Since launching his career as a DJ for hip-hop group Prophets of the City, producer, presenter and critically acclaimed spin-master DJ Ready D has been a mainstay of South Africa’s musical landscape, introducing the art of hip-hop DJing to new spaces across the country. For Amaqhawe, our celebration of South Africa’s musical legends, he curates a collection that ties together all Mzansi’s sonic threads, with hits from Godessa, Skeem, Hugh Masekela, Busta 929 & Mpura, Spiroh, Dope Saint Jude and more. “This captures the sonic and rhythmic tapestry of our great country,” Ready D tells Apple Music. “Some of the music influenced me as a child, while others completely transformed and revolutionised my creativity, career and personality. South Africans celebrate, protest, cry, smile, spark interest and uplift souls with everything from hip-hop, jazz, amapiano, and kwaito, to our pop and traditional sounds. I am a student and contributor to this great rhythmic universe, known to humanity as music.”