Zwai Bala produced most of TKZee's hits. Photo by Sabelo Mkhabela.
KB
KB used to be the in-house producer for the indie label Ghetto Ruff in the early 2000s. He was one of the most versatile producers of his time–he has kwaito, hip-hop and R&B hits bearing his credits.
KB produced Zola's first three stellar albums (Umdlwembe, Khokhovula and Bhambatha), and that alone is enough to make him one of the greatest–the consistency is unmatched. Him and Zola changed the way kwaito was made–Zola was one of the first kwaito artists to successfully fuse rap and kwaito, while KB's production was clean and had layers of different sounds that were unheard of in kwaito until he used them.
But the man's work goes deeper than Zola's impressive catalog–he produced earlier Ghetto Ruff gems like Oda Meesta's "Wena ubani" and Skeem's "Waar was Jay?," among others.
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