Zingah introduces a new era of South African hip hop with 'Yonda Way Vol. 1'

Zingah brings together a new wave of South African hip hop talent on 'Yonda Way Vol. 1', a collaborative project designed to ...
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Hip-Hop 50 Years: How The Genre Impacted South Africa

It’s impossible to overlook hip-hop’s profound impact on the global music landscape as it celebrates its 50th year. Beyond its birthplace in the Bronx, New York, this genre has transcended borders, ...
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Digging up rap’s roots: How African rhythms birthed American hip-hop

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...
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Native tongues : an African hip-hop reader / edited by P. Khalil Saucier

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...
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Hip hop Africa : new African music in a globalizing world / edited by Eric Charry

Reviewed by Luis Gimenez in African music (Grahamstown, South Africa) 9 (3) 2013, pages 192-195. Reviewed by Caroline Mose in Journal of African cultural studies (London) 25 (2) June 2013, pages ...
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South African Rapper and Dancer Costa Titch's Cause of Death at 28 Has Been Revealed

South African rapper and dancer Costa Titch's cause of death has been revealed. Costa — whose real name was Costantinos Tsobanoglou — died in March 2023 at the age of 28 after collapsing on stage ...
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Afrobeats, Amapiano better than Hip-hop – South Africa’s Nasty C

Renowned South African hip-hop artist, Nasty C has argued that Afrobeats and Amapiano are better genres of music than Hip-hop. He said Afrobeats and Amapiano are more “original” in terms of live ...