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# 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
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.
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
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.