Your maths is not adding up. If you were 25 when this song was released then you can't be 40 years old. This song come out in 2001 so that means you are 47 now
Guys this song doesn’t get old!!! I love it still! The SA soweto culture in the song, Zola’s voice is perfect! The lyrical content! Saba!!!! The visual Aesthetic , the styling!!! Aybo guys!!!!!! Zola , this is my favorite song! Its aggressive, nonchalantly good! Fiece!
Im dutch and watched tsotsi when i was 15 (12 yrs ago) never forgot it!! And the same goes for this song, even though i cant understand a word haha.. just fell in love with the power/energy it exuded and still does!! South Africa is a very interesting place, wish i could visit one day!
Come through...I will take to you Soweto and Cape Town. I also want to visit The Netherlands also..got friends who are there currently. Do you have socials so we can link up? I am tempted to leave my numbers but don't want to. Regards Emma.
And then they gave him his flowers while he can still smell them with Certified Classics on SABC1. Loved it. You could tell that this man is passionate about not only telling his story and that of many others ekasi but also uplifting them. He said you could be a pupil, looking at yourself through a piece of mirror just know that you are fabulous. Never watched Yizo Yizo. Having listened to umdlwembe I am afraid to watch it.😀😀😀. But you know, he is a god and we thank him for memorable childhoods. Love from Eswatini🇸🇿
Proudly South African Gangster song does not get any better than this, it even gets better when you play it in BMW Gusheshe or VW Golf 3 VR6, gangster car☺️☺️. No one will dare disrespect you when u play this song. Oh I forgot converse all star shoes and a leather jacket. 👀😅
I played this song the day I left Zimbabwe to South Africa, it was in the late 90s iam still playing this song even today 25 November 2019, that's how deeply I love Zola #mabhe
The whole song is like a threat of some sort atleast in my interpretation, even now considering the outro...amagugu alelizwe was commonly sung in funerals
In 2022 I saw an OG driving an e30 325i jamming to this song on Buitengracht Street at Cape Town. I knew from there that he was a certified OG. This song is a South African masterpiece for kwaito heads...!🔥🔥🔥
Una buena rola una de las mejore de zola.le dio un buen contraste ala pelicula de tsotsi que por cierto muy buena pelicula me gusto tanto la musica como la peli.saludos desde mexico
This reminds me of vintage joburg😢, mjeepa Jozi back when small street was small street, a bash was a bash, Spitz was Bally Spitz with the cream white plastic. I miss vintage Jozi😢😢
I don’t care but this is the best kwaito or life song , don’t matter where or when but when it’s kicking off just run this song in yo head and u will shut man down .. decades later and papa action !!!
OMG! I'm from Zim-Blues and i jus miss the guys in converse and the whole s'khokho thing going on. Shyt, aint no party with such phenomenal dancing in aussie!! Luv u Africa!!
My legend 🔥 people should appreciate this Gee right here while he is still living one of the realest niggas alive zola 7 no one will ever do it like you did grootman 🔥 🔥
wher e hell is this guy kanti,,,hw much i love his music...i wish h should come back to e screens..real kwaito make m miss Mandoza too...come back zola
Mdlwembe means a stray dog, and basically he's saying you pick a fight with me and warriors will die and all thats left is widows. because fights with warriors like me never end until someones dead. The blessed of this earth will litter the grave, basically don't mess with me.
I was drove into a farm in the Western Cape blasting this song and the lady I was with said I must change a play something more peaceful I laughed so loud and continued blasting it. Good memories
Tsotsi is such an awesome film...love it... saw it in english class this year... language is a mixture: afrikaans, xhosa, Zulu and Tsotsi-Taal (south african gangster language) 5*
god I miss kwaito. the real kwaito. my first love and my only love . god knows. always. salute. 678. eyezigebengu. SA. I love you always good or bad uyikhaya lethu. sikelela Shembe. uyingcwele. nongakuthandi uyoze akuthande. umhlophe njengezindlela zami uze ungilonde.
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You're a legend if you're listening to this in 2024 🔥
Sick track and the coolest vid ever. These moves are insane.
Takes 1 to know one, salute legend
Here today Nov 2024
South Africa's DMX. I grew up to this guy. I miss those days
I couldn't think of a better comparison.. good old days
lol , maybe DMX is American Zola 7
and a bit of Tupac...
Nyaa monna... Tupac
Rip Dmx
I love this jam with all my heart..2021 are y'all listening?
Yessssssss👌
Hey am listening and am listening until 2020😏
Yes papa.... will stay forever....
2020 we still in this
Bade lam
They’ll never understand how hard this song was. It made you even wanna change your walking style ... not forgetting the toothpick 😂😂
He mfondini in high school walked around with a match stick in my mouth🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂
even now i always changes my walk when im listening to it
@@MrMalimaali yooooh😂😂😂😃
😆😆😆🙆🏽♂️
Chillers let's gather here to get em numbers up!! ❤👑 A Living LEGEND 🙌🏾🙏🏾Siyabonga
I'm American and I love this song. I don't even care for it to be translated into English because the natural lyrics are what make this song great!
Is no one else going to ask how you found this song? Or did it find you?
@@sivemtshakazana unamanga nje lo😂😂😂😂😂
@@_snecooks1600 😂🤣 You think so? Maybe he's from Attridgeville.
@@sivemtshakazana 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@sivemtshakazana Probably Tsotsi.
This was not a song. It was the shortest document about South African township life.
Powerful ❤
2024 mark yourself with a like🎉
❤❤❤🇧🇼🇧🇼
🎉 ❤
We are here
Forever
My uncle who passed away after being murdered used to listen to these songs n he introduced me to them ❤❤😭Love you malume
I was 25 when this song came out and deep in the streets I'm 40 now still enjoying this track and feeling blessed to be alive.
Your maths is not adding up. If you were 25 when this song was released then you can't be 40 years old. This song come out in 2001 so that means you are 47 now
@@glbrainchild1😅😅😅true
Zola was 21 years lana I was 18 we grew up together
@@glbrainchild1it was release in 2000 my brother Match
The affect Zola and Yizo Yizo had on young South African men is still being felt today.
Who would have thought that life would turn out to be like this for him today? I respect life and time
@@tinyikom9671 umhlaba uyahlaba
They were depicting the sad realities of ghetto life
Guys this song doesn’t get old!!! I love it still! The SA soweto culture in the song, Zola’s voice is perfect! The lyrical content! Saba!!!! The visual Aesthetic , the styling!!! Aybo guys!!!!!! Zola , this is my favorite song! Its aggressive, nonchalantly good! Fiece!
Im dutch and watched tsotsi when i was 15 (12 yrs ago) never forgot it!! And the same goes for this song, even though i cant understand a word haha.. just fell in love with the power/energy it exuded and still does!! South Africa is a very interesting place, wish i could visit one day!
Come through...I will take to you Soweto and Cape Town. I also want to visit The Netherlands also..got friends who are there currently. Do you have socials so we can link up? I am tempted to leave my numbers but don't want to. Regards Emma.
Okay but there's no electricity for 10hrs a day so come with power banks lol
It really is an interesting place. Come by our lovely sister
🎉
I luv the song with all my heart if only they can organize kwaito festival for us ma 80s and 90s I'm pretty sure it will be fire 🔥🔥
Réunion leyo and paying respect to the departed
And then they gave him his flowers while he can still smell them with Certified Classics on SABC1. Loved it. You could tell that this man is passionate about not only telling his story and that of many others ekasi but also uplifting them. He said you could be a pupil, looking at yourself through a piece of mirror just know that you are fabulous. Never watched Yizo Yizo. Having listened to umdlwembe I am afraid to watch it.😀😀😀. But you know, he is a god and we thank him for memorable childhoods. Love from Eswatini🇸🇿
Proudly South African Gangster song does not get any better than this, it even gets better when you play it in BMW Gusheshe or VW Golf 3 VR6, gangster car☺️☺️. No one will dare disrespect you when u play this song. Oh I forgot converse all star shoes and a leather jacket. 👀😅
True
I'd love to recreate this❤️🤞🏽🤣
I'm Guineean (Guiné-Bissau), though i love south african musics, and i respect Zola's music and works so much. Peace South-Africa
Sad how the industry turned their back on this legend...
how
Very sad indeed.💔
Very sad
Too hard for them. O
Now all commercial Afro Beat is wanted.
2020 and I'm still jamming to this song, Zola is still my fave
si sonke cc wam
Same here😭😭❤
Ola 7😎😎😎💯💯💯
Hii can u pls check this out...☺☺❤...th-cam.com/video/96NHFPg4PVo/w-d-xo.html
Yabusisa
Why the 👎 79? This is a South African classic. Zola WAS the zeitgeist at that time. Legend.
I played this song the day I left Zimbabwe to South Africa, it was in the late 90s iam still playing this song even today 25 November 2019, that's how deeply I love Zola #mabhe
The song was released in 2001 tho.
i am proudly Zimbabwean. akusalayo uyashisa mfo, pusha guluva
R.I.P to all those who died trying to honor the Legendary song's Message
What was the song’s message
@@blazaybla22 eyamadoda ayipheli. It's never over.
Lol
The whole song is like a threat of some sort atleast in my interpretation, even now considering the outro...amagugu alelizwe was commonly sung in funerals
😂😂😂😂😂
Greatest gift to South African Music Industry, Lots of love and respect for ZOLA.
"Tsotsi" brought me here, what a great song! 🔥
I was so inlove with this song and Zola's raw street lyric...my niggah! always making me feel "bad ass"
Even in Zimbabwe this song slapped hard & I’m still jammin’ to this day 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Bhade👊
You knew a song was a hit when it didn't stop playing in combies! This one ruled eGodini!
In 2022 I saw an OG driving an e30 325i jamming to this song on Buitengracht Street at Cape Town. I knew from there that he was a certified OG. This song is a South African masterpiece for kwaito heads...!🔥🔥🔥
When i reach billionaire status i want to drive through the estate banging this track
How far are you . Is it Zim dollars
Please do it. That's the most gangster wish I've ever heard
@@talfredo7346 you sh0uld do it
🤣🤣🤣 can I be your driver😂
Dude!!! That's my dream too. Blast this in my BMW 325iS🤞🏽❤️🤣
Zola is good, heard this on Skys Metro FM Zimbabwe. Love me some good kwaito.
Zola 7 💓 mina akekho oyofana nawe Kimi 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This song does not expire because EYAMADODA AYIPHELI
It still hits hard
2020 who's still here with me🔥🔥🔥
Una buena rola una de las mejore de zola.le dio un buen contraste ala pelicula de tsotsi que por cierto muy buena pelicula me gusto tanto la musica como la peli.saludos desde mexico
Originally from Soweto Orlando west listening in Turkey🇹🇷🔥🔥
Still
Abantwana base Vilakazi STR matseke
miss the days where kwaito was great and was the leading music genre
Danko Sibalukhulu 🙏🏾🔥🇧🇼🇿🇦
This is a banger.
It brings out your inner gangster
This reminds me of vintage joburg😢, mjeepa Jozi back when small street was small street, a bash was a bash, Spitz was Bally Spitz with the cream white plastic. I miss vintage Jozi😢😢
I cant get ova this song! Im in China going crazy, SA music got me going crazy! Dankie Zola, #Masfika’kleyondawo!!
To think that I grew up with this guy and he made this masterpiece, dankie njayami
🔥🔥🔥🔥My Favorite Song.
The Lyrics
Yewena
Ungazongihlanyisa wena
Ungazongihlanyisa kawu uyabona
Kushuthi kumele wenze into yakho.
Ngizakuphula ikhanda lova, ngikushaya inhloko baba
Phuu guluva ngiyakukhafulela
Bhade lami wena ukhomba mina?
Bhade lami uzongihlanyisa,
Kuyofa inzizwa kuyosala abafelokazi
Ekasathani ekhosombeni ngithi khala mdlwembe
Ekasathani emakhoneni ngithi khala guluva
Uyangizwa bhade lami uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Uyangizwa bhade lami hlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Ekasathani ekhosombeni ngithi khala mdlwembe
Ekasathani emakhoneni ngithi khala guluva
Bhade lami ukhomba mina?
Uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
E bhade lami ukhomba mina?
Yewena yemdlwembe
Yelele yemdlwembe uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami ukhomba mina uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami ukhomba mina uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami ukhomba mina uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Yelele yemdlwembe uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami wena ukhomba mina uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami wena ukhomba mina uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Qhamuthushula omnyama, kusase yibo labafana base Zola
Bamba ibonda 'yabona ukuthi umzala ufuna amakgekgeba
Bhekala phezukwama tafula sesibuzy siyaxovaxova
E slender woza la, bheka la ngithi woza uzosithola
Siphethe ibhola lomlilo xuvu siyashosholoza
Bhade lami siboniseni omunye futhi umuzi onotshwala
Siyofika kuleyondawo kuyosala abafelokazi
Asifika kuleyondawo kuyosala abafelokazi
Kuyofa insizwa kosala abaguluva masifika kuleyondawo
Kuyofa aboguluva kusale ama beer masifika kuleyondawo
Bhade lami, bhade lami angithi vele wena vele ubheke mina
Ngoba nami vele mfana ngibheke wena, bhade lami bhade lami.
Ekasathani ekhosombeni ngithi khala mdlwembe
Ekasathani emakhoneni ngithi khala guluva
Bhade lami ukhomba mina? Uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami ukhomba mina? Uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
AmaGugu alelizwe ayosala emathunen
Young, black and gifted! Zola is a legend ✊🏿
I'm here 12 years later ..."yewena Mdlwembe"
Soundtrack used in the movie Tsotsi ( 2005 ). Is what brought me here.
Actually I don't understand a single word, but this jam's really good.
This will always be one of my best kwaito tracks...2021, still listening.
When kwaito was still at its best, laden with raw kasi energy n vibe
The video goes along with the movie absolutely perfectly.
lol I remember when i had this song as my ringtone//,lol everybody wud turn n look @ me with shock every time my phone rang...
lol..i can imagine
Ke re I feel so gangsta and Zulu everytime I listen to this jam😎😎
I have too much love n respect for this artist since I was a young kid hearing him for the first time..till this day.. always love from MFK/MHK
TIMELESS, CLASSIC!!! Man what an amazing piece of work! Zola did nothing but body this, gaaaaaadddddaaaaauim
For me Zola forever be the greatest artist Mzansi has produced alongside Brenda and Lucky Dube
Whose here with me in 2020 and still jamming for umdlwembe
May 24,2024
I don’t care but this is the best kwaito or life song , don’t matter where or when but when it’s kicking off just run this song in yo head and u will shut man down .. decades later and papa action !!!
OMG! I'm from Zim-Blues and i jus miss the guys in converse and the whole s'khokho thing going on. Shyt, aint no party with such phenomenal dancing in aussie!! Luv u Africa!!
My legend 🔥 people should appreciate this Gee right here while he is still living one of the realest niggas alive zola 7 no one will ever do it like you did grootman 🔥 🔥
Eyamadod' Ayipheli In 2019 to 2020🕺💃🕺👍🏼
Never really cared about music as a kid until i saw this songs music video this is the first song I ever liked and Zola become my favorite artist😭
watching zola in 2016, we want him back! 90% local music
Got your wish show love to Zola Amapiano rules now
Yah ne haven't heard this one in years. Zola the Legend. I wonder how many 2000s still know this one. 🔥
Am here in 2018 representing Mzansi Richards bay,Soweto Dobsnville ext 2,all the way from Washington State,Seattle US
Do us proud representation yeya, represent Ntandoes 👏
Richards bay in the house🔥🔥Do us proud bro
Irongo lengoma still nanamhlanje. Mzolisto! Dankie grootman.
Will there be any other thats as beautifull as this one Zola?Love it with all my heart 😘
Namanje, uhlale ukwaz' yamadoda ayipheli🤟🏼
WATCHING IT IN MARCH 2018...HES STILL THE BEST AND THERES NON LIKE HIM.
Watched this film in Modern Studies and I loved it, along with this song :D
Miss South Africa so much!!! 2 years was not enough!
How I miss these times. No matter where in SA you were from, you knew this song. Kwaito
shout out to all my boyz in pretoria, jo-burg, durban, and cape town!! mad luv y'all!
Shabeg S.
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hey Zola this remind of TWR days, i remember the first time i saw you perform this it was in Auckland campus freshers show
Music never gets old.i use some of it to rewind back the days
people dont understand what a brilliant writer Zola was during his prime. The penmanship is amazing
Feeling so sorry for the ppl who doesnt get why we go mal when we hear mal music like this. MZANSI YEP YEP !!!!!!!! KWAITO
♫
Podcast and Chill, Angus Gibson episode brought me here. A great story about our Legend Zola 7 got on this sound.
2020 I'm still here listening to my favorite child hood song👌👌👌👌👌😭😭😭😭😭
This song is one of my favoritez. And Tsotsi also, one of the best movies ever ! Greetings from Slovakia
Ey Zola really did well in this song and album. Ey it reminds me of my high school days. Big ups Zola
when this song came on... it sounded sooo dangerous! I love it
Whose watching in 2018?
yes
ingoma leyi takes me back to the good old days
Me
Chamu thushu kulowo mnyama...🇸🇿🇸🇿♥️.
ma 2000 nazike esakhula ngazo thina ama 90’s 🙌🏽
Nathi siyazazi 🤣🤣
Less than 1m views in Dec 2018, we're not serious! Legendary track, never to be forgotten in SA urban culture.
When I buy my first car this will be the song I play 🤞
wher e hell is this guy kanti,,,hw much i love his music...i wish h should come back to e screens..real kwaito make m miss Mandoza too...come back zola
wow this song u know it real remind me my childhood when we were united as family eish ZOLA plz come back my man
Can you tell me what bhade lami means
A very close friend
@@blazaybla22bhade lami means like my brother but more like my bro
Mdlwembe means a stray dog, and basically he's saying you pick a fight with me and warriors will die and all thats left is widows. because fights with warriors like me never end until someones dead. The blessed of this earth will litter the grave, basically don't mess with me.
Thank u yazi
Damn
It's the year 2025 - And I'm loving Kasi Kwaito strong
Yizo-Yizo. Kwaito to the end! 🎉🎉🎉
I'm watching it in JUNE 2016
awuwedwa ntokazi
am...with..you
Lwandisa Hlathi true
I was drove into a farm in the Western Cape blasting this song and the lady I was with said I must change a play something more peaceful I laughed so loud and continued blasting it. Good memories
Tsotsi is such an awesome film...love it...
saw it in english class this year...
language is a mixture: afrikaans, xhosa, Zulu and Tsotsi-Taal (south african gangster language)
5*
god I miss kwaito. the real kwaito. my first love and my only love . god knows. always. salute. 678. eyezigebengu. SA. I love you always good or bad uyikhaya lethu. sikelela Shembe. uyingcwele. nongakuthandi uyoze akuthande. umhlophe njengezindlela zami uze ungilonde.
Found these lyrics online, wonder if anyone can comment on how accurate they are.
Yewena
Ungazongihlanyisa wena
Ungazongihlanyisa kawu uyabona
Kushuthi kumele wenze into yakho.
Ngizakuphula ikhanda lova, ngikushaya inhloko baba
Phuu guluva ngiyakukhafulela
Bhade lami wena ukhomba mina?
Bhade lami uzongihlanyisa,
Kuyofa inzizwa kuyosala abafelokazi
Ekasathani ekhosombeni ngithi khala mdlwembe
Ekasathani emakhoneni ngithi khala guluva
Uyangizwa bhade lami uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Uyangizwa bhade lami hlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Ekasathani ekhosombeni ngithi khala mdlwembe
Ekasathani emakhoneni ngithi khala guluva
Bhade lami ukhomba mina?
Uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
E bhade lami ukhomba mina?
Yewena yemdlwembe
[Chorus]
Yelele yemdlwembe uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami ukhomba mina uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami ukhomba mina uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami ukhomba mina uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Yelele yemdlwembe uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami wena ukhomba mina uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami wena ukhomba mina uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Qhamuthushula omnyama, kusase yibo labafana base Zola
Bamba ibonda ‘yabona ukuthi umzala ufuna amakgekgeba
Bhekala phezukwama tafula sesibuzy siyaxovaxova
E slender woza la, bheka la ngithi woza uzosithola
Siphethe ibhola lomlilo xuvu siyashosholoza
Bhade lami siboniseni omunye futhi umuzi onotshwala
Siyofika kuleyondawo kuyosala abafelokazi
Asifika kuleyondawo kuyosala abafelokazi
Kuyofa insizwa kosala abaguluva masifika kuleyondawo
Kuyofa aboguluva kusale ama beer masifika kuleyondawo
Bhade lami, bhade lami angithi vele wena vele ubheke mina
Ngoba nami vele mfana ngibheke wena, bhade lami bhade lami..
[Chorus]
Ekasathani ekhosombeni ngithi khala mdlwembe
Ekasathani emakhoneni ngithi khala guluva
Bhade lami ukhomba mina? Uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
Bhade lami ukhomba mina? Uhlale wazi yamadoda ayipheli
AmaGugu alelizwe ayosala emathuneni.
+Mauro Ottaviani They look pretty accurate to me
(-_-)
Dead on
Mauro Ottaviani Can anybody translate it to english?
Still want it translated?
Same ! If you found it please tell me !!
👌🏾
this is the video version i really like!!! Tsotsi, the film is the joint!! absolutely wonderful. peaCe
I love Zola, great song...although I do not understand wat he is sayn I can damn sure feel wat he is sayn.
My firstym to hear this songs it was on Tsotsi s movie we used to watch the TV at our neighbor on dat black and white TV 📺
The emotion in this song!
Kwaito was kwaai those days, used to jam to it in high school.
2022 still listening 🎧 I will never forget where I come from Mashona till I die 🤟🤘
Vele bade lami khomba Mina.. Hlale. wazi yamandonda apheli!