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Touchline Captures Tembisa’s Soul On New Album “Mambisa Golden Boy.” At exactly 00:00, the streets got their inheritance. Touchline has just released Mambisa Golden Boy, a razor-sharp 12-track love letter to the soil that raised him. Two years in the making, this seventh project from the Ekurhuleni lyricist is already being called his most defining work yet.

Touchline Captures Tembisa’s Soul On New Album “Mambisa Golden Boy”

The name alone carries legacy. “Mambisa,” a badge of honour worn proudly by Tembisa locals, meets “Golden Boy,” a phrase that coincides with significant career milestones, including two of his projects achieving gold status in 2025. The cover seals the story: a young, laughing Touchline beside a battered keyboard — the innocence, the struggle, the prophecy.

From the very first blast of horns on the title track, the album drags you by the sleeve and drops you straight into township memory lanes. The Tembisa Township Interlude is the kind of opener albums dream of — Touchline makes sure it leaves a mark, steering the record’s mood and paying a proud, soulful tribute to the streets that raised him.

Track 3, “Abanye Abantwana,” emerges as a historic posse cut — Ginger Trill and KiD X sharpening iron over a beat that smells like Sunday kos in the middle of a dice circle. Three eras, one spirit, no wasted breath. Track 11, “Not That Guy Anymore,” might be the album’s emotional summit. Jay Jody delivers a blistering verse. Touchline meets the energy with equal force, rapping like someone making peace with chapters he once feared revisiting.

“The World Is Yours,” featuring Murumba Pitch, is the album’s spiritual centre. Warm, soulful, and almost prayer-like, it’s a song for anyone who has ever questioned the road ahead. Touchline and the Pitch brothers sound like they’re looking life dead in the eye, daring it to look away first.

Kwesta and Mnqobi Yazo keep the thunder rolling on the lead single “Inkunzi,” while closing cut “Seeing Things” peels everything away to leave Touchline’s unfiltered rap front and centre, a raw, reflective finale where he tackles real-life struggles and industry truths, then serves up food-for-thought bars about how he became himself and the risks he took to push his career forward.

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