Hip-hop culture in Malawi is relatively young. The genre is a marriage between local and western sounds. Prior to 1994, Malawi was living under a single party regime where censorship of media was heavily employed. Upon gaining freedom in 1994 the country began getting exposed to more western media and hip-hop which was gaining a global audience permeated its way into Malawian society.
getting exposed to more western media and hip-hop which was gaining a global audience permeated its way into Malawian society. By the late 1990s, the scene...
opened in the UK for hiphop artists like Blak Twang. They inspired a new genre of Malawian music in the form of the urban hip-hop and rap music styles...
Hiphop music has been popular in Africa since the early 1980s due to widespread African American influence. In 1985, hiphop reached Senegal, a French-speaking...
Hyphen and formerly as Young Kay is a popular Malawianhip-hop artist that is known for fusing local Malawian folk songs with international genres. He is...
Magalasi (born July 23, 2003), best professionally known as Eli Njuchi, is a Malawian singer and songwriter. In 2018, he won a UMP Award in Best New Act. In...
Angel Mbekeani (born September 24, 1995), best known as Sangie, is a Malawian reggae artist and songwriter. In 2015, she won as the best female artist...
Grin is also a headliner, and the bash will also feature Temwa, a Malawianhiphop artist. Mingoli Bash Festival started in early 2022 by Shadreck Kalukusha...
Christina Malaya (born 1951 or 1952) is a Malawian musician and comedian. She is better known by the name Jetu, in reference to boxing legend King Kong...
Limbani Kalilani (born 15 June 1984) is a Malawianhiphop artist better known by his stage name Tay Grin. In 2009 Tay Grin founded an Entertainment &...
best known as Fredokiss, is a Malawian rapper and songwriter. In 2020, he was nominated in UMP Award in Best HipHop Act and his music video "Dadada"...
The hiphop subculture in the Czech Republic emerged after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Since then the subculture has become an influential urban phenomenon...
1987), best known as Dan Lu, and sometimes written as Dan Lufan, is a Malawian Afro-pop singer and songwriter. In 2011, he was awarded as best Afro pop...
Zeze Kingston (born March 26, 1987) is a Malawian Afropiano singer, songwriter and television personality. In 2023, he won Male Artist of the Year at the...
Trap is a subgenre of hiphop music that originated in the Southern United States, with lyrical references to trap starting in 1991 but the modern sound...
Kell Kay Kambwiri (born May 20, 1993), best known as Kell Kay, is a Malawian RnB artist and songwriter. In 2017 and 2018, he won a Nyasa Music Award as...
inspired by real life and being around good people. He has worked with local hip-hop acts such as BarryOne, Young Kay, Phyzix and dancehall star Blak jak. Gwamba...
Hip-hop or hiphop music, also known as rap, and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from African Americans...
Chitsonga, better known by his stage name Jay Jay Cee (born 9 May 1997), is a Malawian afro pop artist. He grew up listening to songs by Annie Matumbi, Danny...
Home Grown African (sometimes HGA) is a Malawianhiphop duo based in Blantyre, Malawi. The group consists of artists Classick and Hayze Engolah. Known...
Chitsundi Banda (born August 17, 1994), best known as Malinga Mafia, is a Malawian dancehall artist and songwriter. In 2018, he won a Nyasa Music Award as...
(also widely known as SoundCloud Rap) is a loosely defined microgenre of hiphop music that largely spread via the online audio distribution platform SoundCloud...
Vitumbiko Chisoni (born March 2, 2004), best known as Pop Young, is a Malawian Afro-Pop musician and songwriter. In 2022, he won a Mzuzu Music Award as...
Frank Chawinga (born September 18, 1992), best known as Che Wikise, is a Malawian singer, songwriter and comedian. In 2019, he was awarded as the artist...
EP Music of Malawi Dan Lufani "Tsar Leo prepares to storm africa as malawianhiphop comes of age". MTV Base. 26 August 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2016...
– South African based producer and hip-hop artist "Zambia : Made in Nyasaland: The Enduring Influence of Malawian Diaspora over Zambia". 2011-07-22. Muula...
Phonk (/fɒŋk/ ) is a subgenre of hiphop and trap music directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap. The style is characterized by vocals from old Memphis...
styles of the late 20th century remained popular, such as rock, pop, metal, hiphop, R&B, EDM, country and indie. As the technology of computers and internet...
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