{"id":79751,"date":"2021-05-07T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/focalistic-gupta\/"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T15:19:03","slug":"focalistic-gupta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/focalistic-gupta\/","title":{"rendered":"Focalistic drops highly anticipated single \u201cGupta\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The song has been trending for a month, but the studio version is now finally available. <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>When Googling \u201cGupta\u201d a few months ago, the first results would be about a deep corruption scandal between former South African president Jacob Zuma and the Gupta brothers, two businessmen with dark links with the state\u2019s highest officials. But this changed when Focalistic recorded his track and changed the narrative around the case. Just like the Gupta brothers, \u201cwe all want to live the highest level of life, we want to leave the country anytime that we want, we want money and that\u2019s where the inspiration comes from\u201d, he tells us about his song. \u201c<em>Gupta<\/em> is about inspiring kids to work harder. It\u2019s also a juxtaposition, a nice play on the good and the bad. As much as we can read articles and see the bad in it, the Gupta state capture, we also look at it thinking <em>I wish I could live like this, even if I\u2019m going to do it the right way, I want to live this lifestyle, I want to be able to land at an airport in a private jet<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Focalistic and Mr JazziQ - Gupta [Feat. Lady Du, Mellow &amp; Sleazy] (Official Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMKi85xkgtw?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Focalistic and Mr JazziQ &#8211; Gupta [Feat. Lady Du, Mellow &amp; Sleazy]&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The first extracts of the track, that Focalistic started diffusing on social media and during shows, immediately captured his public\u2019s ear. \u201cPeople went crazy\u201d, the rapper laughs. \u201cIt\u2019s been a month and a half people have been asking me for the song. But I like it when people choose songs. We\u2019re always making music, we\u2019re working hard, we\u2019re always in the studio, but in the end the people are the one choosing. And they definitely chose this one\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The song features Amapiano heavy weight Mr JazziQ, singer Lady Du and producers Mellow &amp; Sleazy, riding high on South Africa\u2019s currently most popular genre. But Focalistic wants to make sure that his music is not just about trends and going viral. \u201c<em>It\u2019s never about making hits, it\u2019s about connecting with the people, telling genuine story. We do it for the hood, we\u2019ll always do it for our people. I\u2019m just proud and excited that we have another song that relates to the people. They will now be inspired to be a little bit more like Gupta!<\/em>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00ab Gupta \u00bb available on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\" href=\"https:\/\/africori.to\/gupta\" target=\"_blank\">all platforms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to Focalistic in our afro + club playlist on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/38btMIbD4lYEsPbMrN9Bjz?si=FbbbIxauTjWsf3HwGUiFVQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\">Spotify<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/fr\/playlist\/3244743002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (s\u2019ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2d1c5543-focalistic-gupta.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2d1c5543-focalistic-gupta.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2d1c5543-focalistic-gupta-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2d1c5543-focalistic-gupta-465x465.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2d1c5543-focalistic-gupta-375x375.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2d1c5543-focalistic-gupta-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2d1c5543-focalistic-gupta-85x85.jpeg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2d1c5543-focalistic-gupta-73x73.jpeg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song has been trending for a month, but the studio version is now finally available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":79733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[34102,29692],"location":[7844],"yst_prominent_words":[8539,38500,12841,38495,18366,38498,36854,38497,9741,38493,38491,38501,9202,16250,8543,38496,11353,38492,38494,8848],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79751"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=79751"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=79751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}