LootLove lets loose

DOTTY SHOW: AFRICA NOW RADIO HOST

Raves about interviews with Angelique Kidjo and Blaq Diamond.

On The Dotty Show, host Dotty interviews artists lighting up Apple Music with the biggest tracks across hip-hop, dancehall, Afrobeats, and everything in between, from the UK and beyond.

This month Dotty is joined by South African television and radio personality LootLove on The Dotty Show on Apple Music 1.

Former SABC1 Live Amp presenter and radio Dj Luthando Sosha, 32, joined Apple Music host Dotty for a live streamed interview for “Worldwide Wednesday” to discuss her views about the industry and some quirky likes.

The interviews can be listended to at: apple.co/_Dotty

LootLove talks to Dotty about becoming the new host of Africa

Now Radio, interviewing Angélique

Kidjo on her first show, SummerYoMuthi by Blaq Diamond, Blxckie and more.

She gives some interesting insight into the industry.

LootLove on becoming the host of Africa Now Radio:

I don’t even know how to describe it. It’s just pure joy and magic and madness.

What to expect from the new show:

Well, you can expect a brand new host all the way from South Africa, which is really nice, but also you can expect more highlights on the next generation of African superstars.

I’m really big on supporting the new wave, the younger kids. Gen Z is so fascinating to me as somebody who’s technically older. I love how they work. I love how they move. I love their creativity, but also I love how they literally have no boundaries in terms of who they work with and how they work.

On a social media and brand front, Africa Rising’s going to be a really exciting feature that you can expect to see. Obviously our cover stars are always the iconic, big, massive African superstars that we get to sit down and have a conversation with.

We started on a really dope note last week with Angelique Kidjo – iconic. You can expect more of that. We’ve got a brand new feature called, LootLoves, but you’re going to have to tune in to find out what that’s all about.

LootLove on her first show:

That hour flew by so quickly. It felt like five minutes to me. It was great because I’ve got such a great support system in my team. They made it so seamless. It was mindblowing.

On interviewing Angelique Kidjo as her first guest

I hope that when I’m older I have that much energy, good energy, good vibes. I didn’t feel like I was doing an interview. I felt like I was speaking to my mom. It was so warm. She was so excited.

She was so generous as well. For somebody who’s been in the game for so long, and literally is on a 15th album, you would think that she’s literally heard every question, she’s been asked every single thing, and yet she still gives so much.

Also, just such a beautiful conversation about where we’re at as a continent, who we should be as young people, where we’re going. The things we need to pay attention to. I loved the warmth and the love and the advice that she gave us as young African people, because we’re in such a confusing place right now.

There’s so much fighting. And yet in the same breath, there are so many opportunities for us to be better and do better than our parents did.

She was just like, “Hey, just give back to your country, love it back like it’s loving you. Respect mother nature. Take your time with it, educate the younger generation as well, but also work with the older generation.”

LootLove on Blaq Diamond and

SummerYoMuthi:

It’s definitely a big song, SummerYoMuthi. These two boys are incredibly talented. “Muthi” is traditional medicine. Muthi’s also the name of their record label.

In essence, what they were saying is that, “we’ve got summer, summer yo muthi, lets rock.”

The other reference is that when you’re doing well, or when you are in love, sometimes it’s said “somebody use muthi on you.” It’s like a potion. Right?

That song was kind of just explaining that, “It’s our summer. We’re doing great”.

On Blxckie:

He is so talented. We have a superstar called Nasty-C who comes from Durban.

He is a global star at this point, and we’ve got this young talent that’s on the up and up.

He is just, shoo! He is somebody that everybody should be listening to.

What’s coming up on her next show:

You can look forward to an incredible cover star all the way from Tanzania. Her name is Nandy.

On John Wick:

This is the one song nobody will get tired of, even if every single DJ had it in their set. It’s magical.