Author: Frank Ntambi

The telenovela that Uganda’s music industry has many recurring tropes: triumphant rags to riches tales, suspicious industry plants, and loveable one-hit wonders — but nothing creates drama quite like a juicy beef. Today, Uganda’s music industry’s point of entry is wider than ever, and with the market oversaturated with the likes of TV stars, Actors, […]

Michael Jackson and Eminem are two of the music world’s biggest icons, hence many fans were shocked to learn that the King of Pop once bought the rights to the Detroit rapper’s music catalog. Michael Jackson and Eminem’s music catalogs are worth millions. The two artists have both left a big mark on the music […]

It’s no secret that the “femcees” of Kenyan hip hop have been dominating the industry and redefining gender roles with performances over the past decade that deliver both hard bars and poetic lyricism. But, there’s one artist on the scene that has been steadily climbing the charts and mastering her craft at unprecedented rates: Monski. […]

Angell Mutoni is a poet, rapper, and singer-songwriter. Her eclectic music taste allows her the freedom to be musically experimental, and she often chooses to branch out into other genres such as Soul and R&B. Angell was born into an extremely artistic family. Based out of Kigali, Rwanda, she looked up to her father who […]

Hip hop in Kenya, as around the globe, provides an ideal platform for artists to share their perspectives surrounding issues of social and political importance to both themselves and the larger communities they represent. Through their verses, rappers and MCs have the ability to traverse across barriers to challenge those in power and unify their […]