Author: KHARI DAVIS
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Afro trap
Trap music was established in the early 2000s in Atlanta. The vision for trap music at the time was to be a platform for young people who were living in the city’s streets to express their struggles and come up. While simultaneously flexing about women, cars and jewelry. T.I. coined the term “trap music” when
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Blitz the ambassador’s Pan Africanist language in “Hello Africa”
The song, “Hello Africa” by Blitz The Ambassador is a song that has Pan Africanism all throughout it. Blitz the Ambassador shouts out almost every country. He uses positive words and phrases about all African countries. Blitz the ambassador had something positive to say about all the countries. For example he said “Ghana jolof Nigeria jolof
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Skepta: London raised with Nigerian roots
Skepta is a Nigerian rapper born in London. Although he built his fan base by london followers, Skepta hasn’t lost his roots to Nigeria. Even more important he embraces his African roots and boasts his country to the rest of the of the world. For instance, this song was shot on the beautiful a coast
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Think outside the box
There wasn’t a video for this song. I attached a soundcloud link below. Khari Davis Mahmoud Osman, “El Safeer” was inspired by the Egypt underground scene in 2015. After getting a taste of what Egypt Hip -Hop has to offer he chose to go about Egyptian Hip hop in a conscious way. He appreciated how
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Egypt: Marwan Moussa’s cutting edge sound
The artist I’m choosing to highlight from Egypt is Marwan Moussa. Marwan Moussa is a rapper and producer. He can make a beat for him to write to and then mix the songs by himself. This makes Moussa a triple threat. Moussa grew up in Cairo but now resides in LA where he makes his