Category: HIP HOP
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If you listened to Kampala you should remember the 1Der Jr on “17:4” – more retrospective and introspective. “Speak up” was the perfect single for Keeper of the Flame, as it introduced us to what to expect from the project. Linking the two notions is what KOFTF is about: self reflecting and letting what you…
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B Flex and Tucker HD have offered us their first 2020 music offering – “Mpambana” a track documenting the grind and how they are still committed to it. The track is produced by Loop G and Tempo Music’s Ledra. Get It on Audiomack / UH Download /Apple Music
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Happy New Year to you; Barna has released a new track to disrupt titled “Up Side Down”. The track which was produced by Gamit has a dancehall inspired beat on which Barna raps over, giving him a more polarizing sound on which he still entertains. Barna is not a conformist! According to Barna Birungi “Upside…
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By the time you read this it’s prolly’ 2020 and you might be in reflection of 2019 or what to listen to or catch in 2020. Time really flies but it even flies more when you are busy – to all those hustling I salute you, keep grinding! Like Sylvester says “LEMERAKO“ 2019 like any…
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Santana Karma appeared on Ykee Benda’s “Bomboclat” a while back. He is here with new “Kulya Kunywa”, which loosley means eat and drink. The track is aimed at simply commenting on the life in Uganda; what we grind for and what it takes some people. Its a laid back track. He employs his signature comedy-rap…
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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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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”
