Tag: Sudanese Rapper
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BAS
By: Jude Kouassi Abbas Hamad more commonly known as Bas, is a Sudanese rapper that is based in Queens, New York. He was born of Sudanese parents in Paris, France. When he was 8 his family moved to New York City. He raps as a part of J. Coles hip hop group Dreamville. He began
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Abbas Hamad Better known by his stage name “Bas”
Abbas Hamad (born the 27th of May, 1987), better known by his stage name Bas, is a Sudanese artist from Queens, New York. With a diplomat father, Bas traveled around a lot as a kid getting an international experience of music and culture. Bas is signed by J. Cole’s Dreamville Records and Interscope Records. His
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Flippter Takes a Bullet for Democracy in His New Video “Hatred”
Flippter, AKA Loay Karim, embodies the spirit of the Sudanese Revolution in his latest music video, “Hatred”. Released on Feb. 16, the video has received over 67,000 views and 400 comments in just ten days. The aforementioned revolution refers to a series of protests that have swept across Sudan since the mid-December against the corrupt
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Sudanese Rapper Uses Code to Assert His Swag. No, Not Computers!
Popular Sudanese rapper, roTation, attempts to make Sudan slang cool in his latest single, “Randaka”. “Randaka” is a Sudanese word that refers to a brand of slang that involves flipping the letters of a word to only be understood by certain people. Similar to pig-Latin, it is the scrambling of words to create verbal code.