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Podcast: Shining the light on African Female MC’s
Partner: Devyn Bakewell Purpose: The purpose of this podcast is to discuss the importance that women have played within the Hip Hop community in Africa. While men have dominated this industry since it’s uprising, women have played a more influential role solemnly because of the way African women, or even black women, have been negatively
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Olamide “The Olympian of Nigeria rap”
Olamide is a well known hip hop rap artist in Nigeria. He is referred to as Badoo, his real name is Olamide Adedeji. He is 28 born on March 15th 1989. His indigenous language is Yoruba, which he writes not all, but majority of his raps in. In 2000, he decided to pursue a career
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“Taffy” 18 year old female rapper!
Farah Maged aka Taffy is an 18-year-old Egyptian rapper on a self determined path to alter the rap game in the Egyptian world, and become the next version of her idol and icon Nicki Minaj. Taffy is the daughter of Maged Sorour, he was the most renowned qanun player in the Middle East.Taffy has taken
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First Female Rapper In Egypt
Mayam Mahmoud Mahmoud first began rapping at the age of 10, after her mother had introduced her to poetry. Her family was uncertain whether rapping was suitable for Mahmoud as she was a female, and the rap industry was dominated by males. Her family seen how passionate she was about rapping so they started to
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How he became “F Killa”
5 Underrated Egyptian Rappers Who Deserve More Recognition Al Moukatel known as Flow Killa/F Killa grew up in the streets of Shoubra, Egypt. His first debut was in 2006, he set up his first band, Egyskillz, with Mak-D, and released six tracks which they performed on the stage for the first time at MC.Amin’s