The early 1990s were a transformative period in Ghana. As democracy re-emerged and youth culture began to redefine itself, the music scene witnessed a shift. Highlife, once the country’s ...

The borough where hip hop was born has a new beat - hiplife. An uptempo sound that echoes Ghana's jazzy highlife music and American hip hop, hiplife is on the brink of a Bronx breakout.

Hiplife, the genre of music that is supposed to catapult Ghana music to the international arenas, auditoriums, garner Grammy-like awards and sell million records worldwide is stalling and the many ...

Ghanaian artistes have been able to keep up with the periodic trends of the music industry, dropping hits not only in the hiplife genre but also in hip-hop and afro-pop.

Muntala Muntari discusses the end of Ghanaian music, hiplife:”A decade of hiplife has come and gone with little or no fun fair. The Ghanaian genre of music, which started out as a promising star among ...

The BBC is presenting a series of radio shows from Ghana, where a fusion of hip-hop and West African highlife music is all the rage. Andrew Pettie reports from Accra Ras Kwame, one of the three ...

Shipley has followed the rise of the HipLife movement in Ghana for the past decade. "In 1997 and 1998, I went back to Ghana and, literally, there were hundreds, thousands of kids going to rap ...

Ghana has once again evolved another musical style - Hip- Life - a genre fusing Hip-hop/rap with indigenous Highlife melodies. Modern, crisp and wildly popular, it has created a whole new culture ...

Reginald Ossei; also known as Reggie Rockstone, the creator of hiplife, a Ghanaian music genre which is a fusion of authentic Ghanaian lyrics with a mixture of traditional Ghanaian language and ...

The path from Ghana to New York is well traveled, as the city’s 27,000 Ghanaian-born residents can attest. Now hiplife is making a bold New York debut on Saturday at the Apollo Theater.