode LIVE At The AMPD STUDIOS In New Town, Johannesburg.

Hosted By
Shembas MhlabaWonke

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Yo, yo, yo, what'sup? This is the Boy and welcome
to the official fourth episode of theSoto Megs the Podcast. Today we're doing
it different obvious for for the firstweek, I've dropped the first three episodes.
Now this is the fourth one.It's different. Guests, I got

(00:20):
my boy shout out away, shoutout, shout out. I got the
one and only Benjamin Bro having meshout shout out Bro. This is gonna
be like a short ones called solet's turp in. Let's kept this happened?

(00:40):
Yo, Bro. Ask you acouple of questions. Question number one
obviously the being asking you that thatthere's some people who couldn't hear it,
So what does the inspiration behind youstudying straight first? Straight first ram And
for some of the people, eventingby itself just started organically, just like
music. But when it comes toyou know, I've done my first five

(01:03):
events, none of them was streetfirst. Yet at that point the people
I was linking up with were like, yo, let's yeah, we're working
at Mangrove now, so you know, we got the space in the back.
We gotta grow up, Like,I mean, what's got a parking
lot big as one Okay, let'scollaborate, you know, and host events.

(01:23):
Yeah, let's give it a nameand everything, you know. So
I was like, okay, cool. At the time, it was Mangrove
Street, so I was like,let's call it street Fast, you know
what I mean, just like that. And then it was called street Festival
or something like that, you know, and then so let's just change it
the street first one time, andthen hosted the first one twenty twenty two
at J Marley on the line ofa couple other people, Lucas Raps,

(01:45):
I gotta remember, and it wasokay. The first one wasn't amazing,
to be honest, it wasn't great. It was day. It wasn't.
I think I remember it. Itwas okay, you know. It was
the first try. You know,the stage was too small compared to the
ones of getting there and things likethat. But now street Fest two came
and I hit up A Reese andthen A Reese was like, hell yeah,

(02:07):
dog, and he's cute to doit. He was down for that
ship. So I was like,all right. So after that one,
when I promoted the ship out ofit, because I knew I had a
good headliner, big headliner, packedit out, same thing. He packed
it out differently, and then fromthere, you know, Number three,
I glad at door Boy and everyonebreaking the stage. Number four is Blackie,

(02:29):
Five was Flame and everyone I thinksix pretty ugly, seven Zucci and
then as again at was A Reesand J Jodi and Zucci and everyone nine
nasty Sea. Yeah. So fromthere it was just easy. And then
Underground was me saying, yo,I want to I want to stay with

(02:53):
the kids, you know, andI want to stay with the underground motion.
I don't want to sell out,So I created Underground still of the
kids who want I tried trance andStreet First to a mainstream audience or bigger
you know, nice audience. Thatwas. That was a huge stead bro.
So let me ask you this question. Do you see Street First becoming
as big as Back to the City, as big as Costant First? Definitely

(03:17):
that level I was going to.It's going to I mean, this is
only my second year. Maybe yeah, exactly, So I'm going on to
Street First eleven. I mean shewas going on Street First twelve and Underground
twelve went on the so Underground twelvewas on April twelfth. Street First.
I'm still going to get dropped theday, but I had number eleven now
now in number eleven now now inCape Town in December, so that was

(03:42):
eleven. The next time is numbertwelve, So that's twelve Street first twelve
undergrounds. You know, that's straightup for the culture. Ship, bro,
shout out for what you're doing tothe culture. Where Riki is.
I heard you said he's met him, spoken to him and for the kids,
bro, like and I take inspirationfrom him. Bro. He showed
that it's possible for independent artists justlike the rest of us that managed to

(04:06):
actually break through and not just breakthroughlike I got to hit on the radio.
He said, Yo, I gotmy liv on the streets putting the
kids, got my own clothing brand, I got my own hustle. I'm
on my own ship. So that'sinspired. That's inspired. Shut say shout
out to Shout out to guys.This was there for the vision episode of

(04:32):
this sort makes the podcast. Shoutout to not Benjamin, shout out to
kJ and I give you on