2023-10-27 19:00:10
Every Friday, The World Africa presents three new musical releases from or inspired by the continent. This week, it’s time for female rappers who are on the rise and who don’t have their tongue in their pocket.
“WUACV”, by Tkay Maidza
“This album was a way to channel the emotions felt over the past two years. Its realization was a therapeutic experience,” declares Tkay Maidza about his new opus, Sweet Justice, to be published Friday November 3. A way for the rapper born in Zimbabwe and raised in Australia to break with her trilogy Last Year Was Weird (2018-2021), in which she explored her Afro-Oceanian experience.
Now based in Los Angeles, Tkay Maidza turns the page and settles her scores, notably in the song WUACV (pour « woke up and choose violence ») : “I wanted to express my anger towards the people who manipulated me during the last phase of my life,” she explains. In fact, the clip is, to say the least… cathartic.
« Murder », d’Aunty Rayzor
We stay in the mood with Murder, by Bisola Olungbenga aka “Aunty Rayzor”. An artist whose name is starting to establish itself in Nigeria and beyond, since we recently heard her alongside the electro producer Ekiti Sound and we will soon find her within the new African project of French violinist Théo Ceccaldi (after the ethio-trance group Kutu).
In the meantime, the rapper released her first album at the beginning of September, Viral Wreckage, in which she unleashes her machine-gun flow through twelve short experimental pieces which range from the darkest and roughest trap to the most frantic techno, including unexpected melodic flights. It’s exhilarating, never boring: we haven’t heard the last of the “razor aunt”.
« Prodada », d’Andy S & Marla
Finally, direction Abidjan, where Andy S proclaims to anyone who will listen that “the best rapper in Ivory Coast is a female rapper”. And to try to bend the « game » of “ivory rap”, the young artist released the clip for Prodada, a duet piece with her colleague Marla, a precursor to an EP to be released on the label of the “afrocentric” collective Moonshine, based in Montreal.
“Prodada” means “to show off, to be noticed” in Nouchi, Ivorian slang. Flamber, in short, without worrying about reproaches. This is what the clip illustrates, which features the two rappers and their group of friends on a nighttime trip through the Cocody district. “Let us take advantage, for a day, an evening and even a lifetime, of what we have sown”, summarizes Andy S.
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