{"id":220471,"date":"2019-10-11T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/220471\/young-upcoming-kid-tini\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T15:32:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:32:06","slug":"young-upcoming-kid-tini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2019\/10\/11\/young-upcoming-kid-tini\/","title":{"rendered":"Young and Upcoming with Kid Tini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The creative journey is never easy for most artists and it was no different for Eastern Cape born rapper Kid Tini. He recently told us about his journey from making music with friends and brothers, to being signed to one of the biggest independent record labels in South Africa, Ambitiouz Entertainment.<br \/>\nKid Tini, whose real name is Phiwe Unam Tini, released his first mix tape, titled Coming of Age, at the age of 18 and it caught the ears of the right people. In our interview, we talked about music, fame, being nominated as one of the best lyricists in the South African Hip Hop awards, and his new release titled #SoundMind.<br \/>\nWatch the full episode here:<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Y2mHnvPaMF8' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>The young artist, who now resides in Pretoria, said that the rap industry does not speak about issues such as depression, abortion and other issues that are affecting people, and this was the aim when he released the single Cinga.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to change the world, I just want to change the way that rappers are viewed. All of us are looked at as those guys who like to brag\u201d said Phiwe.<br \/>\nCinga has now reached over a million views on YouTube.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/iK70e3r8uL0' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>To say he\u2019s an inspiring rapper or artist would be denying him the justice of his craft. Just listen to his latest body of work here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/audiomack.com\/album\/kid-tini-1\/sound-mind-ep\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/audiomack.com\/album\/kid-tini-1\/sound-mind-ep\u00a0<\/a><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kidtini\/sets\/sound-mind-ep\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kidtini\/sets\/sound-mind-ep<\/a><\/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='78488df6b29d7bb4ac65441ec05ce032'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> In our interview, we talked about music, fame, being nominated as one of the best lyricists in the South African Hip Hop awards, and his new release titled #SoundMind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6776,"featured_media":220473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Mahume Daniel Seleme","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[29130,29131,29132,29133,22757,29134,29135,29136,29137,29138,22761],"class_list":["post-220471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-soundmind","tag-ambitiouz-entertainment","tag-best-lyricists-in-the-south-african-hip-hop-awards","tag-eastern-cape-born-rapper-kid-tini","tag-mahume","tag-mahumedaniel","tag-mahumedanielseleme","tag-phiwe-unam-tini","tag-south-african-hip-hop-awards","tag-young-and-upcoming-with-kid-tini","tag-youngandupcoming"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["#SoundMind.","Ambitiouz Entertainment.","best lyricists in the South African Hip Hop awards","Eastern Cape born rapper Kid Tini","Mahume","Mahumedaniel","Mahumedanielseleme","Phiwe Unam Tini.","South African Hip Hop awards","Young and Upcoming with Kid Tini","YoungandUpcoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220471","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\/6776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}