Now that we have a decent helping of tracks to choose from its time to try to narrow them down to 100.
We will need some criterion for elimination.
1) In the case where an artist has more than 1 track nominated I say we add the most popular song. If a 2nd track is up for consideration it will need to be motivated for & co-signed by someone other than the nominator. 3rd track would need 2 cosigns; 4th - 3cosigns etc etc
2) Where the track is not as popular here on AG we can upload them for the rest of us to preview & vote.
3) Lets try & make this as diverse a list as possible in terms of countries. Music from some countries is clearly more popular than others but lets try & diversify the mix as much as possible. Afterall this is the AG top 100 & AG is more than just a Southern African site.
4) Vote for up to 25 songs already on the list below only. Just so its easier for me to collate the results from 1 thread.
5) Provide adequate justification. Say a sentence or 2 on each nomination stating why it should be in an African hip hop top 100 songs list.
Any other ideas?
Here is the list in alphabetical order again:
Artist Title Country
1 5th Floor Kreation f. Korianda (SA)
2 A.Z.I.Z. feat. Mehdy Real Tunisiano Madhina (Tunisia)
3 Abantu_ Bantustan
4 African Rulerz_ Forgot the name of the track but it was uploaded here
5 Akon Mama Africa
6 Akon Locked Up (Senegal)
7 Akon feat. Eminem Smack That
8 Al Kani The Foundation
9 Amu Act Crazy (SA)
10 AMU Attention
11 Amu Since I met u
12 Amu Skillz (South Africa)
13 Amu i'll take care of you
14 ANd uhhh yes
15 Anvils Hooligans with a mike in hand
16 Anvils Pa** it to yo man
17 Apollo Diablo The City Owes Me (Botswana)
18 Archetypes - Verbal Lucifer
19 Audio Visual A\V (South Africa)
20 Audio Visual not sayin'
21 Audio Visual Pop Type (South Africa)
22 Base Mental Platform that track they had on tv where they on a roof in jhb that shit was a tight video
23 Base Mental Platform Ft. Stacey Epps (?) Creep
24 Bataka Squad Atooba (Uganda)
25 Bataka Squad Ssesetula (Uganda)
26 Ben sharpa out of the blue and into the black
27 Ben Sharpa Ason of Old (South Africa)
28 Ben Sharpa Hegemony (South Africa)
29 Ben Sharpa Kaptain Check the evidence
30 Ben Sharpa Kaptain Edwin the Hardboiled
31 Ben Sharpa Kaptain First kiss
32 Ben Sharpa - Why B. Tryin'
33 Bideew Bou Bess Ndékété Yo (Senegal)
34 Bisso Na Bisso - Dans la peau d'un chef (Congo Brazzaville)
35 Black Noize Pumpin' Loose Da Juice (South Africa)
36 Black Noize So called coloured
37 Blk Sonshine Born in a Taxi
38 Boul N'Baï Sida (Senegal)
39 Bra**e Vannie Kaap Kaap Van Storms (South Africa)
40 Breeze - Higher Learning
41 Buk Bak Akwensi Broni (Ghana)
42 Bulloman Im Gonna make you love me
43 Burntface Mindenew (Ethiopia) < this is heat!
44 C.R.I.S.I.S Taking Over (Zambia)
45 C4 Train of Thought (Zambia)
46 C4 When I'm Older
47 Cashless society Dolly parton
48 Cashless Society Blaze tha Breaks (South Africa / Botswana)
49 Cashless Society History
50 Cashless Society Hottentot Hop (Bantu 1 2) (South Africa / Botswana)
51 Cashless Society Life
52 Cashless Society Taxi Wars (South Africa / Botswana)
53 Cashless Society Stuck
54 Chachi Cape Verdean in America (Cape Verde) < this is heat!
55 Clueso feat. Snazz D & Remarkable - Gridlocked
56 Conscious Can't Wait Piga Bao (Tanzania)
57 Constructus Corporation - Jellyfish (South Africa)
58 Crisis feat.Exile Players Worldwide Stylee (not too sure of exact spelling)
59 Da Fugitivz Kepp Kui Bangh (Gambia)
60 Da Hopp Afon-Dasy (Madagascar)
61 Daara J Anti Blood (Senegal)
62 Daara J Mbegueel (Senegal)
63 Dama do Bling Boy (feat. Lizha James) (Mozambique)
64 Dama Do Bling Chamadas Para Bling
65 Damola lead to the gut
66 Das Primeiro Liberdade (Angola)
67 De Plow Matz
68 DJ Berry Hey You (Rwanda)
69 Dj Jimmy Jatt Mode9 2Face e.t.c.
70 Driemaanskap Itsho into
71 Driemaanskap Pitsa Zamadoda
72 Driemanskap Itsho Into
73 Driemnskaap Go and Ask (Hamb'ubuza)
74 DRP Still Doing It (Victory) (Mozambique)
75 Drudge dialect mixtape Hip hop royalty (especially sketch's verse mhh)
76 Dungeon shack – kung fu ( I think?)
77 Dynamic feat. Aba** Aba** - Clap Ya Handz (Mauritania/Senegal)
78 Ees feat. Namany - Windhoek City! (Namibia)
79 Elddee The Spy
80 Elom20ce Mon étendard (Togo)
81 Emmanuel Jal Warchild (Sudan)
82 Entity Touch and Go
83 Féenose J'appelle (des mots) (Burkina Faso)
84 Flabba Accelarate
85 Flame Ft. Ootz D.E.A.D. HOT
86 For hip hop Bonus track (Move it up actII)
87 Gini Grindith The Length of Time (South Africa)
88 Gini Grindith & Fungus the Mutated Lung - What Makes This Thing Turn?
89 Godessa minds Ablaze
90 Godessa Nguwe
91 Godessa Social Ills
92 Godessa Minds Ablaze (SA)
93 Godessa Social Ills
94 Golden Shovel Let there be light
95 Groundworks ((stereotype))type) (South Africa)
96 Groundworks Dungeon Keepers (South Africa)
97 Groundworks Sound Hz (South Africa)
98 H Kayne Issawa Style (Morocco)
99 H20 All Natural
100 H20 Calling Roseanne
101 H20 I'm an African
102 H20 It's wonderful
103 H2O African
104 Hard Blasters Blast Nuff (Tanzania)
105 Hardstone Uhiki (Kenya)
106 HHP Harambe (SA)
107 HHP Danger
108 HHP Go Diragalang
109 HHP Harambe
110 HHP O mang?
111 Hip Hop Royalty - Hymphatic Thabs, Hyphen, Sketch, TOP, KONFAB, Ben Sharpa, King Daniel, X-24th Letter, Otis Larynx, Bhlakhroze
112 Hoodlum's The Mind
113 Hundred times to a mil
114 Hymphatic thabs those who
115 Ikonoclasta from Angola
116 Illiterate skills 16.Another day another rhyme
117 Illiterate skills 17 Heads ache
118 imbumbe unity! ft looptroop.
119 Infa Infatuation tua
120 Isaac Mutant Mr Devious dedication
121 Isaac Mutant Sideshow Freak
122 It Rocks - KONFAB
123 J Bux Mr Nobody
124 Jon Woo Feat.Exile I don't Know
125 Kaigan Gaskia - Toun Ga Ma (Niger)
126 Kalamashaka Ni Wakati (Kenya)
127 Kalamashaka and kaddo fanya mambo
128 Kalibrados Quem manda no teu block
129 Kantiolis Comportement (Senegal)
130 Kapuka African Hustlers
131 Karizma & B Sun/ Kudakwashe Back in the Day (Zimbabwe/ UK)
132 Kataklyzim Day & Night (Zimbabwe)
133 Kaydo Mad
134 Kaydo shine on my shine
135 Kaydo Black Queen
136 Kill A Brother (?) Sifiso Sudan
137 Kingpinn I Salute You (Zimbabwe)
138 Kingpinn Inauguration
139 Klear Kut Mon Coeur/Murder of Crows
140 KNaan Soobax (Somalia)
141 K'naan Strugglin'
142 K'naan ft. Mwafrika The African Way (Somalia/Kenya)
143 KONFAB ft. Jaak How We Roll (Lesotho/South Africa)
144 KONFAB Ft. Vernon Visqus UCTorchange
145 Krukid AFRICANthem
146 Krukid My Music My Country
147 Krushal Coke on the table
148 Krytik Chasing Heaven
149 Landmynz 21 rhyme salute
150 Landmynz man woman and child
151 Landmynz 1 Step Kaboom (South Africa)
152 Lebo Mashile I like it Deep sometines (Reinterpretation)
153 Lebo Mashile I smoked a Spliff with Jesus Christ
154 Lebo Mashile I knew a girl
155 Lebo Mashile - My immagined Community
156 L-Spark's Molissa (Beutiful Princessa)
157 Luke the Venda Molissa You my beautiful princess (still looking for this track)
158 Madd Scientist Computer science
159 Maradona Not a Thug (SA)
160 Mau Mau Mau Mau if that's the real title.
161 mawe2 2nd year flush by
162 Mawe2 Love lost
163 Max Normal Super Evil
164 Maximum Sentence Destiny (Remix)
165 MBS El Ghorba (Algeria)
166 MC Nota Sands of Time
167 MC Solaar Bouge De Là (Senegal)
168 Metaphysics Can't Get Enough (Zimbabwe)
169 Method X Rip The Mic
170 Mizchief All The Areas (SA/Zimbabwe)
171 Mizchif Fashionable (South Africa)
172 Mizchif Place For A Wife (Zimbabwe/South Africa)
173 Mode 9 that song where he talks about his stomach not being a joking issue (forgot title)
174 Mode 9 Formidable (Nigeria)
175 Modenine Cry
176 Modenine It's About To Get Ugly
177 Modenine ft. O.D. 419 State of Mind pt. 2 (Nigeria)
178 Morale I am
179 Move it up The movement act 1
180 Mr Selwyn People
181 Mr. Baron and X Ray New World Order
182 Mr. Devious For My People (South Africa)
183 Mr. II Hali Halisi (Tanzania)
184 MTM Lazem Bokra (Egypt)
185 Mwafrika Nairobi (Kenya)
186 Mwafrika Ngoma Za Kenya (Kenya)
187 Mycbeth _Cheers
188 Naeto C + Ikechekwu Kini Big Deal
189 Natural Ras - Hip-Hop Spirit (Gabon)
190 Necessary Noize Clang Clang (Kenya)
191 Nel no Competition
192 Ngwenya Feat Nosisi The Quest
193 Nthabi Breathe f. Reason
194 Nthabi HipHop
195 ntik Il Etait Une Fois L'Algérie (Algeria)
196 Obita Shaka Zulu Remix
197 Omzo Li Guen Pt. 2 (Senegal)
198 optical ill Move it up by
199 Optical Illusion For hip hop
200 Optical Illusion Capitol O (South Africa)
201 Optical Illusion Heat Wave (SA)
202 Optical Illusion Move it Up!
203 Organik Interfaze (can't remember the track name it was heat though) (Botswana)
204 Originz Family of one
205 Peace Of Ebony Vadzimu (Zimbabwe)
206 Pee Froiss Djalgaty (Senegal)
207 Pitch Black This is life pt 2
208 Politics
209 Positive Black Soul Boul Fale (Senegal)
210 Power, Pussy, Pistols
211 Pro Kid Soweto (South Africa)
212 Pro Kid Uthini Ngo Pro
213 Pro-kid feat. Hoodlum Woz' Uzoba Bona
214 Prophets Of da City heitada
215 Prophets Of da City Neva Again (South Africa)
216 Prophets Of da City Planet Cape Town (South Africa)
217 Prophets Of da City Township Dwella (South Africa)
218 Prophets Of da City Wild styles(Fcuk this a cla**ic)(SA)
219 Proverb right wrong
220 Proverb Rise of the underdog
221 Proverb Truth is revealing f. Appleseed
222 Proverb I have a dream
223 Proverb Letter to my X (South Africa)
224 Proverb Microphone sweet home
225 Proverb My vers'd love
226 Question Mark Allstars Streetlife
227 RAS Pan African
228 Rattex Township Storm
229 Real Elements Simple Things (Malawi)
230 Reason Feeling you, Feeling Me
231 Reggie Rockstone Eye Mo De Anaa (Ghana)
232 Reggie Rockstone(spell check) Keep ur eyes on the road(GHANA)
233 ROBO & OMEN Day 7
234 Ruffrugged N Raw Kasala Go Bus
235 Ruggedman Eh Hen
236 runonsentence - KONFAB
237 Sakpata Boys Vodounvi (Benin) < this is heat!
238 Seida Crook unf***withable
239 Sharpa hegemony
240 Sifiso Sudan Rise Again
241 Sifiso Sudan Once upon a time in Africa
242 Sifiso Sudan and Tumi once upon a time in Africa
243 Six Foot + Anwuli (Nigeria)
244 Six Foot + Millennium Bugging
245 Sketch Atsha'pha
246 Skwatta Kamp all around
247 Skwatta Kamp Animal
248 Skwatta Kamp Manyisa
249 Skwatta Kamp Spark it
250 Skwatta Kamp story to tell
251 Skwatta Kamp sunshine
252 Skwatta Kamp THe rest shut the
253 Skwatta Kamp Umoya
254 Skwatta kamp We pu it there
255 Skwatta Kamp Rau Rau (South Africa)
256 Skwatta Kamp Voetsek (South Africa)
257 Skwatta Kamp Worldwide
258 Snazz + another dude 2 sides to every
259 Spaceman Revolution
260 Spex Celebrate
261 Spex Hizo (IKO Remix)
262 Spex Hizo (South Africa)
263 Spex M.O.T.H.
264 Swart Gevaar - KONFAB
265 Takondwa Our Own feat usual suspects
266 Tata Pound Badala (Mali)
267 Terry tha Rapman I Am Nigerian (Nigeria)
268 Terry tha Rapman Money Hungry Chicks
269 Tha Hymphatic Thabs Those who
270 Tha Hymphatic Thabs - Baby & think about it
271 Tha Hymphatic Thabs - I was
272 The Emcee
273 The Holstar Bombs Over Lusaka
274 The Holstar Who I Am
275 The Holstar and Al Kani Murder Music
276 The Holstar and Dope G Take Us There!
277 The Ultimate
278 Third World Riders Trapped
279 Thorobreds Street Hop
280 Tic Tac Yaa Densoa (Ghana)
281 Tour 2 Garde Blè Blè (Ivory Coast)
282 Tribes Men Shake Bodi
283 Tumi came home
284 Tumi Bophelo Bame
285 Tumi Blink twice
286 Tumi Eyes Wide Shut (South Africa)
287 Tumi People of the light
288 Tumi and the Volume She spirit fancies
289 Tumi and the Volume These women
290 tumi and the volume What its all about
291 Tumi and the Volume 76
292 Tumi and The Volume Afrique (South Africa)
293 Tumi and The Volume People Of The Light (South Africa)
294 Tumi and the Volume The story behind the pain
295 Tumi and the Volume Yvonne
296 Tumi ft Sudan once upon a time in Africa
297 UCTorchange - KONFAB, Vernon Visqus
298 Uncanny Sessman Nutsack (Botswana)
299 V.O.L.U.M.E Dzimbaremabwe
300 VIP Manenko (Ghana)
301 WA BMG 44 Xam (Senegal)
302 Wawesh Mjanja (Kenya)
303 Wawesh Wawero (Kenya)
304 What! - KONFAB, Jaak, Sketch
305 Writers Block I write what I like (South Africa)
306 Writers block (collective and solo) AlphaBeta
307 Writers block (collective and solo) Lost Sheep
308 Writers block (collective and solo) Metaphisical misfit
309 Writers block (collective and solo) Stuff YOU
310 Writers block (collective and solo) Syllable Pracrice
311 Writers block (collective and solo) Underneath
312 Writers block (collective and solo) With all the words
313 Writers block (collective and solo) Writers Block
314 X Plastaz Msimu Kwa Msimu (Tanzania)
315 X Plastaz Nini dhambi kwa mwenye dhiki(Tanzania)
316 Young Nations Mr Hustla
317 Zimbabwe Legit Doin' Damage In My Native Language (Zimbabwe)
318 Zubz I write
319 Zubz Where is the soul
320 Zubz Imagery
321 Zubz until Victoria falls
322 Zubz Handiende(Zambia/Zim/SA)
323 Zubz Heavy 8
324 Zubz Lovin It (South Africa)
325 Zubz My Distress
326 Zubz No Place Like Home
327 Zubz Performance of your life
328 Zubz Superstar (Zambia/Zimbabwe/SA)
329 Zulu Mobb Comfort Me (SA)
