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	whatchusay.com: Hip Hop Colony
		Hip Hop Colony, the new film by Director Michael Wanguhu and Russell Kenya, explores the emergence of Kenyan Hip Hop culture and it's struggles to gain legitimacy.
		Hip Hop is an integral part of the musical canopy as Hollywood and others have also come into the realization.
		Hip Hop helps the President win the elections by reaching out to the fans, the same hip hop turns around to rebuke the president and his government when they don't live up to their billing.
	www.whatchusay.com /archives/2005/10/hip_hop_colony.html (1160 words)

	Tanzanian hip hop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hip hop music has grown increasingly popular in Tanzania over the last ten years.
		Though the first generation of Tanzanian hip hop performers were modelled closely on American rappers, more recently some have begun to mix hip hop with native dance music, muziki wa dansi, taarab, Indian filmi and other styles; this fusion is sometimes called Bongo Flava.
		Tanzanian - Togolese - Turkish - Ugandan - Ukrainian - Zimbabwean
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tanzanian_hip_hop (897 words)

	Swahili Rap & Hip Hop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As it became clear that Tanzanian rappers were voicing their constructive criticism in rap, the older generation has become more supportive than they used to be.
		The Tanzanian Arts Council has recognized rap as an official genre within Tanzania's pop music, and urges young rappers to use their lyrics to discuss society's problems, such as drugs, sexual abuse and lack of education.
		Tanzanian hiphop crew X Plastaz have completed the work on their debut full length cd 'Ushanta' which is released this autumn through the Africanhiphop.com label.
	www.tanserve.com /culture/Local_hiphop.html (709 words)

	allAfrica.com: Tanzania: Hali Halisi: Rap as an Alternative Medium in Tanzania
		The emergence of hip hop in Tanzania, as depicted in the film, saw a heavy use of American rap beats and rhyme styles.
		The hip hop artists from Zanzibar that are featured in the film infuse traditional Taarab music, which is a blend of African, Arab, and Indian music styles, with modern day hip hop.
		The early stages of hip hop in Tanzania saw several English speaking hip hop artists, like Kwanza Unit, whose member KBC is featured in the beginning of the film as a DJ with Clouds FM.
	allafrica.com /stories/200607031132.html (531 words)

	JMI - JMI News - July/August issue - Hip Hop World Summit
		Hip hop is a worldwide phenomenon, a music style that has become a means for many young people to express themselves and to voice their social and political concerns, to speak up for their communities and relate their everyday lives.
		Hip hop is both music and dance, performance and discourse, a means of communication and community engagement.
		It aims to value the scope and magnitude of the hip hop enterprise, analyze the latest trends and assess the impact of the hip hop movement on youth empowerment.
	www.jmi.net /jminews/19 (257 words)

	Afropop Worldwide
		Tanzanian hip-hop is normally sung in Swahili, sometimes combined with English, and is related to the Afro-American and Caribbean styles like rap, R&B, reggae and raggamuffin.
		Man Dojo and Domo Kaya are from the largely industrial Tanzanian city of Arusha, unusual in the Bongo Flava scene at the moment.
		In 1997, the Tanzanian government made a move to tackle the issue by enforcing a copyright law, but due to the lack of money and resources, violators have rarely been prosecuted.
	afropop.org /multi/feature/ID/426/TopoftheHipHops:DaresSalaam... (2924 words)

	Public Event, UCLA International Institute
		Prior to hip hop, Tanzanian youth had little knowledge of music, no access to the music industry and no formal employment.
		Tanzanian hip hop music has become not only the voice of those youth, but also the voice of the larger society.
		This presentation, therefore, discusses the role of hip hop in Tanzania.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /showevent.asp?eventid=4781 (234 words)

	Trinity College International Hip-Hop Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When the group was initially exposed to hip hop in the early 1990s, GBS instantly fell in love with a form of music that represented life in the ghetto and spoke for people without a voice.
		Euphrates is most recently featured on "Free the P", a compilation of hip hop and spoken word, dedicated to the youth of Palestine, inspired by the global struggle for peace and justice.
		Silek first encountered hip hop music in the early 80's by ransacking the dusty shelves of a music shop and was instantly enamored with this brand new sound.
	www.trinityhiphop.org /artists.htm (4396 words)

	Black Republican Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Today he is a registered Republican, one of a growing number of "hip hop Republicans" who attended the 37th annual Republican Party Convention.
		"The hip hop mentality is to maximize your power, but the problem with politics in the fl community is that we are in one political party," said Lathan, who is co-chair of America's Black Republicans, a fl GOP group.
		The film was shot in the Tanzanian town of Bagamoyo, a former slave port.
	www.msnusers.com /BlackRepublicanNetwork/hiphoprepublicans2.msnw (1176 words)

	Africanhiphop.com :: Hip hop from the motherland :: African Rap
		Maasai hip hop to X Plastaz means a merger of traditional Maasai chants with hip hop beats based in underground 1990's hip hop, topped with Swahili lyrics discussing the lives of common people.
		Released only 2 months after Maasai hip hop was the compilation 'Bongo flava' which interestingly is the first time for a Tanzanian rap collection to be available abroad.
		The hardcore hip hop heads complain, but to the majority of the Bongo flava audience this discussion of taste is irrelevant; they just like to enjoy what they hear, and will put less stress on the importance of hearing innovative beats and next level metaphores.
	www.africanhiphop.com /index.php?module=subjects&func=viewpage&pageid=223 (1331 words)

	Hip Hop and Social Change at The Field Museum
		She is also the founder and director of the Freestyle Union which is a Washington DC based organization for hip hop artists and rappers.
		M1 – M1 aka Mutulu Olubala is a rapper and activist who has had a strong impact on the global hip hop landscape as a member of the rap duo Dead Prez.
		Yunus Rafiq – is a Tanzanian social activist and co-founder of Aang Serian Peace Village in the city of Arusha.
	www.fieldmuseum.org /hiphop/bios.html (1387 words)

	Africanhiphop.com presents: Tanzanian Hip Hop - All the crews & all the updates (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Africa especially East Africa, Tanzania needs to have its identity in hip hop we got mad talents and beats we need to abstain from sampling and change the way we produce if we are to stand a chance of making it in the world market.
		But I got even more interested in Hip hop after listening to "Rakim" who happens to be my mentor and one of the greatest emcee to ever bless the microphone and also groups like a tribe called quest, NWA, Black moon & Epmd I said it was time for me to write my first rhyme.
		I used to go watch hip hop shows and concerts and when I came back to Tanzania in mid 93 the hip hop scene had grown and I was watching behind the scene.
	www.africanhiphop.com.cob-web.org:8888 /crew/dola.htm (1162 words)

	Xplastaz.com
		The organization of Gabao Hip Hop had also dedicated the entire festival of this year to Nelly and had printed a huge poster with his picture which could be seen on the stage.
		The group became popular through their own brand of East African hip hop, which is a merger of hardcore beats, Swahili rhymes and traditional acappella Maasai music sung by a Maasai warrior who spends most of his time in a traditional environment on the Maasai steppe.
		With the passing of Nelly, the hip hop community has lost a modest but highly skilled emcee whose lyrics were tales from the grassroots of society.
	www.xplastaz.com /v2/page2.html (2766 words)

	www.myspace.com/xplastaz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And while the Tanzanian hip hop scene in its infancy certainly owed much, if not imitated directly, the hip hop music coming out of the U.S., the Bongo Flava groups take just as many cues from dancehall, Indian film music and -- in X Plastaz case -- traditional Maasai chanting.
		In the vibrant Tanzanian hiphop scene, the group X Plastaz is one of the most familiar names, with a huge following especially among the common people.
		Their music is a unique mixture of traditional chanting and elements from hip hop, ragga and even Hindi music.
	www.myspace.com /xplastaz (1400 words)

	Global Voices Online » 2005 » April
		Ndesanjo, a Tanzanian lawyer and journalist, turned blogger, finds himself living on the Vermont/New Hampshire border, adapting to New England winters and teaching Kiswahili at the School for International Training, one of the leading language and cultural training schools in the world.
		To expand the population of Tanzanian bloggers beyond journalists and computer geeks, the global blogging community may need to reach out to rappers and footballers - the heroes who capture the public’s imagination.
		The key to opening the conversations in the Tanzanian blogosphere to the rest of the world is translation from Swahili.
	www.globalvoicesonline.org /?m=20050420 (982 words)

	Tanzanian Hip Hop in the Classroom, January 7, 2006, Outreach World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Tanzanian Hip Hop in the Classroom, January 7, 2006
		This workshop series approaches music as an expression of culture and national identity, while at the same time considering ways to actively expose students to unfamiliar musical traditions that provide the "soundtrack" to world history.
		The workshop on Hip Hop in Tanzania will be led by Shani Omari.
	www.outreachworld.org /activity.asp?eventid=252 (183 words)

	Africanhiphop.com :: Hip hop from the motherland :: African Rap (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As we're about to upload a new African hip hop radio show, the Africanhiphop.com team is also packing its bags for a number of visits to African hip hop gatherings, all of which will be reported back in the next African hip hop radio update.
		The annual hip hop event on the southern tip of the continent, the African Hip Hop Indaba, is about to kick off in Cape Town, South Africa.
		With two newly released compilations, their catalogue moves away from strictly hip hop into different musical angles, though the link with the hip hop loving crowd is always there.
	www.africanhiphop.com.cob-web.org:8888 (2444 words)

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		In the last decade the Hip Hop scene in Cuba has grown spectacularly, now there are over 500 bands in the Caribbean Island.
		Synopsis: New Flavors: The Emergence of Southern Hip Hop is a 60-minute documentary film highlighting the impact that Southern Hip Hop artists have had on the rap industry.
		HIP HOP COLONY richly ties key elements of hip hop, flexibility and talent which continue to increase its dominance around the World one colony at a time.
	www.atlhiphopfilmfest.com /filmscreenings.html (3621 words)

	Introduction - KWETU ENTERTAINMENT
		The state of hip hop right now in Tanzania is very vibrant, but yet artists are still being exploited and many of them end up with fame but no apparent fortune and nothing really to show for the work they have done.
		We are determined to change this and to empower and educate artists to be more independent and invest their hard-earned income in their future development.
		To use hip hop as a means of employment to alleviate the high unemployment rate of Tanzanian youth.
	www.kwetuentertainment.com /about/about.html (744 words)

	AfricanHipHopRadio.com
		More than a few hip hop heads all around the world started this new year with the feeling that their favoured culture is in a state of emergency.
		Bring in the first Africanhiphopradio.com show of 2006 which focuses on hip hop from the grassroots.
		We even got the return of Saigon, legendary Tanzanian emcee who used to shine in the mid 90s with Deplowmatz, then left for the UK but who's back on a compilation recorded in Tanzania with Swiss emcees.
	africanhiphopradio.com /2006-show1.html (542 words)

	African-Rap: X-Plastaz
		Of all the groups to come from there, X-Plastaz are perhaps the most distinctive.
		One of the big names on the Tanzanian hip-hop scene, and increasingly regular visitors to Europe.
		The group consists of 3 grown-up MCs, two young rappers and a Maasai singer.
	www.african-rap.com /artists/X-Plastaz.html (135 words)

	AfricasGateway.com - X Plastaz - Maasai Hip Hop - New Release 16 Aug 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		X Plastaz and their album Maasai Hip Hop set out to introduce their version of this new Tanzanian sound to the rest of the world.
		X Plastaz have taken the Bronx invented hip hop culture into their homes in Arusha (‘A-Town’), a city in northern Tanzania.
		Today X Plastaz is one of the big names on the Tanzanian hip hop scene.
	www.africasgateway.com /article-print-701.html (367 words)

	MPR: Tanzania - Hip Hop Warriors (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Throughout the streets of this fast-growing city of nearly 100,000, carts and shops blast hip hop from all over the world, and young Tanzanians have fallen in love with it.
		They've employed the top names in Tanzanian hip hop to bring that message home, and they've done it with remarkable success.
		As both hip hop poets and chanting warriors fall to AIDS, it becomes all the more important for youth to find creative outlets for expression.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org.cob-web.org:8888 /features/2005/11/27_newsroom_aidsmusic2 (945 words)

	Africanhiphop.com :: Hip hop from the motherland :: African Rap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Africanhiphop.com :: Hip hop from the motherland :: African Rap
		August 2006: tune in to African Hip Hop Radio for over five hours of the latest African hip hop tunes presented by our pan-African Hip Hop dj team from all over the Motherland!
		Where no author is listed, copyright is with the African Hip Hop Foundation.
	africanhiphop.com /index.php?module=subjects&func=viewpage&pageid=223 (569 words)

	:: The Official Website of NOMADIC WAX
		Committed to her life's work of elevating the culture of hip hop, Toni has positive lasting impressions on the entire fabric that is hip hop.
		As a performing poet, as one of the fiercest freestyle MC's, as an educator, and as an educator, Toni was raised the bar for all her peers and colleagues.
		Their mix of hip hop with local melodies and Swahili lyrics, sometimes called Bongo Flava, has quickly become East Africa's number one selling pop music, rocking the airwaves through newly formed private radio stations in and around Tanzania.
	www.nomadicwax.com /news.php (10239 words)

	2006 working group world music Tanzania
		She is researching Swahili hip-hop for her Ph.D. and will walk us through some examples of how hip-hop has been adapted by Tanzanian musicians and rappers.
		Formerly bongo flava was conceived as Swahili hip hop music only, but now it embraces other youth popular music genres such as R ‘n’ B, zouk, dance hall, raga, etc which are sung mostly in Swahili with various flavors.
		Africanhiphop.com - This site, originally called 'Rumba-Kali Home of Pan African Hip Hop' was initiated in February 1997 as a platform for information and discussion on hip-hop from the African continent.
	ias.berkeley.edu /orias/2006/Tanzania.htm (358 words)

	Open Source » Blog Archive » Hip-Hop Citizen of the World
		He says that Grime, a strain of hip-hop from the UK led by Dizzee Rascal, may have found its new hero in Sway DaSafo, a Ghanaian who represents London and pokes fun at American 50 Cent.
		All of these styles fall into the blender of hip hop through the hands of dejays and producers like these, who share and trade mixes and hot tracks instantly online, through message boards, Myspace, Mp3 blogs and peer-to-peer file sharing.
		Adaptation of Japanese hip hop is just artificial style only.
	www.radioopensource.org /hip-hop-citizen-of-the-world (903 words)

	East Africa Television - together tunawakilisha ::
		Tanzanian hip hop artist, jay Moe is in the final stages of releasing his last album goes with the name of Kimya Kimya.
		Speaking to Eatv’s E-news, Jay Moe said that he is 100% sure people will not understand him when he says Kimya Kimya is his last album because they think its going to be an end of his music career.
		Jay Moe, besides owns Kimya Kimya outfits label of which he says will soon start distributing the garments in various shops country wide.
	www.eatv.tv /det/207.html (183 words)

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