Sabelo “Xavier Thxmas” Thabethe is a Hip-Hop and Trap artist from eMalahleni, Mpumalanga who’s been making music since 2017 and gained momentum for his lyrical performance through freestyles and cyphers.
Growing up with his mother who worked as a teacher and his father, a sports coach and apartheid war hero, these two remain Xavier’s role models and inspiration for the messages in his music. His music career started with a local group called Shinjuku Gangular, where he learnt to incorporate his bars with making music that people love. His solo career began in 2020 and since then it has been the street banger singles and cyphers that has led to his mixtape offering, ‘Taste The Cheese’.

After taking 2024 by storm with his hits, Inkinga Manje and Shukela with Flow Jones Jr. & LaCabra, Xavier wrapped up 2024 with this, his 2-year awaited mixtape. The project aims to break internal hip-hop culture borders between the suburbs and the ghetto/kasi. The style of sonics and content is aimed to engage the ‘cool kids’ in town and the ‘streetwise kids’ in the kasi, all under one project in the name of Hip-Hop.
‘Taste The Cheese’ is structured as a double disc EP, with Disc 1 being new age hip-hop orientated with guest appearances from; UYIHLO, Nino Fresko and the Y-DUB camp. The 2nd disc is guided under the nostalgic wing of Mzansi Kwaito which also features the Y-DUB camp with Philaboi K and Just Jabba. The double disc serves as representation of Xavier’s suburban-ghetto origins which conduct his artistry.
Listen to ‘Taste the Cheese’ here
Press release courtesy of YUNG WRLD ORDER