Another one of those videos I was forwarded over the break. It’s become something of a rite of passage for rappers to visit Africa. For example this video of Busta Rhymes refusing to let go of an elderly Senegalese woman on Goree Island in Senegal, briefly went viral late last year.  In the video above it’s the turn of the rapper Cassidy (he had brief hits with the songs “Get No Better” and “My Drink and My Two Step“) visited the African continent for the first time. He traveled to Sudan late last year. Lots of static ensue.

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