Author: j3ssyj3ss
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Ben Sharpa
Ben Sharpa was born in 1979 in the slum of Soweto, South Africa. From young childhood Ben Sharpa experienced the brutal reality of the Apartheid regime as well as the struggle against it. As a child his father moved the family to live in Chicago, Illinois where he grow up…
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Driemanskap
Driemanskap is a hip hop group from South Africa, consisting of El Nino, Ma-B, Redondo, and Dla. They are represented on Pioneer Unit record label based out of Cape Town. This hip hop group like many other South African artists believe that hip hop is about bring attention to important…
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Lotfi Double Kanon
Lotfi Double Kanon is an Algerian rapper who was born in Annaba in 1974. He has been labeled a “rebel” by Algerian authorities for his music being to “expressive”. His first album was Kamikaze released back in 1997 and he now has six albums out. He has a huge youth…
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North Africa’s Hip Hop Protest Music
This is an article from OntheMedia.org with an interview between the hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield and Abdulla Darrat who is one the founders of the website Khalas which is run by exiled Libyans. The Khalas team was surprised to find that one of the most common mediums people…
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2face Idibia
This is an article from NigerianEntertainment.com in which they interview rapper and hip hop artist 2face Idibia, who was born Innocent Ujah Idibia in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. 2face states that he chose the rap name 2face, because the person people see on the outside and the person he is…
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Reviewing “Reggiestration” Album
This is an article from GhanaMusic.com that talks about the album “Reggiestration” from the African hip hop artist Reggie Rockstone. Rockstone was born in Ghana but spent his early childhood in the United States. He returned to Ghana in the 1990’s and has been continuously living there developing the…
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Nneka
Nneka Egbuna was born in Warri, Oil City in the country of Nigeria, Africa where she lived for nineteen years, absorbing the sounds and music of her country. She then moved to Germany to pursue an education and a degree in anthropology from the University of Hamburg. Her musical style…
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Hip Hop: who represents South Africa
Hip Hop artists in Africa are faced with a common problem among most musicians in the world, how to reach as wide an audience as possible. For most the answer has seemed to be the internet, but the internet is not as useful for this problem in South Africa because…
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Language, Ideologies, Choices, and Practices in Eastern African Hip Hop
This is an essay written by, Alex Perullo and John Fenn which can be found in the book Global Pop, Local Language by, Harris M. Berger and Michael Thomas Carroll. Since Hip Hop’s emergence in North America during the 1970’s and 1980’s, Hip Hop has become a global way for the…