along with his brother. now on bbc news it s hiplife: the sound of ghana . argument done by eno barony plays. # high spirits so they can t kill it. # god s plan, no man. hiplife, to us, is what peanut butter is to bread. this is what actually- defines us as ghanaians. every ghanaian everywhere is representing ghana with hiplife. i would not even have fathomed being a musician if hiplife didn t happen. the story of hiplife is important to tell. # i don t walk around in the philippines. - # with the philistines. # m dot, in any vicinity, i fulfil a dream. - # no, i m not a rapper, i m an ideas company! i to understand the rising global influence of african music, you have to understand the story of hiplife. keep your eyes on the road by reggie rockstone plays. when i did what i did, i tagged it. so, when a dude put a piece of meat between two bread and he called it a burger, he named it. and that s what i did. i named it hiplife . hiplife music is a conversation between gha
by eno baroni plays. this is the story of a music genre that birthed a global movement. but before hiplife, there was highlife . highlife music plays. from ghana s independence in 1957 through to the 1970s, highlife was the nation s soundtrack. back in the what we call the colonial days, they were using all these instruments for military songs. # ba ba dum, ba ba dum. # dun, dun ba da da da dum. you know, people were marching and things like that. the colonial masters in their bow ties, they thought that that was a high form of life and they called it highlife. highlife isn t originally from ghana. highlife was brought to ghana by soldiers from the west indies. ghanaian rhythms were pushed into the highlife.
from ghana s independence in 1957 through to the 1970s, highlife was the nation s soundtrack. back in the what we call the colonial days, they were using all these instruments for military songs. # ba ba dum, ba ba dum. # dun, dun ba da da da dum. you know, people were marching and things like that. the colonial masters in their bow ties, they thought that that was a high form of life and they called it highlife. highlife isn t originally from ghana. highlife was brought to ghana by soldiers from the west indies. ghanaian rhythms were pushed into the highlife. we take what is happening outside and we bring our own. # ah, one, two, three, four! # hit it! i am the originator. that s what i say,