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Digging up rap’s roots: How African rhythms birthed American hip-hop

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...
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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, ...
Billboard

The 10 Biggest R&B/Hip-Hop, African Music Stories of the Year: Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé & the Women of Hip-Hop Reign Supreme

2024 also bore witness to U.S. breakthroughs for African artists, Young Thug's release from jail, Drake's surprise legal petition and Sean Combs' ongoing legal woes. By Gail Mitchell Well, 2024 is ...
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Sjava’s latest Spotify milestone has fans asking: "Is Sjava hip-hop?"

Sjava set to become the most-streamed South African Hip-Hop artist on Spotify for 2026, sparking debate over his genre ...
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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 ; ...
The Source Magazine

Beats Without Borders: A Look at African Hip-Hop’s International Grind

From the early seventies’ Bloc Parties in the Bronx to musicians streaming songs to audiences worldwide, today’s hip hop scene is borderless. But for the African artists making waves worldwide, ...
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Zingah introduces a new era of South African hip hop with 'Yonda Way Vol. 1'

Hip hop artist Zingah has never been shy about where he stands when it comes to South African hip hop. With “Yonda Way Vol. 1”, he has built a movement. The three-track project brings together new ...
The Chicago Defender

From America to Africa: Hip-Hop in the Motherland 50 years later

STONE TOWN, ZANZIBAR—In a nondescript rowhouse on a narrow side street in this bustling heart of Zanzibar, past rows of shoes and up a darkened staircase, Zenji Boi sits in front of a computer screen ...
GQ South Africa

Hip Hop hasn’t died- how streaming is helping South African Hip Hop multiply

There is a line in AKA and Nasty C’s Lemons (Lemonade) that goes “People say Hip Hop died, that’s nonsense”, and while South Africa’s Amapiano scene is currently in the midst of a major global moment, ...
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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 ...
VICE

‘People Here Forget They’re African’: The Rapper Fighting for Tunisian Women

TUNIS – On a March day in Tunis, Boutheîna El Alouadi appeared out of the crowd of tourists and shoppers swirling around Bab Bhar, a giant stone gate on the edge of Tunisia’s Mediaeval-era Old City.