Tag: liberian
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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 from the impoverished communities ofRead…
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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 a subgenre of Hip HopRead…