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“General Ojiitah drops on Boxing Day” – Sliq Teq
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Sliq Teq is finally set to drop his second full length project this year: General Ojiitah. It will follow Trap House Memoirs which was released a while ago. Last evening in an exclusive listening session at Urban Aksent he revealed General Ojiitah will be released on Boxing Day. He also went further to leak…
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Jinja Bred EP: an Exotic yet still true to roots story of Play01 – (Review)
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Jinja Bred EP was released this year, October 4th at Machame. The listening party that was- with ups and lows but that is beside the point. The EP is (insert fire emoji) great and a humble journey with Play01. As regards the production, Play01 really took time on each track before he would guarantee…
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Big Sam, ‘Tutambula N’abitambula’ LP – (Review)
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Attention spans are greatly on the low – too much info and little knowledge out of it. Blogs, newspapers, radio, artists and everyone who has something to say is competing for attention or rather – an audience, a following, a tribe, a movement or even a wave. Big Sam Yiga’s Tutambula N’abitambula is a…
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Interview: AJO talks Nuba, Affinity for Literature, staying Woke and more
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AJO mid this year revealed he will be working on an album that purely discusses Africa an its reality: the future past and present. The first single Transcend has us describe it as a pan-African inspired track – last week he dropped his second single Nuba. I hit him up for a word or two and…
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Brian Wade finally releases ROOTS
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Brian Wade promised us album earlier this year. Before he could drop it gave us SYNESTHETIC – a mixtape to quench our thirst for a minute. Roots is finally here. The album was supposed to be released earlier but due to Brian’s decision to take more time into crafting and re-shape it and now…
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1Der Jr – Kampala EP: purpose, hope, polarity and more hope (review)
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Kampala EP opens up with a sample of a preacher telling of how one can find themselves and purpose in God and to be used by Him. The musical lines that open the EP by Andre are: Now let me tell you ‘bout my story/ I was lonely/ Oba father came calling me/ Me…
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3 African books that shape the second verse on AJO’s new single, ‘Nuba’
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Nuba is the second official single off African Reality, an album AJO is currently working on. It is a fully fledged African-Centric project which AJO is highly inspired working towards. According to him, the commentary he offers with the rhetorics he puts forward – we need to look at the future, past and present to…
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STRAP drops 4th Album ‘Young Elder’ – Stream
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Young Elder is STRAP’s fourth album that he has long been teasing through tweets and singles plus a video. A year is never fully complete in one way or another when it comes to full length releases – unless STRAP drops a project. Since ’14 up to now STRAP has been releasing album after…
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5 UG Hip hop themed Gifts to Get for your loved ones this festive season
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December if you asked me, came real quick! As for Tempo Music, November Came Late – does it matter now that we are in the last month of the year? One word: FESTIVE, is in more rotation. The holidays have come and many will take a break off work or even work less as…