UnderGround Scene: Get-To-Spit, hip hop Nourishment for the Mind and Soul.

House No.6 on Leah Mangope Road normally operates as a Halaal spaza shop, but once a week Al-Shaams Halaal foods serves a rare delicacy on its menu, lyrical expression! Get-To-Spit is an open mic underground hip hop session hosted every Friday in Mabopane, a hood north of Pretoria which fell under the former Bophutatswana homeland during Apartheid. Heads, MCs and poets from Mabopane and surrounding areas are offered a platform to express their opinions on the deepest issues facing their respective communities, most of which are battling the harsh realities of poverty, unemployment and HIV/AIDS.

Reminiscent of Black Sunday in Soweto, Get-To-Spit provides opinionated & articulate young hip hop heads with a positive way to express their most intimate thoughts about living in the ghetto and the state of general society. As word spreads, the organisers might have to search for a venue bigger than the current lapa to accommodate Get-to-spit's growing audience, not to mention more spathlos.

If you happen to be in and around Mabopane on Friday make sure you get to Al-Shaams Halaal foods for Get-To-Spit from 6pm till hip hop infinity. - story compiled by Mooketsi 'Elite' Nthite

For more info or to perform, contact DJ Bosti on 0721406712