This song was released 2011/2012 if I'm not wrong or maybe I first heard it then. It became a song I grew strength from in 2013 and 2014 when I was in my early 20s as a university student and life was showing me flames. It'll always be a special track to me. It reminds me of everything I survived. I resonate with what Tuks and Molemi are saying. We soldier on.
I only know English and Afrikaans as my home language but I love this song and I can sing it word to word, even the verses⚠⚠🎵 Don't ask me if I understand it🙌
They Expected "Monopoly" to be my last/ social gossip and negativity/ Like who 's gonna take over / This guys wont survive/ the change over/ but i prove them all wrong/ as I soldiered on/ Some wrote songs/ I kept quite/ and told my team to hold on/ even in the dark hour i trust in my rhymes/ And follow where the sound leads/ And i can do without your favourite beatmaker/ I write my songs to my heartbeat/
This takes me back to my teenage years, ngisa obsessed ngeSkeem Saam. I didn't even know the language but I knew this song😂😂Now am all grown even moved out of South Africa, I miss home so much🥹♥️
Tuks is good in song writing. I first noticed that on "525600 minutes". The Mafoko Ame album is classic of all times. I do not even understand Setswana, but I know a good song writer when I listen to music.
I've read a lot of comments of people asking for a translation for this song. Hope this helps paint the picture. [Verse 1:TUKS] Ne ba lepile monopoly ne le ya bofelo (They expected that Monopoly(his album before this track) was the last) Metlotlo ya go jewa megoga ditshebo (????) Like who's going to take over Die man a kase survive the change over (This man won't survive the change over) But I proved them all wrong as I soldiered on Some wrote songs, I kept quiet and told my team hold on Le mo lefifing ke tshepa mo di rhyme'ng (Even when times are dark my hope lies in my rhymes) And follow where the sound lead And I can do without your favorite beat maker Dipina tsame ke di kwala to my heart beat (I write my songs to my heart beat) Dintwana tse nyane kasi ba fepilwe (Young kids in the hood are fed) Mabarebare ba mpitsa samane mare ke defeat'a puo ka go rwala motswako legetleng lame (The hear-say's call me a chancer but I defeat their talking by carrying motswako on my shoulder) Ei, ke le tabogile. (Ey, I've surpassed you) Kodu yame e matarela track like rap tsame di tshasitswe ka mamepe (My voice sticks to the track like my raps are dretched in honey) Now before o ntshwaya diphoso ke kopa o ithole right o ithole reg (Now before you correct my mistakes/judge me please get yourself right) [Hook] Bona fela, ba batla go mphethola dimo (Just look, they want to kill me) Bona fela, ba bangwe ba re ke rata dilo (Just look, they say I like things) Bona fela, ba ngadile ke ja ka mmino) (Just look, they gave up & I'm making a living through music) Bona fela, mathata bo dula setulo (Just look, the problems of being a chairman) [Verse 2:TUKS] Ke pepa sechaba jang santse ke gogoba (How will I carry a nation while I'm still crawling) Nka nna nkalakhata jang kese Godoba? (How can I be king without slaving) Many think re tsene many think re namile maoto but santse re kokota (Many think we are in, many think we're relaxed but we still knocking) Some sokolo, Gauteng gwa nela santse re koloba (We all struggling, it's raining in Gauteng we still getting wet) Nnete ke gore many men looked the part (Truth is many men looked the part) Many men ba shayile top (Many men blew their lids(Went crazy)) So sad santse ba kolota (So sad coz they're still in debt) Line ya success ke gona ke e folang (I just joined the que to success) Many O's in the cheque, ke gona ke di bonang (Many O's in the cheque, I'm only seeing them now) Like queen Bee "Buzzing", I'm building a colony ya mamepe fela (Like queen Bee "Buzzing", I'm building a colony of honey only) Year after year by any means necessary Go thola tse di molemo mo bophelong except selling your soul (To find all the finer things in life without selling your soul) Ga le ntlhaloganye, I keep rapping in codes (You don't get me, I keep rapping in codes) I'm way ahead of my time, I keep lapping my foes. [Hook] Bona fela, ba batla go mphethola dimo (Just look, they want to kill me) Bona fela, ba bangwe ba re ke rata dilo (Just look, they say I like things) Bona fela, ba ngadile ke ja ka mmino) (Just look, they gave up & I'm making a living through music) Bona fela, mathata bo dula setulo (Just look, the problems of being a chairman) [Verse 3:Mo'lemi] Ne ba nepile Amantsi ne le ya bofelo (They were right Amantsi was the last) Metlotlo ya go jewa megoga ditshebo (??????) Like who's going to take over Die man a kase survive the change over (This man won't survive the change over) But I proved them all wrong as I soldiered on Some wrote songs, I kept quiet and told my team hold on Le mo lefifing ke tshepa mo di rhyme'ng (Even when times are dark my hope lies in my rhymes) And follow where the sound lead And I can do without your favorite beat maker Dipina tsame ke di kwala to my heart beat (I write my songs to my heart beat) Dintwana tse nyane kasi ba fepilwe (Young kids in the hood are fed) Mabarebare ba mpitsa samane mare ke defeat'a puo ka go rwala motswako legetleng lame (The hear-say's call me a chancer but I defeat their talking by carrying motswako on my shoulder) See what life is showing you, Let your pride burn slow inside of you Mojo wa i-tighta, Mo'lemi o jele phoso (Mojo you're holding yourself back, Mo'lemi you made a mistake) Now before o ntshwaya diphoso, o ithole right o ithole reg. (Now before you correct my mistakes/judge me, get yourself right) [Hook] Bona fela, ba batla go mphethola dimo (Just look, they want to kill me) Bona fela, ba bangwe ba re ke rata dilo (Just look, they say I like things) Bona fela, ba ngadile ke ja ka mmino) (Just look, they gave up & I'm making a living through music) Bona fela, mathata bo dula setulo Bona fela, ba batla go mphethola dimo (Just look, they want to kill me) Bona fela, ba bangwe ba re ke rata dilo (Just look, the problems of being a chairman) Bona fela, ba ngadile ke ja ka plase (Just look, they gave up & i'm making a living through farming) Bona fela, mollo wa go tlola di hlase (Just look, fire more powerful than sparks)
very good but I think the line .. "Bona fela ba batla go mphetola dimo" translates as "..just look/see they want to make me/portray as a monster (or demi-god when translating directly)
Tuks mfanaka this is to deep tears just roll down my ugly face i even cry in front of my wife and kids first time hearing it on the Radio i cant hold back my tears that lady on the back-round well well
This is the nicest song ever i thank skeem saam for introducing me to this song it better than emcimbini;ngeke balunge; and any other song thank you skeem saam i love you
All rise! Dopest, crazy, sick, deep, bona fela ka mokho bana ba batho ba tebisang maikutlo ha ba ngola lipina! Bona fela ka mokho pina e ka o isang lithoteng lisele! Bona fela ka mokho ngoan'a motho a ka khonang to spit words of wisdom!
Real music ngwana papa, slow but surely. Rona rena le wena Mr Senganga cuz your music is teaching us even today when listening...Le nou ke Shebile Fela(BonaFela)
Just look, they wanna turn me into an ogre Just look, some say I'm too greedy Just look, they gave up, while I'm making money through music Just look, the problems of leadership
Thumbs up if you first heard this song on skeem saam
@Jaye_ skeem been here
Yes l have
Where else? 😢
Who’s here in 2024???🌟❤️🩹
Here and enjoying 🥰
🎉🎉🎉
Bona fela
bona fela
Bona fela @@kingboss03055
"Dipina tsaka ke di kwala to my heartbeat"🔥🔥🔥
Whose here in 2020?
🙌🏿
2021 👌
I'm here in 2022🔥
I don't need your favorite beatmaker!
THE SONG WILL FOREVER STAY A HIT
9 years since you made this comment, wherever you I wanna inform you that you never lied, still a hit!
yeah you right becuase now its 2024 and we still listen to this hit
In 2025 its still a lovable song..
If it wasn't for Skeem saam, I would not have known this masterpiece ♥️😍
2024 we're still here 🎉💃
without skeem saam i wouldn't be checking on this video... Great song. I followed where the sound leads
This song was released 2011/2012 if I'm not wrong or maybe I first heard it then. It became a song I grew strength from in 2013 and 2014 when I was in my early 20s as a university student and life was showing me flames. It'll always be a special track to me. It reminds me of everything I survived. I resonate with what Tuks and Molemi are saying. We soldier on.
Thanks Skeem Saam. This track has been my ringing tone for the past 2 years
I only know English and Afrikaans as my home language but I love this song and I can sing it word to word, even the verses⚠⚠🎵
Don't ask me if I understand it🙌
Tuks is an artist, poet, legend in SA rap. 4real
They Expected "Monopoly" to be my last/
social gossip and negativity/
Like who 's gonna take over /
This guys wont survive/
the change over/
but i prove them all wrong/
as I soldiered on/
Some wrote songs/
I kept quite/
and told my team to hold on/
even in the dark hour i trust in my rhymes/
And follow where the sound leads/
And i can do without your favourite beatmaker/
I write my songs to my heartbeat/
When you realise you've been rapping shitt😂😂😂😂 Mara now that I have the lyrics, I can still rap word for word😍❤
I'm Zulu but this song makes me want to learn Setswana.
Lol
Lol please teach me?
yaz ukuthini, this is something else.
Setswana is a hard but fun language to learn. Same like Afrikaans
Shooo mkhaya
Skeem Saam led me to this song......
i hear them all Motswako crew but this guy always know how to touch my soul if only he knew how much this industry need him Tuks rago tlhoka ntate
People want to crucify me when I say Tuks is something else. He's just too deep man!
i wish Tuks could see this video and realise how much do we need music videos from him
I could not agree more bra, thanks for publishing this...RESPECT! MY KING!
true bra we need more activity from Senganga
bruuuh
Eyy bafethu I don't understand Sesotho but eish this track mnxxxmmm ayyy💖💖🙌🙌🙌🙌✌✌✌✌👌👌👌
its a setswana song
Skeem Sam brought me here. Come back, Tuks...Hip Hop needs you.
He's got a new album...
Song got me here too
He's a Motswako artist, not Hip Hop.
Even me this guy he killed this song
beautiful song, it's a sample of the song "you won't fail by the O'Jays"
This takes me back to my teenage years, ngisa obsessed ngeSkeem Saam. I didn't even know the language but I knew this song😂😂Now am all grown even moved out of South Africa, I miss home so much🥹♥️
Its so funny because I do not understand this language but this is one of my favourite track.
Its Sestwana.
Tuks is good in song writing. I first noticed that on "525600 minutes". The Mafoko Ame album is classic of all times. I do not even understand Setswana, but I know a good song writer when I listen to music.
I was going to say the same thing the same way
🇿🇦🇿🇦❤️💪🏿💪🏿
" Making Setswana fashionable" hhp
Something about HHP passing away brought me here, still has that touch in 2018....
A song for decades, this song is just too dope, an anthem
This song makes me to ❤️❤️skeem ....l used to record the track even though I don't noe the language... skeem saam my best soapie of all tym💕😍😍😍
All tha way from Pretoria(Soshanguve)
TuksForever...
2023. It was ahead of its time
I've read a lot of comments of people asking for a translation for this song.
Hope this helps paint the picture.
[Verse 1:TUKS]
Ne ba lepile monopoly ne le ya bofelo
(They expected that Monopoly(his album before this track) was the last)
Metlotlo ya go jewa megoga ditshebo
(????)
Like who's going to take over
Die man a kase survive the change over
(This man won't survive the change over)
But I proved them all wrong as I soldiered on
Some wrote songs, I kept quiet and told my team hold on
Le mo lefifing ke tshepa mo di rhyme'ng
(Even when times are dark my hope lies in my rhymes)
And follow where the sound lead
And I can do without your favorite beat maker
Dipina tsame ke di kwala to my heart beat
(I write my songs to my heart beat)
Dintwana tse nyane kasi ba fepilwe
(Young kids in the hood are fed)
Mabarebare ba mpitsa samane mare ke defeat'a puo ka go rwala motswako legetleng lame
(The hear-say's call me a chancer but I defeat their talking by carrying motswako on my shoulder)
Ei, ke le tabogile.
(Ey, I've surpassed you)
Kodu yame e matarela track like rap tsame di tshasitswe ka mamepe
(My voice sticks to the track like my raps are dretched in honey)
Now before o ntshwaya diphoso ke kopa o ithole right o ithole reg
(Now before you correct my mistakes/judge me please get yourself right)
[Hook]
Bona fela, ba batla go mphethola dimo
(Just look, they want to kill me)
Bona fela, ba bangwe ba re ke rata dilo
(Just look, they say I like things)
Bona fela, ba ngadile ke ja ka mmino)
(Just look, they gave up & I'm making a living through music)
Bona fela, mathata bo dula setulo
(Just look, the problems of being a chairman)
[Verse 2:TUKS]
Ke pepa sechaba jang santse ke gogoba
(How will I carry a nation while I'm still crawling)
Nka nna nkalakhata jang kese Godoba?
(How can I be king without slaving)
Many think re tsene many think re namile maoto but santse re kokota
(Many think we are in, many think we're relaxed but we still knocking)
Some sokolo, Gauteng gwa nela santse re koloba
(We all struggling, it's raining in Gauteng we still getting wet)
Nnete ke gore many men looked the part
(Truth is many men looked the part)
Many men ba shayile top
(Many men blew their lids(Went crazy))
So sad santse ba kolota
(So sad coz they're still in debt)
Line ya success ke gona ke e folang
(I just joined the que to success)
Many O's in the cheque, ke gona ke di bonang
(Many O's in the cheque, I'm only seeing them now)
Like queen Bee "Buzzing", I'm building a colony ya mamepe fela
(Like queen Bee "Buzzing", I'm building a colony of honey only)
Year after year by any means necessary
Go thola tse di molemo mo bophelong except selling your soul
(To find all the finer things in life without selling your soul)
Ga le ntlhaloganye, I keep rapping in codes
(You don't get me, I keep rapping in codes)
I'm way ahead of my time, I keep lapping my foes.
[Hook]
Bona fela, ba batla go mphethola dimo
(Just look, they want to kill me)
Bona fela, ba bangwe ba re ke rata dilo
(Just look, they say I like things)
Bona fela, ba ngadile ke ja ka mmino)
(Just look, they gave up & I'm making a living through music)
Bona fela, mathata bo dula setulo
(Just look, the problems of being a chairman)
[Verse 3:Mo'lemi]
Ne ba nepile Amantsi ne le ya bofelo
(They were right Amantsi was the last)
Metlotlo ya go jewa megoga ditshebo
(??????)
Like who's going to take over
Die man a kase survive the change over
(This man won't survive the change over)
But I proved them all wrong as I soldiered on
Some wrote songs, I kept quiet and told my team hold on
Le mo lefifing ke tshepa mo di rhyme'ng
(Even when times are dark my hope lies in my rhymes)
And follow where the sound lead
And I can do without your favorite beat maker
Dipina tsame ke di kwala to my heart beat
(I write my songs to my heart beat)
Dintwana tse nyane kasi ba fepilwe
(Young kids in the hood are fed)
Mabarebare ba mpitsa samane mare ke defeat'a puo ka go rwala motswako legetleng lame
(The hear-say's call me a chancer but I defeat their talking by carrying motswako on my shoulder)
See what life is showing you, Let your pride burn slow inside of you
Mojo wa i-tighta, Mo'lemi o jele phoso
(Mojo you're holding yourself back, Mo'lemi you made a mistake)
Now before o ntshwaya diphoso, o ithole right o ithole reg.
(Now before you correct my mistakes/judge me, get yourself right)
[Hook]
Bona fela, ba batla go mphethola dimo
(Just look, they want to kill me)
Bona fela, ba bangwe ba re ke rata dilo
(Just look, they say I like things)
Bona fela, ba ngadile ke ja ka mmino)
(Just look, they gave up & I'm making a living through music)
Bona fela, mathata bo dula setulo
Bona fela, ba batla go mphethola dimo
(Just look, they want to kill me)
Bona fela, ba bangwe ba re ke rata dilo
(Just look, the problems of being a chairman)
Bona fela, ba ngadile ke ja ka plase
(Just look, they gave up & i'm making a living through farming)
Bona fela, mollo wa go tlola di hlase
(Just look, fire more powerful than sparks)
Thank you
very good but I think the line ..
"Bona fela ba batla go mphetola dimo" translates as "..just look/see they want to make me/portray as a monster (or demi-god when translating directly)
"ne ba lepile" = they expected. Not they were right.
"Metlotlo ya ha go jewa mogoga ditshele" = conversations while eating funeral food, gossips".
@@vuyophandle1903 Thank you for this.
💯🔥
Ishayiwe yaz lengona 👌🔥❤
Thanks to Skeem Saam, I can't stop listening to this song!!!
Tuks and Mo'molemi thanks a lot for this song inspirational to us..
Skeem Saam immortalised this track 🔥🔥
the best motwako song ever .....i now understand why they use it on skeem saam
Hi Jeff. I also felt the same way! I think this is a song of perseverance and triumph! This is one of the best songs produced in South Africa!
Why do you have to say his name
This is timeless music......legend of Motswako stable .....Motlapele Morule le Tumelo Kepadisa...................
king of Motswako...love and respect Tuks wa senganga
Tuks for sure is one of the underrated SA rapper...............Dipina tsaka ke di kwala to my heartbeat
Bona fela! Tuks forever! This man is a talent!
Tuks is like j.cole and lupe fiasco of south africa his lyrics are so real n from tha heart #Salute
*Cee Fo'Real*
Pretty Amazing. Tuks oh how much we need him back.
i hope skeem saam never removes this as the soundtrack
Cette chanson me rend particulièrement triste😭😭😭
my two best setswana lyricists, thanks guys
He said it ' way ahead of my time' Tuks ❤👌💥🔥🔥🔥B4 o ntshwaya diphoso....😂
I'm Zulu and I don't understand a word his saying only the English part but the way this song touches me u would swear I'm sotho.
Ga monopoly enese wa bo felo why you ain't dropping albums man please. We love your music Tuks, drop drop drop oh hell yeah motswako forever.
Skeem saam 💥💥💥💥💥🙌🙌🙌 Tuks forever a legend
Tuks mfanaka this is to deep tears just roll down my ugly face i even cry in front of my wife and kids first time hearing it on the Radio i cant hold back my tears that lady on the back-round well well
I like D's song. It's been my ringtone for quite a while now. ..... Great job
This is the nicest song ever i thank skeem saam for introducing me to this song it better than emcimbini;ngeke balunge; and any other song thank you skeem saam i love you
Help me tuks
Senganga is a heavy weight......always has been
i wish i could understand this song, all of it not parts of it....i dont really understand the lyrics but im jamming to it..#good_muzic
All rise! Dopest, crazy, sick, deep, bona fela ka mokho bana ba batho ba tebisang maikutlo ha ba ngola lipina! Bona fela ka mokho pina e ka o isang lithoteng lisele! Bona fela ka mokho ngoan'a motho a ka khonang to spit words of wisdom!
thw tag team ya Mr mo le tuks has always produced epic songs... le bo belarutwane ba mmino...
TBT on Thursday the 4th of April 2019, anyone?
❤❤my favorite one 😢
A ke morapper neh, mara ere skeem saam se fele wena😂😂🔥
AWESOME..GR8 one TUKZ my Man..we juzt need Official Video..
Real music ngwana papa, slow but surely. Rona rena le wena Mr Senganga cuz your music is teaching us even today when listening...Le nou ke Shebile Fela(BonaFela)
T
U
K
S E N G A N G A
Senganga sa motswako!!!
Theme song of our lives as South Africans.
This song just takes me...eish...I really don't know where as I can't explain the feeling...ya neh.Tuks ke senganga
"Line ya success ke gona ke e folang "
Tuks big up to you man keep up the good work what a song hey touch much love
We never left🎉
Tuks Is My Favourite Rapper
Je ne comprends pas entierement ce qu'il evoque mais j'aime ce rythme me donne une sensation d'absolutisme du coup ca m'inspire
Who’s here in 2025?❤
Tbh I came here coz I wanna sing along when I watch s keem saam
skeem saamee...i cnt help bt say this along with d song
A clasical song....a pity the song was only popular among Tswana speaking people during 2006/7...this song was a hit
Tuks Senganga the greatest in our lifetime
Only if i knew what does the lyrics mean,im so in love with track.
27 September 2019 still jamming to this song
My nephews who is 12 years loves this song...
The BEST Motswako Rapper OUT THERE!!!!!!
This man knows music we need more Tuks but he must come back again to the music scene
De song ke boom even today
Tuks for life. What a loaded song. Pity some don’t listen to the lyrics, but anyway a ba bone fela.
still inspires a brother!!!!!!!! still the man brov...
Great Concept,,,I like how ya'll be dropping fractions of truth,,,Bona Fela,Go Tla Siama Ka Nkane!!!!
Maftown in the building🙌
10:29, 10/8/2024 timeless💯
This heats hard
ke pepa yang setshaba ke santse ke gogoba...Damn
Nostalgia 😶🌫️🥺
This is Fire and all sorts of brimstone ,,, wow would have loved a line from jabba on this joint RIP
anyone here in 2024?💋
we still here
This slaps so good!
Wow Wow Wow! the two of u boys on this track? just gave some motivation.
This is my favourite song in the footprints album!!!!!!!!!!
Always slaps harder
u rock man ..great sound I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mogaka wa mmino wa hip-hop Tuks
I love skeem saam theme song ❤❤❤❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎
dude you he best!
525600minutes!!
Keep chasing me devil ke tsamaya le modimo le mo lefifing....Bona Fela
Just look, they wanna turn me into an ogre
Just look, some say I'm too greedy
Just look, they gave up, while I'm making money through music
Just look, the problems of leadership
wat a song by Tuks the lyrics whoow i wish i can see the video
who is with me...2020
First here in 01/01/2022