Jazz Mama
Africa in the Picture, the annual African film festival, has returned to Amsterdam with insightful movies, speakers, talks and people. Africanhiphop.com attended the debate Congo x Amsterdam: celebrating the courage of women, a…
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…
Mokobe: 50 CFA = 0,10 U$
Mokobe’s new album ‘Africa Forever’ is dropping later this month and he’s been succesfully hyping up the fans for months. The first single off the album is now out with a video. Humorous…
Afrikaaps: hip hopera and documentary
Our favorite destination in the Netherlands in the coming week is the theatre as the Afrikaaps ‘hip hopera’ is touring different cities. The cast is made up of heavyweights in South African hip…
Recharging: African Hip Hop Radio x VOTU
As we are recharging for fresh shows from the African hip hop radio deejays, here’s the kick off from Kenya! Ndugus Uswakamili and Jared Ombui from VOTU (Voice of the Underground) did this run-down of the latest tracks from Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda.
Live at home with Baloji
If you couldn’t make it to last month’s edition of our annual Doin’ it in the Park festival, you missed out on an amazing gig by Baloji and his Orchestre de la Katuba….
Doin’ it in the Park: Gold Coast Trading Co X Africanhiphop
Imagine an Africanhiphop t-shirt designed by Gold Coast Trading Co? The brand run by Nigerian born Emeka Alams – known for his African inspired designs including the ‘Malawi’ t-shirt sported by The Very…
Mixtape: Afro Cosmic Club con dj Gioumanne
In the past few years, many African music gems from the 1970′s have been dug up and reissued on the international (often: western) market. Even the most obscure recordings and unreleased tapes have…
Watch the Throne turn Purple
‘Watch the throne’ is barely out but Jay-Z and Kanye got the world talking about their much awaited collabo, and by now it seems like most people downloaded a leaked copy that was shared on forums and torrent sites. This download included the cd booklet which mentions all the sources of the samples used to craft the beats. One of the samples was partly credited to South African composer Caiphus Semenya, whose compositions were used in Alex Hayley’s Roots and the soundtrack to the film Color Purple. For his work on the latter he received an Oscar, and now one of these songs has been sampled on a record that’s bound to make it big.
Doin’ it in the Park with Baloji & Secousse
Africanhiphop.com & Tolhuistuin present the third edition of our annual festival Doin’ it in the Park 2011. Sunday August 28 (afternoon/evening) it’s going down in Tolhuistuin (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) with Baloji & l’orchestre de la Katuba, Secousse, dj Threesixty, Afro Som Sistema & many more!! Don’t miss – join the Facebook event page for updates and read on for the full program.
