Cassper Nyovest On ‘Solomon’, Making Amapiano, Losing Friends + More On Africa Now Radio

Cassper Nyovest joins Nandi Madida via FaceTime on Apple Music’s Africa Now Radio to discuss his lead single, ‘Zero One Eight’ featuring Maglera Doe Boy, his forthcoming album ‘Solomon’, returning to classic hip-hop sounds, navigating personal tragedies, and forgoing commercial success in favour of true artistry.

Cassper Nyovest is set to release his album ‘Solomon’ on September 15^th and today, followed up the teaser for his long-awaited lead single, ‘Zero One Eight’ featuring Maglera Doe Boy with its official release and accompanying visuals.

Cassper Nyovest on his forthcoming album ‘Solomon’

“It's definitely a personal album. It’s really not about how well it’s going to do, you know I think I’ve done the commercial thing for a long time and I feel like I’m at a point now in my career where I just genuinely want to make a solid project that I’m proud of. This is my attempt at making a classic hip-hop album that will play 10 years from now, and it will stand the test of time. It’s very simple, I really just did whatever came to mind and whatever felt natural at that point. That’s what it’s about for me.”

Cassper Nyovest on returning from Amapiano to the Hip-Hop

“I’m always true to myself, like when I was making piano it was because I was exploring a sound I was very interested in, and I loved it. I was really just making it because that’s what I felt like doing and expressing myself at that point… I had so much to talk about and share and express but I couldn’t find a way to do it on piano beats because I feel like people are just dancing, they’re not listening, so I felt a void, and I just knew that in order for me to feel like I’m expressing myself and talking about the topics I wanted to talk about I had to rap, I had to go back to Hip-Hop.”

Cassper Nyovest on losing close friends in the music industry

"Losing so many close friends in that manner really messed with me, and also it was the proximity of those events also… it traumatised me a lot. I found myself just detaching myself from a lot of things, and it did force me to grow and become an adult, and become realistic and become more compassionate, become more patient and also just concentrate on what really matters and cut out a lot of the extra stuff that we just add on to our lives in the name of fun and joy. I had to really concentrate and basically work on the quality of the life that I want to live."

Listen to the full interview on Friday, September 9^th via the link HERE.