The May edition of African hip hop radio is a rendez-vous with Revoltod from the Lod Escur crew, our long time contributor who started doing Cabo shows for us while he was living in Cape Verde. Now based in Rotterdam, he’s still very active in the hip hop scenes of Cape Verde as well as the Netherlands. In the second hour from the Red Light Radio studio he plays some of his productions and other hot Cabo stuff, talks about gang culture and police abusing hip hop artists back home, and about two products that are important to Cape Verdean identity: grog, an alcoholic drink, and zouk, the Antillean music that made it big within Cabo communities worldwide.

The first hour has new tracks from all over the continent, from ‘Uko sure’ by Kenyan Man Njoro & Rabbit to ‘Afrika is not dead’ by Togolese emcee Elom and a collabo between Stephen Marley and Wale. J4 plays an exclusive track (world premier!) by Dumi Right & Modenine, and a new song by Kery James about the way France deals with its colonial past, for which he was attacked by right wing politicians in France.

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To connect with Revoltod, find him on Facebook.

Playlist
1st hour – pan African
M’bobda (Cameroon) – Africa
Man Njoro ft Rabbit a.k.a. Kaka Sungura (Kenya) – Uko Sure
Ouaga 3000 (Burkina Faso / France) – Wilika Djo (leve toi)
Sylvester Ft Lady Slyke & Skinnie (Uganda) – Weyise Bulungi
Kery James (France) – Lettre à la République
Stephen Marley (Jamaica) – Made In Africa ft. Wale & the cast of Fela
Weusi Ft Chizan Brain, Obokela & Enika (Kenya) – Watoto Wa Mungu
Elom (Togo) – Afrika is not dead
Xtatic (Kenya) – Venom
Dirty Paraffin (South Africa) – Papap! Papap!
Sarkodie Feat Kesse & Appietus (Ghana) – Azonto Fiesta

2nd hour – Cape Verde hip hop special
Bossmen – Ima Bossmen feat Black Amenophice
Cabulos – Impossivel
KGB Squad – Grog
KF Young hot – I go hard for my city
Monta – Ik doe dit
Marley aka Cabulos, Naty Animal, Victor Duarte, Greenspark, Boca D`Lume, Raw, Gee Mnin D’or, Aziz & Elaine Da Silva – Revolta Dum Criol
Vieira – Nos e Que Nos
Big Nelo – Ela é ft. Nelson Freitas
LOD – Insegurança ft. Buia
Victor Duarte & Ety Beats ft. L.O.D – Cond unio é verdader
Dumi Right – Go In ft. Modenine and MC Pep
Espirt – Tud na el ft. Lokos