Who DJ Lag is
Lwazi Asanda Gwala, better known as DJ Lag, is a South African DJ and record producer. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of gqom, a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 2010s in Durban, South Africa. In 2019, DJ Lag notably collaborated with Tierra Whack, Beyoncé, Moonchild Sanelly, Nija, Yemi Alade and Busiswa on a track called "My Power" on Beyoncé's album, The Lion King: The Gift.
Biography from the DJ Lag article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for DJ Lag, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
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Scene ranks
Around them in the chart
Artists to compare
Acts at a similar level in afro house, and the biggest names from South Africa.
DJ Lag in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does DJ Lag have?
DJ Lag has 756,200 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Aug 17, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is DJ Lag's world ranking?
DJ Lag is ranked #471 of 1214 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is DJ Lag from?
DJ Lag is from South Africa, where they rank #7 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does DJ Lag make?
DJ Lag is categorised as Afro House and House in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as gqom, amapiano, 3 step.
Snapshot from the week of Aug 17, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.