AN INTERPRETATION OF ‘NYAME BRA’ BY PAPPY KOJO

On Nyame Bra, Pappy Kojo tells the world he is ready to carve and walk on his own path  First off, let me put this across that I’ve not watched a video as many times as I have watched Pappy Kojo’s Nyame Bra. I have watched it four times since its release last Thursday. The only music video I watched […]

THE CUTS

THE CUTS brings you a short, unbiased review of latest music and videos from Ghanaian artistes and artistes from other African regions. Once it is dope, it will be featured here. _________________ Top: Kwame Write, AYAT, Mr. Eazi Down: MsBRedd, AnsahLive, Mutombo DaPoet _________ AYAT feat KaySo – IDKY Finally, the long awaited video from rapper AYAT and KaySo IDKY […]

ALBUM REVIEW: VILLY & THE XTREME VOLUMES – HUMANIMALS

Villy & The Xtreme Band air out their frustrations about leadership and injustice in Africa in a defiant yet enchanting manner over amazing grooves on their latest EP ‘Humanimals’     Villy & The Xtreme Volumes new EP is short and heavy in content. Humanimals is a 6 track EP which runs for 32 minutes. The heaviness of the album […]

When Artistes Choose To Self Destruct

One of the frequent tricks life present us are risks and opportunities to make decisions within a split second. The impact of these decisions are sometimes far reaching and life altering. It could make or unmake you as an individual. Whereas good decisions rake in good returns, bad decisions mostly lead to substantial losses. In the entertainment world, consequences of […]

THROWBACK THURSDAY: BEN BRAKO – NTAASE

When the conversation on highlife music of the 80s is broached, a lot of deserving names would be thrown into the mix as those who not only shaped the new sound of highlife music- from the classical or traditional highlife sound of the 50s and 70s to the burger (borga) highlife (named after the German city of Hamburg). These artistes […]

CORNFIELDS IN ACCRA – KNUST END OF YEAR EXHIBITION 2016

blaxTARLINES KUMASI and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board present: Project Space for Contemporary Art CORNFIELDS IN ACCRA KNUST END OF YEAR EXHIBITION 2016 Friday 17th June, 2016 – Saturday 13th August, 2016. Museum of Science and Technology, Accra. Kevin Boamah Abankwa. Untitled from The Selfie Series (2016). Image courtesy of Elolo Bosoka/blaxTARLINES KUMASI. blaxTARLINES KUMASI, Project Space for Contemporary […]

THE CUTS

The Cut bring to readers weekly music or album list by mostly but not limited to Ghanaian artistes which this writer deem worth listening or having on your playlist. The music is not genre and/or region specific. Once it is good, it will be covered here. KO-JO CUE Feat. Mr. Eazi – My BayBey How to do express your gratefulness […]

THIS WEEK IN ACCRA CITY

A lot of activities would be witnessed in Accra this weekend and on the entertainment scene, these two events are a must attend.  Here are reasons why you should take note. YOYOTINZ WEBSITE LAUNCH Afro cultural hiphop and graffiti curators and promoters, YOYOTINZ would this Friday 10th June, 2016 officially launch their website at Brazil House, James Town. The event […]

THE CUTS

JAYSO – 0106 A couple of months back during the premiering of ‘Little Monsters’ video and the official launch of his album Making Tasha Proud, I posed a question to JaySo: whether it was deliberate on his part to produce almost entirely his debut album. His answer was short and simple: the producers he asked beats from did not send […]

DID KO-JO-CUE REVEAL A SECRET ABOUT SOME OF YOUR FAVOURITE RAPPERS?

  Hip hop or rap music and boastful talk sit side by side. Whiles some actually live the boastful talk in real life, some just live the life they speak of in their lyrics. For these crop of rappers, their dreams and fantasies can only be captured in their words, after all there’s nothing wrong with fantasizing.   The subject […]