With this album Busi Mhlongo subverted and then claimed Maskanda music’s previously patriarchal space, voicing a new social blues narrative. Her songs cut to the essence of simple joys, unrequited love, abuse in the name of love, and month-end blues.
Topping charts in Europe and South Africa, Urban Zulu struck critical and commercial success."We Baba Omncane" reached a global audience as the sound track for an Adidas campaign, and the re-mix became a smash hit for Black Coffee.