Read/Watch information about influential musicians from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. How has the American music scene influenced the different sounds of African music or vice versa? How has African beats and rhythms influenced American music?
Kenyan musician P-Unit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxBZ8hXZu6A
Fela! The Musical
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB0GepZMzKU&feature=player_embedded#!
Nigerian musician/activist; Jay-Z and the Smiths (Will & Jada) are producing the musical for Broadway
Read about the 2010 MTV Africa (MTV Base) Awards
http://www.mama.mtvbase.com/newsArticle.aspx?iNewsID=10 Which American artists will be there?
4 comments:
the african rappers look just like our rappers do to day. even thuu i cant cant understand what there sayind its probably just about ther same stuff, for example money, cars, fame, and girls. there videos are similar buit unique in a way. i really dont like there music that much may7be because i dont understand or maybe iam just not that use to it.
I think that American music scenes have influenced the different sounds of Afrcican music because our famous people have become so talented and influenced people from various places like Africa. There has been alot of famous rappers that was native to Kenya and Africa. African beats and ryhtms influenced American music because rappers are tyring to be different and use African beats instead of just regular beats, from America .
The African rapper P-Unit is like one of us a little bit, but with a different language, but hey, he is a good rapper.
The rapper i watched was P unit. To me he is no different from our rappers. The only thing thats different is his languange and his acient. If they spoke english african hip hop and american hip hop will be exactly alike.
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