Cader

Cader (Cader Mndeni Nene) is a South African poet, rapper songwriter. He is still an upcoming artist gaining traction and slowly getting known for his relatable lyrics and creative writing. Born and raised in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, he quite an interesting childhood. He found relief in listening, writing as well as creating music and channelized his inner turmoil and mental health through his songs but, interestingly, his lyrics are without any curse words or despair.

Some people who listen to his music like to identify with his honest words and raw emotions, and this has been gaining him some amount of following in his music journey. His single titled ‘Depression,’ released in 2019 with his then producer King NoS, introduced Cader to a larger audience that part of it later became his supporters. He followed its traction with a hot new school boom bap single titled - ‘Mad Rap Genius’ with Aurrex, which he later in the year of it's release performed in one of Nasty C's Ivyson tour activation events that was being held around different universities around KZN, where the rapper (Nasty C) was going around letting his fans know about the Ivyson tour that was going to be taking place in Durban.

Cader continued working with Aurrex after their single (Mad Rap Genius) started gaining more love and attention than they anticipated. During lock down in 2020 Cader and Aurrex spend a lot of time in studio together along with other artists such as Silver, Mr eGee, Aenter, Thee Sushi and sometimes Legacy & Thirstii. They recorded a lot of songs that they dropped as singles week after another but there there too many songs for that so they decided to put together a mixtape which Cader was a huge part of.

The mixtape had 14 artists & 13 tracks, all of them produced Aurrex Jaayn, Cader had 5 songs with Aurrex on the mixtape and 2 other songs as features making a total of 7 songs. The mixtape was uploaded on all Digital Streaming Platforms, a song titled 'Blood In Water' by Cader and Aurrex had the most streams on the mixtape, reaching 9k streams within a space of a few months.

Our beloved Cader kept going and releasing more conscious music and kept performing in different places Durban, Sandton and his hometown, Piet Retief. In 2023 he became a part of Inkwell Collective, a well documented team of very good writers who had a vision to assist one another grow their artistry, their writing and performing skills. They do this by hosting events and doing live performances in front of live audiences. Cader has performed on the rhythm and poetry events hosted by Inkwell Collective and he's still working on getting better and making more music