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SIVE MBEJENI (RAPPER)
Sive Mbejeni (July 6, 1991) performs under the mononym Sive (his real name)  is a South African rapper, and a member of a well respected and recognized for their soulfulHip Hop genre in Cape Town ,Godsend Music Group. The label consists of three other male rappers. Early Life Sive Mbejeni was born and raised in East London ,Eastern Cape but relocated to Cape Town at the age of 13.His the 1st born ,followed by his brother and sister, along side his parents. His family is originally based on Eastern Cape. He started rapping at the age of 16, early 2007. As he developed the passion for music, he couldn't put the pen and paper down .2007 was the Beginning of the journey. He started reconstructing his style of writing and creating his rhyming patterning .No one knew about his work, including his friends , because of the lack of confidence he had , since his friends were not. Interested in music. His journey of pouring his thoughts on paper continued in his bedroom.

As time went by ,Sive managed to know exactly which direction he would take,he connected with one of high mates who was already a few steps ahead in the rap game and that was Luhlakanipho member of the reknowned hip hop gropu Rivln Clique (also label mates) he introduced him to Ncutshe (founder of Godsend Records).The 1st song he recorded was on Jay Rock instrumental a Compton native that instrumental was No Jokes produced by Willie B. He started of wack like most but the passion and love for the music made him persue perfection and better his skills as a writter and a recording artist.He used to watch Blaq,DiG,Rivln and Verbal Catalyst record since they were already ahead of him,just to learn from the best since he admired their writting skills and creativity. In 2012 he recorded a song that made it to the words and beats mixtape hosted by the Creative Database thats the same year he made his 1st grand performance on the night of the mixtape release which was held at Baxter Theatre,people loved the 12 minutes perfomance,though the stage fright was killing him. He made sure he made a new song every week and his producer and mentor Ncutshe kept supplying him with beats to write on so that he could reach his peak cause its all about doing it over and over again just to be at a level of perfection at every recording session that was a development,He started releasing a couple of songs just to keep the hype. Being a Hospitality student and employee made it twice hard to chase music dreams since he works shifts and get random off days that makes difficult to be at every hip hop event but still that didnt stop him.He didn't want to disappoint his family because of music, however he attended a lot of Hip Hop sessions for inspiration, he didn't want to lose interest in music.He never told his family about his music interests it was only known by his close friends.