An old-school-meets-new-school night at Tiger’s Milk is a good reason to ask where the city’s emerging rappers go after their first self-made show.

Ask Jeriah Fredericks, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of VERVE Magazine, what’s wrong with Cape Town hip-hop, and he doesn’t reach for nostalgia. “I think to summarise it’s a lack of accessible spaces, and it’s hard for newer guys entering the scene to build momentum,” he says. Fredericks has followed the city’s alternative rap circuit as a fan and a publisher. “The pieces are there, but hip hop in the city doesn’t really have a home.”