The Zimbabwean-born South African rapper, Nadia Nakai keeps bossing up and proving why she’s the biggest female rapper in the country!
Born Nadia Nakai Kandava, the rapper is a personality made for stardom – boasting proficiency in performance and persona. Nadia is a personification of boss-hood and Queendom. The early hours this morning, the BET UK accounts took to social media to announce the nominees for this years ‘Best International Flow’ which saw the appearance of two South African rappers, Nadia Nakai and Blxckie.
Congratulations are in order for both rappers.
The 2022 #HipHopAwards nominees for Best International Flow are:@BenjaminEpps3 @blacksherif_ @blxckie___ #centralcee @haviahmighty @Knucks @Lejuiicemusic @NadiaNakaiSA @Tashaokereke @tracieokereke
Congratulations to this year’s nominees!
????from Fri 7th Oct on My5!#BET pic.twitter.com/PPytQOq4LU— BET UK ???????? (@BET_UK) September 12, 2022
Nadia Nakai released her latest single, ‘Not The Same’ in July this year – In true boom bap fashion, Nadia gives us a well-packaged presentation in the new single ‘Not the Same’; a collaborative effort by production opulence Soko7 and Kronik alongside featured artist Lucasraps. Nadia’s dance number presents listeners with yet another radio-friendly ditty, demonstrating Nadia’s unfaltering consistency.
A traditional hip-hop flex lay with residual tinges of pop, the single positions Nadia Nakai exuding prowess in every respect. Nadia and Lucas’s hyper-focus on boasting about their economic power is presented through the mechanisms of name-dropping luxury brands and exposing the state of her bank balance. A track articulating Nakai’s essence as something which cannot be replicated and most certainly as something which cannot be compared, Not The Same is Nadia’s affirmation that this lane is hers and hers alone.
A diss song at its core, the single is void of maliciousness or a specific target as Nakai maintains that she fashions and operates in her own lane. The frolic between kittenish vocals and deep-set vocal delivery mirrors this same technique imposed by the producers with the 808. Thus a reiteration that Not The Same may be a diss track, a flex track, but in the end, it is all just banter.
