Africa’s top tier lyricist and hip hop artist, ShabZi Madallion, finally releases his long-awaited sophomore album, The Long Game;

The album comes after his strong singles, “You Know It’s Me” and “Soul Cry” (featuring longtime collaborator, Jimmy Wiz) which set the bar for what to expect in his latest offering. ShabZi explains the title as the acceptance of his long term love for rap and making music, “For a long time I always thought my career would determine when the best time to put the mic down would be but after 19 years of writing, almost 10 years of being in the rap game I realized that even if the career comes to an “end” at some point, making music and writing will always be something that stays with me because it is one of my ways of dealing and processing what I go through on a daily basis, call it a personal diary. The Long Game is me telling myself that I’m in this for the long haul, playing forever especially after seeing the impact the music has on the people that consume it for personal reasons.”