If you’re near Amsterdam, the Netherlands on saturday July 31st, you’re in for a treat. The second edition of Doin’ it in the Park, the Africanhiphop.com open-air park jam, promises to be even better than last year’s edition, with an all-star line-up including Congo Groove and Blitz the Ambassador.
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Playing our Doin’ it in the Park jam on saturday (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and launching the video to one of his strongest hits today: Blitz the Ambassador, the Ghanaian emcee making it big in NYC and soon in the rest of the world. His latest project, directed by Terence Nance, is a crossbreed of a film and a music video – the director’s cut runs at 8 minutes.
According to Blitz, the video talks about detachment and people getting overwhelmed when processing the problems in the world: “A lot of times we just ignore things. I think Africa has suffered a lot because people choose to remain ignorant, rather than address the issues that are right in front of our faces”. Watch ‘Something to Believe’ here – a world premier!
So Ghana is out, but their achievements in the FIFA World Cup won’t be forgotten. In the spirit of his native country making it this far in a world cup on African soil, Soulnana recorded a new track together with Brother J who’s best known for being an X Clan member, and UK based rapper Kobi Onyame who was selected via Twitter to be a part of this. DJ Static then laid the scratches. The song is an ‘official leak’ as they say from Soulnana’s upcoming album ‘Planet Afriika’.
Listen to ‘We Go Go’ or visit Soul Nana’s Bandcamp page for a free download.
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In our article about Nigerian rap in the 1980′s and early 90′s published last year, Emphasis were mentioned. One of them, the artist formerly known as Mouth MC, is making a comeback as a solo rap artist.
While with Obi (aka O.B.) and Okeh (aka Capt OIA), who together were Emphasis, Mouth MC recorded hit songs like ‘Which one you day’ and ‘Cool down no vex’. Their debut album Wazobia pioneered the pidgin English rap genre. After his tertiary education in Nigeria, Mouth MC returned to his native London.
In 2007, he began his comeback under the new pseudonym of ‘K16′ and in 2008, he got signed to Ikuku Records where he released tracks like ‘If you never sabi’ and ‘Ikebe’. He was in the news for the diss track targeted at 9ice who refused to appear for a show in Dublin for which he was booked and paid (read more about the situation in the African hip hop forum).
So Ghana is out, but their achievements in the FIFA World Cup won’t be forgotten. In the spirit of his native country making it this far in a world cup on African soil, Soulnana recorded …
In our article about Nigerian rap in the 1980′s and early 90′s published last year, Emphasis were mentioned. One of them, the artist formerly known as Mouth MC, is making a comeback as a solo …
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