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