Biography of Weez
Weez (Wessel Swart) is 24 year old Hip-Hop artist currently living in Pretoria, South-Africa.
He is an original artist who creates his own lyrics and is constantly working and learning with an ear on the streets.
His music is exciting new and fresh in his specific genre and his mission is to create ‘n product that every culture can relate to, both locally and in the international market.
“It’s about time that somebody step up and do Hip-Hop the way it’s suppose to be! South African needs a power injection for the Hip-Hop section..”
Besides working with local producers, Weez also broadened his vision and cohered with other producers from Zimbabwe, California and New York.
Weez made his first professional recording in August 2006 with a producer from Nigeria named “Maye” and his song called “Verbal Massacre” was play listed on a local radio station – 5 FM.
This song sneaked onto the hi5@5 chart as a new entry at number 20. Thereafter it hit the number 1 spot on this chart for 2 weeks in a row and remained for a total of 11 weeks on the top 25 hit chart.
DJ Fresh from 5FM said: “It’s the fastest ever decent to number 1 on the hi5@5 chart ever…”
This hit song “Verbal Massacre” was recently also recorded on a compilation album in the United States by DJ Khaled from the Terror Squad with other artist that included AKON and T.I.
A well known local club artist, “Lady Lea”, also requested to record a remix of one of Weez’s a songs called “Permanent Damage” . The song is being played in all major clubs around South-Africa.
The “Zoo Magazine” did a formal interview in March this year with him and in the publication the reporter announced Weez as “… South Africa’s new EMINEM”
Weez also worked with a well known club dj called ‘DJ Dino Bravo’ on some of the tracks on his album ‘Get Ready’.
Weez is a definite icon that will soon place the South-African Music market in a different perspective.
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