Sad but true, but The Last Number is indeed Adolf Mr Thohoyandou's final album to be released to his fans.
Sticking it out in the music industry for over 15 years, Adolf has decided to hang up his microphone and rather focus on producing other upcoming artists. The Last Number will be released on his 31st birthday on 30 October this year.
Born Mpho Mushidzhi, Adolf started doing music in 2006, at the age of 16. He recorded his first track, Muledane, in 2008. The song later went viral and brought him a lot of fame. Throughout his music career, he released several mixtapes and four albums, namely Mbilu i kha dirwa, Munna ndi nnyi, Phakhama, and now The Last Number. Adolf became one of the most popular rappers in Venda, with more than 45 000 followers on Facebook. He also started his own record label, MTye Records, in 2011 and has since signed many upcoming artists.
Although Adolf is known for dissing other Tshivenda hip-hop rappers in his music, he said that his last album contained no dissing. "The whole album is mature. Very touching. It is actually a very emotional album, inspired by the reality of this world; the challenges humanity is facing currently," he said.
Adolf had worked with different producers, such as Fanash beats, Deejay Kestival, Arehone Castro, Augustus Beats, Deejay Micro and Deejay Dice, and features artist such as Mizo Phyll, Bhamba, Mac J, Fizzy and others.
Adolf said that his album served as a lesson in life that we could still fix the world through music. "Instead of rapping about money, drugs, women and other useless things, we can rap about life, love, peace and ways to beat poverty. Let our music build the nation."