User:Mpho Hlalele

Mpho Hlalele (born October 31, 1994), known professionally as SiFu Muzik is a South African record producer, rapper, singer, songwriter and graphic designer

Early life and career
SiFu muzik was born at Free State,Qwaqwa but moved to Gauteng in the Vaal Trangle at the age of 5 Growing up, He loved music and was one of the members in his high school choir,after high school he with his first pay cheque he bought himself a computer to start learning how to be a disk jockey.around 2017 he picked interest in making music started making beats. SiFu Muzik decided to start take music production as a serious career path. He was later discovered by then unknown rapper just sam when he was 2018 and through Sam's network, Life Aimer Productions eventually signed a management and distribution deal.

SiFu Muzik first release was the song "Kosha," which appeared on Just Sam's debut album In 2018, SiFu produced the "the black balt after" .This helped to boost his career and bring him into the mainstream hip hop scene. He has since worked with artists such as Rubby Da Priest, Gold Gold, among others.

Production style
SiFu Muzik uses the digital audio workstation, FL Studio along with custom installed VST plugins to compose his beats. SiFu's distinct signature sound is gritty, grimy, and thunderous street sound.He is known for his hip hop sound coupled with hard hitting 808 kicks, crisp snare drums, fast hi-hats, frantic synthesizers, sinister lead instruments, and colorfully layered ominous orchestration of synthesized brass, hits, stringed, woodwind, and keyboard instruments. Like many other producers SiFu Muzik uses a musical signature tag on many of the songs he has produced. His main tag is a pitched-up voice saying "eyo SiFu original beat maker".

SiFu Muzik also credits modern technology and internet, particularly through the monetization of music through streaming sites such as SoundCloud, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music that help him make a living off of his passion for hip hop music and well as making his own production career possible.

Inside the studio, SiFu Muzik is known for his strong work ethic and strategic marketing acumen when producing beats for artists and getting the finalized track towards the mixtape circuit or for radio play. Since 2018, he began to focus on his career as a producer from an entrepreneurial perspective, cultivating talent while learning the ins and outs of the legality in the music production business as well as negotiating deals and making the financial decisions on every track he is responsible for producing