User:Mbongeni Asavela Ponti

Mbongeni Asavela Ponti aka Pun is a 24 year old musician from the eastern Cape. He was born on the 28th of October 1997.

The artist is based in Gauteng Johannesburg and his first Long Play (Lp) dropped on the 21st of November 2020.

Early life
Mbongeni Asavela, Surname Ponti was born in Gauteng, Krugasdorp in 1997. He grew up in the Eastern Cape, though he says he was taken to Cape Town five years after he was born and he has no memory of that. He began school when he 7 after spending two years in pre-school. He passed his Matric in 2015 and went to do Sound Engineering in 2017 to 2018.

Career
Pun is a rapper and a producer, "Out of all the things I love about music and all the things I learnt in school, Music Production is my favourite and writing has always been.

Pun release his first Mixtape titled 20 Years in 2017, it had 14 tracks, followed by an LP with 12 tracks in 2020. Two songs from the LP have videos. One was released before the release one after.

Influences
Kendrick Lamar, Jaden Smith, Taylor The Creator & Kanye West

Personal Life
Pun says he is obsessed with climate change, clothes and himself.

The rapper says he also loves reading and writing.

"I like to keep my personal life more personal as toxic as the world gets."

Discography
20 Years (2007)

Lil Dwayne (2020)