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BIOGRAPHY 2024 Thabo Makalima, who now goes by the name RIZZ SA, has been in the music game professionally since 2005, and has worked with the likes of hot-on-the-scene rapper and founder of Ambitious Entertainment, EMTEE, and FEEZY from Native Rhythms. The Midrand based resident who was born in Gauteng, grew up in Soweto(Senaoane) and discovered his passion. He pursued music at the age of 18, and kicked off his career at the University of Johannesburg. He started participating in the hip-hop battle sessions (in SOWETO) also visiting other townships and cities around SA, following which a number of great things Happened to start his career in music. That period “around 2006, he met all the right people (within the music industry, and he got to work with a lot of controversial mainstream artists like PROKID,” RIZZ said. He later he met EMTEE (from Ambitious Records); and they created up loads of hit tracks, one of the popular singles being no lie featuring EMTEE. He is at the point where he wants to have his own record label, and manage a few upcoming hot artists. His biggest short term goal is to focus on RIZZ SA in order to get his music out and expand his goals. The record label will be his long term goal aiming at accommodating more upcoming artists in growing the industry.