Are you still sleeping on azonto? Still sleeping on pidgin rap? Isn’t it time for a WAKE UP CALL?!?! Peep the feedback:
Mosca (BBC 1): EL’s album is sick! Mame Wossop, Kaalu and Obuu Mo are all strong contenders for a favorite here… Lifesaver will get a few spins too…
Young Lion (BBC 1 xtra): Yo E.L is MULTI TALENTED!! Neva realized how SICK he is!!!!! He’s one of the most versatile I heard!
Ace & Vis (BBC 1 xtra): I will definitely be spinning these.
Let’s stop here: the point is… what exactly are you waiting for to listen?!?! Buy?!?! Play it, spin it, share it, shake your bobaraba and lose weight to it!!!
Much anticipated!!! Finally available online, 4X4‘s latest and greatest! Featuring 3 of the biggest hits of 2011: the title song Waist & Power, Yesi Yesii and more recently Womanizer. The album displays each member’s specific style: Captain Planet raps in four afferent Ghanaian languages, CoDed adds his ragga/dancehall flavor, and Fresh Prince sings his R&B hooks. Powered by beats by Ghana’s finest engineers, in particular Appietus on the 3 hits mentioned above, the album also features production by Kaywa, JQ, BBryte and Playboi.
Hey African music fans! My name is Catherine Barnes, and I'll be contributing a series of articles to this blog on Angolan semba and Brazilian samba. I'm a percussionist and armchair ethnomusicologist fascinated by all rhythms African and of the African diaspora. I...
I love the name of this tape! To all of you who know what it’s like to stare at a dry faucet and spin the tap pointlessly, here is some extra fluid pidgin rap to permeate your day – and contrary to the water company, dis one here b free! Pieced together by Ecxtreme the Lyrical Wanzam, a familiar voice in Ghana’s pidgin rap circles, hailing from Tamale via the Ghetto Reps crew. Wanzam literally means castrator, so MCs, you have been warned. As has been the case with more than one dope mixtape lately, the beats on Afropolytank are by none other than Klu Monsta. I discovered this project through Selorm Jay of Fullish Art, who’s name you will surely see popping up in these pages soon, as he is helping us on a few video projects. And last but not least, final touches on this mixtape were put in by a certain Wanlov the Kubolor…
Ecxtreme is fresh out of university as of… tomorrow. So from here on out you can expect further avalanches of beats and rhymes from this talented cat, we will do everything in our power to make it happen!
Double back at it, nice little video courtesy of our man King Luu! This song, as well as a handful of others, will soon be released riiiiight here. Don’t go anywhere.
DJ Juls is back on the mixtape tip (don’t sleep on the Burst of the FOKN Bois), this time focusing on M.anifest, one of our favorite Ghanaian rappers. Check out the video interview we did together for This Is Africa.
Tracklist:
1. M.anifest-More Vim
2. A.R.M- Medicine Man
3. M.anifest-Sankofa
4. M.anifest-How I Used to Be
5. M.anifest-Motherland
6. M.anifest-My Lady Oh
7. M.anifest-Babylon Breakdown
8. M.anifest-Golly Gosh
9. M.anifest-Coming to America
10. M.anifest-Blues
11. M.anifest-She Lives
12. M.anifest, Kwabena Jones and Wanlov-Life Dey Jom
13. M.anifest-Suffer (Original)
14. M.anifest-Suffer (DJ Juls Remix)
15. M.anifest-Suffer (M3nsa Remix)
16. Rocket Juice and the Moon ft M.anifest and M3nsa-Chop Up
17. M.anifest ft Wanlov-Gentleman
18. M.anifest-Sunsum Praye
19. A.R.M.-Slow Your Roll
20. M.anifest-Love Thang
