Category: Tanzania
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HHAP Ep. 86: Hip Hop Events, Updates, News, & the Burna Boy/Khaligraph Jones Conversations
Events discussed in episode: August – December 2023 | Culture Curators: Hip Hop 50 | National Museum of Accra (Ghana) September 28 & 29, 2023 – Archiving Hip Hop: 50 years in the making – Milton Keynes, UK / online May 16-19, 2024 | European Hip Hop Studies Conference | Cork, Ireland In the article…
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Is Hip Hop a Weapon?!
George Kyomushula | August 11th, 2023 | Arusha Poetry Club Arumeru | Arusha – Tanzania Hiphop is a music genre made by Black folks. Culturally and artistically, it can be a weapon or shield which can cause mass destruction or healing to the community once used wisely. Unfortunately, hiphop has been used negatively to ‘PIMP…
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We The Big 3, Check The Spreadsheet
Now that African music like Afrobeats and Bongo Flava are becoming increasingly popular worldwide, more people are interested in different genres and artists across the continent. But in a male-dominated industry, there is the question: where are all of the female rap artists who are changing the game? Well in Tanzania, three artists made sure…
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Mama Samia by Frida Amani
Frida Amani is a Tanzanian rapper and hip-hop artist who was born in Dar, Es Salaam. Frida Amani began her music career in 2010 and has since released several singles and collaborated with other artists in Tanzania and beyond. Her music often addresses social and political issues, including women’s rights, gender equality, and corruption. Frida…
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Rais wa Kitaa
Nay wa Mitego speaks out against a poor government, high prices, and censorship in Rap single, “Rais wa Kitaa”. Background of Artist Emmanuel Elibarick, widely known as ‘Nay Wa Mitego’ is a Tanzanian Hip-Hop / Rap artist. He is known for intertwining hip hop and social activism within his music. The artist has over 10,000…
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Tanzania All Stars Pay Tribute to Magufuli
Lala Salama Magufuli pays a touching tribute to Former President John Magufuli after his sudden passing. Magufuli’s Death Shocks The Nation Tanzania’s fifth president, John Magufuli, passed away on March 17, 2021. Magufuli served his first term from 2015 to 2020. He was then reelected in 2020 and soon passed away in 2021, in the…
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Rosa Ree – We Was Kings
When it comes to Tanzanian rap, Rosa Ree will always be famous. She is one of the only female Tanzanian hip-hop artists to reach mainstream lanes, and her music is always powerful and dynamic. Last spring, she released the single Blue Print, a song that speaks on the horrific transatlantic slave trade, and how as…
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Frida Amani — I Feel Like Mama Samia
Frida Amani, or Queen Fifi, is a Tanzanian hip-hop artist based in Dar es Salaam, who is shaking up Tanzania with her impactful lyrics and putting her own sound on Bongo rap. Bonga flava “started as a Tanzanian take on American hip-hop and R&B…artists began to draw from traditional Tanzanian musical styles (like dansi and…
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Mix it Up: “Women Empowerment & Hustle Culture”
Men and women play a noteworthy part in the generation of lyricism and visual substance within the dynamic of Hip Hop. Due to this, sexuality plays a major portion in making the roles of males and females inside the hip-hop industry. Men within the commercial hip hop industry have however to halt this social issue,…
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The Sounds of Tanzania
-A brief article about the many sounds that are produced in Hip Hop. Hip Hop isn’t just a genre of music, it’s a genre that has its own style, culture, code, and language that sets it apart from all other genres. Through the use of Swahili slang & AAVE, drumming, storytelling, and rhyming, along with…