Tag: MHD

• Afro trap

  Trap music was established in the early 2000s in Atlanta. The vision for trap music at the time was to be a platform for young people who were living in the city’s streets to express their struggles and come up. While simultaneously flexing about women, cars and jewelry.  T.I. coined the term “trap music” when

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  KHARI DAVIS

  April 22, 2020

  Album Review, Culture, Mixtape, South Africa, Student Projects, Swahili, Trap Music

  African Trap Movement, emtee, MHD, Nasty C, Saudi, Trap Music

• Diaspora Rappers

  

  Diaspora based artists like K’Naan, Blitz the Ambassador, M3nsa, Wale, and French Montana, and Tabi Bonney have been covered heavily in this blog. There are several other first and second generation African MCs around the world who have not been covered as much in this blog. As students in the Hip Hop and Social Change

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  Msia Kibona Clark

  March 24, 2018

  Africa, Australia, canada, Diaspora Emcees, England/UK, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, LIberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Student Projects, Uganda, United States, Women MCs

  Amine, Flohio, Gabriel Teodros, Kojey Radical, Kween G, Little Simz, MHD, Novelist, Reggie Snow, Rich Garvey, Say’hu, Shad, Skepta, Sway

• MHD en sa Patrie

  

  Mohammed Sylla (MHD) performed in front of thousands of Senegalese in Dakar in December 2017. This concert, staged in front of the 49-meter-tall African Renaissance Monument,  united the international phenomenon MHD with domestically-popular Senegalese hip-hop artists in an evening ripe with music, dance, and humor. 

  sandersca

  February 7, 2018

  Culture, Diaspora Emcees, Guinea, Hip Hop Related Events, Senegal, Student Projects, Trap Music

  Africa, African, African Artists, African Hip Hop, Aya Nakamura, Canabasse, dakar, democracy in dakar, french, Linguistics, MHD, Music, Omzo Dollar, senegal, Senegalese Hip Hop