Kwaito

Genre

The slowed-down South African house music that came out of Soweto between the late 1980s and early 1990s, with loops, deep bass and township slang over the top. The name comes from the slang word kwaai. Brenda Fassie's Memeza is described as pop and kwaito.

Connections

is related to

Amapiano
House kwaito is a slowed-down South African house

takes in

Brenda Fassie Memeza is described as pop and kwaito
Memeza pop and kwaito, in Wikipedia's description

is in

Soweto

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