Kid X Opens Up About His Near Death Experience With NOTA. Collaborations and partnerships in SA hip-hop music have yielded massive success over the years and for some artists, it has become a defining moment in their careers. Kid X Opens Up About His Near Death Experience With NOTA Kid X is One of the…
Kid X is one of the rappers that overcame adversity to achieve a watershed moment in his hip-hop career. The rapper said that his near-death incident while driving with NOTA motivated him to create his “Three Quater Pace” Mixtape under CashTime Life.
“The type of Kid X that they wanted was probably another person and the body of work that I submitted was what I felt that was an honest representation of who I am, so they felt like it’s not Skhanda,” he said during the ESAM Podcast interview. Kid X further expressed that he started questioning whether his music was good or not after he was halted to release his mixtape.
“So I started questioning whether the music was dope or not and for some moment I accepted their call to say ok I’m not dope until a near-death incident that I had with NOTA,” Kid X said. “We were driving to Sipho’s house and headed to a session with Bucie, and we are pulling up to a four-way stop and there is a garage to our right,” he revealed.
He further went on and described how they went on and survived a possible car accident saying; “There is a garage to our right so at the robot we meant to turn left turning into Sypho Street so while we were approaching the robot I asked NOTA (“do you need us to get something in the garage”) he remains quite.
“I carry on driving I was high as f**ck, we were smoking before we even drove there, smoking weed, a couple of seconds from the robot he says yo let’s get something at the garage.“
Kid X Opens Up
“In my head dawg, I went from turning this way and I see a hideout and there was a car behind me, all I remember was literally pressing the accelerator and the car literally teleported out of the wheel of that other car.” He explained.
Kid X claimed that the potential collision he had with NOTA was traumatic and it made him realize how excellent his mixtape was, which strengthened his resolve to push for its release.
“That entire experience was so traumatic and I realized it could’ve ended, everything could’ve ended right there.”
Kid X on his trauma
“The very next morning after that I’m bumping the project and I could feel it, and something in me came alive, where I felt like, you know what the n**gga nearly lost his life last night and I felt more alive than ever at that moment where I’m now bumping it.”
“I realised that something is off here I need to insist that this project comes out, I hit them up I told them yo cool I’m willing to at least put this out as a mixtape so that you guys are not gonna catch any smoke, It’s not going to be an official project it’s just gonna be a mixtape whatever the case.” He explained.
