On ‘Super Mc’, a group of rappers (Omar Offendum, Lou Piensa, Ceschi, Jarabe Del Sol, M.O.A, Hadjii — all residing in the US — and Outspoken, above– from Zimbabwe) flex their bilingual skills in a single verse over beats and cuts by Dj Nio and Dj Boo. Nomadic Wax has the details. ‘Super Mc’ is one of 38 tracks on the second volume of the Internationally Known mixtape series.
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From Namibia to Armenia, and from Rwanda to Bosnia, the perpetrators of mass murder said they were acting in self-defense.
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South Africa, thirty-years after 1994.
One man’s mission to reclaim Somali material culture.
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