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Over the past few years, some international rappers have died due to drug overdose, rappers like Mac Miller who died at 26, Juice Wrld who recently died at 21,just to mention a few. The Hip Hop industry in America has a bad image of rappers selling drugs, using drugs and misusing drugs at the same…
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The Annual Hip Hop Summit, this year 2019 will feature American hip hop and soul artist Dynasty who has worked with Talib Kweli and DJ Premier and others. Shiro-One, a Japanese graffiti artist with 21 years experience. A line up of most of Uganda’s Hip Hop Pioneer, Artists and Fans. The event is the longest…
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Without making long introductions, let’s dive into the reasons you should be listening to UG Hip Hop. 1.Hip hop is beyond music but a lifestyle. If you have at all engaged yourself into effective communication, you will realise that it’s a mouth to mouth talk involving the speaking party and the listener, in most cases…
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Following the hip hop music culture, one would ask himself if hip hop is dead or still trending! I will analyse this in two ways, basically looking onto the Ugandan artists that embrace both hip hop and lugaflow! We have had rappers like Navio ,Enigma ,Babaluku, The Atlas ,BigTril and Recho Rey! The characters highlighted above do the so called urban hiphop mainly…
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At the genesis of Hip hop, the worldwide appeal wasn’t foreseeable, but now, almost 50 years later; it’s impossible to imagine a planet without hip hop and rap music. On the Ugandan scene, hip hop has been described as a “wanna be” genre, with radio and television presenters not [most of the time] playing hip…
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We are called to intervene in situations that our very own people are going through a hard time, depressive times, suicidal tendencies and the like; through music, film and physical reach out. Fenrico, Bayichi Mapengo and Neliah as artists have taken up this role to make our socities better with “Tomenyeka”
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It is always frustrating for music enthusiasts and lovers to know there is a project out there and yet they cannot access it. More like, you know you can dance but for you to take part in a certain competition you need to have bought certain dancing shoes, but you still don’t know how to…
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APass is a clever dude and he always has something witty up his sleeve. Even before he dropped the name Killer, he had it in his rhymes. Many of his fans after the song “I’m Loving” might not know that the man used to flip bars see “APass Killer”. He rapped his brains out. He…
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Last evening we released a list of 2019’s Ciphers, and I realised we missed out the newly released “Trip Cypher 3”. It is the third installment from Trip Music and geared by Trip Smith himself. It is already added. Of this morning, I woke up thinking about the fire that was between 2015 – 2017,…
