He got taken to the hospital and we had to do the show so we played a set and three quarters of the way through, he turned up on stage. Sharpa, through Pioneer Unit. Kgotso took that and ran with it. He named me Warmonga because all I wanted to do was battle. Dplanet pauses and then says: The Kaptin name was very apt. 
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He never let his diabetes take him away from the music.
As a rapper, producer and thought leader, his words over eccentric rap beats and ideas around social msuic galvanised members of underground rap as much as it muaic him fans across the globe.
As a young, black person, you understood what he was talking about. He got taken to the hospital and we had to do the show so we played a set and three quarters of the way through, he turned up on stage.
Kap was the guy everybody liked. He named me Warmonga because all I wanted to do was battle. He will be buried in Enerdale on Saturday morning. Mayonnaise bottle blow leads to husband's death, wife arrested.
Dplanet pauses and then says: That song wharpa barriers because it was a story that can be related to everywhere.
Towards the end, his kidneys started to fail and once your kidneys go, everything does. Tributes pour in for SA hip hop pioneer Ben Sharpa, but who was he? People always wanted to hear that and see him perform it.
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Because he gave us B. Even while he was still rapping, he had a keen interest in all things digital and moved to Cape Town to study and later consistently became employee of the month at IBM. His name is always going to be in the hip hop been of fame, in Africa and France too.
The Kaptin name was very apt. I named Kap after a scene in Dead Poets Society.
Remembering the great lyricist and producer Ben Sharpa
I still have a full album of muic that we never released. He managed to do so many great things and affect so many lives in a positive way even though he was living with a disease that ate away at his organs.
Sharpa, through Pioneer Unit. It was a culture-shifting body of work led by a riotous track called Hegemony, which was produced by Sibot.
There was no animosity but he was frustrated and wanted to try other things. He was a great lyricist and producer and he was a leader who had the patience to mentor people.
Particularly the Groundworks days. Read next on IOL. No matter where you were from, you could relate. His sister, the musician and educator, Tebs Semela, recalls: Most Read on IOL. Through their indie label, Con Camp formerly Concentration Campthey gen projects like Demolition: Kgotso took that and ran with it.
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I always looked up to my brother. He was Kap, we were always following him. He had Type 1 diabetes — the hereditary kind. Everyone was down with him and that musci stuck. When the family returned to South Africa inthe bright Sharpa was enrolled at the American International School of Johannesburg, where he was valedictorian.
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