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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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Lagum releases new single ‘The Weekend’ ft. Lujang & Mandie
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Last weekend Lagum released The Weekend; the first single off his forth coming mixtape. The next project will be the third mixtape to be released by Lagum. On the new single he feature Lujang and Mandie on a guitar charged track. He posted on his Twitter revealing the possible date for the next mixtape release…
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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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Audio: Kavali, ‘Gone’ – Stream/Downdload
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New music from Kavali. Get Gone below: [sdm_download id=”4880″ fancy=”1″ color=”purple”]
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How to Win the MTN Cypher 2 challenge
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The MTN Cypher is back in case you didn’t know. It is a product of the inaugural UG Hip Hop Awards that happened last year – given MTN was a huge sponsor; a cypher was named or crafted around MTN as a brand. Last year the winner was Emmix (apparently first runner-up but actual…
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Mickey So-low’s new single, ‘Pablo’ produced by Jthe45
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The song basically talks about the trap life in Ntinda. Mickey offers an extended insight of the ‘Trap life‘ or metaphors designed around the trap. If you have been watching the Netflix series Narcos the bars make more sense – Mickey, sees him self as Pablo Escobar (a long used rap metaphor) and these other…