D Cider

He followed with his sophomore tape, Rapiary II, 31 December 2017. He has collaborated with H. B. O Salute on a single titled, Your Time Is Up. He dropped the single, Come Thru, with a follow up collaboration with Mackchezzy on a song titled "Dirty Money"Early LifeThabiso Njoko is the only child from Yvonne Nomokosi Nkonyane, who past away at a young age while he was five-years old. His father, Thamsanqa Alexius Njoko, a businessman from South Africa was absent in his life. Thabiso and his mother lived at Ezulwini, Eswatini where her mother worked tirelessly to put food on the table. After she passed away, he had to live with a family friend close by his then elementary school, Bahai Primary School. He was under the guidance of his grandparents, Clementine Nkonyane and Thomas Nkonyane. It was due to ill-treatment by the family friend that his uncle, Mphiwa Nkonyane (deceased), decided to take him away from that family friend. It was a challenge to change schools, another family friend was approached to seek accommodation for the young boy. It is then, where he moved to Malkerns, Eswatini where the family friend sold by the market place. At times he would help selling in bus ranks. There was still a challenge of transport him to his school, since taxi's did not want to stop at the steep station by Malagwane Road. His grandparents decided he leave the city and reside in the country side, Velezizweni at Mankayane, with them, where he studied at Holy Rosary Primary School, from the 3rd grade to the 7th grade. His father would show up one or twice a year to provide clothing, other than that, they never had an intimate father-son relationship. After passing well in his 7th grade exams, his grandparents sent him back to Mbabane, this time around in boarding school, at St Marks High School. This is where his love for music, art and creative endeavors was widely exposed. At age fourteen he had started writing his own music, although it was scattered and all over exercise books and notepads. He had the love for story-telling and word play. He freestyled most of the time. He was active in sports, football and badminton. As he had secured himself a bursary to cater for his high school, the funds his mother had left him had been exhausted trying to put him through school. His father showed up, when he had a year left to finish his High School, thus forsaking the Bursary. He suggested he change schools and attend one in South Africa, where he would get a Matric Certificate. It was then,he transferred to Cornerstone College to pursue Matric, but he had to go back a grade down since the syllabus had the base there. He went to boarding school, although the grade down delayed him, he hoped that all would work out and the chance to have a father in his life was a little excitement that kept him going. Little did he know that his father would get in a fight with the Boarding Master, Mr G and find himself with no school to attend. His father told his parents that Thabiso was the one who was not behaving in school. That created a untold distrust between the two. It was hard to find a school that taught siSwati since the rest taught Afrikaans as a Home Language, and It was foreign to him and hard to comprehend, let along be taught with the language. After, leaving Pretoria, Silverton at Cornerstone College, he stayed with his father, and then step-mother for a couple of months until a school was found at the Vaal.

D_cider has self released his debut mixtape, Rapiary I, on the 28 May 2016. Rapiary, a joint word for "Rap + Diary".

Thabiso Brandon Njoko (born 20 June 1993), better known by his stage name, D_cider, is a singer, songwriter, rapper, graphic designer and founder of Riska_D_Rollaz, Inc. He was born in eSwatini. His hometown is situated at Mankayane. He has stated that his music inspired by life situations between friends, family, and complete strangers and how life has unfolded for him in perspective.