Nigerian star's stunning sophomore effort is the buzzy, visceral, sweat-it-out music that no one else in the mainstream is making. First, Rema doubled down on his hometown iconography on the album’s ...

Ghanaian multi-disciplinary creative, Nii Mantse Aryeequaye, has spoken about a documentary on hiplife he produced in 2008. The celebrated voice-over artiste and the Founder of the Chalewote Street ...

Many musicians in Ghana do not make money from their careers. Wikimedia Commons Ghanaian parents have historically discouraged their children from becoming musicians or marrying musicians. A music ...

Preceded by a crew of gymnasts who shot fire — and themselves — high in the air, Black Sherif earned a hero’s welcome when he took the stage at the El-Wak Stadium in Accra, Ghana, to headline the ...

Award-winning Reggae-Dancehall musician professionally known as Iwan has firmly argued that Hiplife has lost its prominence. As contended by Iwan, Hiplife’s lost of prominence can be attributed to the ...

An exhibition dubbed: "Ghana­Expo 2023" to showcase new business opportunities in more than 10 sectors of the Ghanaian econ­omy to international investors is to be held in Accra. Slated for March 9 ...

Quophi Okyeame, a broadcaster and one-half of the defunct hiplife duo Akyeame, is not enthused about the BBC’s hiplife documentary on hiplife. The artiste, registering his displeasure about the ...

The story of Ghana’s music genre through personal accounts of key artists and creatives in the scene from past and present. Featuring pioneering icons such as Reggie Rockstone, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, ...

Hiplife is a music genre birthed in Ghana in the early 90s from a fusion of American hip-hop and Ghanaian highlife music. It established itself as music with a truly African identity for a new ...