African Hip Hop Radio September 2010
It's that time of the year - African hip hop radio is back in the building after a few weeks spent behind the scenes, focusing on foundation work, the annual Doin' it in the Park festival and preparing...
View ArticleWatch the Throne turn Purple
'Watch the throne' is barely out but Jay-Z and Kanye got the world talking about their much awaited collabo, and by now it seems like most people downloaded a leaked copy that was shared on forums and...
View ArticleThe Unseen Ones
Kurt Orderson is a young film maker hailing from Cape Town, South Africa. His first documentary ‘Definition of freedom’ (2004) highlighted the role hip hop played in the struggle against Apartheid, and...
View ArticleMy Hip Hop: documentary on Cape Town hip hop & identity
The second release in the Africanhiphop.com 15 Years Online series is another short documentary from the Redefinition: African Hip Hop project. Produced by along with ‘100% Galsen‘ (Senegal) and the...
View ArticleGebaste Rhymes – Kaap issie Bom
Earlier this year this landed in our mailbox, but between travels and holidays the mail ended up in the periphery of our brains. Time to dig it up: this is the first single...
View ArticleAn ode to African Boss ladies
Even though we celebrate women everyday and firmly believe that African women run most of the African economies (lets feed the world more stereotypes), I would like to use my first blog post...
View ArticleKhuli Chana Ft. Notshi – Tswa Daar
A new video by Khuli Chana, a South African emcee whose first album ‘the Motswakoriginator’ (2009) featured lyrics in Motswako, a slang based in Setswana, English and other languages. His history in...
View ArticleMoney, power and sex: Cape Town debate & SA hip hop
In May 2012 the OpenForum took place in Cape Town, South Africa. The gathering brought together activists, artists, academics, policy-makers and business people to discuss the factors that will...
View ArticleJaak – Bravo Papa
Here’s the video to the first single off South African artist Jaak’s upcoming album ‘Galant’. The story involving a sex worker, an undercover cop and a weed seller is apparently based on actual...
View ArticleRick Ross in Nigeria, Solange in South Africa – whose story do they tell?
Rick Ross is not the first American hip hop artist to enjoy touring the African continent; ever since the late eighties when LL Cool J performed in Abidjan there’s been the occasional motherland...
View ArticleNew Video from Outspoken (Zimbabwe)
Zimbabwe emcee Outspoken just dropped a new music video for his group ‘Outspoken & The Essence.’ This track is an introduction to Outspoken & The Essence and the group’s own interpretation of...
View ArticleHOME (the Mixtape), released August 15
“Home is that peace of mind, the rays of sunshine / will go to war with any anybody trying to take mine.” –StaHHr Ever-pushing boundaries within the hip hop mixtape tradition, Nomadic Wax...
View ArticleAlec Lomami – CLV video featuring Sammus & Badi Banx
A new video by Alec Lomami for his track ‘CLV’, directed by Tlhonepho Thobejane and shot to the always picturesque (pardon my French) backdrop of Cape Town. Including some amazing custom video game...
View ArticleBoom Africa! African Hip Hop Radio December 2013
It’s the last African Hip Hop Radio show of the year already, and indeed 2013 went by without us paying attention to the fact that the show has been in existence for 15...
View ArticleIf Die Antwoord were real, this is what their video would look like
The music video for ‘Oemtjokitie’ by Doodvenootskap was shot in the South African city that tops all the world travel recommendation charts – Telegraph Travel Awards, NY Times’ 52 Places to go in...
View ArticleRabbit joins HHP and Wangechi in Tulia Tu, Wangechi joins VEVO
Some of our favorite emcees together come on one track in the brand new video ‘Tulia Tu’; not only Rabbit aka Kaka Sungura (Kenya) but also HHP (South Africa) kicking the vernacular verses...
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Morumokwano and linguistic turf wars in South African hip hop
When the now famous Motswako sub-genre started in the late 90’s by acts such as Baphixile, it included a mixture of languages, namely Setswana, Sepedi and English and to some extent isiZulu. But...
View ArticleJagermeisters Back the Artist Music Initiative
Jägermeister’s ‘Back the Artist’ Music Initiative Creating Tomorrows Legends – Tonight Jägermeister is once again giving South African musicians the chance to showcase their talent. Officially...
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Alpha Royce drops new release Without You
Alpha Royce, previously known as ‘Beey Royce,’ is a 21 year old artist from Soweto. The name change marks a significant change in the artist’s life as she is in her final year of a BA degree in Media...
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Rick Ross in Nigeria, Solange in South Africa – whose story do they tell?
Rick Ross is not the first American hip hop artist to enjoy touring the African continent; ever since the late eighties when LL Cool J performed in Abidjan there’s been the occasional motherland trip...
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