{"id":40691,"date":"2020-04-15T16:01:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T15:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/dj-lag-and-moonchild-sanelly-unveil-the-video-for-uhuru-dis-an-impossible-durban-love-story\/"},"modified":"2021-02-01T11:59:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T10:59:31","slug":"dj-lag-and-moonchild-sanelly-unveil-the-video-for-uhuru-dis-an-impossible-durban-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/dj-lag-and-moonchild-sanelly-unveil-the-video-for-uhuru-dis-an-impossible-durban-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Lag and Moonchild Sanelly unveil the video for &#8220;Uhuru Dis&#8221;, an impossible Durban love story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zrm4Sa_vIUQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Taken from his latest EP &#8220;Uhuru&#8221; released in 2019, the video for &#8220;Uhuru Dis&#8221; was imagined as the first Gqom musical. The EP title is a reference to a Durban club considered as the cradle of the genre, nowadays known worldwide.<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The visual was directed by Chris Kets and takes up the plot of the classic <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, placing it in Durban with Gqom lifestyle references. Indeed, the families of the two protagonists are here two rival groups of dancers, the scenes alternate between Durban&#8217;s front beach and its nightclubs, and poison is replaced by a bottle of muthi, a traditional medicine used in southern Africa.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The director has also applied a futuristic filter to the different dance sequences, an aesthetic often found in Moonchild Sanelly&#8217;s appearances. The singer uses a fearsome flow on a simplistic and explosive instrumental of which DJ Lag, the self-proclaimed Gqom King, has the secret to. &#8220;Uhuru Dis&#8221; is a pioneering video that gives hope for a future between the genre and cinema: the birth of a potential &#8220;Gqollywood&#8221;, Chris Kets imagines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40128\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/566205a5-dj-lag-moonchild-sanelly-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/566205a5-dj-lag-moonchild-sanelly-2.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/566205a5-dj-lag-moonchild-sanelly-2-759x504.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/566205a5-dj-lag-moonchild-sanelly-2-1010x670.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/566205a5-dj-lag-moonchild-sanelly-2-1440x956.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/566205a5-dj-lag-moonchild-sanelly-2-661x439.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/566205a5-dj-lag-moonchild-sanelly-2-465x309.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/566205a5-dj-lag-moonchild-sanelly-2-375x249.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from his latest EP &#8220;Uhuru&#8221; released in 2019, the video for &#8220;Uhuru Dis&#8221; was imagined as the first Gqom musical. 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