Playlist: Backyard Crew Essentials

Backyard Crew, a spaza/ hip-hop group from Cape Town is one of South African rap’s best kept secrets. They changed the spaza sub-genre in Cape Town in the early 2010s.
The then five-man crew was poised to take over the game, but a tragic car accident which saw one of their members Van de Merwe and another member of Backyard Records die, crippled them.
Earlier this year, the crew made a comeback after a five-year hiatus with a single called “Sudelela”. I interviewed the crew just after the release of their single. You can listen to the interview below, and read a written version here. I wrote about Kideo here.
Below I pick my favourite Backyard Crew songs (including the members’ solo tracks), and ones that I feel are key into understanding the group.





Backyard Crew is on Facebook and SoundCloud.
