Zimbabwe independence day 2013: Chimurenga Renaissance’s Boom video

On the occasion of Zimbabwe’s 33rd independence day, here’s the latest video by Chimurenga Renaissance aka Tendai ‘Baba’ Maraire who’s also known as a member of Shabazz Palaces. Tendai gives an alternative report…

Chullage – R.A.P. video and free EP download

A new video for ‘R.A.P.’ by Cape Verdean – Portuguese emcee Chullage. The song is a single taken from his latest EP ‘Rapressão’ which was released last year as a free download from…

Kenya to the polls: Ukoo Flani – Demonocrasy video

The mighty Ukoo Flani MauMau, Kenya’s hip hop crew spread across different regions and cities, are working on a new album which should come out later this year. On the occasion of Kenyan…

Gabriel Teodros – Mind Power

Gabriel Teodros is a hip hop artist and a member of the groups Abyssinian Creole and CopperWire. He is of Ethiopian, Scottish, Irish & Native American descent, and was raised on Beacon Hill,…

Daara J Family – Celebrate video revives the days after independence

Brand new video to ‘Celebrate’, one of the most catchy tunes off Daara J Family’s 2010 album ‘School of life’. Like the twist-inspired composition, the video is a throwback to the stylish dances…

Awadi’s new album ‘Ma Revolution’ and a feature with Duggy Tee (PBS)

New music by Awadi! The Senegalese hip hop legend released his latest album ‘Ma Revolution’ in Dakar in November last year. Apart from ‘Merci mon dieu (Sant Yalla)’, the collabo with his old…

Blakk Rasta featuring Jah Amber – Our Africa video

Another big tune from reggae artist Blakk Rasta (Ghana). The song has been around since July last year but the video was premiered today on tv in Ghana, and now on Youtube. With…

Akua Naru: Live & Aflame Sessions

Live & Aflame Sessions is an inspired live revisit of Akua Naru’s debut album ‘The Journey Aflame’ which was recorded in Cologne, Germany. In addition there are live videos for every song which…

Kova M: representing Cova da Moura, Lissabon’s African hood

Cova da Moura is a neighbourhood in Amadora, a city in the metropolitan area of Lissabon (Portugal). Known today for housing between 5000 and 10,000 people, mostly of African origin (75% from Cape…

A moment with Alesh of the DRC

Featuring: Alesh (DRC), PPS the Writah (Senegal), and Helio (Mozambique) DP/Editor: Magee Producer: Nomadic Wax Translation: Magee, Nantali Indongo, and Waterflow Shouts to the one beat project for bringing these artists over and…

A moment with PPS the Writah from Senegal

Featuring: PPS the Writah & Mr. Acquil DP/Editor: Magee Producer: Nomadic Wax Translation: Magee & Waterflow Shouts to the one beat project for bringing these artists over and organizing the exchange: 1beat.org/

Mc Cane Babu – Byantukako

From the underground of Ugandan hip hop comes this video by MC Cane Babu with Young Starz Basagalamanya Squad. This is his first video, shot by Dutch director Jurre de Beer in Ntinda,…

Youssoupha’s ‘Les Disques de Mon Père’ video features Tabu Ley Rochereau

Previously featured as one of our favorite songs of the year, Youssoupha’s ‘Les disques de mon pere’ now has its own video. The title, meaning ‘the records of my father’ refers to none…

Luga Flow Army – Ejje lyo

Luga Flow Army is a group of five members from Uganda who started working together in 2011. They rap in Luganda, Swahili and English. Each member is a lyricist in his own right…

Obscur Jaffar: Poetry at the Park

This is a short little video piece we put together with Burkina Faso’s Obscur Jaffar. Obscur Jaffar is one of those unique voices in hip hop with a style that is completely original….

Zimbabwe’s Synik releases 3D music video & free album Syn City

Zimbabwean hip hop heads must have been pressing F5 to refresh emcee Synik’s website over the past days, as there was a countdown going on towards the launch of his ‘Syn City’ album….

Eedris Abdulkareem – Clean Up Naija video

One video that stood out in the ever growing tsunami of new Nigerian releases is this one by veteran Eedris Abdulkareem. The rapper whose name was all over the news a couple of…

Jaak – Bravo Papa

Here’s the video to the first single off South African artist Jaak’s upcoming album ‘Galant’. The story involving a sex worker, an undercover cop and a weed seller is apparently based on actual…

Modeselektor feat. Nazizi & Abbas – Monkeyflip video

If you’re into Kenyan hip hop you probably heard last year’s BLNRB – Welcome to the Madhouse compilation, a cd resulting from an exchange program run by Nairobi’s Goethe Institute and released on…

iLLbliss (Dat Ibo Boy) – Anamachi Kwanu ft Phyno

iLLbliss, remembered as one of the founders of the Thoroughbred crew in Nigeria, finally drops the video to ‘Anamachi’, the first single off his second album ‘Oga Boss’. The fact that the video…

Kali TV: Papa Moussa a.k.a. Waterflow (Wageble)

Kali TV, the bi-weekly online show which focuses on Africans in the diaspora, recently sat down with one half of Senegal’s hip hop duo Wageble. Pape Moussa, also known as Waterflow, talks about…

Sylvester ft Lady Slyke & Skinnie – Weyise Bulungi

We love East African collabos, and here’s one between betmaker Eric ‘Onasis’ Omondi and Ugandan emcees Sylvester, Lady Slyke and Skinnie. You may remember Sylvester from his work with Abramz (the UG hip…

Poetes Fyziks: revolutionary Gabonese group drop new album

  Ken Kiz and Ngongull ze Blackman, the two dreadlocked emcees that make up Poetes Fyziks, are both natives of Gabon. The pair met in the early nineties as rivals in different local…

WaGeble (Senegal): Live Performance video w/ Subititles

Check out legendary senegalese hardcore hip hop crew WaGeble performing in the US. Full concert set with subtitles in english!

Camp Mulla – Hold it down video shot in Nairobi’s CBD

A new video from Kenya by Camp Mulla for their ‘Hold it down’ single, a tribute to their city. If you set foot in Nairobi’s city center (CBD) you’ll agree that closing down…

Student meets teacher: Easy Muchwa ft Dogo Janja – Shikamoo Mwalimu

Hip hop has been around long enough for several generations to be active as recording and performing artists – seventies rap pioneer Kurtis Blow, whose first record came out in 1979, is still…

D’Banj – Oliver Twist official video with Kanye West

Will this go down in history? While Kanye’s ‘Diamonds from Sierra Leone’ was graced with an intro by Sierra Leone born emcee Chosan, now Kanye is appearing on a video by an African…

Mokobe – Rihannon: a new video from Africa Forever

So we heard ‘Beyonce Coulibaly’ and ’50 CFA’; now there’s a video for ‘Rihannon’, one of the coupé décalé inspired tracls on Mokobe’s latest album ‘Africa Forever‘. Looks like this could become part…

Khuli Chana Ft. Notshi – Tswa Daar

A new video by Khuli Chana, a South African emcee whose first album ‘the Motswakoriginator’ (2009) featured lyrics in Motswako, a slang based in Setswana, English and other languages.  His history in SA…

Papa Ghana – I’m an African

One of the new artists performing at our annual Doin’ it in the Park last year was Papa Ghana. His first single was released about a year ago and finally there’s a music…

Khaligraph Jones – Everyday

His name already got some buzz in the Kenyan hip hop scene, and this video doesn’t disappoint at all. Khaligraph is a young emcee from Nairobi (Kenya) who released his first track in…

J’Mani Ft Collo & Lyra Aoko – Radio Love

Collabo between Kenyan rappers J’Mani and Collo with singer Lyra Aoko who released her own video last year with Wyre.

Zorbam All Stars release the Wa Wa Wa video

Last month, Gabonese emcees Wendy, Lestat, Maat, Keza, and Lord Ekomy Ndong joined on a single track under the name of Zorbam All Stars. The track was dedicated to the ‘Pantheres‘ of Gabon,…

Duggy Tee – Teey La Tey

A new single and video from Duggy Tee, one of the grands seigneurs of Senegalese hip hop. Released just two weeks prior to the much discussed general elections, Duggy claims that ‘peace is…

Native Sun – Legacy: sound of the mbira

We have to admit, we love the sound of the mbira (thumb piano, also known as likembe or sanza). All the way from hearing it live to checking out the albums of Cameroonian…

‘Arab’ spring in Angola? Police respond with arrests and violence

For a while we were wondering which Sub-Saharan countries would follow after the Arab Spring civil uprisings changed the political map of northern Africa, but exactly one year after the Egyptian revolution started…

Sefyu – L’insecurité, second single from the album Oui je le suis

Sefyu, the Senegalese-French emcee (and a succesful soccer player in a previous life), released his new album ‘Oui je le suis’ in October 2011. After a first single, the uptempo ‘Turbo’ (with a…

Xuman & Cee Pee – Li lumu doon

In this new video by Xuman (Senegal) & Cee Pee (Mauritania), politicians and the current president Abdoulaye Wade in particular are called out about the issues that are plaguing the nation: ‘The country…

Fokn Bois – Brkn Lngwjz

photo by Matilda Egere-Cooper The Ghanian pidgin rap duo Fokn Bois, which consists of  Wanlov da kubolor and M3nsa, recently released a video entitled Brkn Lngwjz (broken languages). The video portrays both MCs…

K’naan & Nas – Nothing to lose

When we last spoke to K’naan he was in the middle of the World Cup tour, about to play a show for a Coca-Cola promotional event in the Ajax Arena stadium in Amsterdam….

The Unseen Ones

Kurt Orderson is a young film maker hailing from Cape Town, South Africa. His first documentary ‘Definition of freedom’ (2004) highlighted the role hip hop played in the struggle against Apartheid, and in…

This Is Black History

October is Black History Month. From the UK comes this vid celebrating history with Jody McIntyre, Logic, Big Ben, Jaja Soze, bigCAKES, Genesis Elijah, MC D, Cerose, Big Frizzle, Wordplay, Haze, USG, Rodney…

Ardiess ft Passi – Les princes d’Afrique

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Hyde ft Awadi – Salam

Kin Mafia Style – Tokowa

A new video by KMS (Kin Mafia Style), one of the pioneering groups in hip hop from Congo Kinshasa. This song commemorates 50 years of independence in DR Congo.

Eldee – One Day