In his latest single, YoungstaCPT pays homage to South African football legend, Benni McCarthy. In the song, YoungstaCPT makes it clear that he looks up to Benni, rapping in the hook: “I’m repping the city and taking it with me everywhere I go like I’m Benni McCarthy.”
“This song is important to me because it’s a dope way of acknowledging one of our hometown heroes which we should all be proud of,” says Shaney Jay, who produced the song.
“I wrote the song ‘Benni McCarthy’ in 2022 around the time the news broke that he was going to be coaching with Manchester United,” says YoungstaCPT. “It was a magical moment for all Capetonians and seeing him on the same field as Ronaldo who also returned to the Football club, I wanted to capture that feeling of pride and patriotism in music. He has always been a beloved South African icon but for Cape Town the respect and admiration for him runs deeper and I just wanted to pay respect to all his accomplishments knowing his back story.”
‘Benni McCarthy’ is the first single to YoungstaCPT and Shane Jay’s upcoming second project, a follow-up to 2021’s ‘Dreams Don’t Pay Pills’. “The title of this next project is ‘Suffer for Beauty’,” YoungstaCPT says, “and it’s amazing how all this is happening to us a nation, whether it’s load shedding or looting or corruption and violence, we deal with a lot of recurring trauma as South Africans and then being in the entertainment industry comes with its own set of trials.”
Stream ‘Benni McCarthy’ by YoungstaCPT and Shane Jay below:
