User talk:Big Mashala

Tes The Viper Name : Thato Edward Sekete Nickname: Tes The Viper / Big Mashala / Biggie Born: 14 November 1995 Location: Rustenburg, NW South Africa Active: 2012-Present Associated with: FrontRunnerZ. RayZay. Project Gash. Sniper Beats

Tes The Viper is a young promising motswako rapper from Rustenburg, North West province in South Africa.

He fell in love with hip hop without even realising it because as a youngin he was always obsessed with the 808 baseline and became dissatisfied with other genres of music. Listening to influencial international and local hip hop heads as Jay Z, Eminem, Rick Ross, Meek Mill, HHP, Mo-Molemi, Tuks Senganga and Element Lehipi as well as Notshi helped Tes The Viper to find himself as a rapper.

EARLY LIFE

Tes The Viper is the only child of Mmamotlhako Sekete born and raised in a developing rural village called Phokeng. Primary and middle school was a great fantasy with lots of fun and happy moments to remember. It was in high school (2011-2014) when Big Mashala started learning the skill of rap though he struggled but still worked on his craft till 2014 that was when he started making and releasing his own music.

It was in 2014 when he also started performing on a public platform.

2012-2014

Big Mashala along with cousin Richy Ty-Filthy Thousand and Three other friends went on to open a rap crew called I.C.Gang ( Insane Cold-Blooded Gang) the group only recorded one song and separated in early 2014.

2014

He handled his first performance at Masakeng Inn, and that is where he met Lord Shenron Drona the man that later on went to sign him to his Label "Shenron Drona Records" and also added him to the Imprints crew of individual artists called "FrontRunnerZ"

2015

Big Mashala recorded and dropped his first ever project under Shenron Drona Records on May 14 which happen to be his mothers birthday, the project was " WordPlay Mixtape Vol-1 " The mixtape only had two features from Lord Shenron Drona and a vocalist by the name of Faith.

2016

Big Mashala went on to release his second mixtape "WordPlay Mixtape Vol2" which has features from fellow label mates as Lord Shenron Drona, Black Beast and Hotsoss but before the mixtape was complete Big Mashala was sabotaged and betrayed and had to leave the label. Big Mashala went to complete the mixtape at Bustaz Flow Records and the mixtape was released on due date May 14th.

2017

WordPlay Mixtape Vol3 will be released on May 14