Narratively. Music | Tech |
Narratively. Music | Tech |
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Checking through YouTube for some new music locally and around the world. Earlier on today, I stumbled on yet another new music video from Mun G released not so many days ago – I paused and watched. While watching I remembered he had dropped “Bintwala” which was on heavy rotation on TV and radio. Most …
I learnt the hard way. I used to tweet links and tag people thinking they are so passionate about hip hop but most ignored the links less I was writing about them or their friends. I have received texts from budding artists asking about music sharing. Most of them have made the same mistakes I made. We will answer those questions.
Over the past few years, some international rappers have died due to drug overdose, rappers like Mac Miller who died at 26, Juice Wrld who recently died at 21,just to mention a few. The Hip Hop industry in America has a bad image of rappers selling drugs, using drugs and misusing drugs at the same …
At the genesis of Hip hop, the worldwide appeal wasn’t foreseeable, but now, almost 50 years later; it’s impossible to imagine a planet without hip hop and rap music. On the Ugandan scene, hip hop has been described as a “wanna be” genre, with radio and television presenters not [most of the time] playing hip …
Magdalene is spiritual. It’s human vulnerability put out for us to observe and absorb. Magdalene at it core is not necessarily a hip hop album. Precious has the hip hop edge to her (if you remember “Enough” on Drugs EP), but on here she delivers soulfully over experimental and intentioned trap and rnb beats.
The cover art to this album is a painting of Jesus’ appearance to Magdalene.
While simply uploading music and hoping for the best works out for some, most musicians need to promote their work if they want to make their mark with audiences. Music promotion is a broad term that covers everything from urging fans to listen to new music over social media to launching a costly professional PR …
I had a conversation with an old friend of mine – about life, work an life again and really just life. Life encompasses; work, love, pain and more. The topics we had were revolving around work, finances and then hip hop. He said something about how UG Hip Hop has a lot of it’s politics, …
I grew up a middle child. I am between two generations in my family. I am a big brother with two big brothers and a big sister. I was the last born for about seven years. My big sister introduced me to music generally, and one of my brothers who I looked up to sort …