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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

SPAZASHOP BOYS










 

An eclectically collaboration of two young guys, Spazashop Boys, Jonny Joburg and Sir Charlie Macc was formed. Already getting votes in other countries as a No.1 Hit, these two have already started out their career in music raising the bar to higher heights. Their character regime on stage is electrifying and audiences are immediately drawn in. Their style persona is anything but predictable and their music is a mix up and consists of different genres such as Rock, Pop, Dub-Step and Electro, with HIP-HOP forming the common denominator. Spazashop is doing big tingz!






































































Interview:





Toni-J: How did SPAZASHOP BOYS form?
Charlie Macc: It started at my granny’s house.

Toni-J: Seriously?
Charlie Macc: Yeah Jonny ran away from home.
Jonny Joburg: Ok, you don’t have to write that, LOL.
Charlie Macc: No but for real it started out at my grandma’s house, in my room, this dude ran away from home, he was all angry and shit and then we just decided to listen to some tracks and we just started freestyling.

Toni-J: Interesting, so where did you guys get the names Jonny Joburg and Charlie Macc?
Jonny Joburg: Well Jonny Joburg is really just a story about those that don’t come from Joburg but they come here in search of a better life. They use to call them back in the day  ‘Jonny come to Jozi’. So that’s here I got that from and Joburg is where I learned how to become Jonny Joburg. This is where it all started and it definitely won’t end here. SPAZASHOP on every corner.
Charlie Macc: Yeah beyond your border!

Toni-J: What about Charlie Macc?
Charlie Macc: It’s SIR Charlie Macc. It’s kinda got a ring to it like ‘ a pimp named slick back’ innit?
Toni-J: LOL, but why Charlie?
Charlie Macc: Look up the name Chime! That’s my Jewish name. So look up the English meaning of that.
Jonny Joburg: But he was given the name by me actually, I first called him Charles Manyoba, but that was like too wrong, and then I was like ok Charlie Macc. Then he later added the SIR bit.

Toni-J: So for the readers that haven’t heard your music, what is your signature style? Or Genre?
Jonny Joburg: The thing is, in the past we’ve tried to keep things simple and just classify our music under Hip-Hop, which we do, because we rap, but at the same time, we consider ourselves ROCK stars too as opposed to being rappers only. Because if you look at the way we present our art, it’s that of a rock star. It’s about us, our self-experiences and the way we interpret life. And the Sound? It’s AMAZING!
Charlie Macc: You can’t group our sound into one category. It’s a collaboration of different elements of music. The undertone is definitely Hip-Hop,  with a fusion of Dub-Step, Rock ‘n Roll and electro. Just pieces of what we took from growing up.
Jonny Joburg: Yeah, we’re the new version of 2012 thundercats, we grew up watching cartoon network and stuff, so this is a reflection of that in some ways.

Toni-J: So what exactly is your mission, what are you trying to accomplish?
Jonny Joburg: Spazashop will literally be on every corner and obviously we will be where we need to be. But where we are already , we’re  in a position to take over the whole continent and then put it under one flag. We’re staying consistent but we’ll stay switching it up!

Toni-J: Sounds good, speaking of which you guys recently had a ‘no.1’ hit on a show outside of South Africa, what was that like for you guys?
Jonny Joburg: Yeah it’s a FRESH track!! On YARONA FM.
Charlie Macc: Yeah, on the No.1 Radio station in Botswana.
Jonny Joburg: It was so CRAZY and random,  that we got voted a No.1 Hit in a place outside of our home country, South Africa.  Just to think that all those people voted for us.
Charlie Macc: It was really cool, they even called us and told us then we just did           an interview.
Jonny Joburg: It was really special to us because it was our first track EVER RECORDED!! SHOUT OUT TO BOTSWANA, WE LOVE YOU!

Toni-J: Dope, our mag’s actually distributed in Botswana too!  Speaking of other countries, where would you guys like to perform?
Charlie Macc: All over the world,  Like Japan, China, South Korea maybe,  L.A,
Jonny Joburg: Nigeria, ATL, SPAZASHOP on EVERY CORNER!

Toni-J: How did the name SPAZASHOP come about anyway?
Charlie Macc: We were like a group of people and then you know how nicknames start?
Jonny Joburg: Yeah so it was like a nickname given to us, there’s no relation, but    we dig it!
Charlie Macc: It was like an indirect diss, you know, cause nicknames are indirect disses, LOL.

Toni-J: Is there anything you guys are currently working on that we should look out for?
Charlie Macc: We just did a track with  Camagwini, a Xhosa vocalists,

Toni-J: DOPE!! So when do we get to hear that?
Jonny Joburg: On the album, it’s coming out in June/July. Called Popular Science.

Toni-J: Any advice you could give to people trying to get into the same industry!
Jonny Joburg: Do you! Be you! Follow your heart, stay true to yourself.
Charlie Macc: DO YOUR THANG MANG!





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@sircharliemacc

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