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another rap artist called freddie funkstone. i thought i was listening to rappers from brooklyn. so, immediately, igot up out of the table. i said, look, i don t have any discs, but i can make beats . we left the club, like, 4:00 in the morning, we got to the recording studio at like 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning. then, like, a few hours later, everything started clicking. rab was very much like reggie as well two peas in a pod. i unfortunately, he passed away. but yeah, rab was reggie s partner in music for- a long time. the two ghanaians, raised in the west, mixed hip hop with highlife, and hiplife was born. i looked like the folks that they had seen on mtv. i had the short dreads, the wife beater, the tims, the camouflage. but then, when i rapped, it was in twi. and that, thatjust blew everybody s mind. raps in twi.
i grew up in brooklyn, new york, flatbush. coming back home to ghana. # yeah, this is reggie rockstone. 93- 94. when i got off that plane, the smell, the sunshine, the love, right up to we started this movement called hiplife. things took off when reggie met dj rab in accra. i met reggie rockstone in a nightclub called miracle mirage and he was rapping on the mic. rab was an african american who came to ghana to stay for a long period - and helped develop this sound that became hiplife. and i introduced myself and reggie had the short locks at the time and he was with another rap artist called freddie funkstone. i thought i was listening to rappers from brooklyn, so, immediately, i got up out of the table. i said, look, i don t have any discs, but i can make beats .