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Hip Hop in Malawi Real Elements Crew featuring Q (Malawian producer studying in UK) and Marvel. They are working to get their country's hiphop talent out, and with a producer sharpening his skills like that we can only trust that it's a matter of time before the local scene will come up like it did in neighbouring countries like Tanzania. Check out their website where you can listen to a track by the group. Criminal A A rapper who got more airplay back in 96 with a track called "I Get Busy". He was based in Blantyre. Snipa/Sniza & Marvel One of the first successful rappers in Malawi was South African based "Taps" Bandawe in the early nineties. Attending the same school was a guy called Snipa who is now staying in Denmark. He formed a crew with Marvel, a fellow Malawian staying in London. They promised to send more updates soon since their invasion of the airwaves will take place some time in the near future. Otherwise, Malawian rap has been really underground - no major tape releases, no bog concerts etc. Hopefully all that will change this year. Check out SNIPER's lyrics: VISION As the seeds leave my testes they bleed tears, for fear of entering this world so severe. Sometimes my mind is unclear ,thoughts disappear, I ask myself why am i here? Then I recall a speech about a land of promise, if there's any hope I've got to search and find it, But my only tools are a mic and a name list. It still certifies me more dangerous than meningitis for all the goverments,because they're first on my list. They make me mad pissed,because they choose silence, yet it was one of their agents that caused the visions disappearance. I stay patient,put in more work than trying to follow all ten commandments, As i follow tips heard on streets and pavements. The track is still hot.I stick to road like blacktop, My eyes are blood shot,from lack of sleep and searching non-stop. Listen to hip-hop,maybe an em.cee before me has hit the jackpot,but most are crackpots, they love money and gunshots. so I stop. Listen to Marley's one drop.Yo,what the bloodclot, Snipa keep rolling like a Dunlop. The struggle may be lost,but at any cost, I'm forced to find it's resting place and make it resurect, Because it's time to make the devil pay his rent. The evil that men do is trying to stop my mission. Keep my mind clear ,look past prostitution, drug addiction,temptation,muggings in train stations, destruction.Rape.Racism.Manipulation, weapons distribution,illegal detention, jealousy,and evasion. It's all too much to mention, but through the confusion,I maintain my vision and keep pushin',gotta keep searching