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…
Leggezin Fin
Leggezin Fin is an emcee and producer from Angola. He began his musical career during his stay in Coimbra, Portugal where he became a member of the group Acropole. During his educational…
International Hip Hop Cipher video from Nomadic Wax
Nomadic Wax just dropped this cipher video from out their video archive crates. From a concert in Boston back in 2010, this cipher is pretty stacked. Nomadic Wax’s Dj Boo holding it down…
Metaphysics talks diamonds
Herbert Schwamborn a.k.a Metaphysics is credited for being one of the pioneers of hip hop in Zimbabwe. Based in Germany and with frequent visits back to the motherland, last month he was at…
BET Cypher 2012 – focus on Africa (again) with Sarkodie, Jean Grae
The much revered BET Cypher, one of the permanent features on the annual BET Hip Hop Awards, has built a little reputation by featuring African emcees on their cyphers. In the USA, not…
Metro54 & Africanhiphop.com present Boom Africa: Baloji, Kalaf, Gery Mendes (GMB) and Okmalumkoolkat record and perform together
This month, Amsterdam’s Metro54 festival teams up with Africanhiphop.com in Boom Africa, a recording and performing project bringing together four major names from the African and diaspora hip hop and dance scenes. Baloji,…
This Friday in Amsterdam: African Homecoming
This Friday (24 August), Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (also known as the gardens where the Doin’ it in the Park events were held) hosts African Homecoming, an evening with live music, debate…
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…
Who fears Yole!Africa? A Congolese cultural center at a crossroads
In 2010, Africanhiphop.com had the please of spending a month working with the staff of Yole!Africa, a cultural center aimed at youths in Goma, eastern Congo. One of the results of workshops we…
Africa Represents at seventh International Hip Hop Festival
Text: The Black Noise Tendency Pics: Seth Markle From March 29th-31st 2012, artists, activists, educators, students and academics converged on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (USA) for the International Hip…
