african hip-hop?

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group named 4x4, four by four, 4 by 4, whatever.

song title sounds like "sill-ee-quay" possibly.

heard it on a local radio show and couldn't get through to dj.

sounds like afro-reggaeton-grime. on some real shit.

anyone?

l, p, Sunday, 13 March 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

fluxblog hosted Alif's "Douta Mbaye" a few months back, it's a great song. been meaning to get the album.

milton parker (Jon L), Sunday, 13 March 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

Maybe someone over at http://www.africanhiphop.com can help you...

JoB (JoB), Sunday, 13 March 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.africanhiphop.com/crew/photos/radio/africanhh_radio.jpg

Alba (Alba), Sunday, 13 March 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...
"Payback Is a Motherland"
http://www.citypages.com/databank/27/1336/article14522.asp
http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/2006/07/african_hip_hop.asp

Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Manu Dibango

Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

K'Naan, sorta.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote this a while ago.

Gavin (Gavin), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Cool, I added this link to my own African rap links page above:
http://www.mzibo.net/frame.html

I find it hard to believe there isn't a site dedicated to nothing but South African rap...

Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Here's one http://www.hiphop.co.za/

It looks pretty good.

Makrugaik (makrugaik), Thursday, 13 July 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you!

Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Thursday, 13 July 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

I ran across this last year, in a French documentary "Fangafrika":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDiWG8o9gck

Ouaga All Starz

Tsuga, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 01:17 (fourteen years ago)

Here's the other ilx African rap thread:

S/D African hip-hop

curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 04:51 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

group named 4x4, four by four, 4 by 4, whatever.
song title sounds like "sill-ee-quay" possibly.

heard it on a local radio show and couldn't get through to dj.

sounds like afro-reggaeton-grime. on some real shit.

anyone?

― l, p, zondag 13 maart 2005 11:57 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hi there l, p, it's been a while, hope you're still around.
Could it be this track, "Siklitele" by 4x4? They're from Ghana and it's from 2003.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc9sbQV2Y-I

breastcrawl, Monday, 23 September 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago)

one year passes...

Dunno where else to post this, and judging from the rest of the thread, it will be ignored, but I love this song, nobody mashes rap & dance together like the folks in Cote d'Ivoire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozxOTqBNG7g

kruezer2, Monday, 23 February 2015 19:16 (ten years ago)

also - love this Genge track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leDcul5lCAo

kruezer2, Monday, 23 February 2015 19:16 (ten years ago)

fyi all of this stuff is welcome in this thread:
Rolling Afrobeats / Afropop 2015 thread

longneck, Monday, 23 February 2015 19:32 (ten years ago)

Absolutely, the focus has been very much on Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa; input from other parts of Africa would be great!

breastcrawl, Monday, 23 February 2015 19:34 (ten years ago)

is it cool to post non-2015 tracks on that thread? I don't wanna be the new guy getting things wrong! but these are 2000s tracks, I am still catching up on new afropop after leaving Nairobi and coming back to Canada in 09, so a lot of my favourites are a bit dated, can post there for sure though

kruezer2, Monday, 23 February 2015 19:50 (ten years ago)

I just posted some older tracks there myself (and intend to post an even older one from, wait for it… 2010 that I just discovered). I would think it's fine, since to me it feels we're only scratching the surface. More context and most importantly more good music can only be a plus. A separate thread for older stuff could be a good thing in itself, but it's not as if traffic on the Rolling thread is out of control at the moment… longneck, what do you think?

breastcrawl, Monday, 23 February 2015 19:59 (ten years ago)

As long as you label it as old it can only help deepen and broaden the thread imo. We are indeed only scratching the surface in there so there's no need to spread it even thinner. #mixingupthemetaphors

longneck, Monday, 23 February 2015 20:09 (ten years ago)


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