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Ken Daniels and Navio star in New Documentary : Confused African – it’s out on 6 March
Hip hop has a huge role in society as a genre of music. Music has always had an impact on lives – Confused African is a new documentary highlights music’s impact on Corruption, politics and immigration. The brain behind it is Swahili Nation’s very own Ken Daniels, who explores his journey as a Ugandan abroad…
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3 African books that shape the second verse on AJO’s new single, ‘Nuba’
Nuba is the second official single off African Reality, an album AJO is currently working on. It is a fully fledged African-Centric project which AJO is highly inspired working towards. According to him, the commentary he offers with the rhetorics he puts forward – we need to look at the future, past and present to appreciate…
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Premeire: ‘Rapture’ – Brian Wade
Rapture is Brian Wade’s latest single off his forthcoming album ROOTS. He offered a mixtape about two months ago and promised us he will be working an album that will take a controlled direction. Brian Wade has been making good music and Rapture solidifies his ability to flip from one sound to the other and…
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Benny Black’s W.Y.K. invites us to talk about Depression – We should be proud
Other than the rap shit, what do you know about me? – if that particular line doesn’t pierce your back then your spine needs checking. W.Y.K (What You Know) is a sort of tribute song, reactionary artistry and a call to talk about depression. First off, we (NuveyLive) are proud of Benny Black for talking about…
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Kijanah teams up with Brooks & Alikaliba on ‘Eggwanga’ to voice concern for UG
One of the sampled voices simply invites you into these three rappers’ plea and plight. ‘Eggwanga Lyaffe‘ says the voice which loosely translates to: ‘the country is ours’ Kijanah is a budding rapper who is passionate about making trap inspired sounds about having a good time but due to the current political atmosphere in UG…
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Clear The Air, Part four: ‘Can’t a Girl go Ahead without giving Head?’
First off, I need to admit my crush on Ginsu. Like FAM, I have a thing –it is only a thing and I like to keep it at that. In fact when I heard she gone gospel it was like a turn on FAM. We all know a crush often leads to burning – Atlas…
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‘Jinja Bred’ release party in a nut shell: Yay and Nay
Jinja Bred out! Shout out Play01 for braving this and it got done – Milestone! Lots of effort were put in to have the party set and going last night (5th October). One can’t help but think of the studio sessions, production, mixing and mastering. Event planning and all it takes to put together an…
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Premiere: Brian Wade is back in soul-ful style with Dream
Brian Wade is back in soul-ful style with Dream. It is not like he ever left! About two months ago he released his mixtape; Synesthetic and followed through with a freestyle. He has managed to drop back to back music this year with another of the projects having implication messages in them like Obulamu bwo…
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Clear The Air, Part Three: An all UG Hip Hop Awards – what’s wrong?
I would love to welcome you from last week – a week that was filled with much activity and excitement. Headlines or equivalents read: Bibala video out! , 2017 UG Hip Hop Awards nominees announced and so much more. Last week the conversation was around millennials and how we need to share knowledge and acquire…
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Clear The Air, Part Two: Don’t blame the Millennials, teach them about Hip Hop
Welcome back to Clear The Air Series. If this is your first read in the series, welcome! Last week we put out part one of the series – Clear The Air, Part One: A defence for Ugandan Trap music (read it here). This week’s episode will move further away from the trap music topic and…