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EMAMKAY – Love Is Energy
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rss-club/emamkay-love-is-energy/
Issued on Kid Fonque‘s STY TRU BTS imprint, ‘Love Is Energy’ is the third studio album from South African multi-instrumentalist, emcee, beatmaker and producer EMAMKAY.
Raised and based between Soweto (Johannesburg) and Pretoria, EMAMKAY’s jazz-tinged lo-fi hiphop sound lays bare the artist’s influences, which range from J-Dilla, Flying Lotus and D’Angelo, to Smokey Robinson and […]
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Episode 191 of the Air Adam Podcast has just been released, with selections from Shy FX w/ Children of Zeus, Rapsody, Above The Law, Lost Boyz and many more!
Get the show now at;
- http://podcast.airadam.com
- https://www.mixcloud.com/airadampodcast/
- Apple Podcasts
- Pocket Casts
- etc
Have a listen, let me know what you think, and if you like it, please do spread the word - I have a lot of things, but no financial backing or advertising budget 😆
Re-writing the rules of Tunisian rap
Blending Tunisian rap with Egyptian mahraganat, Lully Snake defies sexist norms, blurs borders, and opens a new space for feminist rebellion in North African popular culture.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/05/re-writing-the-rules-of-tunisian-rap
Pierre Kwenders – The Last Bantu Emperor
https://amf.didiermary.fr/pierre-kwenders-last-bantu-emperor-teaser/
Pierre Kwenders blends genres, cultures, and languages in his indie-Afro electro sound, merging Congolese rumba, pop, and electronica while singing in Lingala, French, English, Tshiluba, and Kikongo. His first album “Le Dernier Empereur Bantou” (the Last Bantu Emperor) was released in 2014.
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Mans1 is a Swiss-French hiphop artist posting their tracks and music videos:
➡️ @mans1
They've already posted 37 videos, if these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at https://v.basspistol.org/a/mans1/videos
#FeaturedPeerTube #HipHop #Rap #Music #Swiss #Suisse #Français #PeerTube #PeerTubers
“Indépendance Cha Cha” revisited by Baloji
https://amf.didiermary.fr/independance-cha-cha-baloji/
Shot in the “Bon marché” (Barumbu) neighbourhood, at the heart of Kinshasa, featuring the late Wendo Kolosoy’s backing band, “Indépendance cha-cha – Le jour d’après” is a new take on the African independence anthem written in 1960 by Joseph “Grand Kallé” Kabasele and Nicolas “Dr. Nico” Kasanda.
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Welcome To The Disco – Muthoni Drummer Queen
https://amf.didiermary.fr/welcome-disco-muthoni-drummer-queen/
The main track off the eponym EP in 2011, by Muthoni Drummer Queen (aka MDQ).
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Episode 188 of the Air Adam Podcast has just been released, with a special guest this month - Mancunian MC, producer, and DJ Chalk! He's in the studio for a chat about his history and work, while we also play some of his tracks alongside gems from MC Lyte, Le$, Pitch 92, Rome Streetz and many more!
- http://podcast.airadam.com
- https://www.mixcloud.com/airadampodcast/
- Apple Podcasts
- Pocket Casts
- etc
Have a listen and let me know what you think!
Baloji – Buy Africa
https://amf.didiermary.fr/baloji-orchestre-katuba-kuku-buy-africa/
“Buy Africa” is a cover of Fela Kuti’s song by Baloji & L’Orchestre de la Katuba, Feat. Kuku for Red Hot + Fela, the tribute album released in 2013.
To understand where Fela’s musical quest began, you have to start with his education at London’s Trinity College School of Music. […]
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BBNG X FLOCKEY OCSCOR (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWYX0MIl1nE
Flockey puts words over the Canadian jazz group BADBADNOTGOOD's track "Cashmere".
Bitter Dream on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/flockey/flockey-ocscor-bitter-dream
BBNG IV on Bandcamp: https://badbadnotgoodofficial.bandcamp.com/album/iv
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Cassper Nyovest – Ksazobalit
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cassper-nyovest-ksazobalit/
Ksazobalit (K’Sazobalit) is a song by Cassper Nyovest in 2018, where he imagines “The Day we Take Back Our Land”.
"The rapper’s tongue-in-cheek video takes inspiration from the memes and tweets about what black South Africans will do with it when land that was stolen from them by colonialists is returned."
Okayafrica
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Episode 190 of the Air Adam Podcast has just been released, with selections from A Tribe Called Quest, BusCrates, Royal Flush, Cappo, Little Brother, and many more!
Get the show now at;
- http://podcast.airadam.com
- https://www.mixcloud.com/airadampodcast/
- Apple Podcasts
- Pocket Casts
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Have a listen, let me know what you think, and if you like it, please spread the word! 🙂
Nigeria bans airing of song criticising president
"Artist Eedris Abdulkareem's lyrics slam President Bola Tinubu and urge his influential son, Seyi, to let his father know 'people are dying' through hardship and insecurity and there is 'hunger' in the country."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8v4601q30o
PS: For many in Naija, Tinubu's nickname is "Tpain".
Listen below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3h0L-qv864
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James BKS – Kwele
https://amf.didiermary.fr/james-bks-kwele/
Kwele is James BKS’ first single released on Idris Elba’s new Label “7Wallace”, featuring Allan Kingdom & Manu Dibango.
Lee-James Edjouma, better known by his stage name James BKS, and son of famous Cameroonian musician Manu Dibango, is a French lyricist, a music composer and a producer of African hip hop. […]
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