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Cape Town – What new music videos are South Africans watching right now on YouTube?
We looked at the list of trending videos on the streaming site and found that SA is loving the sounds of Machine Gun Kelly, Cassper Nyovest and Eminem, who sit at the top of most viewed music videos on YouTube.
Childish Gambino and Shekhinah round out the top 5 with their most recent offerings in a list that isn’t much different than the last time we looked at this list when This is America sat at the top.
HERE ARE THE TOP 5 TRENDING MUSIC VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE RIGHT NOW:
1. Machine Gun Kelly - Rap Devil
Machine Gun Kelly’s track about Eminem, titled Rap Devil is the most watched video in SA (at the time of writing) and is the latest in an ongoing war of words between the two rappers.
2. Cassper Nyovest - Gets Getsa 2.0
Cassper Nyovest’s latest single and video - Gets Getsa 2.0 - comes hot on the heels of his sparring match with the EFF about his trademarking of the phrase, fill up. The video doesn’t deal with any drama but is rather a feel-good summer banger.
3. Eminem – Fall
Eminem’s most recent video for Fall is the third most viewed music video on YouTube and has 38 million views at the time of writing.
4. Childish Gambino - Feels Like Summer
Childish Gambino’s video for the song Feels Like Summer sits at fourth and has a lot going on visually with lots of references to current stars of hip-hop.
5. Shekhinah - Suited Remix (SynX Remix) [ft. Mr. Eazi]
Local star Shekhinah rounds out the top 5 with the remix of her song Suited featuring Mr. Eazi.
This list only includes music videos (or songs) and is accurate at the time of writing according YouTube’s Trending feed page.
