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Clear The Air, Part Three: An all UG Hip Hop Awards – what’s wrong?
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I would love to welcome you from last week – a week that was filled with much activity and excitement. Headlines or equivalents read: Bibala video out! , 2017 UG Hip Hop Awards nominees announced and so much more. Last week the conversation was around millennials and how we need to share knowledge and…
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Clear The Air, Part Two: Don’t blame the Millennials, teach them about Hip Hop
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Welcome back to Clear The Air Series. If this is your first read in the series, welcome! Last week we put out part one of the series – Clear The Air, Part One: A defence for Ugandan Trap music (read it here). This week’s episode will move further away from the trap music topic…
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Clear The Air – Part one: a Defence for UG Trap music
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I am writing this piece listening to my line up of so-called “Trap songs”. First on the list is Megu by Titi Deewani and shortly Kijanah and his Hakuna Stress will follow. I am a music fan and I listen to anything if it works for me, it should stick right? Even if it…
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UPDATE: ‘Transcend’ video drops on 18 September – AJO
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Clean Block Music together with AJO will release the Transcend video on the 18-September – 2017. This will be the first video released off the African Reality Album. According to AJO the LP is Scheduled to drop later this year. The single’s audio was released about two months ago and it is only intriguing to know…
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Brian Wade documents what it means to be in a spiral of problems on ‘Unthinkable’
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Money on your mind. Good looking women on your phone. Siblings looking up to you for solutions. battling your demons. Christian and yet not feeling the vibe. Your constituency got a fake for a politician. May be you are an artist yet the dream is dying young as you are. You might be twenty…
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Bobi Wine is or will now be a Rap Metaphor thanks to Pryce Teeba – 7 ways why
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First of all I feel like Bobi Wine, Ladies wine or even better Honorable Kyagulanyi Robert. Okay no political inclination here! Bobi Wine (the track) is wavy but not everyone can jump on. Roughly, a metaphor is a direct comparison to two unlike things to bring out their connectedness. (The picture is comparison) According…
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Brian Wade debuts ‘Hip Hop Police’ (Humble Freestyle) – Flooding season We think!
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Brian Wade is likely aiming at flooding the game. After a rest from dropping music, he is back at it. We early on last week received Toduka and here is Hip Hop Police (Humble Freestyle). He raps over American rapper, Kendrick Lamar’s Humble. Brian Wade with this freestyle is sending direct shots to ad lib…
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‘Strive and Prosper’ a Message from My Life – Brooks Aftermath ft Riks
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My Life is that song that will first give you chills, realisation and motivation at the end of the day. Brooks Aftermath, President Flow Dynasty ( a hip hop collective) teamed up with Riks to give off this touching story in the track titled My Life. It is a story dedicated to all…
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Payne Keelah Explains why he will charge you for his Music: Because It is an investment Too
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Payne Keelah; some will call underdog, funny, straight with the bars type of rapper and we can add knowledge kicker! He on 17 April shared on his Facebook Page a quick economics lesson. He writes: [aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#ffffff” text=”#32102d” align=”center” size=”2″ quote=”"When you tell me to invest in myself it shouldn’t come as a…
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Benezeri calls it Quits with Hip Hop – Sad but Everyone gets a Shout out!
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Benezeri you are still young and lucky! Why are you quitting? There is a bright future a head of you! I mean we believe in you! – All these are possible or already made reactions upon receiving information Benezeri has quit. He took to his Facebook to break down five years of memories. As a…