ABSTRACT
In South Africa, rap/hip-hop arrived into a post-1994 world with newly complicated social and spatial demographics of economic distribution along racial lines in the country. This reorganization of the socioeconomic order has produced few individuals-outside the African upper class and ruling elite-from marginalized communities that have been able to advance socially and economically. The success of these individuals has been stage-managed as national success stories attesting to the transformative possibilities of post-1994 government policies, masking shortcomings of social transformation for the majority in the country (Kruger 2010).
