The AHHB Podcast Featuring Yanga
by Phil Chard
The best African Podcast is back again with another incredible episode highlighting some of the best content on the continent. In this week’s episode I share an interview that I did with Yanga earlier in the year where we discuss his highly anticipated Touch Is A Move EP and his early days as a video director and editor for none other than Slikour and Studio Space Pictures.
I also play music from E.L., Nyashinki, DJ Towers, and a tonne of Ugandan artists for the End Of The Weak Cypher.
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AKA- Dreamwork Official Video ft Yanga
by Mayuyuka
AKA and Yanga combine on Dreamwork to provided a certified hit laced with quotables from these two stablemates. The two hit the right notes just as they did on AKA's previous single, alongside Khuli Chana and Burna Boy.
The highly anticipated video for the KJ Conteh-produced banger has been exclusively on television screens for the past week, and is now finally freed to the internet...so we can all shout-out art director Don Design! The cinematic release explains the trailer-styled roll out employed during the promotion stage: which piqued many people's interest. With the SAMA's upon us soon, it'll be interesting to see if AKA's previous collaboration Baddest "goes the distance". This one certainly impresses visually with some powerful storytelling, courtesy of director Adriaan Louw.
Yanga – Not Enough
by Phil Chard
Sill counting my paycheques, y’all so impatient.
I mean if you did this would you get paid?
Last year I skipped Christmas and 2 birthdays.
My lil’ sis wants shoes all day,
And if this kills me who gonna pay?
I have been anxiously waiting for the release of Yanga’s Touch Is A Move EP like the second coming of Jesus. As it stands the project is 2 months overdue and Yanga seems to have been hard at work on finishing it or just adding more songs to it as he alluded to in this clip below.
If Not Enough serves as barometer for what the PE native will be delivering on his project I will gladly exercise a little more patience. On the high energy tracks Yanga delivers another incredibly catchy verse and series of bars that display just how far his rap skills have improved.
AKA – Dreamwork Featuring Yanga
Words By Phil Chard
Fresh off his 2 nominations at the SAMAs AKA has just dropped his new single Dreamwork featuring Yanga. Produced by American KJ Conteh (50cent, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, T.I.) the song is slower tempo track made up of sparse keys, trap beat pads and a monotonous chant.
“Who got the bright idea to clown me, last five years ain’t s*it without meMost consistent, I go the distanceLately though I don’t pose for picturesI just hope I’m home for Christmas,”
On the track The Super Mega raps about how “his team’s work has made the Dreamwork” and allowed him to cop a better whip at 25 than his Dad had back when he was in high school. AKA’s delivery is once again sublime as he weaves in and out rapping and a melodic delivery. The standout on the track however is Yanga who employs a completely new flow and cadence that fits the song beautifully.
The marketing assets and imagery for this single are an ode to the classic Super Nintendo game Contra. Fans washed old enough to remember what playing 32 bit games was like will remember the artwork to be a play of the games start screen. AKA also released a “play through” video to accompany the song that features a speed run video taken from this play session by DK28.
AKA is still yet to release the song Once Time which he teased us with a few weeks ago on LiveAmp so it seems he is sitting on a fair amount of material in the run up to the release of his third album.
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