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Uzozisola

2021 song by Mas Musiq

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2023
Entity authorityQ123037985 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Uzozisola" is an amapiano lead single by South African DJ and record producer Mas Musiq from his third studio album Aut' eSharp (2021) released on 24 September 2021 through New Money Gang under exclusive license from Sony Music Entertainment Africa, it features guest appearances from singer Aymos and record producers Kabza de Small and DJ Maphorisa.

The single was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA) and peaked at number 6 on The Official South African Charts.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Uzozisola” as 2021 song by Mas Musiq. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Uzozisola, song and Musiq can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2021 song by Mas Musiq. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 17, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q123037985. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Uzozisola” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.