The route to success in the music industry isn’t the most linear process. It’s either dropping one song and it catches, then you become a one-hit wonder or you take that momentum with you and turn it into a career. There’s also dropping a ton of mixtapes in hopes that one will catch on and give you that big break. Music relies on you to be on your toes, it’s a competition of relevance and skill. With so much music dropping, you can miss a lot of songs and albums that get released, the digital world is super fast and the human mind can sometimes fail to catch everything.

Early last year Durban hip hop duo IV & Neptune decided to release their debut extended play titled Still Waters. The group comprises of Andi IV and David Neptune. Their eight-track project was well received amongst small pockets of indie music enthusiasts in Durban.

Their first offering is a 32-minute mache of rap and hip hop, where they seem to dip into various sounds and mental spaces. Where the narrative of promiscuous women rules their subject matter, coupled with the desire to get money from their art. The body of work is packaged is packaged with a very dark undertone, where the two rappers mark their territory. Still Waters feels like a fictional place, the project has a lot of motion and provides a lot of texture for feel. Throughout the EP, David Neptune flaunted how good he is at rapping, with a consistent calibre of flows and bars, Andi IV holds his on throughout as the two rappers compliment each other with fresh chemistry and complementary energy. On songs like Runway and Taliband, they display a great deal of bravado.

The group has managed to have some songs make it on the radio, with the second track Workout notching up some play on Gagasi FM. The Durban acts are also consistent at releasing visuals content, they’ve shot two music videos for Still Waters. For their visual content, the duo kicked things off with the namesake single and they explore Durban in a white two doors Opel Corsa.

So far they have also shot the video for Check My Phone, the video was their latest release off the tape and had a considerable amount of traction. The truth is, for the material they put out, not enough deserved attention is given to the hip hop group.

You can stream Still Waters below.