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Mex Cortez’s Monsoon Winds
Monsoon Winds, the debut album of Mex Cortez, will easily become heavy rotated through your playlists, as it has in mine! To begin, a monsoon is defined as seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation, with winds moving from colder climates to warmer ones. Cortez calls his album, Monsoon Winds, as a symbol to represent him finding
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In Hip Hop Time: Music, Memory, and Social Change in Urban Senegal
Appert, Catherine M. (2018). In Hip Hop Time: Music, Memory, and Social Change in Urban Senegal. Oxford University Press. Book Summary Though Hip Hop has its up’s and downs in the Africa diaspora world, Africans in the continent use Hip Hop to talk about real world issues in their country. According to Appert, Senegalese rappers use
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eLDee from Nigeria
According to Osunde (2012), Lanre Daliri, AKA eLDee was born on May 23, 1977 in Northern Nigeria. eLDee is an accomplished student in the field of architecture at the University of Lagos. On top of creating music with socially conscious messages, in 1988 he went on to found his own record label, which has released
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“Ghetto Slogan” by mUnetsi
mUnetsi is an artist from Zimbabwe who uses slang. His song “Ghetto Slogan” is very interesting because it is supposed to show the everyday life of people in the ghetto. In reality it does not show much in terms of images throughout the song but the lyrics clearly depict what can happen to a person
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Short biography of Tumi (Tumi & the Volume)
Boitumelo Molekane, which is also known as Tumi, is a South African rapper and poet. Molekane was born in exile in Tanzania in 1981, and returned to Soweto, South Africa in 1992. He is also formerly known as MC Fat boy and is the lead vocalist of Tumi and the Volume (Molokane, B). He has