Cave Conscious

Who am I?

Obakeng is who I am, and that is what my mother named me as when I was just a foetus in her womb. A true son who bows down to no men, mortal, god, or beast as my mother saw me, although the world rather sees me as an outcast and somebody who doesn’t directly fit in society as a whole, a person too full of much complexity to even be comprehended by those around him.

Masego is another name given to me by my dearly beloved mother and is the name is which she prefers, to call me with when her heart is at its most calm state or when she is feeling most pleasant. A name that describes my feminine personality that makes me rather soft and generous to the opposite sex, and name that mostly defines me as I truly am, a person who is down to earth and calm to the world only in manners in which express how I am treated in this world.

Cave is a name that I chose to let represent who I am and what purpose I have to this world, a name best describes my ways and purposed intentions regarding what I represent and the knowledge of word in which I stand and abide by. It gives an insight to my lively personality as an extroverted artist.

A symbol that represents my struggle portrays an image that was forced to fit into a society I was forbidden from, and a name that will substantially help me to reconstruct the position of who I am at this current state, into whatever legendary status my might can attain me with.

Mooketsi is my biological surname that was conceived during birth, the original surname of my biological father who did not live to see my success. This is a surname that has now been rejuvenated from being historically lost in my long struggle to attain a freedom to my life. This is a surname that I was born to take to my own death and forever be the symbol of a family I never had, and a life that would’ve shown me how to be a man and shine light into my soul.

Cave Conscious is a South African Hip Hop recording artist from Rustenburg NW. He started rapping and making music from the year 2010 and still does it to this day. It doesn’t seem like he is willing to give up the journey now, even after having come up a long struggle of going through backlashes with lousy productions that paved his direction away from a proper direction towards a fresh start in his line of career.

Working with undedicated producers and being involved in the streamline of doing music with unpassionate people who just aren’t dedicated or rather not determined to reach out to their fullest potential just meant that he would have to change his attitude about doing music and focus on what he wanted to achieve as an artist, and bring forth the understanding of the self, beyond more than what the calling of spiritualism, within this widely spread land of a planet called Earth, could ever be.

He started developing a passion for literature, as he could just write poems for self-expression and small story based scripts on the experiences of living as a soul drawn to the Hip Hop culture, writing poems about a person drawn to living under the belt of dark thoughts and personal victimisation of a bad stigma, and just writing complete thoughts about his life and the experiences he was having in society.

He started writing poetry at a very young age and developed the rhythm of music at the age of 13 years of age and started rapping it all out at 14 so the complete stretch in his line of career is to basically find himself and his purpose in this diverse universe. Cave Conscious was called "JNR" by many before getting his recognition through his involvement in Hip Hop related movements and familiarised himself with being around squads of talented individuals and also being connected to various rappers like Hipnotics & Motake in President Mangope Technical & Commercial High School where he attended classes from Grade 8-10.

Cyphers were held and free styling was a general routine for the kid as he was now in the jaws of a society were rap and language was a major definition of who you are and what you represent, a time were gangs had big impacts influencing the minds of the youth in doing little bad deeds for them just to raise more profit and territorial respect. It all started with a line streaming of having negative relationships with gangs of friends which had a major impact in transforming who Cave was, as he did not have anyone to talk or confide in with personal issues that disrupted his daily living.

A routine activity of staying away from home just to gain peace and harmony to his spiritual conscience that was at a bad state regarding the fact of how he was treated by his family in general and having no direct connection with anybody on a confidential level.Being a rapper meant that he was going to have to subject to being experimental in a lot of things and crime, drugs, women became the direct culprit which gave him an escape from reality, a road that slowly drifted into a fantasy of just being controlled by what you do and losing the sense of who you are and the reality of your worth being dismantled.

He started smoking Cannabis in 2011 as an experiment with his friends, and actually started feeling the vibe of using the herb as just normal and not really self-satisfying, until a groups of friends had a night out at a local pub in the Rustenburg city/town, and invited him to finish the hang out later that evening at a suburb in town were mostly white folks were staying but was subjected to the black modernization of the South African economic structure. Smoking weed became a very uncontrolled daily routine for Cave, as he was definitely enjoying the effects of Cannabis in your mood, conscious level, health, emotion, state of living, peace & harmony to the user, and self-heightened respect, though it isn’t entirely wrong or bad to smoke weed, some other people started seeing him as being inferior and started circulating an inconclusive stigma about him around society.

A lot of people despised Cave, for who he is and what he does without direct relevance, and that rose a controversy that evolved into making the image, that you see him being portrayed as today. A systemised strategy to insult the worth of a being just because of his ethnicity and personal background. He is a charismatic loose cannon, a leader with the makings of greatness repeatedly brought low, by his own untamed passions and headstrong impulsiveness. Although he is a noble man, the establishment fears him as passionate and unpredictable person that he is, in the artistic industry.

His demeanor posed a threat to the competition, as much as they did, to him. It was a time were good things were normally seen as being obscured by society if they were of different colour or sense of taste to the minds palate, and he was going through fusses and hate struggles within his life and that impacted him to losing a bit of focus to who he was. A war was slowly building between him and Ikageng Nkosa Matlakale, the man who was a step father to him after marrying his mother, Tsholofelo Joyce Motshwanedi, in the late times of 2007. The whole effect didn’t resonate well with the young rapper as times were already tough facing a life without his father, Christopher Mooketsi, who passed away in 1996 from a lung disease, preferably Bronchitis, caused by a long period of working in the South African mines digging for resources and minerals that feed our substantial economy. Cave did initially resolve the issues he was facing at home, and matters were brought to attention enough to be dealt with.

He never actually met, seen or spoken to his biological father, who died a day just before it was time to celebrate his 1st year of having been brought to this holy place, called Earth, a widely recognized planetarium of struggle and hardships.

What is my Purpose?

My plan is to actually stand up as a black man and do something for myself, my mother and future family before everything we ever fought for turns into ruins and my

sons and daughters don’t get to reap the fruits of my long salvaged sweat. My whole life has been quite a complicated journey if I look at it from a bird’s point of view, I

have been totally rejected by society and labelled an addict of substances I do not even consume, people even call me crazy for the fact that I am able to express myself in multiple ways and give less of a damn of what people think.

I have been in places that most dear hearted people and the most brave police enforcement officer would denounce from even working at, I have been near death experiences that even shake me up to this day and I sometimes recall events re-happening in my dreams causing nightmares that I have smoke a cannabis infused blunt just to ease

myself up a bit and get my rest back. Even to this day I am still experiencing impulses of traumas I have experienced before in life that is why I indulge myself in the self-meditative position to heal my mind and soul, and to get back my natural essence of life and happiness.

I didn’t grow up having the knowledge of being raised by your own father, my mother was the only single parent that kept my life solid and tried by all means to give me the needed care, support and education I needed to get by in life and get to attain my purposed future and successes in this life, and although it was hard having to face a life of self-doubt alone with no emotional or psychological support from my mother. I did get to develop a sustaining conscience, later in the waking of my life that helped me move on and deal with every opportunity and demarcation I was faced with in life. I did not

let the colour of my skin nor the society I was brought up in get the best of me.

I had a tough and wild struggle past my journey but that struggle paved ways in which helped me gain strength and visualise power not in my hands and fists but power within my mind and that let me see the light which was trapped between the bones of my chest, power that travelled down my spine all the way to the roots of my soul and the knowledge of my worth. I was opened to a world possibilities where my word was

judgement and my might could mould a sword into a word and speak it out loud to bring a downfall to my foes and give rise to me elite of the next generational legacy

lead by my own Bloodline.

My purpose is to out-shine the light and bring power to the poor who as we speak are fighting to beat down, devour and swallow the richest man on this earth exploiting the riches of the earth that were naturally bound to be for all. I want to surpass all the negative judgement clouding my image and general success, to build a ladder for my fellow black leaders to climb up on and dismantle the chains of a system imposed upon black men all the woman and children of this earth.

That purpose is going to help me break this system, that was perfectly designed to imprison the natural mind of a person, or just a basic human being of neutral structure. Designed to force them towards a struggle instead of giving them and ability to thrive and build wealth mentally with education and build strength of power in a form of knowledge instead of fighting for money and killing each other for what never satisfies our natural needs.

We are living in a system that derives mostly from methodologies were discovered long time ago and were formally constructed to enslave the human brain and to limit or trap ones capabilities. A system owned and controlled by the world’s most- sickest people, corrupted governments, bankers, politicians who are leaderless and law enforcement that does not abide by its own law but in fact goes out of all boundaries to disrespect its constitution and act recklessly out of a reason to gain wealth.

Inequality is now based upon race, general imbalances between mineral resources and organic resources, wealth, ethnicity, and the biodiversity revolving around ones

economic status. I personally do not see myself being part of this indecent corrupted system of forcefully being commanded to do whatever, my father not there to teach me the imbalances of life and he was not there as a figure to show me how this earth operates, so my purpose is to go tooth and nail with whatever obstacle built by the system and go beyond the reach of those who own the chains of its control.

I am determined to go beyond my own limits and capabilities to surpass this system and I’m going to do it with my life on the line of mercy as I do it, because no one is

currently able to assist or be part of the whole movement, they will never show you a route or direct you to a path leading to your needed success, but would rather show you to ways that will crush and shut down your ambition and take away your strength by engraving your mind into a geometrical chain lock of a slavery system.

What is my pursuance?

My aim is to be successful in many more ways than one, I would like to have a legendary status to accompany all my works in the history of my life. I am a definite

leader who hasn’t quite been given the right and necessary platform to express my ways and reach out my full potential and advance my skill and to actually apply it in the most appropriate ways. I later realized in my life’s journeys that I had acquired the skill allows me to be able to help and assist people not emotionally but I could reach out deeper into a person and inspire their core and make them stand up as humans and do right to this world for their kids and to have the most comfortable experience out of life.

I want people to be able to fully analyse their potential and

orchestrate their way of living into channels that would generate a most fruitful outcome and elevate the whole outlook on how things are for themselves. I have a great thirst and hunger to be successful businessman who will not only

trade and make revenue from based resources available. I am well aware that the overall success of a person in this world is well defined by his riches and materialistic assets that were attained through intensive business making that is focused and well organized, a proper money making mentality that is able to generate new and improvised ways to help you eat more from the tree of life than there actually is, a mentality capable of brainstorming out of shear conceptual thinking to accumulate immense results.

The path I am currently walking on is unstable and might give unexpected results if I rush it, though the light through this tunnel to my success isn’t too dim to be seen. I am only trying to keep the same direction and keep myself focused towards the goal I am intended to obtain. Success on this planet is symbolised by having monstrous amounts of wealth, I do not want mine to be assessed by the size of my pockets not how many zeros there are in my bank account but by the knowledge I would have accumulated at that time of death.

My success should be mental and more focused on the lifestyle I would have attained, at the end of the highest pinnacle stage in my life, meaning that I want my life to be assessed by the general peaks I should have reached by the end of my journey in life.

I am constantly working and looking for better ways to change my mind into getting the most out of it, and I am currently working on a business that I intend to turn into a running corporate company that will build the success and legend of my family, and this company will

not only be multimedia based but more artistic in a sense that will broaden my love for the arts and cultures of society, and fully flesh out my needs and wants in business and what I am willing to do for the world in which my people will be living amongst, I want to have an outreach in the hearts of artists and evolve this society we are living into a more vibrant one.

I would like to raise leaders and inspire them to do more than what they intend to do and influence them to act more to express the words they preach so that one can fully understand how you need to say things that you wish to apply, and the applying needs to take effect before the fruits can be

attained in the outcome. I write, sing and make music every day of my life to heal myself emotionally and to have a clear understanding of who I am psychologically. The music I make is an inspirational kind of sound that takes your soul into a mystical travel, it talks to who you are and resonates more with whatever you do on a daily, but my music is not only for my ears to listen to, my people is there to make people aware of themselves and their surroundings including situations that govern our life’s in this very planet we are in.

I write poetry and when I speak and recite those words to give them soul, I do it intentionally to burst beyond what the status quo is offering to our listeners.

What is my Drive?

I have always loved the indulgence of music as a whole, I believe that is music that helps us discover who we are and transforms us culturally to accommodate the impact of society, and help us pave our direction to live in life. I cannot do anything

without singing or music being in my background, it helps me who I am and lets me express who I am to the world without the fear of what people say or how they perceive me.

Music has taught me a lot about the boundaries in which I live in and

how to overcome my situations in life, and music has given me a broader way to analyse my life and not let myself get entangled in chains of confusions. Poetry lets a

person to do a lot in life and it is another method to help those who want to lead to express their feelings and frustrations upon paper and the world will have words to respond if the words prove that the pen is mightier than the sword.

Poetry is also one

of the best self-introspective methods that helps a person to evaluate one’s self, and maybe even help them find the leader, that is hidden deep within their souls. Words have their own ways to heal and direct a person on to their directed path and fully stabilize how they think and act on a daily basis, and when there is a lot of pressure raining down to extract the worth out of a person, it really gets heavy as the words you speak are the medium to your soul.

Your words symbolise your worth, as a human being, before they show us who and what you are as a person.

Your worth gets realized by your own eyes when you read those written words, which must be punctuated perfectly to suit the message portrayed by your heart and emotion, to the people reading or consuming the material in which you write your analogies of self. The people who are the audience of what you write and say, discover different sides to who you are and how you do things in this world. I started smoking cannabis as a

healing process to my emotional and mental state, but as time went on, this herb started giving me intense energy and a lot of topics to write about as I became more

and more reluctant to smoking more amounts of the words, I subjected my lungs to a substance that may have an impact on my health, but this herb has shown me to ways that I could write with more freedom and free to express myself as I write these words, as I become more lost , the more I embrace myself in them .

I was able to visualize better and that made my dreams and thoughts to be clearer and more understandable in ways that were far out of reach. Cannabis is a drug to many people but those who are like me and use it for recreational purposes have a reason to keep smoking and stay high long enough to put words down on paper, it is a haven to my daily living as it lets me be who I am more, than I could ever imagine to be, and although I am not dependent on it, I just seem to see the worth of it more than if I was. Being able to communicate more fluently with people more and opening up more than I usually do when I am sober, or off it, seems to pose a certain curiosity to me that I cannot seem to shake off of my mind, and the more I experience my feelings and emotions when I am on and off it, the more I experiment with writing and particularly doing everything that involves art, including everything that has to do with spirituality, a topic that I do not want to delve much into right now as it is deeper than thought could ever be, because it opens doors that are further than scientific studies or general knowledge of society.

Face to face with my Competition

I do not necessarily see any competition out there that can threaten my business as

what I do is perfectly designed to succeed on a focused rate of time and the speed of is calculated by the use of my own acquired knowledge. I do what I do to fully reach

my purposed potential in life, to make people aware of what they themselves can do and also fully attain it in whichever what deemed possible.

My only current obstacle

is making it passed this purposed system controlled by white monopoly capitalists and corrupted government officials, despite it being a system perfect to entrap the mind and soul of a man. We live in a world designed to mock our worth as human beings and mostly black people are being oppressed and crushed down in society by their own leaders and general practitioners and we are supposed to live life like everything is normal and orderly focused towards our needs. We want to see ourselves being successful in careers that are of great importance in our economy not be exploited and used as a slave to work for people who do no good for the future of this world and the sustenance of our generation. We are being deprived of our own potential to do more and that is eating us inside exposing our efforts and chances of make it in life to be in total chaos.

Since well I am portrayed as an addict and a mentally disturbed person instead of a leader and a fighter of peace and equality, to those who want to see me fall standing in arms celebrating my struggles for their own amusements. I hope that journey is focused enough to direct me to a

path that is formally designed to be in contact with my purpose in life, and that it is structured and aligned to meet my pinnacles and goals before everything is successful I want to carry on doing what I do best which is writing poetry and

recording music, I want to be able to get my sound to the world and let its ears decipher my next move while I construct an influential business plan that would quench the thirst of hungry businessman and investors willing to give an outreach to my concept, and to fully understand who I am, and why I do what I do. I want my competition to compete with my life and not what I have accumulated.

Obakeng (Cave Conscious) Masego Mooketsi is a founder and Creative Director of Black Goat Inc.

He is a Multimedia Analyst, a Writer, Songwriter, a Musician, Graphic Designer, a Sound Engineer and Producer at Consciouz Musik.

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