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Mphahlele Manase is rising hip hop artist that goes by the stage name of "Real NashX", he was born on the "17th of August 1999" in Limpopo Province at a village named Gamarishane in the Sekhukhune District and later relocated to live in Mogodi Village (Gamaphahlele) at the age of nine years old. He started his primary school at Marishane Primary School till grade 3 and moved to Rusplaas Christian Model School in Lebowakgomo Zone A. His music career started late in 2013 when he was inspired by the late deep house Icon "Scotch Flavio", he then started using tins and old drums to play his own beats at the back of his mothers house till he started realizing his passion was hip hop music. "I grew up listening to the likes of Nate Dog, Dr Dre, Tupac, Lil Wayne, Biggie Smalls to name a few and that's when I started taking my music career serious by writing my own lyrics and recording myself with a phone", he said. He then started taking part in cyphers and freestyles having fun with them not realizing his passion for music was growing more and more, and later in 2015 he had his first studio session where he recorded his first song titled "New and Fresh" which he reached 1000 downloads in one week and received good feedback from his friends, family and supporters. That grew his self esteem so much and decided to record his first six track project "New and Fresh Ep" which had hits like New and Fresh Remix, Homecoming, Mr Star just to name a few and this project grew his name in the streets and gave him some street credit around because of the gangster life style he was living in his high school years.
Later in 2016 he then recorded his first 15 track mixtape which was titled "Lame Niggas On Trap Bitches" which consisted of hits like Kasi Shit, Life Changes, Do or Die, My Time just to name a few. "That was when I started being compared to other artists which made me a lil bit controversial since I was still new and learning how to tackle some of the obstacles in the music industry". He became more stronger and managed to get a few gigs that year which made him known but failed in my academics to repeat the same grade, "After I failed I wanted to drop out high school and do music but my mother never allowed that she wanted me to go back to school and that was what I did". He kept on working on his music and taking care of his studies also and he managed to pass and move to matric,"I didn't release much music the year I was repeating a grade and I continued releasing music in my matric where I released a two singles titled Just a matter of time and Butterfly, these songs made me very popular and I started feeling like a matured musician after all". Later that year he then recorded his second EP tittled Balcony Views which consisted of nine tracks with hits like Butterfly, Just a matter of time, Balcony Views and Benzo just to name a few. He worked with "ChopzTix and KritiQz" on this project and it came out to be one of the best project in the streets. He created his own clothing brand later that year namely "Nasty Prey Wear" and he became an ambassador for it and started pushing it by himself.
After finishing his matric he then moved to Pretoria and he started learning more about the music business. He then released his second mixtape titled "Cracked Colours" which consisted of hits like "New Vows, Baller Alert, Benzo, I Get It and Hunnid Grands which he featured Huey T. Tefner", for the United States of America. Later after that year he worked on his debut album titled "9INETY9INE" which was released on his birthday. The album consisted of 12 tracks with hits like Blessings, Rockstar, Dreams and With You just to list a few with features from "ChopzTix and Merchan". After releasing his album he then went through to register his media company namely "Nasty Prey Dsgns" which has set its foot in the media industry. "I am in the industry to change it not to just ride a wave I rather pave my own, being an independent its very hard especially when you funding everything by yourself because you have to make your own money and spend it on investing on yourself and that is the hardest thing because you don't have time and money to be enjoying your life you just slaving for your own future" he said. He later released a music video for his hit track Baller Alert on youtube few months after he released his album and he got featured on radio interviews at "SK FM, GL FM and Tshwane FM". Thank you for reading this article hope you feel inspired and positive about going for your dreams because nobody can stop you from getting to your destination."Rome was not built in one day" he said as his conclusion words