Tag: Rap
-
Rouge: Coming In From The Cold, Redda Than Red
In 2013 Deko Barbara-Jessica Weidi, who is of Congolese descent, was an upstart R&B singer who’d recently started rapping because of the push her producer friends gave her. She was signed to a management company, had a publicist and, judging from the performance she gave at one press conference of the magnanimous fuck-up that was…
-
Faces 002 – Will Rap For Food
Yesterday evening while working on a story, myself along with two other people were approached by a guy who offered to rap for us and asked that we donate whatever coins we may have, provided that we liked his raps. I had a camera with me and asked to film the process; he swiftly obliged.…
-
The Underground Railroad
Last night I found myself – as one does on a rainy evening – going through my twitter feed when I came across a remix of Ice Prince’s hit song “Aboki“. The version features a cross-continental flux of mainstream rappers, from Ghana’s Sarkodie to South Africa’s Khuli Chana. Then it struck me: there is an…
ntsoana 