The Uganda HipHop Awards is an annual Hiphop award ceremony that is dedicated to providing a fair platform for all Ugandan Hip-hop acts, through awards show that showcases the past, present and future of the genre in Uganda. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented....
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The Uganda Lacrosse national team (Lacrosse Cranes) will start their 2023 World Championship expedition against Japan on the morning of Friday, June 23 in San Diego. The team left Uganda on June 16, 2023 and has since settled in well. The official opening ceremony was colourful. “We trained well and are ready to give our best in the […]
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The world-renowned Recording Academy, owners of the prestigious Grammy Award, has invited and inducted some other music stars as members of the 2023 class of Recording Academy. Legendary Ugandan rapper GNL Zamba and his partner/wife Miriam Tamar are among those invited and have accepted to join the Academy as voting members of the class of […]
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Uganda’s promising teenager Abdul Latif Ssendyowa was selected to compete in the International Tennis Federation (ITF)/ Confederation of African Tennis (CAT) 16 & Under Turfing team for 2023 in Kenya and Rwanda. Ssendyowa was among the six juniors selected on the African continent to train in Kenya and Rwanda between 30th June to 26th August 2023 to […]
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Hip-hop, a musical genre defined by its rebellious nature and roots in social activism, has shifted from being underground to mainstream in the past half a century. With that shift, changes in style, cadence, and lyricality have followed, creating an almost unrecognizable scene where artists are more obsessed with fame than creating listenable music. Starting […]
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Music branding for a rapper is a powerful marketing tool for creative artists doing hip-hop music. It’s the reflection of their overall message, identity, personality, style, values, beliefs, ambitions, and music. In other words, branding is everything that helps people identify and experience your unique brand. A rapper should always try and build around the vision he started with. This comes […]
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Hip-hop has quickly taken root in the Kenyan popular music scene, with local artists building on the genre’s American roots, translating it to the local context and using it to transform the lifestyles of young people in urban centres. In recent years, there has been a remarkable emergence of female rappers in Kenya, breaking barriers […]
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Across Africa, a new generation of rappers is emerging. Drawing on the explosion of UK drill and contemporary hip-hop sonics, and creating new flows and wordplay out of their native languages, these artists are shaping new, often hyper-localised styles of rap, and bringing stories of racism, politics, gender and poverty into the spotlight. In 2020, […]
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Renowned Kenyan rapper and producer George Mugai, widely known as Madtraxx, recently revealed the reasons behind his extended hiatus from the music scene. In an interview on the Iko Nini podcast, Madtraxx opened up about the significant events that led to his break from music, shedding light on his foray into the hotel business and […]
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Hip hop has always been a voice of the disenfranchised and a medium where artists could channel their frustrations about the world around them through music. In Kenya, challenges with unemployment, crime, and poverty has influenced several hip hop artists to talk about their life struggles in their music. Kenyan hip hop artist Kevin Ambalwa […]
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