Born Refiloe Maele Phoolo on 16 December 1990 in a Mafikeng village called Montshiwa, Cassper Nyovest love for performing before crowds developed at an early age in primary school where he’d always fight to be on every single play and show.

Inspired by his late brother “Khotso Motebang Phoolo” who was a rapper but sadly passed on in 2003, Cassper decided to take on the music world and hasn’t looked back since.

He went from being a member of CHG (Childhood Gangsters) in 2004, but broke away as ideas matured in different directions. Later on in the same year joined another group “Slow Motion” which had 8 members including Ganja Beatz Producer Aashish Gangaram of Feel d’ Dream Entertainment.

Motebang Phoolo” In 2008 at age 17 Cassper got a record deal with “impact Sounds”, arguably the strongest Motswako label at the time with artists like Tuks Senganga & Morafe. After committing 2 full years of his career without signs of his album dropping he decided to part ways with the label to start his own label “Press Play Music”. This came as a major setback and forced him to move back home to his grandmother’s place in Potchefstroom.

A few months down the line he wrote a song “Holla at a Pantsula” to a beat by producer ‘DJ Hypnosis’ which samples Grove Washington ft Bill Withers, Just the 2 of us, the song blew up in his neighbourhood and he decided on an unofficial video which now has 8000+ views on Youtube. Labels started noticing and calling for work, but amongst these was an artist Cassper grew up looking up to, from the same streets of Montshiwa, HipHop Pantsula.

HipHop Pantsula featured Cassper on his album Dumela joint ‘Wam tseba Mtho’, heavily contributing to his respect by the game as a Motswako artist.

HHP’s “Wam Tseba Mtour” put him at stages across South Africa. Working with Jabba has boosted Cassper’s young music career to amazing levels, performing all over South Africa multiple times, and crossing over to international shows in Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Mozambique.

He also toured with HHP and Tuks to UK in December 2011 performing in Camden London and Milton Keyes. Cassper also features on HHP’s hit singles ‘Past Time’ and ‘Padapa’.

His single “Wahala” ft Young Slugz dropped and this was the 1st time TV playlisted Cassper’s solo video which debuted on Vuzu TV’s V-Entertainment and had an incredible response following a good playlist on Channel O.

Following the success of Wahala, Cassper produced alongside Aashish of Ganja Beatz a single titled Gusheshe ft OkMalumKoolKat, the song is play-listed across most major radio stations, plus the video which Cassper directed alongside Nicky Campos also had a good rotation from the TV channel.

Video sitting on over 70 000 Youtube views. The latest single Doc Shebeleza produced by Sean Craig has done extremely well, hitting over 100 000 downloads in just 4 weeks & still continuing to grow.

Did you know Cassper is rated the best rapper from South Africa and one of the biggest from Africa?