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Hiplife is a Ghanaian musical style that fuses Ghanaian culture and hip hop. [1] Recorded predominantly in the Ghanaian Akan language , hiplife is rapidly gaining popularity in the 2010s throughout West Africa and abroad, especially in the United Kingdom , United States , Canada and Germany [ citation needed ] .
8 Hiplife. 9 Ghanaian Drill. 10 Reggae. 11 Composers/others. 12 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... This is a list of notable past and present musicians in ...
Oduro-Frimpong, Joseph. "The Pleasure(s) of Proverb Discourse in Contemporary Popular Ghanaian Music: The Case of Obrafour’s Hiplife Songs." Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's Proverbs, edited by Franics B. Nyamnjoh, Patrick Nwosu, and Hassan M. Yoimbom.
In the year 2006, he won the Hiplife Artiste of the Year as well as the Hiplife Album of the Year, with his song "Toffee". This award won him so much recognition in and outside Ghana. [8] In the year 2011, he won the Best Hiplife Song of the Year which featured Asamoah Gyan with the song "African Girls". [8]
Gh hip hop, Gh rap or Ghana hip hop is a hip hop genre, subculture and art movement that developed in Ghana during the late 1990s. The hip-hop genre came into existence in Ghana through Reggie Rockstone , who is known as the hip-life father, [ 1 ] and other notable musicians such as Jayso and Ball J .
Pae Mu Ka played a part in popularizing rap mixed with used of traditional performance in Ghana, contributing to the acceptance of the genre. The album serves as a model for hiplife rap albums. [7] Okra Tom Dawidi, one of many Ghanaian artists influenced by the album, recounts how the album was a source of inspiration for his musical pursuit. [7]
The hiphop genre came into existence in Ghana through Reggie Rockstone, who is known as the hiplife father [10] and other notable musicians such as Jayso and Ball J. It first came to Ghana as Hiplife where Reggie Rockstone introduced a fusion of hiphop beats with African sounds to create a whole new genre known as Gh hiphop.
He became the first Ghanaian hiplife artist to perform with a live band in Ghana with his performance named "HIP LIVE." [citation needed] "Abuskeleke" was his first hiplife song to be sung live, and as a result was branded the title track of his 2003 album. [15] "Scɛnti Noo," or "Scent Noo," was a controversial hit song that talked about ...