Category: BLOG
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No Apologies is AJO’s second full length project. No Apologies is an EP that follows Rap Music I Sing(2015) and it’s a more distant taste with focus put on lyricism and intelligent rhyme crafting.
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The past, the future or maybe like S.T.R.A.P the Futuristic Past – What would we prefer or need? The present? First of all Hip Hop history in Uganda is so much lurking and no one is really to blame. We have to look over the initial impediments that the genre/culture faced at the time of…
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“I am Word smitten” Word Smitten is track 8 of the No Apologies EP and the fourth single to be released. From Freak A freestyle, Kamikaze, No Apologies and now Word Smitten for a person who hasn’t got a copy of No Apologies you might wonder what the project is about. Well good news Word…
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To kick off this article: I will start my rant with a quote that I picked from entertainment/Hip Hop Blogger at UrbanHype.net; Segawa Salim “This thing of hip hop heads is bullshit!” This then is an indicator that on the real I don’t really like the notion either. The selective few that will love to identify him/her…
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It is easy to ask any less attached to hip hop persons about some of the legendary hip hop influences. The elders without listing the names here, your less attached to hip hop friend might not know or might take a lot of time recalling some – it’s seemingly a natural thing for a lurking…
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The media some times chooses to forget or even observe certain things especially around hip hop circles. When I say Media you know what I mean; the newspapers, radio, T.V. to some level FB Journalism. Before I go on with my rant please this is what Kyle Duncan of New Vision had to start with…
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Written By Ayella R.N. Art has long gone from just being some fan sort of activity for your folks – two or five of your friends. Here Art will refer to Hip Hop, Poetry and Spoken word. Music itself is art. And Email is still live, a certain art of communication or NOT? Many artists…
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The question why music isn’t featured here and there? Soon will be a non answerable or for lack a better word rhetoric. It is simple actually – Many budding hip hop artists seem not to have embraced music submission but rather operate around self publication such as Soundclound-ing or Audiomack-ing to mention but a few.…
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We have had a bad history with awards in the country and every one knows it but I believe the UG Hip Hop Awards are hope enough. From the PAM (Pearl of Africa Music) awards to a number of music awards that emerged along the way, many of these didn’t or don’t represent hip hop…
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Happy independence to everyone! To all poets, rappers, producers, and everyone involved in Ugandan Hip hop and poetry. As we started doing this last year, on this independence day you might want to feel the goodness and rich UG- at least today! It might be had to come up with what you might want to…