Tag: liberianhiphop
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Dope KNife–Extra Dope
Born in 1984 in Liberia, Dope Knife, Kedrick Mack, was born to his Diplomat father and his Liberian mother. He spent his youth traveling, having left Liberia after the civil war broke out when he was a child. His mother’s extended family was less fortunate, and he had to see them be left behind in
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MC Caro: Still Killing the Game
There are many blog posts about MC Caro on this blog, and for a good reason. She has been and continues to be one of the best women MC’s Liberia has. She really is, as she calls herself, King Caro. This title is part of her brand and also a great example of braggadocio. In
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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 of
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Samuel Sonnyboy Tubman : Liberian Rapper “Scientific”
Scientific was born in Bong County, Liberia but he grew up in Ghana in a refugee camp due to the first and second civil wars happening in his hometown. Like your average school kid, the young rapper once aspired to be a doctor but it was not until high school that Scientific found passion and
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Liberia’s Lyrical Mastermind: Bucky Raw
The demoralizing transition from a beautiful country turned upside by civil conflict and government corruption, left their mark on the people of Liberia. During the war, cannibalism became the new norm, corpses became the new terra firma, and children were traumatically stripped of their innocence. The nation’s young ones were abducted, brainwashed and turned into