• View all from Wanlov da Kuborlor
  Artistes Wanlov da Kuborlor, Manifest MC, M.O.A, Mensa
  Album Green card
  Year 2007
  Writer Emmanuel Owusu Bonsu
  Language Twi, English
  Track # 16
  Runtime 4:22

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  Artistes Faizel MC
  Album Kamata
  Year 2008
  Writer Fauz Bashir
  Language Swahili, Luganda

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  Artistes Mokobe, Viviane Ndour
  Album Mon Afrique
  Year 2007
  Writer Mokobe Traore
  Language French
  Runtime 3:34
  Video URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Vlah6vkao

Museke: How are you?
Naija Nitemare: Gud men..chillinn workin hard on both mixtapes n da album cummin out early next year...

Museke: Can you tell us about your background and family?
Naija Nitemare: Yea...born n brougth up in NIGERIA(EDO STATE) moved down here wen I was 12 yearz wif da fam...started rappin wen I was 10..but didn't put out
nuthin till my big break in 2006..gettin signed under hoodridaz ENT.
now run a lable called "SLUM CITY BOYZ" so eva since den I've been doin
me.

Museke: How did you get the name Naija Nitemare?
Naija Nitemare: Da name naija came 4rm da luv of my country while nitemare was given 2 me by linzo my C.E.O, I added both 2gether n it came out hot n raw...

Recently on Al Jazeera TV's One on One, Sudanese hip-hop singer and activist Emmanuel Jal was featured. Aged only seven, he became a child soldier sent from Sudan to fight in Ethiopia's brutal war. Through a lot of luck and determination, he managed to turn his life around, becoming one of Africa's hottest music stars.

Check out the interview and some of his music videos below

This is part 2 of the interview with Richie, Asem and OJ Blaq. Check out the first instalment at this link.

Museke: What is the inspiration for the songs you write?
Asem – Inspiration is divine, someone might say, you look at your environment and write songs. God inspires you to see what you see around. What people say through conversation and when someone passes a phrase, you catch it and use in the studio. You use someone’s experience - life experiences.

OJ Blaq – It comes from around, reality, what happens in the world and the people in the studio. Everybody around would give you ideas, it’s like a family. People give pointers, Richie directs most of the works I do. Anybody around who is also musically inclined chips in, and if it works out, we take it. We don’t mind who talks, if it’s good for what Lynx is doing, it’s allowed. You see realities around. If you feel what you bring (that) something out, it would make people comfortable, then you use it.

Richie – It comes from within and without. Music is inside of me so I get some ideas from divine inspiration and some from my environment and people around me.

Museke: Richie, where did you learn to make beats and what are some songs you’ve done beats for?
It was self-taught. I started making beats because I was suffering to find producers who could make beats for the kind of music I wanted to do. I have this belief that with determination everything is possible. I started when I was 17.
I have done beats for Scientific (Till Africa unites), Heated up (Irene n Jane), Tinny (Incomplete), Okyeame Kwame (Wo so n Mmaa), Amandzeba and Irene and Jane (Don’t want to be lonely), Tiffany (How we do it), Asem (Gimme blow), OJ Blaq (Me kura mu), among others.

3GGA de son vrai nom Maam Waali Dione est née à Cologne en Allemagne. Il rejoint sa famille aux Etats Unis et en Angleterre ou il y perfectionne son Anglais.
A 15 ans, pour des raisons familiales, il part vivre dans son pays d’origine le Sénégal ou il y apprend le woolof et le Français.

Il évolue entre le sport (Haut gradé en karaté – DO style Shotokan et licensié pendant 6 ans en D1 de la ligue du Basketball Sénégalais au sein du
Club Diarraf ), les études ( bac+ 2 ans d’universitée) et la musique
(il devient autodidacte grâce cesfréquentations dans le milieu des studios et du spectacle.)

A NOTE FROM DE INDISPENSABLES
In 1807 approximately 201 years ago the British parliament abolished slavery, a transatlantic trade that degraded the black race in those years. In 2007 the United Kingdom celebrated the 200 years of Abolishment of slavery. This gave us the inspiration to write the track ‘’I AM FREE’’ which most people prefer calling ‘’Free At Last’’.

This is our history. When we tried to study what happened in those days and wrote the original track which featured our Label mate Mtrill, It came out too strong and made a few people cry, so we decided to make it a happy song and with the help of our Label we featured International Jamaican Reggae icon Junior Reid. Who listened to the Original version and screamed and had to put pen to the remix version.

• View all from 5Five
  Artistes 5Five
  Album Your Love
  Year 2007
  Writer Luther Azamati (Papi), Jeffery Opoku Agyekum (Killy).
  Language English, French
  Runtime 4:03
  Video URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGAXsEv-2XU