Muthaland Entertainment
Johannesburg label, formerly Ghetto Ruff, run by Lance Stehr since the late 1980s; no live company website found.
- Based in
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Founded
- 1989
- Founder
- Lance Stehr
Muthaland Entertainment is the current name of Ghetto Ruff, the Johannesburg record label Lance Stehr started in the late 1980s. It operates as a full-service label: artist management, label services, publishing administration and sync licensing, built up over more than three decades under Stehr’s continuous direction.
Its historic and associated roster spans Prophets of da City, Zola, Skeem, Jozi, Bongani Fassie, Da L.E.S, Pitch Black Afro, DJ Cleo, RJ Benjamin and Nathi; Vusi Nova was signed until 2023, when he left to run his own company, Nova Sounds. The company is independent and majority-run by Stehr; no source reviewed shows major-label or outside majority ownership.
No live company website could be confirmed. The domain muthaland.co.za no longer resolves, though Google’s index still carries cached pages from when it was active, which is why it continues to surface in search.