Tag: Police Brutality
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Final Project: Mixtape
Social and Political issues/change For my mixtape, the following themes were selected: Social and Political change. Social and political issues continue to plague many parts of the world where corruption, police brutality, poverty, and unemployment plague many people. While this is a universal issue, the focus of this mixtape will be African rappers and the
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Nasty C
Nasty C also known as, Nsikayesizwe David Junior Ngcobo, is a popular South African rapper, songwriter, and producer. He was born on February 11, 1997 (25 years old) in Diepkloof. Unfortunately when he was 11 months old, his mother passed away in a fatal car crash which resulted in him moving to Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal to
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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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Asipheli Moya, a resilient zimbabwe
The song “Asipheli Moya” by ASAPH, featuring Msiz’kay won the Zim Hip Hop Awards 2020 award for best Best Collaboration. The chorus of this song translates to: “We fall and we rise,We never give up,We want success,We never give upWe’ve been in and we’ve been out,We’ never give up,you name it we tried it,We’ll do
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“NO PEACE” – VECTOR THA VIPER’S CALL FOR JUSTICE IN NIGERIA
Vector Tha Viper is a Nigerian rapper born and raised in Lagos. I describe Vector’s artistry as well-crafted. He pays close attention to the detail in his storytelling while making political statements in his rhymes. None of his music videos are the same- each of them portrays a different message representing his culture and artistry.
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Ben Sharpa-Hegemony
Ben Sharpa was a prominent South African rapper who was active in the mid-2000s. He was originally born in Soweto in 1977 during the apartheid in South Africa. His family escaped suppressive apartheid regime by moving to Illinois, Chicago, but they moved back to South Africa in 1993 when the apartheid ended with the first