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, l i m an ideas company. 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 . # but that s all the boy really wanna hear. hiplife music is a conversation between ghana s past. shordy by praye plays. akasieni by lord kenya plays. ..and its present. bunker by kidi plays. mind your business 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 wh
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
# i don t deserve all your awesome. # but truthfully, truthfully. we benefit from nigerian success, as nigerians do benefit from ghanaian success. # simple abc for your delight. # mmm, sake off. some young people now don t realise the collaborations - and work that has been- going on between ghanaian and nigerian artistsi for the last 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 years. # palm wine for lunch and dinner for breakfast. nobody will understand i the importance of hiplife until afrobeat is the biggest music in the world. - we are almost there already. but without hiplife, - there would be no afrobeats. ghana had established that sound before nigerians really got into the stride of things. # like say tomorrow no dey. for them, 99 was like a watershed moment for them and, 99, ghanaians already had megastar hiplife artists. if you were to take the music that they were doing and compare it with what was happening in ghana, what you will find is that it was more like the pre hiplife american imitation s
Like hiplife did. nigeria carried the torch but ghana lit the torch. i we dropped the soap. we should have stood by that brand. because our cousins next door did the same thing with afrobeat and they did not budge, and here we are today. let s be clear, first and foremost afrobeats is not nigerian, it s ghanaian and nigerian. # like cabernet sauvignon. # strangers wondering what we on. the originators of hiplife were a bit too precious about what it should be, so as new versions sonically were happening, you could hear people saying, 0h, thisjamba, this azonto is watered down, it s not real. this thing, there is always the idea of real. you have to evolve or perish is what any music form has to understand. those that were gatekeeping in hiplife were refusing to acknowledge the evolution. # up and down them.
Of music, and it didn t have an identity. but as time went on, they fused in the pidgin, the local language, just like hiplife did. nigeria carried the torch but ghana lit the torch. i we dropped the soap. we should have stood by that brand. because our cousins next door did the same thing with afrobeat and they did not budge, and here we are today. let s be clear, first and foremost afrobeats is not nigerian, it s ghanaian and nigerian. # like cabernet sauvignon. # strangers wondering what we on. the originators of hiplife were a bit too precious about what it should be, so as new versions sonically were happening, you could hear people saying, 0h, thisjamba. this azonto is watered down, it s not real.