Cape Town - Rapper and songwriter Nadia Nakai is in the city to promote her debut album, Nadia Naked. The Imma Boss hitmaker has wowed fans at high schools and was set to perform at Canal Walk today. Nakai was recently named an ambassador of sportswear brand Reebok in South Africa.
“It just happened that this year was the year that I completed my album and felt it was ready to be released for everyone to hear,” she said. “We didn’t have money for flights so we would drive. We would pack the car full of groceries and she would pop her urban cultural music on and we would jam to the likes of Jill Scott, Eryka Badu and UB40 and that is where my love for hip hop stems from. It’s a very emotive and expressive type of music and I feel that one is able to better express themselves through this type of music than any other.