The borough where hip hop was born has a new beat – hiplife. An uptempo sound that echoes Ghana‘s jazzy highlife music and American hip hop, hiplife is on the brink of a Bronx breakout. At least Felix ...
When hiplife was introduced in Ghana in the 1990s, many music lovers including highlife musicians did not take the artistes serious. However, because it involved mainly the youth, most young Ghanaians ...
Sarkodie, the Ghanaian hiplife and hip-hop recording artist, singer, and songwriter, has a new song, "Messiah," featuring Kweku Flick. The song is from Sarkodie's new album,# Rapperholic24, and is a ...
Ghanaian multi-disciplinary creative, Nii Mantse Aryeequaye, has spoken about a documentary on hiplife he produced in 2008. The celebrated voice-over artiste and the Founder of the Chalewote Street ...
An ethnographer, sociolinguist, filmmaker of Living the Hiplife, and Haverford College anthropologist, Shipley offers up a heady mix of political, business, and music history, of entrepreneurship and ...
A musical movement in Africa reshapes hip-hop. Nov. 9, 2007— -- A quick Google search of the phrase "HipLife" pulls up a surprising 78.8 million hits. But what is it? A fad diet? A new self-help ...
Tonight on the Let Out, our weekly East Village Radio show (made possible by Dewars) we are finally going to play a whole set of Ghanaian hiplife and highlife jams that are totally wig flippingly mind ...
Ghanaian hiplife artiste Donzy is confident that his latest song, Problem, will earn him his first Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMA) plaque. Speaking to Kwame Dadzie on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM, Donzy ...
I am a professional musician, music scholar and environmental activist who’s interested in the global challenges that musicians face. In a recent paper I examined the strategies adopted by Okyeame ...