South African Hip Hop Artists Whose Tracks Received Platinum And Gold Certification Plaques

After RISA modernized its rules for receiving gold & platinum status in 2018, the music industry has been flooded with gold and platinum recipients on an exponential level. However, any rapper or R&B singer who moves over more units without external help from fellow artists and receives plauge certifications should be cherished and heralded like the past and present icons who came before them.

Nowadays any artist from all the corners of the world can become an overnight star and join the platinum club without big record label hype and all that.

Since the dawn of hip hop music era both hip-hop and R&B artists have gone platinum with classical tunes that will forever live on, but only few folks have made history by reaching platinum status without featured artists. Here are 5 Mzansi hip hop acts that went platinum

1. AKA

Rapper AKA whose rap moniker is Supa Mega was of course the first in the history  of South African hip hop music to gain multi diamond certification from RiSA. He has also received more platinum plaques for his hit singles The World Is Yours, Caiphus Song, All Eyes On Me, and Fela in Versace which is undoubtedly a universal rap anthem. Kiernan Forbes also has other hot singles on his music catalogue that have been certified Gold and Diamond by the Recording Industry South Africa of course.

2. Kwesta

In 2019 Kwesta’s album DaKar II was the highest selling Hip-Hop Album in South Africa. Post DaKar II, The Ngud hit maker came up with a few platinum selling hit singles which were Day One, Mayibabo, Ngud  which went platinum 7x and Nomayini that went platinum 3x. The Raplyf record label owner's stand alone chart topping single Spirit which features the American rapper and On & Off Maybach Music Group signee Wale platinum 3x and it sure left memorable memories for the Katlehong based rapper and his fans

3. Cassper Nyovest

The Tsholofelo Masterpiece maker Cassper Nyovest aka Mufasa repping both Family tree and Def Jam has achieved platinum selling status for his chart topper Good For That, Move For Me, featuring Boskasie and Remote Control. In 2017 he got a multi-platinum plaque for officially selling 10 million units of his albums

4. Boity

Even though some were pretty skeptical about her move to the rap world but she defied the odds and she is has been doing her thing ever since without looking back.

The rapper who recently signed a deal with Def Jam recordings earlier this year with a couple of other Mzansi's notable rap acts made history and became the first female South African Mc to receive a platinum plaque. Her first ever Nasty C assisted single Wuz Dat received platinum status. The song achieved 3.4 million streams at that time. She has also bagged a gold plaque for her feature on Yanga Chief’s Utatakho remix alongside her fellow Mc Dee Koala.

5. K.O

The Teargas hip hop group legend  and Skhanda Rap Spitta bagged a platinum plaque for his single off his PTYunLTD album Supa Dupa  at the start of the year 2020. The joint was the only track from the album to receive platinum status. The Asics brand ambassador has also went on to achieve Gold status for his most solid album Skhanda Republic which is highly rated.