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New Video Alert: Toya DeLazy - Are you gonna stay?

This was undoubtedly my favourite track off her debut album, “Due Drop”.

Sample the video. Once again, Ms. Buthelezi, you have me.

And yes, I’m gonna stay.

[YouTube views at as time of post: 51. C’mon. We need more.]

MusicBreak: Toya DeLazy - My Story, “It takes a lot to make a classic.”

“After I lost my mum… the only way I could comfort myself was through music…

I slept over at [my friends’] houses; I squatted for months… I hustled hard, ey…”

Image via Toya DeLazy’s Facebook page.

MusicBreak: Channel O - Introducing Toya DeLazy.

I’ve been going on and on about Toya DeLazy on my posts - Facebook, Twitter, blogposts - as well as on my radio show on 1 FM in Kenya, and I’m not about to stop.

(Which reminds me: DJ Mikey, how’s that Fedex going?! I need that album yo! I need to get DeLazyed up in this biz!)

Check her out on Channel O, talking about fashion, life and love!

Toya DeLazy: “Love is in the air.”

By now, the admiration I have for Ms. Latoya Buthelezi is no secret. Set to be among the best of [South] Africa’s break-out stars for 2012, and April 16th couldn’t arrive any sooner for the release of her debut album.

That debut album: “Due Drop.” Image via her Facebook Page.

DeLazy told TimesLIVE that “Love is in the air” is part of a greater attempt to work out the mysterious nature of mankind’s most cherished emotion: “When I wrote it I was trying to figure out love.”

With the smash hit that already is “Pump it on” [and an album only days away], topping her debut single’s success would have been quite the task.

She nailed it.

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Sidebar:

I mentioned it once before, and again I say: Toya DeLazy. Fena (Yes, Ms. FenaMenal herself). Keko.

Same bed.

Sure-fire WIN.

Hands up if you’d want to see [rather, hear] that.

Keko: “Make you dance” (ft Madtraxx).

I keep fantasizing about having Keko and Toya DeLazy on the same bed, and it’s with good reason: They are quite simply two of the best out of Africa today.

 ”Yho! This Keko lady is good! Where’s she from, South Africa?”

Keko is Ugandan. From Tororo. Yes, Uganda: The land of matoke, Museveni and that scary, world-famous, bogeyman-cum-internet-sensation Joseph Kony. (That last lie would be thanks to this piece of wonderful Hollywood show-and-tell.)

And wasn’t 2011 a good year for her:

• “Akello” [or “Full Circle”, as some call it.]
• “How we do it” [The remix featured Uganda’s premier duo, Radio & Weasel.]
• “Black” [aka “All black everything”.]

It seems 24-year-old Keko isn’t letting anything slow her down getting into 2012: She released a single with Naija’s Selebobo as soon as the year began, “No letting go”.

And following that up, keeping her showing consistently strong, she teams up with Kenya’s Madtraxx on “Make you dance”.

Yes, she does make one dance. Or nod your head, at the very least.

With a nod at her producer, Just Jose of the Supernova Music Group, here’s looking forward to the release of her album, “Kekonian”.

“I’m gonna make you dance - I’m gonna - I’m gonna make you dance…”

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Sidebar:

1. The video was directed by the legend that is Clarence Peters. Not surprising. I mean, look at it. It just screams, “MTV, TRACE, PAY ATTENTION, COZ HERE WE ARE DAMMIT!”
2. Anyone else picture Fena (Yes, Ms. FenaMenal) fitting into this clique? Methinks she’d feel right at home.
3. “I keep fantasizing about having Keko and Toya DeLazy on the same bed…” Just so we’re clear, the word “bed” is oft used in reference to the instrumentals. So having them “on the same bed” is basically hearing them on the same track. Although I wouldn’t mind…

In her own words: Toya DeLazy On her upward trend.

Latoya Buthelezi speaks to Drum (South Africa) about her life before and after the fame.