203:, 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 Swarthy) both groups from Gaborone, 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.
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awards, as well as four awards at the annual 'Hip-Hop Indaba awards' in Cape Town. The group then appeared on the cover of the first issue of HYPE magazine, the first national hip-hop publication in South Africa. The following year saw
Unreleased Records recording artists Snazz D and Young Nations
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The second single off the album 'Taxi Wars' was equally well received. The song was produced by Gemini and saw him rapping alongside Snazz D and X-Amount. The song served to address the territorial conflicts of the taxi commissions in
Johannesburg. The video was directed by Wessels as well and was
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The first single off the album 'Hottentot Hop (Bantu 1, 2)' was well received. The song featured Snazz, X-Amount and Fat Free performing a
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