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Jack Parow — “Dans Dans Dans”
Jack Parow delivers gold-gilded rhymes (and boxing shorts) with "Dans Dans Dans." We want to "f**ken, f**ken dans" too -- the hypnotic synth and Francois van Coke's...
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Jack Parow — “Cooler As Ekke’
No one on the corner has swagger like Jack Parow, South African rapper who drops braggadocios knowledge in “Cooler as Ekke” – “cooler than me.” If it weren’t for Jack’s...
Live
Baloji Enchants Brooklyn
Congo-born emcee Baloji’s nom de guerre means “sorcerer” in Swahili and Chiluba. His album Kinshasa Succursale has certainly cast a spell over listeners with its blend...
Interview
Breaking Barriers with Baloji
Congolese-Belgian hip hop artist Baloji took some time to talk with us when he brought his culture melding music to the US. Find out how he synthesizes his...
Live
Baloji — “Nazongi” (Live)
Baloji mixes vintage Afro-jazz with modern hip hop and brings them to a boil in an intimate venue in Brooklyn. Watch him cook with a live band and very live audience in...
Live
Baloji — “Independence Cha Cha” (Live)
The song “Independence Cha Cha” has a special place in the history of the Congo. Legendary bandleader Joseph “Grand Kalle” Kabasele released the song in 1960 when the...
Music Video
Taxi Violence — “The Turn”
At a time when just about every new band dabbles in electro-this or synth-that, Taxi Violence is a blast of pure classic rock from Cape Town, South Africa. Muscular...
interview
Spoek Mathambo Is Not Exotic
South Africa's prince of Township Tech, poster child for Afro-futurist electropop, husband of Sweden's Gnucci Banana, a one-man genre-blender who paints with music and...
slideshow
Spoek Mathambo @ Lincoln Center: Electro With a Jo’burg Stride
Johannesburg producer/rapper/DJ Spoek Mathambo is a persistently ubiquitous name in electronic music, having worked with the likes of Mad Decent, Schlachthofbronx, and...
review
Spoek Mathambo @ Lincoln Center
On Sunday night in New York, with the hot sky threatening to pour down on Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park at any moment, a multi-culti crowd sporting big hair and...
Music Video
Goldfish — “We Come Together”
South Africa jazz house group Goldfish took their animated video style to a whole new level on "We Come Together." Now you'll feel like you're playing a nautical, Star...
blog
Spoek Mathambo Signs to Sub Pop, Gives Away Free Track
Since before his debut last summer, we've rooted like maniacs for Spoek Mathambo. We're elated, yet wholly unsurprised that he was signed to Sub Pop this week.
Yes,...
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10 Neon Bands: A Trend With That Special Glow
Looking to add a little pop and pizzazz to your band name, but you hate thinking? There's an easy way! First, think of a noun. Now make it neon. And you're done! Wasn't...
blog
Congo Band Benda Bilili Gets a Dangerous Documentary
There is nothing I want more than for Congo band Staff Benda Bilili to make it really, really big. Bigger than MJ. Hmm...how about a write-up on MTV?
Staff Benda...
blog
Core Wreckah Gives Us a First Taste of Hip Hop from Lesotho
Where's that?
The tiny, landlocked nation of Lesotho in Southern Africa is not a place we hear much music from. In fact, as far as we could tell, there wasn't going...
blog
South Africa’s Goldfish Found Their Biggest, Awesomest Fan
I am not entirely sure what's happening in this video, but the awesomeness cannot be denied.
It would seem that a huge fan of South Africa jazz house legends Goldfish...
blog
Spoek Mathambo’s Next Video Will Be Out Of “Control”
I thought that Spoek Mathambo's video for "Don't Mean to Be Rude" off 2010's Mshini Wam was pushing the envelope. But, really, there's nothing that groundbreaking about...
blog
Spoek Mathambo And Gnucci Banana Present Pero Spicey Mixtape
Wedded international party fiends South Africa's Spoek Mathambo and Sweden's Gnucci Banana make a pretty dangerous team. They've combined their complementary flavors of...
interview
Q&A With Baloji: On Swahili Hip Hop, Secret Police, And His Mama
Congo-born Belgian-bred virtuosic rapper Baloji (or "sorcerer") is hard at work promoting his LP Kinshasa Succursale, an African-language version of his French debut,...
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Artist of the Week: Congolese-Belgian Rapper Baloji!
All the votes are in, an Baloji is the MTV Iggy Artist of the Week! Congratulations Baloji!
The Congo-born, Belgium-raised epic hip hop artisan will adorn MTV Iggy’s...