Keyboard player Almonte “Alie Keys’ Mthombeni who has risen from being the rapper’s band member to one of Cassper Nyovest’s trusted lieutenants. He is credited as a producer in some tracks from Nyovest’s Thuto and is also featured as a background vocalist in some of the songs.
“We met while I was playing for Red Riots at Rosebank in 2012 and he asked for my number. At the time he was not this popular, so I didn’t know who he was only to find out when people started screaming the moment he stepped outside. He didn’t call me for three years but after the release of Doc Shebeleza he did."