New video for the Congolese AIAC favorite Lexxus, recorded in Kinshasa, featuring the Kinois rapper LeslyMan.
Friday Bonus Music Break
November 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This summer’s Fuse ODG #ANTENNADANCE competition (“one person controlling the other using azonto movements”) courtesy of the Antenna smash hit resulted in some wild entries (Google it; H/T Jacquelin Kataneksza). Above: #TeamLONDON. And more good moves in the video for Congolese artist Lexxus Legal’s ‘Petits Congolais’ (off his “music record for kids”):
Friday Bonus Music Break
September 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Rounding up some music videos we’ve been tweeting over the past weeks, this is your Friday Music Break. Produced by the hardest working rapper in Kinshasa, Lexxus (that’s him in the video, scouting for new talent in Kinshasa’s streets), ‘Bo tia K’ is the first outtake from Bawuta Kin’s upcoming album Ba Wu. Great video too. […]
Friday Bonus Music Break
July 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Above is how people keep warm in Johannesburg winters. And below is what you hope to bounce to during long summer nights.
Music Break. LeslyMan
January 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
“What do they really know about us?” Fair question from Congolese artist LeslyMan. He could have added: do they still want to know about us now that the elections are over? Remember LeslyMan from last year’s collaboration with Lexxus.
New Films
December 13, 2011 By 3 Comments
This list is partly self-indulgent. It is also a way–hopefully weekly–for me to keep an online record of films I still would like to see. Here’s a few. First up, Lotte Stoofs’s documentary film about the life of a landmark hotel in Beira, Mozambique:
Music Break
January 31, 2011 By 1 Comment
Swahili Cipher
January 27, 2011 By 1 Comment
Thomas Gesthuizen, known by followers of Africanhiphop.com as Juma4, has been running the number one African Hip Hop site and radio show in the world for a few years. The site, which has had various incarnations over time, has included a lively forum for African Hip Hop heads, as well as a radio show webcast […]
Music Break
December 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
New video for Congolese rapper Lexxus Legal’s ‘Espoir’, featuring Djabi. Recorded in Johannesburg (Nelson Mandela bridge: check), there is some serious, ehm, face-dropping going on here: Miriam Makeba, Che Guevara, Diego Maradona, Joachim Löw, Robinho (or is that Ronaldo?) … and I’ve probably missed some others. Dig it.–Tom Devriendt
Presidents of Africa
December 7, 2010 By 4 Comments
We’ve already written about some of the songs featuring in Didier Awadi’s latest project, Présidents d’Afrique, which has been in the making for over five years. The full ‘album’ is finally here.
