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
anything male dominated, you don t doubt it. raps. one of the oldest african - proverbs, which is sankofa there s something i beautiful in the past. if you think you can tl go forward without it, go back, pick it up, and take it with you into the future. . that is where we are now. in a moment in ghanaian music where we will need to revisit what that brilliant culture called hiplife that birthed a lot of what s happening now, to really reimagine it and see how we move forward. # sista, sista, damn i miss ya. # i m gone till november, i ll be back to getcha. we had a sankofa moment with hiplife. # can i count on you too? # i m begging you. # let me fly free and make some revenue. # if i chop, you go chop some too. # 12 months pregnant, this idea is long overdue. hiplife s place in the future of global music may come down to who it lets in, what it holds on to, and whether it can evolve.
and take it with - you into the future. that is where we are now. in a moment in ghanaian music where we will need to revisit what that brilliant culture called hiplife that birthed a lot of what s happening now, to really reimagine it and see how we move forward. # sista, sista, damn i miss ya. # i m gone till november, i ll be back to getcha. we had a sankofa moment with hiplife. # can i count on you too? # i m begging you. # let me fly free and make some revenue. # if i chop, you go chop some too. # 12 months pregnant, this idea is long overdue. hiplife s place in the future of global music may come down to who it lets in, what it holds on to, and whether it can evolve. # when you dey scratch my back. # it s all love. # if you dey fix my itch. # it s all love symbiosis dey benefit. # do for each other, dem no go fit. perhaps the only question is what do we choose to evolve? do we choose to evolve what is closest to us? or do we choose to evolve the elements that are foreign to us?