We rarely see Tbo Touch being interviewed, but when he does, it surely is a sight to see.

On Monday, 13 July, the larger than life DJ, TV personality and businessman sat down with Khanyi Mbau on her e.tv show Katch it with Khanyi, and opened up about how a lot of industry folk are gunning for his radio spot on Metro FM, and how he actually throws away demos of aspiring radio DJs whenever they approach him.

“If people are too busy to try and reach out to you, you’ve got to give them a reason to need you. Every day after my show, there are guys asking me to listen to their demos and I tell them the truth, I tell them that I’m going to throw away your demo as soon as I get into my car," Touch said.

"First of all, my car doesn’t play CDs and, if it does, it’s not demos. Two; your presentation did not sell. So the upcoming musicians/unsuccessful conscious movement of South Africa don’t like Touch because Touch is about business. I tell them straight. You are not going to sell yourself looking like that."

Tbo Touch further explained that he shuts young talent down early in their career because he wants to keep it real with them. He doesn't sell them lies and dreams, especially if they’re not marketing themselves professionally.

What was also interesting about the interview is that Touch admitted that there are actually a lot of industry people that are gunning for his radio show.

“It’s draining every day to walk into a building where everyone wants to be on your show. I’ve seen proposals of DJs presenting to management on how they’d do the afternoon show," he added.

"Every year it’s been that way, I’ve been there for 10 years and there’s been a petition to disrupt my programming and it failed, not because of who I know but because when everything goes back to basics it boils down to relationships and what are you bringing into that space and people don’t understand that.”

Talk about tough love in the industry... but then again, when you're the best in your field, everyone is going to work towards shoving you off from the number one spot.

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