Mohamed Mekkawy

Rapper Snazzy reclaims spotlight with ‘Slay’

After more than 16 years away from the music scene, Namibian rapper and songstress Loise ‘Snazzy’ Shilongo has returned. Her latest single is titled ‘Slay’, and she describes it as the starting point of a whole new chapter in her career. Speaking to The Namibian last week, Snazzy said: “I’ve always had this creative energy that has never left me. Music has always been part of who I am, and there comes a point when you just can’t suppress it any longer.” As a child, she says she was captivated by literature and poetry, which naturally led her to start writing poems at the age of 11. “When I was starting to get into hip-hop, I remember being amazed about how rappers just played with words, kept rhyming, and sometimes told stories through their rhymes. It intrigued me,” she says.