The kwaicore wars

The kwaicore wars. Thats what they should call it. Who's "they" you might ask? The lecturers who set us up to do weird briefs such as this. I have seen it all, from people helping out their fellow classmates to wanting to sabotage the same people. Kwaicore has not only ruined our internet usage but we are now wanting to tweet about it every second as opposed to interesting stuff. We are sitting here hopelessly behind our laptops praying that our Kwaicore blogs gain the ratings so that we can get the marks. Leave Kwaito and Hardcore music alone. Like any old classic car, it shouldn't be messed around with. I don't see why we have people out there who feel it's necessary to now promote something that soon won't exist in their lives after they receive their marks. Arthur Mafokate wouldn't want his music superimposed with some head banging genre of noise. Likewise with some pierced Bad Brains guitarist wanting to swing his hips around like a carousel. It won't ever happen, so why bother? There are so many better mash ups in the world and we're here promoting this? So glad these 6 weeks are over...

Apparently they call this Kwaicore??

Here's to a student who actually attempted to create an example of the infamous genre Kwaicore. Look, I hoped that this day would never arrive and that people would just carry on talking crap, but someone out there has obviously had other ideas (overachiever perhaps?). This is neither ghetto nor is it of head banging quality in my opinion, let me know yours.

Check this out and please tell me what better mash ups there could be

Written and performed by Thembelani Gumede aka Goomza, the song is entitled Kwaicore. Have a look...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUMM9fG22PM

The right kind of mix (not "Kwaicore")

For those of you who aren't aware, this blog is a part of a competition; by the end of this week, there will be a weird old lecturer sitting at his computer Googling the word "kwaicore" thinking about what he's got planned for his bingo night. Don't get me wrong, lecturers are smart cookies, but to come up with a brief as dumb as this, you have to ask yourself what they do in their free time.

Anyways, talking about free time, should you have any, check out the new links to proper mash ups as opposed to whatever generic GarageBand bull that my copy class has tried to come up with

Nelly VS Lynyrd Skynyrd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL3-m8NBb…

Run DMC VS Metallica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ea56_sHy…

Snoop Dogg VS Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEp2I5JDB…

AC DC VS Black Eyed Peas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2-Pb3WUV…

50 cent VS Guns N Roses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KJma_pcJ…

Eagles VS MIMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edZy-LwJd…

Beethoven VS Kanye West
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jumopYHT…

Green Day VS Oasis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES2NGj_fY…

Eminem VS Eurythmics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aa-d3_E8…

Outkast VS Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfadLhw14…

Daft Punk VS 50 Cent
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ciePzkEihuI

Daft Punk VS Justin Timberlake
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ohP9ebFjuO4

Nirvana VS Rick Astley
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k

Beastie Boys VS Daft Punk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DUw8qJOlavQ

I'm going to offer an alternative to Kwaicore

It's been a few days since I last posted but I am back. In the break, I took time to do a lot of research to show and explain my utter dislike for people trying way too hard. Music mash ups? not kwaicore, mass up. Is that what you're keen on? I'll give you a mash up site that really knows what they're doing! Check A real mash up and let me know what you think.

Here's a site dedicated to the real "mash up trend"
Acapellas Heaven

So to all you kwaicore freaks, here's the real thing.

"Music of the townships"; The intro to Kwaicore

You may not know what the townships actually are, but don't be fooled; there are actually people out there who do buy expensive clothing and shoes only to dance around a fire to burn these items. Now whilst this ritual may seem positively stupid, it's the music they dance to that I'm going to talk about; Kwaito. 

Arthur Mafokate, the Britney Spears or the Elvis of Kwaito, describes the relationship between Kwaito and gangsterism as music revolving around ghetto life. To me, its the most ironic or contradictory form of music ever, the name being derived from the Afrikaans word for angry ("Kwaai") and then it being used post-apartheid as a way of the ghetto, because apparently them being oppressed was not enough credit. If you read what other people have to say about Kwaito, the believe it's the ghetto way of saying "house music". So let's just 'ghetto' everything because we can.

Alright, so moving on from the fact that kwaito is the music of "rebelling" and "renaming", I have a few examples i thought I'd share with you as I need to get those of you who have "never" (you have, you just didn't acknowledge) heard.


Musication

DJ Cleo's Kwaito

Is Kwaito not just house music?? Then what is house music??

Why would you want to superimpose this onto SlipKnots Duality??

Let me know what you think

What exactly is good Hardcore? Can we leave it out of Kwaicore?

So after an amazing long weekend, I've had time to think; here I am slamming something that doesn't and shouldn't ever exist, but I have no actual background of it. Today, I'd like to share what I've gathered to be "good" hardcore music courtesy of a fellow student (Check her out: Another site that hates this).

I've researched hardcore bands, almost died. The following may actually have potential, but as their own genre. Look at bands such as Kill Hannah as well as Blacklisted with their track "Houdini Blues". Its some hard stuff (coming from me who listens to Mozart to calm me the f#ck down in traffic). According to other sites, hardcore punk bands are those in the ranks of Bad Brains and The Exploited, slight head banging, but no serious risk of concussions or whiplash. Then, according to people [names not mentioned for safety reasons but indulge me in looking at their excuses for blogs (They try)] it apparently has deep, soulful meaning. I can definitely see where they may be singing about the beauty of the day and lifes meaning in between their screaming of colorful f#cking language.

What I'm trying to say with this post is that hardcore music, hardcore punk to be specific, is already trying hard to be something by itself. Why the F would you now force it to work with a genre like Kwaito??  

What would she do at gym? Not listen to Kwaicore

Think about what music you would listen to while you work out? Metal to motivate your skinny arms to lift that 4kg? Some house to keep you from falling off a treadmil? Now what if you took Kwaicore gym? Picture this chick lifting her kettlebells with a constipated weight lifting face keeping to the rythm? Thats exactly what Kwaicore is!! Check this "gym bunny" out at Gym Bunny Fail