The emergence of rap and its related dance and musical genres occurred in the latter part of the 20th century in Cape Town. These interviews concentrate on the 1980-2000 period and contextualise the emergence of Cape Town rap in a time of large-scale resistance to the oppressive state system. Themes include: break-dancing; Cape Flats; commercialisation; emceeing; gender discrimination; genres; history of international Hip Hop and Rap; musical nationalism; political environment; venues. This research was developed into the article Da struggle continues into the 21st Century: Two decades of nation conscious rap in Cape Town in the book Imagining the city: Memories and cultures in Cape Town (2007).