Nadia Nakai

Data updated on 2025-06-14 20:50:22 UTC

Nadia Nakai Kandava, pseudonym Nadia Nakai is a Zimbabwean born Hip Hop Artist raised in Kenya and Johannesburg, South Africa respectively. A personality made for stardom – boasting proficiency in performance and persona - Nadia, is the personification of boss-hood and queendom which many girl bosses have an appetite.

As part of her own efforts to create self-made content Nakai launched a doccie series, Bossing up with Bragga highlight the stressors of the industry, her accomplishments as well as her most noteworthy moments.

Genres

: south african hip hop south african trap

Total plays

15.4 million

Updated on 2025-06-14

Date	Total plays
2025-06-14	15,417,483
2025-06-06	15,328,549
2025-05-29	15,243,312
2025-05-21	15,150,851
2025-05-05	14,960,572
2025-04-26	14,851,142
2025-04-16	14,732,973
2025-04-08	14,634,485
2025-03-31	14,666,132
2025-03-23	14,372,661
2025-03-14	14,186,982
2025-03-05	14,068,837
2025-02-25	13,964,820
2025-02-15	13,839,785
2025-02-07	13,737,549
2025-01-27	13,603,650
2025-01-19	13,505,511
2025-01-10	13,415,060
2025-01-02	13,345,743
2024-12-24	13,264,052
2024-12-16	13,168,352
2024-12-07	13,090,205
2024-06-30	11,461,971
2024-06-02	11,590,859
2024-05-19	11,025,121
2024-05-01	10,838,359
2024-04-16	10,677,899
2024-04-01	10,524,302
2024-03-18	10,395,005
2024-03-02	10,212,328
2024-02-18	10,068,810
2023-12-02	9,349,946
2023-10-23	8,977,434
2023-10-06	8,884,258
2023-09-20	8,709,074
2023-08-30	8,769,098
2023-08-26	8,734,870
2023-08-22	4,370,918

Social media links

Monthly listeners

64,544

Followers

198,637

Top Cities

Johannesburg

17,250 listeners
Pretoria

9,526 listeners
Durban

7,131 listeners
Cape Town

5,757 listeners
Gauteng

1,793 listeners

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Most popular tracks

Track	Plays	Duration	Release date
Dangerous	2,778,507	3:44	2023-02-24
Amantombazane (Remix) [feat. OkMalumKoolKat, Maggz, Kwesta, Ginger Bread Man, Kid X, Nadia Nakai & DJ Dimplez]	1,801,785	5:01	2014-03-20
More Drugs	1,142,657	4:23	2019-06-28
Ragga Ragga	906,334	4:15	2016-06-24
Dat Is Good	797,673	3:40	2020-12-30
Naaa Meaan	790,424	3:48	2017-11-01
Do Like I Do - Remix	789,195	5:14	2016-01-01
What I Like	505,744	2:45	2022-09-16
Zonke (feat. AKA, Nadia Nakai, Robot Boii, Buzzi Lee and Mustbedubz) - Remix	414,631	4:54	2022-06-17
I Better Go - Remix	376,112	3:32	2015-02-14
Money Calling	375,026	3:47	2018-06-08
All You Do Is Talk	342,549	4:24	2020-04-03
Delicious	290,469	4:59	2022-09-09
Never Leave	266,278	2:49	2024-01-26
Hypnotize	264,984	3:10	2020-09-11
40 Bars	249,876	3:44	2020-02-28
Kreatures	231,659	5:22	2019-06-28
Lefatshe (feat. Dalabi & Nadia Nakai)	186,832	3:27	2024-12-13
Darkness Defined	181,852	4:16	2019-06-28
Missing You	180,375	3:12	2024-10-04
Isaga Lam	176,639	5:05	2017-10-11
Imma Boss	167,380	2:37	2019-05-17
Top Shayela	158,601	4:43	2017-05-05
Thick Slim	155,868	2:12	2022-11-04
Money Back	151,197	4:00	2016-06-01
Money Machines	149,787	3:50	2022-04-07
Mistery	109,706	2:13	2022-08-05
Amai	99,499	3:09	2019-06-28
Back In	96,739	2:40	2023-09-08
Not The Same (feat. Lucasraps)	91,008	2:45	2022-07-22
Yaas Bitch	79,035	3:23	2018-09-21
Uthando (feat. Nadia Nakai)	50,877	3:13	2019-10-11
Outro	48,556	1:13	2019-06-28
The Man	47,700	3:57	2016-08-26
Runnin' Back (feat. Sauwcy)	45,665	2:58	2023-12-01
Umfazi (feat. Umthakati Kush)	42,410	3:45	2024-05-31
#Ff	42,068	3:17	2016-11-27
Africa	41,615	2:20	2019-06-28
Savage (feat. da L.E.S, Nadia Nakai & Maggz)	39,718	4:48	2016-12-01
Abalaleli	36,674	3:57	2021-11-12
Chankura	33,892	2:42	2019-06-28
Pay It Up (feat. Nadia Nakai)	33,547	3:04	2021-06-04
Big Pun	31,640	3:10	2019-06-28
Uh Huh	31,458	2:56	2019-04-03
Snakes In The Grass	31,120	4:44	2023-07-14
Calling	31,034	2:59	2019-06-28
Intro	30,023	2:07	2019-06-28
No Problems (Sandidaro)	29,279	3:22	2025-03-14
Love	29,275	3:25	2019-06-28
Sipthipithi (feat. Moozlie)	27,480	2:44	2025-03-14
Trappy	26,109	2:08	2019-06-28
On The Block	25,716	3:34	2019-06-28
Sqwaa	24,430	4:24	2016-12-02
Rap Bitches	23,972	3:06	2019-06-28
Crazy	21,438	4:07	2017-06-01
Shots In LA (feat. Manu WorldStar)	20,710	3:06	2025-03-14
Sous Chef	18,700	2:34	2025-03-14
M.E.G.A	17,729	4:02	2024-10-04
One Night in Cape Town	15,582	4:14	2022-07-29
Don't Know Why? (feat. Boskasie)	15,290	3:02	2025-03-14
Swang Extensions	14,797	4:42	2018-06-20
My Body (feat. The Big Hash)	13,820	3:32	2025-03-14
Don't Cut It	13,329	3:27	2016-09-15
Talk (Bonus Track) [feat. Qwellers]	12,879	3:57	2025-03-14
Don Dada	11,610	4:12	2016-09-15
Addicted	11,198	3:22	2020-09-04
Presidential (feat. Nadia Nakai and Mustbedubz)	10,528	2:42	2022-02-25
Top of the Mountain (feat. Krush)	9,270	2:19	2025-03-14
eStyleni (feat. Nadia Nakai)	7,767	3:22	2021-03-26
Natural thing	7,298	3:13	2017-08-11
What You Thought	7,260	2:34	2020-11-27
Well Done (Intro)	7,079	1:37	2025-03-14
Rider	7,038	2:49	2020-09-04
Faded - Original Mix	7,027	3:59	2016-03-04
Head Off	6,755	3:46	2020-09-04
Lately	6,689	3:06	2018-07-06
Paying	6,483	3:08	2016-09-15
Competitor	5,781	3:41	2019-11-29
100	5,678	4:01	2016-09-15
What I Want	5,328	5:05	2016-12-09
Dirty Wine	4,662	3:59	2018-09-28
On The Way (feat. Gemini Major, Nadia Nakai & Beast) - Remix	3,954	4:23	2020-03-20
Neeh	3,095	2:47	2018-06-08
I Gotta Go	2,689	2:45	2021-07-16
Go Up	1,985	3:43	2020-10-30
Pop Bottles Reloaded	1,356	3:46	2020-05-29
100 (feat. Nadia Nakai, Max & Ayce)	< 1000	5:02	2014-08-01
Neeh (feat. Nadia Nakai)	< 1000	2:45	2020-11-06
Faded	< 1000	3:02	2021-04-16

New releases

Braggacy

2025-03-14

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2 Pack

2024-10-04

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Umfazi

2024-05-31

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Never Leave

2024-01-26

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Runnin' Back (feat. Sauwcy)

2023-12-01

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