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  • Malika (Agee & The Sphynx) release Fiery track -‘Billies’

    Malika is back at it, beast-mode attitude and ready to redefine their sound! The duo (now The Sphynx and Agee) get together to spazz on a well though out track : “Billies was produced by Baru at Dustville Records and recorded and mastered by Samurae” – The Tribe Ug. It’s an amazing performance from…

  • Top Hip-Independence Day Playlist 2016

    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…

  • New Music: Riotous Anthem-Race T,Brian Wade,Lyrical Michael,Anton &Sygi-o

    Riotous Anthem is a positive collaborative effort of  the young wave of Christian rappers. The song is produced by Lagum of Elevator Music. The approach to the song is distinctively of young urban and hippy rappers; preaching freshness in Christianity. The song operates well in the title as it is; RIOTOUS! The sort of…

  • New Music:Good Love-NuveySHAWN ft Neliah & Mento-X

    It has been a while since the members and associates of G-2 Complex did release a project. The previous being Tha C.y.p.h.a featuring AJO and 1Music. On this one NuveySHAWN teams up with Neliah (a singer) and Mento-X. Good Love is done on a reggae originally performed by Collie Budzz  beat  to give off Good Love.…

  • Llyboc: Is the lion roaring or seemingly Slack-Soaring?

    ATTENTION: It is important to have prior knowledge of Llyboc’s  Prior To Lift Off for you to follow this argument closely and this essay isn’t to dishearten but rather show appreciation of PTLO and what it had promised – an eloquent rapper! The argument is centered on all lyrics that are from PTLO or…

  • New Music: Rock City Girl – Keino x Tucker HD & Gamit

    Gat a man where he at? Where he at? Tucker is mastering the art of humble rhetoric. Rock City Girl is a more definitive title for a song. The reference is to Tororo from the notion it is a rock town. The girl is from Tororo so it makes sense to call her Rock…

  • Interview: Sliq Teq “I taught myself how to make beats” and more

    Sliq Teq undoubtedly is among the few young and multi talented persons in Ugandan hip hop. The beat maker, rapper and rap enthusiast has so many tracks to his name as a beat maker and producer, and has an EP as well. We got in touch with him to discuss a number of things…

  • Hip Hop Production: What Do I Need?

    We have an industry that rarely gives credit to producers but that doesn’t stop young people to aspire into making music/music production.  For this article and others in this series about music production and specifically hip hop production; we will be serving you some of the basics, howtos and guidelines to start your career…

  • We now can Award our own with Maiden UG Hip Hop Awards ’16

    We live in the time where perceptions are built implicitly to us for as long as we don’t see the things our brains have to see. Misconception, Hip Hop is dead!, Rappers are dead, Dead rappers, UG Hip Hop is stuck. All these twisted and not proven notions that are actually in theory pervade…

  • Single Alert: Nzikiriza – Pryce Teeba feat. Abaasa

    Last year was a wonderful one for the Dustville representative Pryce Teeba and college Abaasar. The Two had some of the best projects of 2015. And collectively as Dustville, the crew is defining the scene limitlessly and proving how dope  they are. Nzikiriza   is track three off the Kambujilire mixtape  according to some critics…