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Herschel Dorian Elders (born March 26, 1992), known professionally as Nemesis, Cape Town, is a South African rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, fashion and graphic designer from Cape Town.

Nemesis released his debut solo E.P "Alienation" on 17th September 2021, which has elements of experimental melodies, various chord progressions, hard hitting drums and bass lines. His sound was inspired by the trap and uk drill scene. Initially Nemesis started as a producer in 2012 and took his time to develop his distinctive sound while working with other rappers and producers. He then created his own label in 2021 called "Alienation Studios". He produces his own beats and writes his own lyrics.

Nemesis has his own freelance graphic design small business called "Super Graphic Design" in 2020 and has been working on designs merchandise for his various creations as well and is an all round artist.

Early life and education
Herschel Dorian Elders was born on March 26, 1992, in Elsies River, Cape Town. He is the son of Herbert and Pauline Elders. His earliest music influence was gospel and 80's jazz played by his parents as a child. He was always singing random catchy things as toddler that he would create with his imagination before he could even make music. Besides for his interest in music, he loves drawing and creating visual art. One of his first quality drawings was as a toddler creating a detailed drawing of F.W de Klerk from an old coin. Nemesis has created several works of visual art as a child which he would sell at school and won several art competitions, one of his works of art has been displayed at "The Castle of Goodhope" in 2003. He was also an overachiever during his time at school.

His earliest influence of rap music was Tupac, Notorius B.I.G, Jay-Z, Eminem and 50 cent. By the age of 11 he started rapping with primary school friends for fun he taught himself to play acoustic guitar by the age of 15. He graduated from St. Andrew's High School in 2010. He then studied graphic design at CPUT for 2 years but dropped out in 2012. He has been self educating since then and completed fl studio and graphic design online courses.

Personal Life
Nemesis eventually started dating high school crush in 2013 after being friends since 2011. They got married in April 2014 and had two children: Elijah Elders(born August 2014) and Che Elders (born January 2019), but they have separated in June 2021.

Musical career
2012-2013: DFABs

Nemesis was part of a group of students on college who called themselves the "DFABs" consisting of various talented artists and intellectuals. They would have daily cypher sessions and rap battles during breaks at school for fun. They also produced and recorded various unreleased tracks together but disbanded in 2013.

2013-2021: Untitled Productions and Storm op 'n Koue Nag

Untitled was first co-founded by Nemesis, his then brother-in-law and brother in-law's friends. They produced their own beats, wrote their own tracks, made their own promos, collaborated with other artists and are social media influencers.

They established a YouTube page called "Earth huub" in 2014 but was sold by 2016. The group disbanded for a while but regrouped in 2021. Nemesis started recording his solo album in 2020, but went solo in June 2021 after separating with his spouse.

On 13 December 2017, Orkaan released "Storm op 'n Koue Nag" which was executively produced by Nemesis.

On 2 October 2020 BOU released his E.P "SKAARS", released on 2 October 2020 and executively produced by Nemesis.

2021-present: Alienation

Nemesis completed the album by himself while separated from his spouse. He released the album on 17 September 2021 without any announcement or promos. The album has his 7 year old son and 2 year old daughter as his only feature artists. He reportedly was supposed to have other artists features on the album but the songs were scrapped and remains unreleased.

Discography
Studio Albums

* Alienation (2021)

Collaborative Albums

* Storm op 'n Koue Nag (2017) (With Orkaan)

* SKAARS (2020) (With BOU)