One of the best live acts I saw at WOMAD last year. While Bazawule is Ghanaian and fully brings a lot of that into his music, it's worth noting he's been US and primarily NYC based for the past 10 years. His band is from all over, and he sings about bigger things than just Ghana, so I guess I feel that `Ghanaian Hip-Hop' doesn't quite capture it.
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One of the best live acts I saw at WOMAD last year. While Bazawule is Ghanaian and fully brings a lot of that into his music, it's worth noting he's been US and primarily NYC based for the past 10 years. His band is from all over, and he sings about bigger things than just Ghana, so I guess I feel that `Ghanaian Hip-Hop' doesn't quite capture it.
African diaspora hip-hop?
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