Pablo's CRACK SEASON is upon us

By Tawanda Ngena

Zambian hiphop artist, Pablo Crack is putting the final touches to his eagerly anticipated 'official' debut mixtape titled 'Crack Season'.

Comprising of 7 original tracks, the mixtape is slated for release on November 25th.

" I have been putting the songs together for quite a while now and I am happy that the fans will finally be able to feast their eyes and ears on what I have been cooking in the studio, all this while.

"As an official debut i chose the title to simply mean, 'a season of good music', this comes in prior to a follow-up LP(yet to be titled) that we are already working on and plan to release onto the market soon", said Pablo Crack.

That being said and done, we asked the hiphop artist, which of his tracks can fans across Africa look forward to?

"There is a couple of tracks that standout for me and these include, 'Give Me a Mic', a song about me asking for a mic so i can address a few things on my mind. The others include 'Connected', which is basically a narrative about how two young people find themselves in a crime they hadn't planned and 'Believe', an inspirational song about holding on to an idea or dream even when you are down on your luck", he said.

The rest of the Crack Season mixtape is made up of tracks like Complex, Words, Got Next and Touch The Sky.

Having done quite a number of cover versions and put out a few songs that were not 'radio friendly', the artist said that it was time to turn over a new leaf and he believes that Crack Season will be the project to do that with.

" The aim was for it to completely have original music unlike the earlier where I only ever did cover versions and freestyles. So i worked with various local producers and also a couple of others from South africa and from Nigeria.

"As most of my previous efforts had no clean version and had not been radio friendly, this time i decided to deviate from that. The crack season is clean and will definitely have a few singles debuting firstly through radio", he said.

The Zambian emcee's previous work includes 9-track EPs titled Thug Induction Volume 1 (2012) and volume 2 in (2014)

Pablo said that although he had wanted to have a considerable amount of features/guest appearances, he eventually decided on going it alone.

"Initially, the target was to have two really talented people on separate records. Though i chose to release those as surprise singles after Ep is out. As i have themed this Ep to be a solo project with no features", he said

We also asked the rapper what the state of the Zambian hiphop scene was like and this is what he had to say;

"I think that Zambian music as in any other southern African country is growing. With the rise of many websites and media groups, African music is growing and bridging boarders literary", he said.

On a parting note Pablo sought to affirm that he was a work in progress and that the best is yet to come.

"Well i feel the best still yet to come though just being able to tell my story and getting to work with people who's music I have grown up on has been a blessing.

" Pablo Crack firstly is a big fan of any type of music and i believe good music is good music, the vibe on any song whether the artist is big or small speaks for itself depending on its relevance. To hear pablo is to know pablo!"