South Africa’s top lyricist tackles grief and responsibility on his new album Today’s Tragedy, Tomorrow’s Memory. Filled with soulful production and earned wisdom, A-Reece establishes his role as rap’s young conscience.
From Ghana to Mali to the Ivory Coast to Kenya through Morocco, PAM offers a selection of ten tracks that shook the African rap planet during the first quarter of 2021.
From Rema to Kizz Daniel, Nigerian artists know a hot trend when they see one, and have a special way of making it their own.
In Ghana, rap is going through a revival with the drill wave. The subgenre revealed the existence of the Kumerica subculture to the whole country, originating from the poor neighbourhoods of Kumasi.
2021 is fast approaching and with it the opportunity for PAM to look back on the best rap albums of the last year.
Man on the Moon III: The Chosen Kid Cudi Kid Cudi finally follows up on his pharaonic project on this third chapter of Man on the Moon: 18 tracks follow and a hand-picked guest list: […]
Amha Eshèté was Ethiopia’s first independent record producer. It is to him that we owe the first recordings (and the following two hundred) of the golden age of Ethiopian music, later resurrected by the famous Éthiopiques series. He confesses it all to PAM in full detail (Part one).
Though Amaro Freitas’ third world tour is suspended, his life of exploration in jazz continues, recounting a long journey of inspiration and triumph.