Category: Zambia
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Mixtape: The African Queens of Hip-Hop
Introduction Throughout the hip-hop industry women are constantly fighting to come up on top, no matter what country or continent they are on. With the patriarchal structure, it is usually difficult for women to make music the way they would prefer or most resembles who they are because they fear it will not be received
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Final Project Mixtape
Across the world, the hip-hop community is very male-dominated and now in the current years more female artists are breaking the barrier by becoming as successful as male rappers. Many African women rappers are coming into fame and are making music to empower women and make them feel more confident with themselves. Since the hip-hop
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Ubepelefye by Mampi ft Bobby East
Mirriam Mukape , also known as Mampi to the world, is a Zambian pop and R&B singer, actress Mirriam Mukape , also known as Mampi to the world, is a Zambian pop and R&B singer, actress and songwriter. She was born in Lusaka, Zambia on August 4, 1986 and soon to be one of the
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Bomb$hell Grenade
The Zambian artist I will be discussing in today’s entry is Bomb$hell Grenade. Her real name is Bwalya Sophie Chibesakunda and she was born on December 31, 1987. She is from Lusaka, Zambia. She also goes by just BombShell and is a rapper, singer, entrepreneur, and actress. Her uncles can be credited for introducing her
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John Chiti Ft Tommy Dee & Debbie – Corona Virus
Who is John Chiti? John Chiti is a famous R&B singer from Zambia who grew up in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province. John was born with albinism. When Mr.Chiti was growing up classmates taunted him, teachers beat him, and strangers spat on him for his inherited disorder. John usually sings about love and less of social and
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Denise Chaila
Zambia’s rapper, singer, and poet Denise Chaila is a 27-year-old woman who is Irish and Zambian from Chikankata, Zambia. At the age of three, she moved from Zambia to Ireland, and in a recent interview, she explained how it was difficult to grow up around people she could not relate to culturally or physically. Denise’s
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MACKY 2
Mulaza Kaira, known as Macky 2, was born on October 10, 1984 in Luanshya, Zambia. Macky is an award-winning Zambian musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is also known for his appearance in a reality tv-show called “Big Brother Africa” where he placed third. In the year of 2011, he started his musical career when
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Conversations with African Women Artists
This is a clip of a few of the conversations that we have had with African women MCs around the world. In addition to these interviews, the podcast has produced two mixtape episodes that feature new hip-hop releases from African women around the world. Conversations with artists revolve around many topics, including gender, sexuality, race,
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HHAP EP 71: Multiple Diaspora Cultural Experiences Influencing the Creativity of Sampa the Great
Born in Zambia, Sampa the Great lived in the United States, Australia, and Botswana. With multiple African and Diaspora experiences, her music and style are very Pan African. Her work is Pan African in a very organic way. It does not claim to be conscious or preach about Pan Africanism, it just is. Because of this, as a listener, there is joy in listening to music that speaks to our multicultural Black identities. In this interview, she talks about existing as a Black person in different cultural spaces and her interactions across the continent and in the Diaspora. Sampa the Great also talks about her experiences with racism and self-identification while studying in the US in the early 2010s, and later after she moved to Australia. She also talks about the differences between racism in the US and racism in Australia. She delves into the differences in the social unity of Black people in the US and in Australia, where in the US there is a division between Black immigrants and multi-generation-US-born Blacks and in Australia there is an understanding of the importance of Black unity in the face of living in societies that are held up by institutional racism. As an artist, Sampa the Great released her first mixtape in 2015 while living in Australia. Several singles, EPs, and mixtapes later, she released her debut solo album, The Return, in 2019. The album peaked at No. 12 on the Australian music charts. She went on to win Best Hip Hop Release at the 2019 and 2020 ARIA Music Awards, Australia’s top music award. In 2020, she also won the ARIA award for Best Female Artist and Best Independent Release. Sampa the Great has been very outspoken about racism in Australia through her music and performances. She has also been outspoken about the role of women in hip hop and the importance of representation as an African artist on an international stage. Sampa the Great in Instagram and Twitter as @Sampa_The_Great This episode is the last of the special series that we did in partnership with Words Beats & Life. The series was recorded and live-streamed with students in the Hip Hop in Africa class at Howard University and George Washington University.
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celebrate the female braggadocio
From the outsider’s gaze, hip hop is at times seen as monolithic and is trivialized by the outsider’s perspective – labelled as materialistic, unnecessary, and narcissistic. In their pursuit to underplay the complexity and nuance of the genre, as well as their convenient omission of the dedicated Eminem playlist in their music library, these strangers