New website supplies you with the lyrics of South African songs

Nine80 Digital Media which owns platforms like Youth Village, Free-Onlinegames.co.za, Botswana Youth and so on, has launched a local lyrics platform which covers hip hop, Afro Pop, Motswako, Rock, Afrikaans music, R&B, Kwaito, House, Reggae and more.

The platform, KasiLyrics.co.za, has a simple search functionality that allow users to search its massive database for any local song lyrics by artist or by song title and even by song lyrics that they could have heard while tuning into a station as the song was fading. The platform a music player that enables users to play the song while reading through the lyrics and a weekly chart of the trending songs. Kasi lyrics is also packed with good social media integration to allow for easy content sharing for users.

Built on the notion of user generated content. The community enables users to write lyrics to their favourite songs and submit the lyrics to the site. Users also have the privileges to correct lyrics.

“We are quite excited about the initiative as we believe that it will add value to music fans from a knowledge and entertainment perspective. In instances where music lover struggled to access lyrics now they will be an available pool of local lyrics content readily available,” said founder Bruce Dube.

“We also believe that artists will benefit immensely from the initiative as this will give them more exposure from fans inside and outside South Africa. We would like to also believe that a more lyrically savvy audience would facilitate success to shows and concerts and we would like for artists to help us grow the platform by sending us their lyrics for publishing on the site.”

For more information, visit www.kasiLyrics.co.za. Alternatively, follow @kasilyrics on Twitter and visit and like Kasi Lyrics’ Facebook page, here.