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My Story : I used Music to Escape, to travel and dream
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Written by Mickey Solow | Growing up from the humblest of beginnings, we didn’t have a lot. At that time, it didn’t mean much until I started growing up. I saw my shoes, wished they were newer because the kids at school had a lot of those. So I always felt like i wasn’t…
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Abramz Tekya spits Positivity on ‘Olabika Tommanyi’- it is Hustler spiritual
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Olabika Tommanyi, brings with it the love for boom bap, knowledge and positivity. For those feeling so low and actually have been looking for tracks to lift them Olabika Tommanyi does that effortlessly. A straight forward message packaged. Abramz relies on apostrophe to lay down, kick knowledge on his ability, hustle and street smartness.…
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Music is True Therapy, It is my open window
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Music is True Therapy As NuveyLive we are currently running a campaign on the Therapeutic purposes of Poetry and Music under our sister blog Sobriety Line. We are probing our readership, community and interested individuals to share with us. We invite stories that may include and not limited to how creating or consuming certain…
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Hip Hop, Buy Uganda Build Uganda Matters to US
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Today the Ministry of Trade and other stake holders launch the Buy Uganda Build Uganda campaign which has been trending on Twitter acronym-ed as #BUBU. Well it sounds like what one will call their better half. Seriously though we think this #BUBU agenda is important a force in the Hip Hop world, poetry and…
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Memoirs: Freestyle Rapping made me a better Public speaker
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I got in contact with hip hop & freestyle rapping at quite an early age and I was exposed to mainly American hip hop. At that time I had no clear knowledge of whether hip hop meant culture / not. Rap was the thing for me. Implicitly I would watch hip hop videos with…
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A View through Enygma’s Mask: Part one
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Watching the game behind and with Enygma’s Mask Ayayayaya! Anyone familiar with The Masked Man knows that’s his signature expression. What away to start an article? If you listened to The Enygma Machine, you know Nobody cared; one may wonder about what? Hip Hop! But that’s just a story long gone; we do care…
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Who really needs UG Hip Hop History?
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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…
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The Type of Hip Hop Head NOT to Associate with
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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…
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This is not Hip Hop Blasphemy though, Our History is Lurking!
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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…
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Dear Young Rapper You can Make Money off Hip Hop without a concert!
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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…