Category: LIberia
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The Accountability Lab’s Voice2Rep: Creating Opportunity for Liberian Artists
Since 2015, The Accountability Lab has created Voice2Rep, or Voice to Represent (and formally Rap2Rep) to bring together the Liberian musical community for good. It started as a small group focused on empowering Liberian young people through a popular genre called Hip-co. Hip-co is an expressly political genre, which grew…
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Revoluxon Rocky: More Than a Name
Revoluxon Rocky is a Liberian rapper who primarily makes TrapCo music, a genre that is considered a subset of HipCo and seems to have been coined by fellow Liberian artist Bucky Raw. The style of music came about with the joining of trap and HipCo styles of rapping. Trap is…
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Scientific- “2020 Touch Down”
Samuel Sonnyboy Tubman, better known as his stage name Scientific, is a Ghanaian based, Liberian rapper and songwriter. Scientific was born in Bong County, Liberia but grew up in a refugee camp in Ghana due to the first and second civil wars in his home country. The rapper started his…
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Welcome Back Soul Fresh
The Liberian hip hop/hipco duo Soul Fresh first started back in 2006. Since then, the group consisting of JB and Shining Man has seen a lot of success. The duo received worldwide attention for their 2014 hit “Ebola is real” and has even been recognized at award shows. With the…
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Owezzy–Up and coming
Owezzy, an American based Liberian artist, real name Omar Bility, was born February 23rd, 2002, making him a young and up and coming rapper. Owezzy started recording his music professionally in 2019, after being discovered, because he was the junior brother of Lyee. He is currently signed to Bilikon Entertainment. …
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Skylett White Brings Liberia to the East Coast
Hailing from the West African country of Liberia, hard hitting MC Skylett White utilizes a unique spin on her native tongue while sharing diasporic inspirations, namely from Black America. In her music video ‘Literaly Music’ (2018), White raps a significant portion of her bars completely in Liberian Kreyol, the creole…
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MC Caro Demands Liberia’s Missing Money
One of Liberia’s hardest hitting MCs speaks on the aftermath of one of the largest financial scandals the relatively young country has ever seen. In her first ever music video, containing B-roll footage of a neglected and dilapidated Monrovia, the nation’s capital, MC Caro delivers Kreyol bars demanding the government…
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Bucky Raw Impresses in First Listen
Hip Hop across the Atlantic may be much younger and uniform, but the bonds that tie black cultures together across the pond begin to show in this Liberian song. BuckyRaw raps in what seems to be Liberian creole through most of the song, with the video displaying dancing club-goers enjoying…
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Recent video showcases 8 female Liberian emcees
A video posted in January, titled “The Female Cypher,” features eight female Liberian emcees, each rapping a verse. Queen V, Cookie, Lady Skeet, Pillz, J Flow, Da Vero, Faith Vonic, and Pretty Zee are the emcees included. The video was released in January, but this is fairly recent as far…
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Lady Skeet : Liberia’s Best Female Rap Artist?
Having been involved with the choir since the age of three, Lady Skeet found a passion in music at a very young age. By the age of 10 she began writing and making music as well as writing movie scripts. Growing up a tomboy, Lady Skeet looked up to American…