Meet AWA, the Zimbabwean using hip-hop to improve human rights in her country
You've probably never heard of rapper AWA. She's touring the UK for the first time and says she wants her music to help people in her home country, Zimbabwe. "There is no-one in the hip-hop industry who's going to tell these stories like me. "People think that rapping...
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Zimbabwe’s Stunner shoots video with Kapital K and Jamaica’s Sir Ford
Jamaican dancehall artist Sir Ford and rapper Kapital K are in Harare, Zimbabwe to shoot videos with the country’s hip-hop artist Stunner. Both Sir Ford and Kapital K, who is Zimbabwean but based in South Africa, made an appearance at Stunner’s If I Die Tonight album...
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Cassper Nyovest: ‘I’m not trying to be the Kanye West of SA’
He was also criticised‚ including by musician Ntsiki Mazwai‚ for gushing over the American culture and saying he wanted to be an American. Ntsiki said that his comments left her ashamed to be called South African. Despite the social media storm his comments created‚...
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African Hip Hop On The Rise
Hip hop, which started as a music and a culture in New York in the 1970s was a product of inner city life and has historically been the voice of the Black inner city youth. But it has deep Jamaican and African roots, which can be seen in the rawness of its beats and...
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Meet AWA, the Zimbabwean using hip-hop to improve human rights in her country
You've probably never heard of rapper AWA. She's touring the UK for the first time and says she wants her music to help people in her home country, Zimbabwe. "There is no-one in the hip-hop industry who's going to tell these stories like me. "People think that rapping...
read more
Zimbabwe’s Stunner shoots video with Kapital K and Jamaica’s Sir Ford
Jamaican dancehall artist Sir Ford and rapper Kapital K are in Harare, Zimbabwe to shoot videos with the country’s hip-hop artist Stunner. Both Sir Ford and Kapital K, who is Zimbabwean but based in South Africa, made an appearance at Stunner’s If I Die Tonight album...
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Cassper Nyovest: ‘I’m not trying to be the Kanye West of SA’
He was also criticised‚ including by musician Ntsiki Mazwai‚ for gushing over the American culture and saying he wanted to be an American. Ntsiki said that his comments left her ashamed to be called South African. Despite the social media storm his comments created‚...
read more
African Hip Hop On The Rise
Hip hop, which started as a music and a culture in New York in the 1970s was a product of inner city life and has historically been the voice of the Black inner city youth. But it has deep Jamaican and African roots, which can be seen in the rawness of its beats and...
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Diddy Honors Biggie At BBMAs, Drops ‘Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
(AllHipHop News) May 21 would have been The Notorious B.I.G.’s 45th birthday. Unfortunately, the world lost the Hip Hop great back in 1997 but not before Biggie helped launch one of the most successful record labels in history. In celebration of B.I.G.’s legacy, Bad...
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Tupac biopic ‘All Eyez On Me’ gets release date
Demetrius Shipp Jr. stars as the rap icon in a film about his tragically short but incredibly influential life. The upcoming Tupac biopic All Eyez On Me will be released in the US on June 16, the late rapper’s birthday. The film, which stars Demetrius Shipp Jr. as...
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Harvard student submits a hip-hop album as his final dissertation
A senior student at Harvard will be graduating with an A- after submitting a hip-hop album as his dissertation. Twenty-year-old Obasi Shaw called the 10-track album Liminal Minds and says it combines "elements of Middle English poetry with issues of racial identity in...
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