Category: Angola
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Pongo: The Gem We Didn’t Know We Needed
Pongo is a female rapper who was born in Luanda, Angola and lives in Lisbon, Portugal. She struggled to gain respect as an artist in Lisbon. She had her first breakthrough moment when she was 15 and then didn’t return to music until years later. She is sure to represent both Angola and the diaspora…
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fico como ft. liriany – Elisabeth Ventura
It is known that becoming a successful female MC on the continent of Africa is extremely hard. On a continent that has patriarchy and toxic masculinity ingrained into its very blueprint (as a result of colonialism), entering the industry as a female MC can be extremely intimidating. “The commercial success of female hip-hop musicians like…
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Atras do Prejuizo – mck ft. Beto de Almeida
MCK, the well-known Angolan rapper, has been in the rap and hip hop scene for a few decades now. He is always known for creating songs that deal with real issues affecting his African brothers and sisters. He is most known for his musical protest against Angola’s former President Eduardo dos Santos on the grounds…
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Remember to stay “Humlidadi”
For this blog post, I will be discussing Apollo G’s Humildadi. Humildadi features 3 other upcoming hip-hop artists; (Ze Bula, Ferry, and D Raw Na Mike). Apollo G mainly raps the chorus in Cape Verdean Portuguese, but the other 3 artists rap mainly rap in Portuguese. For the majority of the music video, Apollo G…
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NGA x MadKutz – BDAY ft. vaniny alves
BDAY is a song that is extremely popular in Angola right now. It currently sits at Number 3 on Angola’s Hip Hop & Rap Charts. The song uses elements from classic US hip hop, such as 808 patterns in the song’s music production, leaning towards a song influenced more by US hip hop rather than…
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Hip-Hop and Human Rights in Africa
Hip-Hop and Human Rights in Africa By Msia Kibona Clark February 2019 | Georgetown Journal of International Affairs “The presence of social commentary on human rights in music is not new, it is not unique to Africa, and it is not limited to hip hop. Musicians have often engaged in social commentary around human rights, which has…
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Ikonoklasta: Music Review
Ikonoklasta is a Angolan/ Portuguese rapper who gained fame through political activism in his home of Angola. His music is littered with questions in regard to his country’s government, and continuously denouncing it. As a result when I came across a piece of his work in which he delivered criticism to a non-politically affiliated party…
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Ikonoklasta: Biography
Ikonoklasta, whose real name is Luaty Beirao, is an Angolan/Portuguese rapper. He rose to fame through underground hip hop movements, but gained much more traction after he chose to speak up against the more than 30-year-old dictatorship in Angola which fell at the hands of Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, and demanding the immediate overthrow of…
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Short Bio of MCK
Short bio of Angolan rapper MCK I really enjoyed listening to the artist MCK. MCK expresses how he feels about where he comes from. In the article MCK: Lyrics of Resistance, Fernando Mitjans really demonstrates his input about MCK, he states “Born in Catambor, one of Luanda’s poorest areas, socially conscious rapper MCK has come…