After being alerted to this I couldn’t resist posting it: Young Nucho from South Africa with ” I’m Not Wayne” referring to his resemblance to Lil’ Wayne. He sure looks like him though. Thoughts? Check out What is African Hip Hop and The Americanisation of African artists too.  Read More →

We hope y’all had a merry fuelled Christmas. We are rounding off the year with another set of awesome tunes submitted to Haveplentymusic.com from the continent and African Diaspora. Freaturing tracks from Hagan, Fecko the Emcee, Zaki Ibrahim, Naycha, Jay Rox, Psalmurai & Jabbarad and Flowsmith. Tune in, Spread out!  Read More →

Dazed Magazine travelled to Lagos, Nigeria, for the third annual MTV Africa Music Awards , an event that drew performers from all over the continent, as well as attendance by the likes of Chuck D, Eve and Rick Ross. Captured on this video are some of the African performers like Naeto C, Cabo Snoop, Fally Ipupa, Sasha etc talking about music income streams particularly, the royality issue as seen... 

Recorded as part of the DNA Culture project Senegalese rapper Duggy Tee of the group Positive Black Soul discusses his take on the origins of Rap music and its place in the African context. Duggy Tee latest release “Fulani” features Baba Maal.  Read More →

Us house heads at Have Plenty Music HQ always enjoy Filipe Narciso’s (AM Roots) podcast mixes, so dutifully we are passing on the goodness to you. Here goes the latest mix: FILIPE NARCISO PODCAST MAY 2011 (AM ROOTS MUSIC) by Filipe Narciso  Read More →

Something different for some of y’all who actually read and study music history. Angola: Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times (New African Histories) by Marissa J. Moorman. Intonations tells the story of how Angola’s urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors... 

Peep the impromptu interview session we had with RUN N.A.M.S a while back. The guys talk about the philosophy behind the group and give their opinion on the state of hip hop in Namibia. Interviewed by Gwanehe.  Read More →

Boye is an independent solo recording artiste from Nigeria. He has released a track titled ‘Untold’ on what he calls a ‘nano-album’ i.e. an album containing one track only. The ‘nano-album’ is titled ‘VOSTOK 1′ after the world’s first manned spacecraft symbolizing Boye’s own journey into sound. Vostok 1 is available for free download at... 

Check out this video from female rapper Tina from Gabon via LBVGROOVE.COM  Read More →

Singer/Songwriter Somi has been quietly making waves on the world music and jazz circuit for a number of years. Born and raised in the US and of Ugandan/Rwandan descent, she has incorporated her heritage in her musical expression coining the term “holistic New African Jazz”. Somi is currently signed to indie label ObliqSound. Check out two of her videos “Prayer to the Saint of the Brokenhearted”...