Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DJ Lag wasn’t at the Global Citizen Festival in Johannesburg in December when Beyoncé dropped his track “Trip to New York” into ...

At the end of September, an MC grabbed a hold of the microphone at a small but crowded club in Durban, South Africa. “Who knows about ‘Amanikiniki?'” he bellowed. “It’s a hit.” “Amanikiniki” is a hard ...

Yesterday Megan Ryte was accused of plagiarising DJ Lag in her new track ‘Culture’ featuring will.i.am and A$AP Ferg. will.i.am has since posted a video apology ...

DJ Lag produces My Power on Beyonce’s Lion King-inspired album and releases new EP Steam Rooms. Photo: Supplied Last week, Beyoncé revealed the track list for her new Lion King-inspired album, The ...

DJ Lag has released his new single, ‘Raptor’, in collaboration with Canadian-American producer Sinjin Hawke. The track is from DJ Lag’s upcoming debut album, ‘Meeting with the King’, due for release ...

DJ LAG was in Cape Town for CTEMF this past February and got together with Cape Town vocalist, Sdumo Viwe for a collab. We asked Sdumo Viwve a few questiosn on the process, what the collaboration was ...

DJ Lag is one of a cohort of producers in South Africa's Durban making gqom: a ruthless, minimalist, tensely percussive form of dance music. Over in London, the independent label Goon Club Allstars ...

“I was just trying to create something that sounded like hip-hop, but on a house tempo” is how DJ Lag tried to articulate his sound on our first meeting at his mother’s house in Clermont four years ...

South Africa's finest, DJ Lag is back, this time teaming up with fellow Durbanite DJ Tira for "Siyagroova". Together, the pair unite Lag's gqom sound with Tira's Kwaito vocals for a rumbling club cut ...

There is so much power in boldly following your dream, especially when your surroundings are designed to thwart you. “I knew that music was my ticket to go see the world and be great,” says Lwazi ...

DJ Lag, the South African "Gqom prince" born Lwazi Asanda Gwala, got a boost after being sought out by Beyoncé and included on her soundtrack, The Lion King: The Gift. "It's opened doors, for sure,"… ...