Have you ever had that feeling of genuine excitement when witnessing an artist blow up right in front of you? I mean, you probably have at some stage in your life, but if we’re keeping it 100%, it’s been a while within our hip hop community since we’ve felt that. This isn’t to say that there hasn’t been a selection of emerging artists out there who have evoked that level of affection but, what I’m trying to say is that it’s rare and, sometimes, when it does come, it doesn’t last very long.

There have been times when I would reminisce about ‘blow-up moments’ that did enough to push the game towards some sort of progression and, off the top of my head, names such as Emtee, Nasty C, Cassper Nyovest, Kwesta and even Frank Casino (just to name a few, because I know that there are definitely more, so don’t @ me) come to me, because they’re prime examples of what I’m probably failing to express… Cisum Pegasus is evoking that feeling in me at the moment and I’m loving it because, not only is he considered to be a spearhead for the game right now, but he is keeping up with the momentum, which is key… 2020 was the year I got word of him and that is based on seeing his name being a part of a series of records being released, almost daily, during a time when such consistency was a difficult thing to adopt, especially in hip hop, because the COVID sh*t had hit the fan, and we were all trying to figure it out. Long story short, in 2021, Cisum Pegasus is surely having a good time building up his name, and this is all thanks to his distinctiveness.