Tag: Tabi Bonney
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Summer Years
The most recent album of Tabi Bonney’s is The Summer Years. This album, along with the previous album Fresh, was carefully structured and proved to be a better work than those past. With the help of Ski Beats linked together by the former Rockafella CEO Dame Dash, The Summer Years cultivated into an unforgettable album.
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Biography of Tabi Bonney
The year is 1970 and Itadi Bonney was the most influential and most celebrated musicians in Togo. Heavily influenced in politics, he wrote a song by the name of Mayi Africa that criticized the president Gnassingbe Eyadema and his deadly tactics to in force democracy in his home country. Receiving multitudes of governmental backlash from
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Tabi Bonney Biography: Washington Post “Tabi Bonney’s hip-hop stems from his Father’s Musical Influence
Tabi was born in Togo in 1977, his father was a musician who was one of the most celebrated musician in his country. His father played guitar and an Afro-funk singing style that was combined with the sparkle of soulous, highlife, and a little bit of reggae. His father met his mother after a gig
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Tabi Bonney Bio
Tabi Bonney Biography Tabiabue Bonney (Tabi’s birthname)was born in 1977 in West Africa, in Lome, Togo. For the first 13 years of his life he traveled back and forth from Togo and Washington, D.C., where his mother is from. Tabi’s father was a popular music artist in Togo, who was exiled from Togo when Tabi
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Tabi Bonney Album Review – “The Summer Years”
This album is very diverse in its cuts, mostly due to the various other artists Tabi has collaborated with. There is nothing that I heard that relates to immigration. In my opinion immigration may not be central to his lyrics because he attended High School in Washington D.C., and does not necessarily connect strongly with
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Dope!
In his sophomore album “Dope” Tabi Bonney comes a bit harder in terms of the production quality, and in some cases his lyrics. Listening to this album I definitely hear more maturity, more mention of Africa and his home town Lome, Togo, and of course, the same amount of party songs about girls, weed and
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Tabi Bonney Album Review: The Summer Years
Yes Tabi Bonney does use a language other than English, but it was only one word of French. In his songs “Feeling” and “Big Dreams” he says “au revoir.” Tabu didn’t say anything about his own immigration experiences in this album. Tabi didn’t say much about African immigration either. He did’t represent his country or Africa.
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Tabi Album Review – “Fresh” (2010)
The audience for this album seems to be mostly for the dance clubbers; although, as is the case with other Bonney albums there is such a variety it is difficult to put it in one category. Even though Bonney does not mention immigration, the song, “Go Away” could be referring to getting out of Africa;
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Album Review: “Dope”
Tabi Bonney’s album, “Dope” (2009) is meant for a different audience than his first album. I think this one was to an audience of fans of popular African American rappers, who are interested in knowing what Tabi is about. Immigration is not mentioned on this album, however he may be representing his country as a
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Tabi Bonney Album Review: Fresh
In Tabi’s album, he does use a language other than English but’s its only a little French. For example in his song “Yeah Go” he says “au revoir”, another example would be in his song “Sunlight” were in the beginning he says “como tale vu.” He didn’t talk much about his immigration experiences in this