African hip hop radio is live NOW and for the next 60+ mins on echobox.radio - tune in or listen back soon via Mixcloud! All new tunes this month.

Listen back (2 hrs): African hip hop radio, brand new show on the new Echobox.Radio (Amsterdam). This month's playlist features 99% new tracks from all across the map and musical spectrum: hip hop to afro neo soul and afrobeat(s) to taarab. mixcloud.com/echoboxradio/a…

Majorrr! What if Burna Boy, Teck-Zilla and Daaraj Family dropped social tokens? Or africanhiphop ran a mini multimedia series on Mirror Or BABALUKU crowdfunded Mirror to support their festival + collective work in Ugandas Hip Hop community +across the continent

NFTs are the starting block. The creator economy in web3 offers a TONS of opps for artists and creatives on the continent and the diaspora to flourish. DeFi, DAOs, equitable streaming, and the entire metaverse, anchored by the blockchain, to carve out new creative economies

Afropolitan by myself, Maka and ᴾᴿᴼ ˢᴴᴼᵂ ᴱᴹ ᴴᴼᵂ ᴵᵀ’ˢ ᴰᴼᴺᴱ⚡️ Has been playlisted on africanhiphop Radio # by Jumanne & Friends on Echo Box Radio mixcloud.com/echoboxradio/a…

Let’s Go!!! 🔥🔥🔥👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Big S/O @theholstarmusic x Maka and the africanhiphop Radio team!! 🙌🏾

We're live again on EchoBox Radio, over 1 hr to go. Listen & chat: echobox.radio

Why mix 2 tracks when you can mix 100 tracks in 3:58 mins? Videos and all. A classic from 2015 with mostly tunes from the golden era. youtube.com/watch?v=6g7EZI…

Live streaming the 'reclaiming' of stolen African treasures abc.net.au/news/2021-09-0…

Listen back: the September edition of African hip hop radio. The first hour is dedicated to reissues and some vintage tunes that haven't been reissued yet; in the second hour we played new music. #africanhiphop mixcloud.com/echoboxradio/a…

About to play 2 hrs of music on Echobox Radio! New school Afrobeat (without the 'S') from Nigeria's the Cavemen, 80s Ethio Jazz by Wallias Band, a collabo between Common & Femi Kuti & much more in #AfricanHipHopRadio. Tune in from 18 hrs (CET) Echobox.radio

First Human Beatbox-festival in Sénègal: 1 to 4 December 2021, Maison des Cultures Urbaines in Dakar. Conference, film, workshop and showcase. facebook.com/people/Jolof-B…

We're very sad to report the passing of Rab 'the international' Bakari. Rab was Reggie Rockstone ( The HIPLIFE ORIGINATOR )'s producer when he started contributing to Africanhiphop.com back in '99, and as such he was among the first to publish online about hip hop & urban music from West Africa...

Rab Bakari died unexpectedly in Ghana last week while swimming at Busua beach. He was active as a connector, behind the scenes and always at the forefront of advancing African music internationally. A legend has gone, let's honour him and continue building what he started!

Rab Bakari was a regular contributor to our website around the year 2000, he was the first to expose the budding Ghana hip hop & hiplife scene online. Some of his writings from that era (including a 'Who's who' of 40 Ghanaian rappers and groups) here: web.archive.org/web/2001041907…

You know someone wrote a PhD comparing the communities of Africanhiphop.com, Africasgateway and I think OkayPlayer! A few years ago.

Word! I remember jamming to mixtapes from Modenine, Sauce Kid, MI, Str8 Buttah, Joe Spazm, africanhiphop and the First Impression by yours truly.

Dope 💯Teck-Zilla unites six emcees from across Africa & the diaspora on the posse cut One Continent. With Dominant 1, Shu Kid, The Holstar, Boogey, Five Steez & Synik (are they all on Twitter?) str8buttah.bandcamp.com/album/one-cont…

Hip Hop at 50: "While it has always been the case that hip hop has showcased diverse political ideas, and flirted with the establishment, it once had a sense of what it was and where it was located in relation to the establishment. No longer." defector.com/50-years-later…

Lost footage: Ngozi Family (Zambia), the Zamrock sample source of T - NOID youtube.com/watch?v=HNLMDl…