NEW SPOKEN WORD SINGLE ‘EMPTY KONKO’ BY LAUD DEPOET

Laud DePoet is one of the few spoken word artistes who, in his own way, helping push the genre out to many people. Despite being young, he can be described as a veteran, considering the number of years he has been involved with spoken word/poetry. He has started a new spoken word series called Empty Konko and has released the […]

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RHYME SONNY RELEASES CV OF SIN

‘Lord! It’s been a while/My face looks like the residential quarters of smile but deep within me is bitterness/ I’ve become bitter than the bile because the things/ I used to preach against has become my style’ This is how one of Ghana’s foremost contemporary poets, Rhyme Sonny opens his latest spoken word single CV of Sin. The poem, as […]

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ARTISTES TO WATCH IN 2016

Each year, new artistes bubble from the fringes into the mainstream and  become stars in their own right. As it is with the music industry, artistes picked for greater and bigger things sometimes don’t see success. Those who don’t get mentioned end up becoming huge by the end of the year. This notwithstanding, predictions must be made and in this […]

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FAVOURITE POETRY EVENTS IN 2015

The poetry scene was a busy one in 2015 with a lot shows with new talents emerging on the scene. Though, not a huge genre in Ghana, it is gradually garnering attention among a section of the populace. In this post, I asked some friends to share their best moments in respect of poetry events in 2015. EP LAUNCH OF […]

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AN INTERPRETATION OF BLITZ THE AMBASSADOR’S DIASPORADICAL TRILOGIA

  If you are reading this and asking who Blitz The Ambassador is, well the only thing I can suggest you do is hit the Google button. If you live in Ghana (born and bred) and was of age in the late 90s and early 2000s, you might have heard the name Baza. If you are didn’t please take a […]

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PART 2: ARTISTES WHO RULED GHANA MUSIC IN 2015

This is the second list of artistes who ruled the music scene in Ghana in 2015. The first part was published on the 20th of January 2016. You can check the list here. EL: If there is anything that makes me a big EL fan it is not his talent (that is not in doubt). It is his work ethic […]

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PART 1: ARTISTES WHO RULED GH MUSIC IN 2015

2015 was not short of music. Wherever one turned, you heard new music from both established and up-coming artistes. Whiles some of the songs that ultimately became the soundtrack to our lives were made hits via mainstream radio (which usually is the case with A-rated artistes), some broke through courtesy the underground channel, forcing mainstream to give them their deserved […]

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LA PAILLOTE TAKPEPE PRESENT THE WRITE EXPERIENCE II

Kwame Write presents the second edition of ‘The Write Experience’, a project which aims at bringing together artists from different parts of Africa for cultural exchange and social activism on Wednesday 27th January, 2016 at Alliance Française Accra, at 7:30pm. Last year, The Write Experience had a strong message about the essence of appreciating our environment through a fusion of […]

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ALBUM REVIEW: ELOM BY EL

  The sophomore album of EL is one fans had been waiting for since his debut landed in 2012. Something Else, the 20 track double CD officially saw EL emerge out of the cave of semi-anonymity to the throes of stardom. Elorm Adablah winning the Best Hip-hop Artiste at the 2015 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards was not by default. His […]

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THE CUTS

The Cut bring to its readers a weekly music or albums list by mostly Ghanaian artistes that this writer deem worth listening or having in your playlist. The music is not genre and/or regionally specific. Once it is good, it will be covered here. XTACY- BELUBIE: It’s a rarity in these times to find young artistes performing highlife music so […]

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