Gery Mendes (GMB) – Mr Entity
You may have seen the signs already: 2011 promises to be a good year for African hip hop. While there are many exciting releases, tours and pan African collabos lined up for the…
K16 – Free Me Jor
You are bound to remember him from our article on 1980s / early 90s Nigerian rap: Mouth Mc is one-third of the late 1980s group Emphasis. The trio known together as Emphasis recorded…
Botswana’s Get Up and Go Tour to fight HIV
On the occasion of World Aids Day, the 1st of December, some of Botswana’s most popular hip hop artists joined in the Get Up and Go Tour, a campaign traveling around the country to inspire an HIV-free generation. MC/Poet Toni Blackman, the official U.S. Hip Hop Ambassador, reports from Botswana in this new series.
Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch
If you’re familiar with UK hip hop, chances are that you own some of Richy Pitch’s albums and EPs. The London based dj/producer, who has been a regular on the UK scene since the mid 90s and who dropped classics like the Live at Home EP, moved to Accra (Ghana) in 2007. In the following two years he landed some dj gigs and recorded an entire album, ‘Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch’, in collaboration with some of Ghana’s best contemporary artists. Africanhiphop.com connected with Richy to find out more about the man & his music in ten questions.
Pics from the Park
The second edition of Africanhiphop.com’s open-air festival that went down on the last saturday of July in Amsterdam featured some of the most remarkable new names on the scene including NYC’s Blitz the Ambassador who represents Ghana and the multinational super crew of Congo Groove (Fredy Massamba, Lexxus Legal and Pitcho), a couple of artists from the Netherlands and a surprise stage appearance. Check out the visuals…
A new video by Blitz the Ambassador: Something to Believe
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…
Doin’ it in the Park with Congo Groove and Blitz
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.
Soul Nana ft. Brother J & Kobi Onyame – We Go Go
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,…
Black Star Line: close to my roots
In the past few years as the hip hop movement in many African countries grew big enough for the world to notice, there has been one question that popped up every once in a while. ‘Do you think an African hip hop artist could make it big in the USA’?
Congo Groove
We have known Pitcho, Fredy Massamba and Lexxus Legal for a while now. Living in different parts of the world, the three are now teaming up on the occasion of the 50th anniversary…
