kwaito

1. (South Africa, music) A style of music featuring words chanted over house music, originating in Johannesburg during the 1990s.Examples: "Kwaito is a genre-defying style blending the programmed percussion and vibrant call-and-response vocals of 1980s bubble-gum with British garage, American hip-hop and the new Jamaican ragga music; this inter-cultural mix, in turn, is framed by laid-back bass lines that can sound like Chicago-based house music in slow motion."; "The residue of this otherworldliness is still audible in contemporary kwaito, which consistently thwarts any simple identification with ethnicity, language, or social position."South-Africauncountable

2. (South Africa) The meme or milieu associated with the music style.Examples: "Sivuyile is part of the kwaito generation."South-Africauncountable