Just as the Ghanaian Rap God releases his 8th Debut Album 'JAMZ' after his previous release in 2021 'No Pressure' featuring Oxlade, Giggs, Kwesi Arthur, Vic Mensa, and others. He goes so deep on his rhyming in Twi reflecting his music back to African sounds.
Music on it's own, is a potential powerful tool that has unite and made Africa archieve international recognition over the past years, rallying points to propagate the ideals of pan-Africanism on the continent. Regardless of the local politics around influence, dominance and nomenclature of these music genres, Afrobeats’ phenomenal rise to global popularity has been a source of inspiration to other genre artists in Africa. Even so, Afrobeats’ ascent did not happen out of the blues, it required deliberate interventions.
As the Rap legend 'Nas' continues to add historic accolades to his resume, the latest album King’s Disease III is currently rated & ranked as the best rap album of 2022. According to the initial score, King’s Disease III’s was rated higher than Illmatic’s 20th-anniversary edition, which received a score of 89 out of 100. Since @HipHopNumbers’ post, which was uploaded on Twitter in the early morning of Monday (Nov. 21), King’s Disease III‘s Metacritic score has dropped to 88. That score brings its cumulative total to one point lower than Illmatic, but still three points higher than the next rap albums on the list that were released this year.
Nicki Minaj picks up two major AMAs trophies despite being snubbed from the Grammys and becomes the most awarded rapper ever at AMAs. The annual awards show which was held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California on Sunday night (November 20), emerged many winners. One of them was Nicki Minaj as she was a heavy favorite to win the Favorite Female Hip-Hop Artist along side Kendrick Lamar, Chris Brown and Future who were among the Hip Hop/ RnB stars who added to their respective trophy collections at the 2022 American Music Awards.
