Africa Is a Country

Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition, N°0

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Music Break. Bonus Friday Edition, N°0

By
Sean Jacobs

Last week we brought you the serious side of Burkina rapper Mokobe.  In this hilarious video he makes proper use of a beat made famous by 50 Cent:

Belgian hipsters: Magic Mirror’s “Show man”:

Cities Aviv’s “Araw.” The guest rapper is Royal T. Yeh, they’re hipsters too.

What’s it with Nigerians and derivative R&B? This is 2Face, basically the national face of the genre. (I suppose there are rewards: you have to endure American TV chat show hosts.)

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Finally, if you still don’t know what’s Azonto about:

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