Hip-hop - The African Mirror

Sep

2021

Legendary US group Fugees to tour West Africa

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER READY or not here come the Fugees. The popular American hip-hop group have announced that they will be hitting African shores for a small tour in December, performing in Ghana and Nigeria. The tour will be the Fugees’ first in 15 years, performing in a string of concerts across North America, Europe and West Africa. Wyclef Jean, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel told fans that they will be reuniting after 15 years to celebrate the anniversary of their hit 1996 album The Score, by going on a 12-city global tour, which will see them concluding in…

Sep

2021

By The African Mirror

The Mayhem that is Drake’s CLB and Kanye West’s Donda

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

MPHO RANTAO Donda, Donda, Donda. I love you, i love you, i love you, until I — Two very different introductions belonging to two of hip-hop's biggest names; setting the tone for two very different moods. If you haven’t noticed by now, I’m talking about the week-apart releases of Kanye West’s DONDA, and Drake’s Certified Lover Boy. If there were artists akin to a holy grail, these two would come extremely close and with good reasons. They are the wordsmiths part of a generation that has continued to shift cultural views on music, fashion and art. The Donda album (left)…

Sep

2021

By The African Mirror

Cardi B and offset welcome baby no. 2!

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER CARDI B has given birth to her second child, and Offset’s fifth. The hip-hop couple announced on Instagram that they had become parents to a son, making Cardi’s first child Kulture, a big sister. Simply captioned as “9/4/21," Cardi B is seen sitting in a hospital bed cradling her baby boy , wrapped in a blue blanket and wearing a blue knit hat, with husband Offset dressed in blue seated next to her. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cardi B (@iamcardib) "We are so overjoyed to finally meet our son," the couple wrote…

Jun

2021

By The African Mirror

Lil Nas X’s onstage kiss earns massive praise

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

MPHO RANTAO US rapper Lil Nas X made fans’ jaws drop with his onstage performance where he kissed a male dancer. In a Michael Jackson ‘Remember The Time’-inspired performance for his homoerotic hit “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” at the 2021 edition of the Black Entertainment Awards (BET), ending it by passionately kissing one of his male backup dancers. https://twitter.com/BET/status/1409337682392752132?s=20 Instead of the expected mass scorn on social media, Nas’ performance was met with major praise, with big names in the hip-hop industry like Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs expressing said support on Twitter. Combs tweeted: “Lil Nas X did that!!…

May

2021

By The African Mirror

New video evidence of violence in AKA-Anele’s lives

NEWS

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE camera pans into the lounge. Evidence of either violence or unkempt house comes into view. The 22-year-old Nellie Tembe, wearing a black crop top, and black leggings storms into a lounge area, running away from a man in a white T-shirt, yelling loudly ”get away from me” as the man tries to calm her down. Tembe then falls to the ground and screams: “Look what he’s doing, you guys don’t know what he’s been doing to me!” The person behind the camera is believed to be rap star AKA (real name Kiernan Forbes), and is heard…