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
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.