Reason Gets Candid About Losing His Love For Hip Hop Music

Reason Gets Candid About Losing His Love For Hip Hop Music. Rapper Reason has been very vocal about his mental health struggles and how connecting with DJ Maphorisa helped overcome certain battles in his life. The rapper though his newfound relationship with DJ Maphorisa also found him creating amapiano music. Whilst Reason’s die-hard hip hop fans were not too pleased with his decision to switch to amapiano music, it is something he needed to do. Hip Hop music will always be the Reason’s first love but during his interview with Texx Talks, he admitted to falling out of love, with the genre that he gained fame in.

Reason got candid and explained that for the first time he found himself not connecting with the genre and various aspects in it. The rapper explained that while he did create hip hop music during this period he later discovered that it doesn’t sound the same way to him anymore. “On the music side, I had also just lost love for hip hop music as well. I ironically found myself for the first time, in a long time where I was not connecting with the genre. I wasn’t connecting with the artists, I wasn’t connecting with the sound, I wasn’t connecting with the story,” shared the rapper.

Reason went on to explain, “I just wasn’t connecting with the culture. I was supporting it, I was a part of it, I was still learning from it, I mean I’m a songwriter but I just wasn’t connecting with it. I really was just not enjoying the music I was making. I’ve got like two hip hop albums that are sitting there with like Sho Madjozi, Moonchild, Nadia Nakai, YoungstaCPT, like big guns and I just wasn’t enjoying it. And it’s not because the music was bad. The second I came out of that thing where I’m like dying inside, I started to hear the music differently, I started to fall in love with it again.”

The Azania hitmaker went on to explain how he connected with amapiano which reminded him of Kwaito music which is what got him into hip hop in the first place. “I was just going through that thing where I was not enjoying the music but I was really enjoying amapiano, it had this thing that reminded me of Kwaito, which is what got me into hip hop, to begin with. I was hearing these South African artists get on beats and rhyming and I found that interesting then I found these other guys who were rapping for longer periods of time, telling more intricate stories using more intricate punchlines and metaphors and I fell in love with that,” Reason added.

Listen to the full interview here: https://texxandthecity.com/2021/09/texx-talks-s6e7-features-reason-the-unapologetic-rapper-whos-not-afraid-to-change-genre-lanes/