Scorpion Kings DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small have collaborated with spearheading Afro-pop vocalist, Tresor to declare the arrival of “Thunder in the Jungle”, a 14-track anthemic amapiano collection.
With the inspiring, dance-established first single “Funu”, DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small concrete their status as South Africa’s debut DJs by completely incorporating amapiano into the standard and thusly, further initiating the way of life.
DJ Maphorisa has been the man behind South Africa’s number one club bangers for simply under 10 years, with his principle plan to change the game emphatically, delivering hits like Uhuru’s “Y-Tjukutja” and Mafikizolo’s “Khona” both in 2013, and proceeding to deliver the praised gqom songs of devotion “Oncamnce” and “12 PM Starring”.
He additionally worked together with American supergroup, Major Lazer, on the 2017 African hymn, Particular which beat out all competitors across 17 nations on the landmass.
Tresore has easily solidified his situation in the African Pop classification since the arrival of his honor winning breakout collection, VII in 2015.
He has proceeded to add to his series of honors, including two SAMAs for Best Male Artist and Album of the Year for The Beautiful Madness (2017) and a Southern African Afrimma Award for Best Male Artist in 2018.
“I have been knowing Tresor for a long while and we’ve been promising each other that we need to go to the studio however we never had time.
“We’d meet in Zambia at gigs, I’d play him some stuff and he would vibe and stuff yet we sat idle.
“Since I heard him on another undertaking with accomplished for Covid, I revealed to Kabza that ‘we need to work with this person since I believe he’s extraordinary and he brings an alternate sort of surface and is truly true’.
“I felt like his sound can go with amapiano, it’s French, Lingala, Zulu and Swahili which for me to have every one of those dialects in a single venture I realized the music would go in”, said Maphorisa.
