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Digging up rap’s roots: How African rhythms birthed American hip-hop

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height ...
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Hip-Hop 50 Years: How The Genre Impacted South Africa

It’s impossible to overlook hip-hop’s profound impact on the global music landscape as it celebrates its 50th year. Beyond its birthplace in the Bronx, New York, this genre has transcended borders, ...

Zingah introduces a new era of South African hip hop with 'Yonda Way Vol. 1'

Zingah brings together a new wave of South African hip hop talent on 'Yonda Way Vol. 1', a collaborative project designed to ...
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Hip-hop is the Beacon of African American Culture, but its Roots are Multicultural

The story of hip-hop’s beginnings has been highly contested, but it begins in the Bronx on Aug. 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc’s sister, Cindy, is hosting a back-to-school party in their apartment complex, ...
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Native tongues : an African hip-hop reader / edited by P. Khalil Saucier

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...
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Hip hop Africa : new African music in a globalizing world / edited by Eric Charry

Reviewed by Luis Gimenez in African music (Grahamstown, South Africa) 9 (3) 2013, pages 192-195. Reviewed by Caroline Mose in Journal of African cultural studies (London) 25 (2) June 2013, pages ...

DJ Maphorisa calls for a new era of unity within the South African hip hop scene

DJ Maphorisa urges South African hip hop artists to collaborate for the future of the genre, addressing the challenges of ...
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Digging up rap’s roots: How African rhythms birthed American hip-hop

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...