{"id":155553,"date":"2017-07-01T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/155553\/long-way-up-for-maverick-and-response\/"},"modified":"2017-07-05T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T10:45:21","slug":"long-way-up-for-maverick-and-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/07\/01\/long-way-up-for-maverick-and-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Long way up for Maverick and &#8216;Response&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood friends, Keagan Scullard (19) and Thapelo Motaung (20), are joined at the hip by music among other things.<\/p>\n<p>The talented youngsters are upcoming rap artists who dream to become successful in the music industry.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Lambton resident Keagan\u2019s stage name is Maverick and Thapelo\u2019s is Response.<\/p>\n<p>Thapelo is from Buhle Park and said they both fell in love with music at a young age.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMy mother tells me that I started humming tunes when I was a few months old,\u201d said Thapelo while Keagan explained that he loved music so much that he actually wanted to become a singer but then realised that he can\u2019t sing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI then started expressing my thoughts through rap which is one of the things we have in common,\u201d said Keagan.<\/p>\n<p>Their tender music career has seen them release three songs &#8211; two songs late last year and another on Valentine\u2019s Day this year.<\/p>\n<p>The song, titled My Love is romantic which is why they decided to release it on Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>According to the pair, versatility describes their music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maverick and Response\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/44IEneAWKc8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe add different styles to our music. Among other things we incorporate old-school hip hop and mix it with the new trap music,\u201d said Thapelo.<\/p>\n<p>The GCN asked the budding artists what inspired their stage names.<\/p>\n<p>Keagan responded that his mother loved the film, Top Gun, and spoke about it a lot, including one of the main characters named Maverick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI liked the name and after researching it, I liked the meaning and decided it will be my stage name,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Thapelo said his life journey inspired his stage name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up was difficult for me and I faced a lot but I would always be strong enough to come back and respond to anything life threw at me,\u201d said Thapelo.<\/p>\n<p>The duo has also recorded an extended play (EP), Long Way Up, and plan on releasing it later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can expect great production in our EP and our music in general. We couldn\u2019t do it without the help of Khotso Moeti who makes all our beats &#8211; he is very good and we appreciate his help,&#8221; said Keagan.<\/p>\n<p>The youngsters also said they will keep pushing hard until they succeed. Their advice to the youth is: &#8216;Never give up on dreams and go ahead and conquer&#8217;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='8800e20f00ec2190a27d9410111809ef'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston\u2019s youngsters have great plans for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":155554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[2460,1106,979,9030,969,15060,15059,2749,15061],"class_list":["post-155553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-artists","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-artists","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-maverick","tag-maverick-and-response","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-response"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["artists","GCN","germiston","germiston artists","germiston city news","Maverick","Maverick and Response","Puleng Sekabate","Response"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}