Mzansi drill music trailblazer and young hip-hop star Roiii has returned with another offering titled “Oh My (OMG)” alongside “Wuz Dat” hitmaker Boity. Preparing to strike with their debut collaborative album, titled The Extra Mile, set to drop on the 1st of November 2024, the duo already has nine tracks lined up in their arsenal. Their curtain-raising single is a dynamizing bomb of energy powered by the unrelenting tide of dual-tongued rap.
“Oh My (OMG)” is a treat of traditional drill braided with elements of glitch-hop, the primary sound layered with a ritualistic shrill that feels like a piece of sacred music cut straight out of a chant-based ceremony deep in the woods. The production behind the pair’s first lead single is a replica of the prototype UK sound sprinkled with those signature onomatopoeic brrrrrrrs and rrrrrrrahs to embellish the song with a gritty atmosphere, augmenting the menacing tone already established by unsettling stuttering and the siren-like loop which dominates the fabric of the background.
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Code-switching between fluid English delivery and sporadic treatment of seTswana, the duo share chemistry on the record established on the similarities of their rhythmic wavelengths and the discombobulating way they can find pockets to either ride the beat or change the lane of flows.
The pacemaker of their kinetic performances is the chorus, which is an evenly smoothed out co-mingle of turn-up lyricism done in the Queen’s Language and the native accent before being bookended by an aggressive spate of Tswana spitting.
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Between the two of them, the songwriting is a mixture inspired by blending luxury rap and hardcore hip-hop, with the former gleaned from Boity’s boisterous and braggadocious self-autobiography dominated by posh cars, money-making, and travelling, and the latter being seen in Roiii’s in-your-face lyricism, no-nonsense threats of violence, and domineering force.
With their LP already set and ready to lift off, “Oh My (OMG)” promises that their maiden offering as a conjugate act will be a single-spirited spectacle founded on mutual musical understanding and their exploitation of their synergy. It also heralds the forthcoming birth of a project poised to defy the norm while giving both artists greater foothold in the game.
