MTV Base Africa and Shell have partnered in another initiative to shoot some excellent music videos for a number of African musicians. They have already shot videos for Ghana's Tinny (Incomplete), South Africa's HHP (Music and Lights) and Kenya's Nikki (Kipofu).

The first MTV Making the Video Challenge with Shell partnered Little X, the Toronto-born music video director behind cutting edge music videos with Sean Paul, Jay Z and Rihanna, with South African video directors, Kwaito artist Bleksem and Mozambique's Dama do Bling on their exciting single collaboration, 'Wena Uthini' (also known as Thula Uzoyiboma). Bleksem has been riding high on the success of his 'How low can you go' track with DJ Cleo. Dama do Bling is one of Africa's best female emcees and she has also released singles from her new album (Chamadas para a Bling), including 'Gimme love'.

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  Album One people
  Artistes Chemphe
  Language English/Pidgin/Twi
  Runtime 4:56
  Video URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwRUwrJXjzs
  Writer Chemphe
  Year 2008

Museke.com caught Hiplife legend Reggie Rockstone at the tail end of his trip to America and asked him a few questions. Below is the transcript of the interview.

Museke.com: How be Chale?
Rockstone: I’m fine.

Museke.com: How have you liked your trip to the US so far?
Rockstone: (It’s been) interesting. I have been privileged to travel and meet people all over the world, especially Ghanaians. The reaction from my people is always interesting. I document almost all of my travels, I will eventually turn them into a documentary. I have footage from everywhere in the world; conversations, reactions, etc. I carry a camcorder almost everywhere. I’ve eaten different kinds of food, it’s a different kind of environment.

Museke.com: Can you tell us about your background and family?
Rockstone: My father, who I call one of my best friends, was Ricky (Ricci) Osei, a legendary fashion designer. I grew up in a very artistic background. I was in a musical house and was not discouraged from the arts. I was known for my break dance skills, and I went to drama school for acting. I was a two-time junior taekwondo champion in Ghana. I have about four faces of Reggie – Ricky’s son, the martial artist, the dancer, the musician. I grew up all over the world, and am still growing up. I was born in England, grew up in New York, Accra, Little Rock (Arkansas), Kumasi, etc.

Amanfuor! I hope i'm not the only dude on this forum seeing this trend of Crunk music infiltrating our favourite hiplife genre. Let me first admit the fact that i'm really impressed with the quality of crunk they are putting out so far. If anybody has been following my postings, they will come to a realization that i'm not a big fun of hiphop let alone crunk hiphop. Not to say i never liked hiphop before but i changed with maturity, that's all. All the same, i like to give credit where it's due. Below are some of the Crunk hiplife music i have watched on either Ghanamusic.com or youtube which i think deserves some recognition.

Okyeame Kwame, The Rap Doctor-"Woso Rmx"
The latest one i just watched which i must admit prompted me to get off my bed and start writing this article is that of our own respected hiplife artist, Okyeame Kwame, the Rap Doctor. I was more impressed with the content of the song itself and a little credit to Okyeame kwame for his delivery of flow. Features Richie. Check out the link for the video

Okay, so these songs are not really ordered but here's the jolly good news. We are presenting to you the 20 Ghanaian artistes whose songs are hot, lekker, and fantabulous and you should know about.

It's not the easiest thing to say which song is the most popular, but you can make a case for whichever you choose. And please let us know the glaring omissions we've made.

Here's your chart/countdown/menu for the month of July. Click the artistes to find more information.

Asem - Give me blow, Likkle girl
Okyeame Kwame - Woso, Medo mmaa
Barima - African money, Aboa bi
Kwabena Kwabena - Do ne bi, Fakye
Kwaw Kese - Mbaa pe wo, Odiem

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  Artistes Zagunor
  Language Pidgin English
  Runtime 4:24
  Video URL http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1641350_utnre/Zagunor_Election_Time1.mp3
  Writer Kafui Dey
  Year 2008

Do you remember the track Girlz Girlz? The song received massive airplay in late 2003 and it came as an answer to Okomfour Kwaadee's Boyz Boyz. Girls Girls introduced Triple M, made up of Mildred Mark-Hansen, Mercy Quarshie and Monica Tawiah, to the Ghanaian music scene. They were the first female hiplife group, even though they initially started out by singing gospel music in 1995. They never released a gospel album though. Another of their hit singles was Koti, a song about policemen who beat an irresponsible husband while his wife pleads for mercy. After the Koti album, they featured on Jay Q's Compilation, where they delivered one of 2003's biggest hits, Driver, which was the female version of Castro's Sradenam. Their sophomore debut was called 3+1=? (yes, you read that right). And then Mercy went solo, and we didn't hear much about the group. Museke.com brings you a quick update.

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  Artistes zagunor
  Language English
  Runtime 4:50
  Video URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4LdWK9z5lY
  Writer Kafui Dey
  Year 2008

As if by design, the National Theater was besieged by fans of Adole singing and heaping praises upon praises on their newly crowned heroin a few minutes after she had been pronounced winner of the second edition of TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful Reality Show. Indeed Adole deserve the crown as days to the finals she was cool, calm and very collected in her preparation to glory.

Adole might not be the fans favorite from the very beginning of the show but she crawled her way through the hearts of both viewers from her region, Greater Accra, and beyond. Her confidence, charm and beauty not doing away with her eloquence and knowledge were the key tools that took her to the finals and to the crown.

The first phase of auditions for Ghana’s search for a gospel music gem, soul search ended at the Anaji Royal Hotel, Takoradi over the weekend.

The event which started last month in Accra, saw over three hundred contestants coming out to showcase their talent with the aim of making it to the final stages of the competition.

Event organisers, Global Media Alliance expressed satisfaction with the response to the contest. Producer of the program, Sena Atoklo noted that, Season One of Soul Search is just the beginning of greater things to come. According to him, “Soul Search, a TV reality show has come to stay adding that it is GMA’s contribution towards the development of Ghanaian music industry”.