WATCH: Former soccer star turns into a rapping taxi driver

IT SEEMS like once local soccer player, Sanele Ngcobo, puts his mind to accomplish something, there is no stopping him until he succeeds.

The former Yellowwood Eagles star played his entire four-seasons at the club with a shoulder injury he sustained from a rugby game back in high school.

“I played with pain but the whole time I was working on what else I could do besides soccer. I’m quite the extrovert and entertainer, I like playing for crowds,” he said.

“I carried on playing soccer after high school and still continued playing when I moved to Montclair in 2012.”

“I played for Yellowwood Eagles and two years into it, I became player of the first two seasons, and was named captain for two seasons. I played a total of four years for the team.”

The 28-year-old  has played all positions in the sport including defensive mid, left-back and right-back before the music caught up with his training and game schedule.

He became a school bus driver and later a taxi driver to make an extra income.

“I became good at rapping, people around me thought I was better at it than I was with sports. So now I’m the rapping taxi driver,” he said.

He said even though he gave up a lot for music, soccer remains his number one passion.

“I watch it more than I listen to music. I still follow it and I’ve been coaching the girls’ first team at Our Lady of Fatima Dominican Convent School in Durban North for three years,” he said.

“I also shared my soccer knowledge with pre-scholars with a friend through the early child development programme, before that caught up with me as well.”

“I feel like as children we were not taught to have a back-up plan because sometimes even though we’ve committed ourselves to something, it might not turn out to be what we expected it to be. I know my potential as a human and I had to live up to it somehow.”

He described his music as not sports-related at all but another side of ‘Skhindi’, a name he is most known by. “As a taxi driver, I’m all about the hustle, even as a soccer player, that’s what I would preach – ‘Just keep going’, ” he said.

“I’ve collaborated with some of the best artists and producers in Durban when it comes to hip hop. I had to prove myself as a newcomer in the industry. And my taxi driving background has helped a lot with creating my storyline as an artist. As a rapping taxi driver I tell the story of the hardships of the job, how I’m trying to get out and how much rapping means to me. It’s the kind of music that I did not get to hear when I listened to South African rappers,” he said.

Witness this local hip hop artist’s rise, like his Facebook page or follow him at skhindi_nd on Instagram.

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