Botswana Hip Hop Music

Hip Hop Music Botswana is mainly popularized by the various bands and television shows of the country. Earlier, a major chunk of the popular music in Botswana used to get incorporated from the South African countries or from the European states. Since 1999, however, there has been a significant rise in the number of music bands, DJs and rappers performing hip hop Music who have slowly but steadily entered the mainstream Hip Hop Music Botswana.

Some of the most prominent names in the genre of the Hip Hop Music Botswana include the P-Side Crew, Draztik, Slim, DJ Sid, Stagga, Orakle, Kast, Scar, Big Dukester, DJ Kels, DJ Moe, Sinewave Production, ARKITEKT, Qbio, AK, Mista Doe, Bangu A.K.A Gadamit A.K.A Awesomo, The Beat Premiers, Toy-Tik and Konkrete.

The television show Strictly Hip Hop, have gone a long way to promote Botswana's hip hop music. The show is hosted by Slim and Draztik along with Hip Hop Music Botswana crew ‘The Wizards’, which mingles hip hop music of Botswana with the R&D and Ragga. Also the famous Phat Boy label record has joined hands with all of them in order to bring the hip hop music at Botswana to the limelight and gain popularity.