Def Mama Def Kalanakh - Defmaa Maadef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BDqdHztA44
King Doudou Remix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlJXMllbK4c
rap
Re-writing the rules of Tunisian rap
Blending Tunisian rap with Egyptian mahraganat, Lully Snake defies sexist norms, blurs borders, and opens a new space for feminist rebellion in North African popular culture.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/05/re-writing-the-rules-of-tunisian-rap
Mans1 is a Swiss-French hiphop artist posting their tracks and music videos:
➡️ @mans1
They've already posted 37 videos, if these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at https://v.basspistol.org/a/mans1/videos
#FeaturedPeerTube #HipHop #Rap #Music #Swiss #Suisse #Français #PeerTube #PeerTubers
Cheb Bakr - Samh AlMea'ad (2008)
At the turn of the 2000s, Cheb Bakr sought to reinterpret the folk sounds of eastern Libya by blending them with contemporary genres.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHaNB89a2WA
https://habibifunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/habibi-funk-029-samh-almeaad
Elsy Wameyo - Conquer Feat. Ywaya Tajiri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GbxFCREyvg
"The Kenyan-born artist often produces, writes, and performs her songs, demonstrating a committed artistry that has garnered attention for her projects since 2018.
She released her debut album, Saint Sinner, late last year."
Yugen Blakrok – Carbon Form
https://amf.didiermary.fr/yugen-blakrok-carbon-form/
Yugen Blakrok is a South African rapper. She appeared on the track “Opps” with Vince Staples from the Kendrick Lamar-produced soundtrack to the movie Black Panther in 2018.
"Five years after releasing Return of the Astro-Goth, Yugen Blakrok descends from the vast cosmos and delivers to the world an impressive lesson in style, […]"
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BBNG X FLOCKEY OCSCOR (2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWYX0MIl1nE
Flockey puts words over the Canadian jazz group BADBADNOTGOOD's track "Cashmere".
Bitter Dream on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/flockey/flockey-ocscor-bitter-dream
BBNG IV on Bandcamp: https://badbadnotgoodofficial.bandcamp.com/album/iv
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6 Belgian and French #Rap artists from Congo, unified in a song "Free Congo" (Gradur, Ninho, Damso, Josman, Youssoupha & Kalash Criminel)
Des millions d’morts, au Nord-Kivu, personne n’en parle
Il s’passe des dingueries au pays de mes rents-pa
On pense à vous, je sais qu’un jour on s’y rendra
J’ai rêvé d’un monde meilleur, sans Kagame, sans M23
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Free Congo - Official video
(Gradur, Ninho, Damso, Josman, Youssoupha & Kalash Criminel)
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M.anifest – Blue (Chale Wat Dey Happen)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/manifest-blue-chale-wat-dey-happen/
Kwame Ametepee Tsikata (born November 1982), aka M.anifest, is a Ghanaian musician, rapper and record producer.
M.anifest is an award-winning Ghanaian rapper and musician known for musical boundary crossing, multilingual wordplay, and a refreshing approach that acknowledges both his Ghanaian upbringing and his sojourns in the West. [...]
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Petite Noir — La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful
https://amf.didiermary.fr/petite-noir-vie-belle-life-beautiful-baloji/
Two collaborations between Petite Noir (Yannick Diekeno Ilunga, a South African raised, Belgian born, Congolese singer & songwriter) and Baloji: “La Vie Est Belle / Life Is Beautiful” + “Capture” where both feature on each other songs. […]
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Baloji – Zombies (short film)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/kaniama-show-baloji-zombies-short-film/
Kaniama Show is Baloji‘s first short film, a fictional satire about the collusion of State and media powers in an unidentified African country.
It’s part of multiple projects and releases by the artist in 2018, with a long-play single track: ‘Kaniama: The Yellow Version’. […]
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Cassper Nyovest – Ksazobalit
https://amf.didiermary.fr/cassper-nyovest-ksazobalit/
Ksazobalit (K’Sazobalit) is a song by Cassper Nyovest in 2018, where he imagines “The Day we Take Back Our Land”.
"The rapper’s tongue-in-cheek video takes inspiration from the memes and tweets about what black South Africans will do with it when land that was stolen from them by colonialists is returned."
Okayafrica
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Nigeria bans airing of song criticising president
"Artist Eedris Abdulkareem's lyrics slam President Bola Tinubu and urge his influential son, Seyi, to let his father know 'people are dying' through hardship and insecurity and there is 'hunger' in the country."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8v4601q30o
PS: For many in Naija, Tinubu's nickname is "Tpain".
Listen below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3h0L-qv864
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Aby Ngana Diop
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rss-club/aby-ngana-diop/
Senegalese griot Aby Ngana Diop was famous for her taasu, a form of oral poetry spoken to the rhythmic accompaniment of sabar and tama drums. Taasu is typically created and performed by griot women (a class of poets, storytellers and/or musicians), with a lead taasukat (practitioner of taasu) performing her distinct style of heightened, rhythmically […]
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Phoka Ea Boroa - Maraba Feat. Ntate Stunna & Sannere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnmwrPCvOWM
There's a classic accordion sample, a direct nod to the Famo tradition: https://amf.didiermary.fr/famo-from-lesotho/
Onipa – Open my Eyes
https://amf.didiermary.fr/onipa-open-my-eyes/
Onipa’s debut single “Open My Eyes” sets the tone for their high octane fusion of styles, weaving together Congolese guitars lines, disco drums, synth bass and K.O.G’s distinctive pidgin rap. The song tells us how in a world full of confusion and distraction, we sometimes need to look inside ourselves for the answers. […]
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Onipa – Off the Grid
https://amf.didiermary.fr/onipa-off-the-grid/
Off the Grid by Onipa is a journey that joins the origin story of dance rhythms from Africa to electronic dance music of today’s clubs and festivals, connecting African folklore and storytelling to rap, jazz and hip hop.
Video shot around the coast of Accra in Ghana. […]
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Dey – Seun Kuti Feat. Damian Marley
https://amf.didiermary.fr/rss-club/dey-seun-kuti-damian-marley/
Dey, produced by Lenny Kravitz, with Damian Marley as author, is the first single from the upcoming album by Seun Kuti and Egypt 80, Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head), expected on October 4. Afrobeat for sure!
“This is the first time that Kutis and Marleys have collaborated and recorded together.”
More on AMF: https://amf.didiermary.fr/heavier-yet-seun-kuti/
Mista Savona – Havana Meets Kingston
https://amf.didiermary.fr/mista-savona-havana-meets-kingston-full-album/
“Havana Meets Kingston” was an original release in 2017 – a world-first project bringing together musicians & artists from the two Caribbean islands of Jamaica and Cuba. Recorded at Egrem Studios in Centro Habana, and Bob Marley‘s Tuff Gong Studio in Kingston, Jamaica.
Includes fresh versions of “Chan, Chan,” “El Cuarto De Tula,” and [...]
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Prophets of da City – Never Again
https://amf.didiermary.fr/prophets-of-da-city-never-again/
A track that’s part of (music) history.
PoC (Prophets of da City) was the 1st HipHop group/crew to release in South Africa and the only group to be banned pre and post apartheid!
Prophets of da City (POC) is a socially conscious […]
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