Sibot & Okmalumkoolkat Explore Zulu Ancestry And The Cosmos In Their 'Nice Shandees' Video

Seasoned Cape Town beatmaker Sibot and SA wordsmith Okmalumkoolkat team up in the futuristic visuals for "Nice Shandees," a booming joint off Sibot's Arc Eyes EP. The music video, directed by Lebogang Rasethaba (who co-directed Future Sound of Mzansiwith Spoek Mathambo), is a blue-tinted trip that features Okmalumkoolkat rapping from a modern throne surrounded by a dance crew clad in Sibot's eye-ball gear.

"I think shandees is Durban lingo for 'things' 'stuff;'" Rasethaba writes in an e-mail to Okayafrica. "I have heard everything from cars, to girls to a burger and sometimes even cellphones described as a shandees. The idea was to create a world that has never been before, and its probably one of the most things to do now more than ever before. We used the idea of a “future mfana” as the kind of bottom line of the idea, and explored different themes around the cosmos, orbit paths, Zulu ancestry. We wanted to marry things that have never been seen together before, especially within the music video language, we just wanted to make something that stood out. And now people have a visual reference for that type of sound. I think we did ok here."

Watch the music video for Sibot and Okmalumkoolkat's "Nice Shandees" below. For more, check out Okmalumkoolkat's recent features on the Boom Africa EP, as well as his collaboration with Major League Djz, Cassper Nyovest, Carpo and Riky Rick in "Slyza Tsotsi."