The whole thing started with what looked like a peace message. On September 7, Sarkodie posted a note to his SarkNation fanbase asking them to support his music without going after other artists, warning against the kind of toxic fan wars that have long plagued Ghanaian music Twitter and beyond.[#item_full_content
The detail that caught everyone off guard was not the trial itself, but who got pulled into it.[#item_full_content
Streamers have pulled up outside the Los Angeles courthouse where Lil Durk’s fate is now in the hands of a jury, and the scene is quieter than you might expect.[#item_full_content
The reggae influence on hip-hop is not a footnote in music history. It is the founding chapter.[#item_full_content
The jury deciding Lil Durk’s federal case in Los Angeles pushed into a second day of deliberations Thursday, with no verdict yet in sight.[#item_full_content
The most surprising thing about Kendrick Lamar’s shelved film project is not that it got delayed, it’s that Paramount’s own head once called the script “one of the funniest and most original scripts we’ve ever read” and then pulled it from the release calendar without a single word of explanation.[#item_full_content
The most striking detail in Kenneth Petty’s latest legal move is not that he filed for dismissal, but what he filed alongside it.[#item_full_content
Sound clash explained in its simplest form: it is a structured musical competition in which two or more rival sound systems battle one another for crowd supremacy, with the objective of decisively “killing” the opposition.[#item_full_content
Few record labels in the world can claim to have invented, shaped, and repeatedly reinvented an entire national music.[#item_full_content
Ask any serious musicologist where Afrobeats comes from, and you will hear the expected answers: Fela Kuti’s percussive legacy, the Lagos street hustle, the highlife traditions of Ghana.[#item_full_content