HYPE MAGAZINE October 2026

In this issue, we have Bantu Nots gracing the cover, a rising talent based in Johannesburg. He has built his name as a trap star with songs like ‘Bantu Nots’ and ‘Emphantweni’, and more recently with songs like ‘Yenza’ and ‘Diba Dance’. Despite his trap star persona, Bantu Nots offers up a more personal reflection of himself on his latest offering, B11NG0. On the tape, he details how he struggles to balance the demands of being a rapper with the realities of being a young adult in society. Overall, this is Bantu Nots’s most personal project to date, and we get to tell the full story

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