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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].
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 .
Eugene kwadwo Boadu Baah, better known by his stage name Choirmaster (born 26 July 1982) is a Ghanaian hip life/afropop singer-songwriter, record producer and entrepreneur. He became widely known as the leader of the defunct hiplife group Praye before going solo.
Friction is the founder and former leader of the legendary Ghanaian Hiplife Music Group VIP (now VVIP). [1] This group has become one of Ghana's most well known Hiplife music groups, and subject of documentaries such as HomeGrown: Hiplife in Ghana [2] and the book The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop. [3]
On August 17, 2012, C-Real released the music video for the album's title track "Em.Ceo"; it was directed by SABA Arts and uploaded to YouTube. [16] The video was also nominated for Best Hip Hop Video at the 2012 4Syte Music Video Awards. [17] The Nana Kofi Asihene-directed music video for "Opeimu" was released on July 19, 2013. [18]
However the hip life group conquered the Ghana music charts with their 2003 album Ahomka Womu; their single also named "Ahomka Womu" was number one on the Ghanaian charts for over 20 weeks. VIP won five awards at the Ghana Music Awards from the hit single and the group gained international exposure after this success. [ 4 ]
4syte Music Video Awards 2012 Winner- Best Choreographed Video. [1] [12] Liberia's Global Ambassadors for Peace. [3] keche's exclusive photoshoot, where they depict the efforts put into their rebranding VGMA 2011 Nominee- Hip Life/Hip Hop Artist of the Year. [1] [12] VGMA 2012 Nominee- Best Group, Hip Life Song of the Year, Popular Song of the ...
5Five became a household name in Ghana after their song African Gurlz won two awards at the Ghana Music Awards in 2008. The group was formed in Adabraka a suburb of Accra. . Their debut single was Bull (4 Better 4 Worse) was released in 2005, and then did a remix of it with Batman Samini now Samini was done and put on the Appietus compil