Awesome Tapes from Africa promotes African music from Gospel to Afrobeat. But what it also promotes, and is becoming known for, is African Hip-Hop. This offshoot of Western beats and rhymes is known as HipLife, and has been featured in magazines such as Fader.
Awesome tapes is another reason to remind ourselves of how lucky we are to be able to experience music our forefathers never had access to, and also just how much great music is out there. The listening experience of Hiplife is definitely enlightening and invigorating, a great addition to the ears of any Hip Hop purist.
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