Tag: female artist
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A Symbol of Queer Peace in Zimbabwe
The song Peace by Zimbabwean artist Hanna critiques the repetitive lack of originality that is current mainstream hip-hop. The second verse of her song raps that she doesn’t “play games,” “play dumb,” “fake rap,” or “fake cum.” Considering the fact that Hanna is a lesbian artist, I took this as a slight towards straight women
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Angell Mutoni
Angell Mutoni is a Rwandan female rapper/MC who has always been passionate for music. Born to an artistic family she began pursuing spoken word pieces and poetry at an early age. In 2011 she signed to a company and released her first song. Since then she’s continued to grow and release multiple EPs with inspiration
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Fena Gitu – Power (P. Power) ft. Maandy & Vallerie Muthoni
Braggadocio is a huge part of hip hop. Credibility, authenticity, and respect, are factors crucial for you to be taken seriously as a rapper and sustain a long-term career. Due to hip hop being male-dominated, credibility is an especially important factor for women rappers. One good way of both proving that women belong in hip
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Wake up justice
Up and coming Ugandan rapper Rachael M speaks to equity and equality for young girls within Uganda. Rachael is a dancehall and reggae artist originally from Kampala, Uganda. She used house plates and pans as a small time rap career and has just grown since. She has skillfully created a beautiful song about Uganda and
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J Flow Repping Women in the Lib
Josephine A. Wisseh, more popularly known as J Flow, is a Liberian hip hop and hipco artist. She first got her start dancing on the street before realizing her talent for music. From there she joined her church choir until finally becoming an artist in an all-girls musical group called Black Angels. Unfortunately, the group
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“Identify Yourself” – Stella Mwagni Speaks to Awareness for Social Change
The final two lines of this rap capture the essence of her message to the audience: be aware so that we may unite and make a difference. Stella Mwangi, a Kenyan rapper now living in Norway includes a theme of social change and awareness in her uplifting song “Identify Yourself”. The music urges the audience
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Slap Dee Pays Homage To Zambia in “Mother Tongue”
Zambian hip-hop artist Slap Dee’s newest album “Mother Tongue” celebrates women, love, Zambian culture and Zambian languages. It was released in 2020. Slap Dee glorifies Africa in the song “mother tongue” featuring Daev. He raps, “I rise in an African song/sleeping in an African moon.” These lyrics insinuate the African ‘song’ and ‘moon’ are remarkable.
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GodFather of ugandan hip hop
Daniel Kigozi Jr, the artist better known as Navio is widely regarded as one of the most prolific East-African Artists of all time. He is also considered one of the Godfathers of Ugandan Hip Hop. His talent has transcended genres, paving the way of hip hop in Uganda. Navio has spent over ten years in
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Nasty C & T.I. – They Don’t
Instagram & Twitter: @nasty_csa Nasty C, whose full name is Nsikayesizwe David Junior Ngcobo, is a South African hip-hop artist. He released a song in June 2020 titled “They Don’t” with the collaboration of another known South African hip hop artist named T.I. In the official video of “They Don’t” the viewer is presented with
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Oumou Sangere: Heart and Soul of Mali
African music, often placed into specific categories like, Afro beats, Afro jazz, etc, has mergedits presence into the everyday lifestyle of the average music listener. Mali specifically plays ahuge role in the music that is produced within Africa and, more than ever, artists deriving fromMali have been making their mark within the African music industry.