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Are you an African hip hop artist? Upload your tunes here and we may add them to next month's playlist!
You will need a media player that plays streaming mp3 music. We recommend that you install the small and free Winamp Lite player.
If you have the Itunes software installed you can follow this link to automatically receive all new African hip hop radio podcasts in your Ipod. 
翟urrent - Jan 2008 艋how 12 - Oct 2007 艋how 11 - Sept 2007 艋how 10 - July 2007 艋how 9 - June 2007 艋how 8 - March 2007 艋how 7 - Nov 2006 艋how 6 - August 2006 艋how 5 - June 2006 艋how 4 - Feb 2006 艋how 3 - Dec 2005 艋how 2 - Sept 2005 艋how 1 - June 2005 蓉rial 2 - March 2005 蓉rial 1 - Jan 2005 
Recording, rebroadcasting or any other type of duplication of the African hip hop radio stream (or parts of it) is not allowed! Copyrights are with the artists.
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January 2008 - To kick off this new year, also known as the eleventh year in the life of Africanhiphop.com, we are back with an extra long show from the headquarters. The presenting team of Drew & Juma4 is expanded with two new members who already contributed extensively to the African hip hop stable: GMB and dj 360.
The four of them present a show full of new goodies from a pan-African perspective, introducing the new albums of Kah (Kenya), Zaki and Sky 189 (South Africa) and African hip hop radio's own, dj Wanlov. A couple of exclusives including a lost Nigerian rap from 1982 by Dizzy K, an unreleased Terror Mc track, new work from Stopa and Watengwa (Tanzania), Sway (UK/Ghana) and the original and very expensive (Ghanaian) record sampled on a track by Detroit rapper Guilty Simpson. Photo above: Wanlov giving a show in Accra, December 2007 (photo by Sprite MC Africa / Lee) Then there's Wanlov who by now has already settled back in Ghana. The current non-stop dj mix is one of the last things he did before packing his bags! Our dj Lee from South Africa also met up with him in Accra for the Channel O Sprite Emcee Africa show, stay tuned for the full report on Africanhiphop.com. 
October 2007 - September and October are traditionally good months for new album releases because summer holidays in the northern hemisphere are over, and people are back at work. Even though the digital era has revolutionized the music industry, this year we still ended up with a nice pile of high quality diaspora releases.
Photo above: Baloji (Belgium/Congo) Last month we already premiered the new Zimbabwe Legit album which is out now. For October we can add, among others, Baloji (Congo/Belgium), Goreala (Kenya), M.anifest (Ghana/USA), and dj Green Lantern's African mixtape which accompanies the God's Own Country dvd. This show also marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and even though we are a bit late for the eid festivities, the studios in Hilversum (Netherlands) and Cairo (Egypt) celebrated the event together with guests Goreala & Projekt (Kenya) and Omarz (Lebanon, currently in Egypt). 
September 2007 - The August/September* African hip hop radio brings mad exclusives!! For starters, we have a world premier off the upcoming Zimbabwe Legit album - their first new recordings since 'Brothers from the mother' which they recorded in 1992. The new African Allstars posse cut unites emcees from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania.
Then, Revoltod decided to play a full hour of unreleased tracks from Cape Verde and its diaspora by the likes of KGB Squad and GBM. Cavera's contribution is a Zimbabwe special with studio guest Hajila, a Zimbabwean artist living in South Africa. *the August show was a bit late (though not retarded) so we called it the August/September edition. Photo above: Snazz D & Cashless society (South Africa) 
July 2007 - As promised, we keep 'em coming - another massive update with two studios filled to the ceilin with hype emcees from all over the continent. This month we receive four rappers from West Africa who represent the AURA (Artistes Unis pour le Rap Africain) project: Miryam (Senegal), Priss-K (Ivory Coast), Pheno-B (Niger) and Smockey (Burkina Faso). They are interviewed in the studio in French by our new presenter Guderian (Congo) who talks about anything from Smockey's political track which was censored in Burkina to female circumcision, a problem in parts of West Africa which Priss-k adresses in her rhymes.
Then it's on to Nairobi, Kenya for a 3-hour Session in association with Baobabconnections.org, presented by Bhudda Blaze who receives about ten studio guests and talks about the recent police brutality towards innocent slum dwellers which also affected some of the present emcees! We learn more about Kenyan history as Githuku does a praise poem to Mekatili wa Menza, the woman warrior. With Wenyeji, Ukoo flani, Kalamashaka, Chiz 'n Brain, Ambrose (Mandugu digital), Samantha, Kaa, Point Blank, Wakamba Wawili, Girongi, Fundi Frank, Kevin (guitar) and others... Photo above: Miryam, Priss-K, Pheno B, Smockey, Didas, Senami 
June 2007 - This month's show is a studio special with nine people jammed together in the small but comfortable African hip hop studio in Hilversum, the Netherlands. With emcees Zuluboy & dj D Boy, Rah P, Vieira, 3rd Eye, Sipho Sithole and hosts Drew, Revoltod & J4, you are in for a ride! On the occasion of their performance at B-Connected, the annual Music Mayday festival, we got to speak to all of them and there was time for a freestyle session, too.
New this month: the African hip hop podcast! You can download the entire show to your mp3 device... and you can even subscribe to our blogs through Itunes. And to those who understand French, make sure to be here next month as we will have another studio special with four emcees from West Africa. Photo above: Revoltod at the Amsterdam branch of world famous hip hop vinyl store Fat Beats, which closed down last month... 
March 2007 - Celebrating ten years online, African hip hop radio starts out with no less than five show segments which add up to nearly an entire working day of streaming audio! Six hours of brand new, unreleased, classic and rare tunes from all corners of the motherland, presented by deejays from Angola, Ghana, Ivory Coast/Senegal, Uganda, Cape Verde, Angola and of course the Netherlands.
This edition you get our one-hour special Senegal report for which we went out to Dakar, attended the Senegal hip hop awards and spoke with emcees Keyti and Dread Skizzo as well as the group Rap Attack from the Dakar 'banlieu' of Guinaw rail. New this month: playlists. Since one of the main aims of African hip hop radio is to promote new and upcoming artists, we figured you should have access to the names spelt right, and their myspace links! Then by special request, we fixed the streams of the two trial shows we did back in 2005 when Africanhiphopradio.com was launched! See the trial 1 and trial 2 links in the Archive. Photo above: Rap Attack from Senegal 
December 5, 2006 - Took a while for the November show to be uploaded so it's really a December show. But we didn't want to call it that, because there is another African hip hop radio show being edited already with fresh interviews, a report from Senegal and all the tracks that came out after we finished the present show.
New this month: presenter Boobah from Senegal/Ivory Coast, who is known for maintaining the United Nations of Hip Hop site, does a show presenting hip hop from all over West Africa. Then we got Blaze and Angel from Kenya in the studio, and Kalahari from Angola/South Africa. As usual, the Arabic hip hop world is represented in by Karim & Sphinx whose playlist features names like Cilvaringz (Moroccan-Dutch Wu Tang fam member). Photo above: Cilvaringz with Wu-tang in Ireland (image from his Myspace page) 
August 2006 - To make up for the long silence last spring, African hip hop radio is back for the second update this summer (or winter, for those below the equator). Four more hours of mostly new and as yet unplayed tracks from all over the African continent.
So what IS new? While a new top 20 of user uploads is in the making, Drew & J4 play a couple of highlights. Then we met up with Saian Supa Crew. We flew out to Gabon (West Africa) to attend this year's edition of Gabao Hip Hop, the biggest annual hip hop fest in the region, and returned with a couple of dope cuts from Gabon and Cameroon. And this month we finally got a show on Ghanaian hip hop with presenter Wanlov... Add new shows by Cavera C (Angola) and Maluka (South Africa) and you just know that you will be tuned in for the coming four hours, then to press play again! Photo above: crowd at Gabao Hip Hop, Libreville (Gabon) 2006 
June 2006 - Admittedly it's been a long wait since the last show in February, but the African hip hop radio deejays are back to broadcast their all-new tunes, news and interviews straight to your pc. This month's show features a number of very special guests including Professor Jay (Tanzania) live in the studio with Drew & J4 and an interview with Somali-Canadian emcee K'naan.
Photo above: Nako 2 Nako, auto produced group from Arusha, Northern Tanzania. Their track Mzuka can be heard in Drew & J4's show. Then we have the full recording of our African hip hop discussion at Black Soil film festival (Amsterdam) last year with Das Primeiro (Angola), Don Klemente & Guderian (Congo) and Liberian-American filmmaker Dante Kaba. Our Egyptian cornerstone Karim is back with a new co-host, dj Sphinx, and Mustafa Maluka mixes tracks from Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Joburg. The next show is already finished and will be up in the next few weeks and will feature interviews with Saian Supa Crew (France/west Africa), Emmanuel Jal (Sudan/Kenya), Nameless (Kenya), Writers Block and Jitsvinger (South Africa). Also we have hundreds of new User Uploads which you sent us through this site! |
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AfricanHipHopRadio.com is the continuation of the Rumba-Kali webcast which has been online since 1998 at Africanhiphop.com playing those tunes that you won't hear anywhere else.
AfricanHipHopRadio.com is a project of the African Hip Hop Foundation, the people behind the Africanhiphop.com website.
The production of this website was made possible through support from Digitale Pioniers, an IT development project of Dutch organization Kennisland. Web design: Hotel Technical implementation: Kees Peterse / Thomas Gesthuizen Jingles: Kid Sundance & dj Waxfiend Studio support: Vpro 3voor12 |
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