Articles Archive for November 2003
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Macho Ortega and Elsie Van Clief are siblings, but you won’t find any rivalry between these Puerto Rican-American hip-hoppers. Raised in Boston and now located in L.A. as members of the Tunnel Rat family, New Breed is a brother and sister duo with a heart to make energetic music containing a solid message that will impact heads internationally.
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Never satisfied with preaching to the converted, Jurny Big has spent the past 20 years preaching the gospel and discipling many of underground hip-hop’s up and coming superstars. On this, his long awaited solo project, Jurny Big opens up to reveal two decades of passion, struggle, triumph, and enviable mic skills.
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On the 13th December 2003 this will be the first event put on by HHH Music, a young and independent hip-hop/house/kwaito label. This event will showcase many mc’s including the African FellaZ which is a hip-hop group comprising of 2 mc’s, 1 white & 1 black, they mix Mzansti hip-hop with good old English freestyle brag rap. There will also be many b-boys performing and a couple of DJ’s showing there stuff.
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It all began in 1999 when fate brought together two like-minded lyricists – Kwezi Ngcakani (X Amount) and Julian Du Plessis (Snazz D) – whose mutual relationships with other MC’s Alfred Chirwa (Criminal), Salim Mosidinyane (Fat free), Dave Balsher (Draztik), Jerry Kai Lewis (Black Intellect) and Thabiso Mofokeng (Gemini, a most recent addition who is also affiliated with the Groundwerks crew), amalgamated into the group the streets know well as Cashless Society.
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AfricasGateway is giving away 2 tickets for one lucky winner to the Oppikoppi festival this weekend. Click here to enter.
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Playdough – known for his contributions in the ill harmonics, Deepspace 5 and Phonetic Composition crews — is a lonely superstar. He has put years of work into refining his techniques of rockin’ microphones and cranking out phenomenal beats. He is considered by many to have one of the smoothest flows in hip-hop today.
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From Africa to the World, Yaya Diallo Unleashes His Music
By MuzikMan, MusicDish.com Yaya Diallo is a master drummer. A native of Mali, West Africa, he is the personification of a country celebrated for its rich musical culture and diversity. Motivated by his personal experiences in traditional village life, Yaya expresses his profound knowledge of West African healing arts in his instrumental album Nangapè, a recording that focuses on West African drumming, balafon and flute music. I particularly enjoyed the flute segments, which provided an alluring and rich atmosphere for the entire session.
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2003 has been a great year for hip-hop duo H20. After topping local radio charts and MTV Europe’s World Chart Express with their jazz-influenced hit, ‘It’s Wonderful?, they finally have a place among the top of the game. And now they bring you even more hotness in their debut album for Outrageous Records ‘Amanzi ‘Mtoti’, which means pure water in Zulu.