Complexities of Cape hip hop on the big screen
Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit · 4 June 2026 · 13m
Speaker 1: Everything you need to start your day. Speaker 2: We all have a voice. Speaker 1: Use yours call to one double four six five six seven. Join the conversation on Speaker 1: k talk. But let me go year now. The Encounter's Documentary Film Festival currently underway Speaker 1: at the VNA Waterfront, and one of the standout local productions on the program is Speaker 1: a movie called Notes from the Underground at the premiers this Saturday at six point Speaker 1: thirty also at the Larbya Theater where they'll be followed by A. Speaker 2: Q and A. Speaker 1: And It's a documentary that tells the story of Cape Town, but through the lens Speaker 1: of hip hop, and from the streets of the Cape Flats to the stages, the Speaker 1: dance floors, the graffiti walls that help shape this hip hop movement. This film explores Speaker 1: how hip hop became more than just music. It's the form of resistance, of education, Speaker 1: feeling, the identity for generations who grow up in communities that have been scarred, marred Speaker 1: and still faces the legacy of a party. Ten Force Removals, directed by Adrian van Speaker 1: Vek and Chrasquetz, traces this evolution of Cape Town hip hop from its birth year Speaker 1: in about the nineteen eighties to the present day, and I'm joined now on the Speaker 1: line with Adrian from Good Morning Adan, really appreciate your time this film, it's a Speaker 1: description of an oral history of Cape Town, but told through hip hop. Why was Speaker 1: why is still? Hip hop? Just this vehicle of storytelling, but also has been this Speaker 1: vehicle for resistance, not just with the hip…
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