‘Ransom’ is the underground debut release for South African West Coast Hip-Hop artist, Jempas. Given the fact that the artist is one who is hugely inspired by Canadian-born rapper, Drake, the song is a remixed cover version of the Young Money artist’s 2009 single of the same title.

Before this release, Jempas only contributed his skills to three songs, the 2012 Shaloma Muzik banger ‘That I’m Dreaming’ and it’s breakthrough release ‘Long Nights’ in which he appears alongside EM-K (formerly known as Lee Rick). Both these songs popularly obtained success for Tha Real U, the artist of which Jempas contributed his skills for. The third release was ‘Lord Have Mercy’ a diss song at local rivals, ILL SCRIPTS, performed as a duo with Tha Real U.

With these colaborations at hand, Jempas soon became a name to reason with, and thus spitts ‘Ransom’ as a response to the general public left wondering.

Not only is the song a ransom to Jempas' six month long hiatus, but also a ransom for his music brand Shaloma Muzik. The brand held both the title for ‘Most Downloads In A Day’ with 100 downloads in 24 hours and ‘Most Downloaded Production Scheme’ with 500 downloads worldwide but were outdone by their rivals who returned to the Hip-Hop community a few-weeks before in the months of June & July 2013.

Tha Real U contributed his verse as a return to the Shaloma Muzik duo. With three songs powerfully pressuring the scene, Tha Real U reflects a Christian perspective with figurative mention of weapons. It is suggested that the weapon spoken about is the Bible as Real U makes mention of it in the line that follows.

Preceeding this in the first verse, Jempas refers to himself as an “underground king. This references to a song of the same title by Tha Real U. Jempas uses his verse to introduce the listerner to who he is and what he’s about. With mention of being a freshmen, Jempas is not only a collage student but also a soccer player. He reflects on his personal life with mention of his parents and his relationship status by saying "my focus ain’t on b*tches, not at this point and time.”

The song was released together with a music video as an addition to the ‘Ransom’ concept.

‘That I’m Dreaming’ is one of Tha Real U’s post-mixtape releases. The song is the 1st of Real U’s rap career to top the Soundcloud download limit. The occured over the period of two weeks.

The song features brandmate Jempas, who debuted as an artist on Tha Real U’s ‘Long Nights’. The song accomplies Real U’s first music video.

The theme of ‘That I’m Dreaming’ is that of a romatic fantasy. It describes what both Jempas and Real U happen to dream about.

Following the release of Real U’s first mixtape, ‘Underground Kings’ became Real U’s 2nd single to hit 100 downloads on Soundcloud after ‘That I’m Dreaming’. It however became a record breaker for Shaloma Muzik aswell as the South African West Coast industry as it accumilated this within 1 day (24 hours) of release.

Accomplying Real U is Young Tyt (formerly known as TiTan Kai) from the Johannesburg Christian Hip-Hop group, UNiQUE. Although many Christain worldviews are used in this song, it however is classified as Conscious Hip-Hop, mainly for it’s mature and emotive lyrics which enhances a conscious message.

The song addresses certain issues of Hip-Hop, yet inoverall paints the picture of being kings. Real U states that this so called “king” title is one from the Bible suggesting that since they are considered princes in Heaven, they should be considered kings on Earth.

This point is aimed at listerners and fanbases of various artists as well as rappers locally and internationally which view Christian Hip-Hop as a weaker sub-genre of Hip-Hop, rather than understand the value which lies in the message and their true identity as emcees.

In the first verse, Real U compares what he does to what people (mainly local rappers) think of him. At the time Real U was in good standing in the online music industry yet indirectly crtitised locally by minorities.
The song is an indirect message to them. It follows an exclusive diss song which directly addresses a group of rappers making these statements of the rapper.

The second verse is filled by TiTan Kai who speaks lyrically about how he sees Christian Hip-Hop, and what people are doing in the Hip-Hop community. He hightlights the theme of being ‘kings’ by stating God, the Father is the King of Kings and being in relation to God, that makes him a king as well.

The third verse takes a huge blow at the assumptions of people and wraps the whole song up. Real U fires a message-based verse instead of the same kind of lyrical structure in verse 1. Not only does this verse address assumptions, it destroys Hip-Hop perceptions as well and aims to clear any misconceptions as the verse proceeds. This verse is free verse yet rhymic. A Christian perspective is brought into the song more explictly as Real U states he raps with a purpose for awards in Heaven, and not on Earth.

He concludes the song with Luke 14:11 stating that people (mainly refering to rappers) who exalt themselves will be humbled.

November 28 Girl is a poetic letter written to a female whom Real U personally knew.
According to the lyrics, Real U states the kind of relationship they had as a sought of friendship, yet he considered it to be more.

In the first verse Real U states that he saw her in high school, which is where they begain to communicate, while he seeked her support as a friend, she lacked to value their friendship. He ends the verse dramatically saying that his happy for her which whatever guy she dates.

Verse 2 picks up from the first, yet becomes more emotional. Real U clearifies the first verse by saying that the first time he met her was in Grade 10, that he thought meeting her met something as he felt like an outsider in his new town after moving there from Pretoria. He soon realised it was all just a coincidince. As the verse proceeds, he states that they never dated as she didn’t find dating approperate, yet he many were lead into believing he had feelings for her, and that other guys that he knew soon starting feeling the same thing.

At the end of the final verse Real U mentions his abilities and what she knew he could do, yet his somehow “coolness” wasn’t something which made her value him more as it was overlooked. He states that he had no courage to tell her so he made the song for her, and concludes by saying he might not really love her, but he still still adores her.

The outro of the song catagorises her as one of many other girls, yet Real U states that he only has two girls he likes born on the 28th, one in October and her in November.

The exact identity of the so called ‘November 28 Girl’ however has been kept confidential.