{"id":219545,"date":"2026-01-07T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-young-rapper-giving-voice-to-zimbabwes-streets\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:05:41","slug":"zimbabwe-young-rapper-giving-voice-to-zimbabwes-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-young-rapper-giving-voice-to-zimbabwes-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Young Rapper Giving Voice to Zimbabwe&#8217;s Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A new generation of Zimbabwean hip-hop artists is beginning to find its voice, and among them is Gareth4L, a rising talent whose music blends personal storytelling with hard-hitting social commentary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Gareth4L says his love for music began early. &#8220;Music has always been something I loved doing. I have had a passion for it since I was young.&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">He was drawn to hip-hop, he adds, because of its power to tell stories and deliver messages that reflect everyday realities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601070038.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new generation of Zimbabwean hip-hop artists is beginning to find its voice, and among them is Gareth4L, a rising talent whose music blends personal storytelling with hard-hitting social commentary. Gareth4L says his love for music began early. &#8220;Music has always been something I loved doing. I have had a passion for it since I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,12983,257,10642,254,6751,10858,7720,4686,421,7726],"class_list":["post-219545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-giving","tag-news","tag-rapper","tag-south-africa-today","tag-streets","tag-voice","tag-young","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}