Carbon Casca

Synopsis 

Carbon Casca was born Motebang Mokheleli, May 29, 1993. Carbon started doing music back in 2009 with his high school friend (Bokang “Boka” Pitso) and two neighborhood friends (Atang “P.Jee”Ntoi) & (Molefeng “Dr Elliot” Moalosi) under a crew named Mic Droppers (Three other artists were Namane "Piddy J" 'Mabathoana, Ramafonase “Ram G” Serati & Neo “Alg3brah (Axo-Mind)” Ncheka, Pitso "Tirant Edwin" Lehlabaphiri. The come-up was harder because he had no mentor, inspired by Scott Storch & Dr. Dre he started creating beats from the ground using FL Studio DAW and recording companion’s vocals with windows sound recorder. 

The development of his unique style with time got him closer to his dreams; later in 2012 Carbon broke from Mic Droppers and later formed his own record label in 2014 “Carbon Beats Entertainment” (CBE). Carbon first came relevancy in 2013 after releasing Producing two songs by his two former companions “White Paper Black Pen” by Boka and “Kill Em Dead “by Boka featuring Axo-mind. 2013 dropped out of college (Lerotholi Polytechnic) after 3 years in college, to pursue his dreams of being a record producer. 

2014 – Present: Career beginnings

Early 2014, he worked with his signee “Atomic Wolf” on a song named “Morabaraba” (One of Basotho’s old games), the track’s positive feedback was marked as Casca’s true come up because it played almost on every local radio and even got on song competitions on Lesedi FM (In South Africa). Carbon’s unique production style fuelled his career from a no-body to everyone’s favourite Lesotho Hip-Hop producer. Later in 2014 he started his record label “CBE”. 

The development of his unique style and utilization of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter got him more and more recognised both in Lesotho and internationally. The same year he released Boka’s three year Album (2013-2015), “No Conscience” which featured 3 hits that played over 2 years both on Radio and national TV (Punchlines Similes and Metaphors, Ts’enola and Nex). 

In 2016 Carbon released his first mixtape “The Hornet 1” which featured both Local artists and international acts (Lesotho, USA and Denmark). The Unlocked and The Hornet mixtapes were both nominated at The Ultimate Music Awards. Carbon Casca later worked on an EP "Personal" by Seth Singer with featured South Africa's well known Artist Emteea nd his producer Ruff along with Botswana and South African Producers. 

The same year worked on a Danish-Turkish single "Jouly" by MJD which had over 1 million views on YouTube. Later in 2017 Carbon Casca released yet another single that went viral with Robocop & Lilaphalapha (Lesotho’s well-known comedian) on a track named Lilaphalapha as to boost and hype his album "The Hornet 2"

2019 Carbon worked on two biggest projects  in the country which were featured on two national newspapers. The first project is a collaboration single with Robocop featuring few Lesotho all star artists and the second is a collaboration EP by Taooana (Preezy) & Puseletso Seema (Mme Mpuse) where he produced all tracks.