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By Chinonso Ihekire 10 July 2021 | 3:00 am
Yewande Isola is the kind of musician you would describe as a maverick. With her rare musical direction and her unrivalled stellar discography, the 25-year-old rapper stands tall as a woman of musical excellence. But that is just a fragment of her story.
Wande Isola
Wande, as she is popularly known, is a beacon of hope for similar artistes in the Christian gospel music industry. The Nigerian-American rapper has carved a niche for herself as an alternative Hip-hop artiste, bringing on a breath of fresh air to the mainstream gospel music industry. Most of her songs are so sonically grand that it is easy to even listen multiple times without recognising that its lyrics are rooted in the Christian gospel. With two Extended Playlists (EP) dubbed, Exit and The Decision (both released last year), Wande has grown from an imaginative young girl in a Biology class to a radical musician, spreading hope, positivity
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Like the scratch, hip-hop aims to rupture the status quo. Hip-hop began as an expression of the dispossessed, an artistic form of opposition in impoverished neighborhoods. From the beginning, the genre refused to underwrite the sentimentalities of society. Rather than reinforcing existing cultural narratives, hip-hop artists subvert the familiar.
This flipping of the script can take a number of different forms. Unique spellings, semantic inversion, and community-specific language are small ways that hip-hop flips the script. On a broader level, hip-hop artists subvert the familiar as they rap about raw, real, and troubling topics that are often ignored in mass media.