Jempas

Jempas is a Weskus Hip-Hop artist, currently part of the Saldanha Bay rap group, Ill Scripts.

In October 2012, Jempas made his first appearance in the Hip-Hop community on Tha Real U's Long Nights. He thereafter followed with a second collaboration on Tha Real U's That I'm Dreaming and their collective Lord Have Mercy (Ill Scripts Diss).

On August 2, 2013, Jempas debuted with Ransom, as a Shaloma Muzik artist. He would later leave the Shaloma scheme, in March 2014 to record in his local community, joining previously considered rivals, Fantasy Productions-produced duo Ill Scripts.

= Breakthrough =

Jempas underground breakthrough was obtained through his debut release Ransom, on August 2, 2013. The song charted on KasiMp3 charts, peaking #1 on 'Top Co-Signs' and #12 on 'The Streets' chart, and accumulated 96 downloads within 20 hours.

It was synonymously accompanied by a music video, produced by Real U Productions.

= Rivalry =

In October 2012, Ill Scripts debuted with Ons Is Bevok, a diss song aimed at Wolwe rapper, Major. The song followed the release of Shaloma Muzik's breakthrough with Tha Real U's Long Nights, and was judged in comparison as both groups were considered equally newcomers in West Coast Hip-Hop scene.

In January 2013, Shaloma Muzik released a diss song, Lord Have Mercy aimed at Ill Scripts in hoping to achieve Hip-Hop redemption. The song collectively featured Jempas & Tha Real U and was exclusively released on mobile-website SWGCTY.

The rivalry was later explained on community-blogsite Startouch Magazine. According to the blogsite, Lord Have Mercy was interlinked to Tha Real U's previous release Underground Kings.

The scheme felt unsatisfied at the cocky-attitudes depicted by Ill Scripts and therefore challenged them with a diss record of their own.

This resulted in controversy within the West Coast Hip-Hop community resulting in artists such as Twistyle Muzik's General to speak out against the state of the genre.

In an interview with Startouch Magazine, Ill Scripts member INSANE mentioned that the initial diss track was recorded out of fun, however the issue was not taken lightly. This resulted in Ill Scripts transforming their style of music with their sophomore releases in 2013.