Cashless Society
| Cashless Society | |
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| Origin |
Gaberone, Botswana; Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Genres | Hip hop, Rap |
| Years active | 1999–2006 |
| Labels | Unreleased Records |
| Website | http://www.unreleasedrecords.com/ |
| Members | Black Intellect Criminal Draztik Fat Free Gemini Snazz D Tizeye X-Amount |
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Cashless Society sometimes The Hard Cashless Society or THC Society are a Southern African hip hop crew from Gaberone, Botswana and Johannesburg, South Africa. The group consists of Snazz D (Julian Du Plessis), Draztik (Dave Balsher), X-Amount (Kwezi Ngcakani), Black Intellect (Jerry Kai Lewis), Fat Free (Salim Mosidinyane) & DJ IQ (who left the group, when he moved back to Queens, NY), the group made later acquisitions of other like minded artists with Criminal (Alfred Chirwa), Tizeye (Tyrone Phillips) & Gemini (Thabiso Mofokeng) (the later is also a member of Groundworks) joining to form the group well known as Cashless Society.
In 1999 the independent label Unreleased Records was formed by CEO's Draztik and DJ IQ from Gaberone, Botswana and X-Amount from Johannesburg, South Africa. The idea was to create a platform for the emerging hip-hop talent in Southern Africa which they felt was being secluded from the musical landscape by the industry. Cashless Society were amongst the first groups to sign with Unreleased Records in 1999. The group was made up of Draztik, X-Amount, Snazz D, Black Intellect, Slim a.k.a Fat Free and DJ IQ. Other groups originally signed to the label were Organik Interfaze (Draztik, Slim and DJ IQ) and Nativity (Fifth Light, L biz, Carnage and Swathey) both groups from Gaberone, Botswana. The name Cashless Society sums up the crew via a double meaning: cashless, as in the plastic economic future of the modern world and cashless as in Africa, currently the poorest of the poor.
Draztik, Slim and DJ IQ were the hosts of the weekly live radio show 'Strictly Hip-Hop' on radio station RBII in Botswana. They were also the members of the group Organik Interfaze, The three had spent considerable time abroad, with Draztik growing up in Sacramento, California, Slim being born and raised in New York City and DJ IQ growing up in Queens, New York, before they all returned to Botswana.
X-Amount and Snazz D were based out of Johannesburg, South Africa and had formed the group Gun of a Nation (Zulu, "Isizwe se zi bhamu") together. The Son of a former South African MK guerilla soldier, X-Amount was born in a military camp in Nairobi, Kenya before relocating to Toronto, Canada at the age of eight. He returned to South Africa in 1998. Black Intellect, also based out of Johannesburg, was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland before relocating to South Africa and joining the group Cashless Society.
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