User talk:HAze Aubrey Jr

HAze Bonafide Swank Bio
Sibusiso Siyabulela Sifuba, known as HAze BONAFIDE Swank was born in the year 1998 to parents Sindiswa Sifuba and late Bongani Aubrey Dladla. He was born in Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (Soweto) and was living with his mother and late granny in Dobsonville until a year later when their RDP home application got approved meaning their TSHEPISONG was the new home.

His father passed away in the year 2004 when he was only 6. It was quite sad considering his career as an actor/director was about to start taking off. He was right on the brink of success when he a car accident claimed his life. This explains where HAze gets the writing skill from also having a musically gifted mother, him becoming talented musically was inevitable!

TSHEPISONG is a small township in the West Rand of Johannesburg which is unfortunately famous for only the wrong reasons. Known for its constantly sky rocketing crime and homicidal rates. Living here was a challenge for him considering his parents were able to shield him from all these bad influences he was constantly exposed to but they could only protect him from this reality for so long. After finishing matric in the year 2015, HAze took a gap year to focus on his music. Unfortunately, this meant he now had to face these dark realities, face to face with TSHEPISONGs famous demons he ended up experiencing the dark side. Witnessed people get killed, got mugged, bullied, had to fight to survive and at some point he even got caught up in drugs. All this was due to association. Rapping introduced his to a whole bunch of bad people and he eventually gave in for a second before coming back to his senses and leaving all that stuff behind. HAze found a way to turn most of these scary experiences into content as most of his craft is inspired by the life he witnessed as a young man in these notorious streets of 1754.

HAze started rapping in high school after meeting long time mate, Mpumelelo Hlatshwayo AKA Soul Assassin who introduced him to people who would eventually influence his style of rap and approach. Through Soul, HAze got introduced to the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Ab Soul, Joey Badass, Mick Jenkins and many more rap icons! HAze does not shy away from the fact that 80% of what he knows now is all thanks to Soul.

He started recording in the year 2015 at Game Shelen studios in Zondi on downloaded beats. But after matric he met producer Thulani Kunene who believed in him so much he let his record for free.. even made beats for him without a charge! HAze never stopped recording and eventually met other producers, but released his first single in the year 2017 after signing a record deal with Sound Maneuvers which was owned by Jus A. HAze released songs like #YellowRoses and #Synchronize which build spread like wild fire in the hood, creating a name for himself and also getting invited to local radio stations like West Side FM and MogaleFM.

Time moved and HAze signed another record deal with Goliside Records where he released first body of work titled World Is Mind which was entirely produced by Chase Nocturnal Tunes (met thru Jus A). World is Mind made a lot of noise in the hood almost confirming what people were thinking, that he is definitely born for the stars! He grew more famous in the hood due to this as many people still approve but the contract ended with Golisde Records, And that's where the real work started.

Nocturnal Tunes had founded his own label at the time, discovering other artists like Zhar Major, Tweedie King, Daniels Heir And Tone Ether and created an EP featuring all these acts including HAze. The EP was titled EScape and went on to make incredibly numbers, as it racked up over 60 000 streams on Spotify Alone! This was amazing considering they had made their first few pounds purely from music! Things went so well the label moved to Rosebank, where the name changed to Shuffle Studioz and the hustle is still on. The story has just began and the future looks bright! HAze Aubrey Jr (talk) 14:20, 26 June 2022 (UTC)