This week, South African hip-hop star turned entertainment content entrepreneur Siyabonga Metane, popularly known as Slikour, launched United States of Creatives, a platform to help creatives digitally monetise their works.
United States of Creatives, housed under the “Slikour On Life” digital entertainment content platform, comprises two core products: SOL Distro and SOL Wallet, which was designed to be an easy way for artists and creators to benefit monetarily from their fans’ support.
TechCabal caught up with the multi-faceted Slikour to learn more about United States of Creatives, its mandate, more details about its suite of products, and how tech can help creatives make profit from their work.
TechCabal: Please tell us more about the United States of Creatives platform.
Slikour: The idea behind that was to create a digital ecosystem for artists to avail their creations to their fans who are the final consumer. The problem with artists is that we just…