Login



Sign up for TLA newsletter

Fill out your e-mail address
to receive our newsletter!
E-mail :

TLA's FEATURED ARTIST!





News Kenya Rap Stars and the Growing Hip-Hop Scene
Kenya Rap Stars and the Growing Hip-Hop Scene PDF Print E-mail
Written by Davey D ID2607   
Thursday, 11 May 2006 06:02

Nairobi Is in the Building-Kenyan Hip Hop by Davey D

We sat down with Kenyan rap stars Attitude, Bamboo and Missy Maira collectively known as Project 254 to find out what’s cracking in Kenya’s burgeoning Hip-Hop scene.

We were quickly put on notice that Kenya and much of Africa is not ‘primitive’ and out of step the way it get depicted on TV. We also found out that Hip-Hop in Africa is huge. The artists we interviewed while relatively unknown here in the states are mega superstars on the continent. They have billboards all over. They have their own public bus routes. They are heard on the radio everyday. They were recently featured in the award winning documentary ‘Hip Hop Colony’ which shows the ins and outs of Kenya’s Hip-Hop scene.

In this interview we not only play the music , but we talk to these artist and find out the challenges they face and how Kenya is trying to fight the corporate co-optation of Hip-Hop.

 
News Kenya Rap Stars and the Growing Hip-Hop Scene

"This site is dedicated to the legacy of Tupac Shakur and all the other souljahs who dare to struggle; alive & dead"

The layout, text and images on this website are protected by (c) Copyright and may not be used or reproduced without written consent of [email protected].
No copyright is implied or expressed towards any of the pictures on the site except site images owned by ThugLifeArmy.com . ‘Hot linking’ of our content (images, text, audio and video) is strictly prohibited by law.
If our news articles are used we expect source credit and a live return link to be given to ThugLifeArmy.com.
The photograph of Tupac used on the home page is owned and copyrighted by Gobi. Photo is used with permission from Gobi to ThugLifeArmy.com. Many more of Gobi's photographs of Tupac can be seen in Gobi's book 'Thru My Eyes'.
Picture graphics and design are by [email protected] and [email protected] (Selphie)

Thug Life Army is a division of Star Sound Music Group®
7336 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 800 Hollywood, California 90046
E-mail: [email protected]
Privacy Policy | Contact Us | About Us | Sourcing Policy | DMCA | RSS Feed feed-image
(c) Copyright 2002-2024 www.thugelifearmy.com. All Rights Reserved