2021 is fast approaching and with it the opportunity for PAM to look back on the best rap albums of the last year.

“Vengo Ganao” features production from London-based duo Village Cuts, the excellent guitarist Patrick McMahon aka Mahon Sounds and Colombian champeta legend Louis Towers. Village Cuts has organised a transatlantic meeting between Africa and the Caribbean […]

On their forthcoming album El Hal / The Feeling, the British six-piece band explores the sensory effects of Gnawa music. “El Hal” in Arabic means “feeling,” more precisely the feeling that comes when you play […]

Yaral Sa Doom is a Wolof expression for “educating young people,” and this expression takes on its full meaning via this album recorded in Senegal, due for release in February 2021. Education is at the […]

With hypnotic percussion from cosmopolitan group The Invisible Session and poetry by the young African-American-Finnish artist Benjamin “Bentality” Paavilainen, the latest track from upcoming album Echoes of Africa induces a state of natural, hypnotic relaxation […]

Just after the release of his video for “Unda Dirt,” from the highly acclaimed Fixtape, this unruly dancehall star already has a fresh visual for us.  For this new single “Have It” with Skillibeng and […]

After becoming the guardian of traditions, the Malian rapper disregards slander and safeguards against misinformation. “Je gère” is the first single from her album, to be released at the beginning of next year. Manabou, the […]

An inspired rapper and activist campaigning for racial and social justice, Emicida releases a collaboration with legendary tropicalist artist Gilberto Gil, bringing his message to screens around the world with his new documentary Netflix AmarElo: […]