{"id":34822,"date":"2020-01-06T18:59:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T17:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=34822"},"modified":"2021-02-24T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T22:09:14","slug":"show-dem-camp-the-palmwine-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/show-dem-camp-the-palmwine-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Show Dem Camp takes The Palmwine Express"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/b>Releasing their second album of the year, Show Dem Camp\u2019s <\/b>The Palmwine Express<\/i><\/b> is a creative mix of hip-hop, juju, R&B, pop and Nigeria\u2019s historic palm-wine music featuring Tems, Nonso, Burna Boy and more. <\/b><\/h4>\n

Show Dem Camp is a prolific Lagos based indie hip-hop duo composed of rappers Tec and Ghost, releasing two studio albums in 2019 (<\/span>The Palmwine Express<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Clone Wars Vol. IV \u201cThese Buhari Times<\/span><\/i>) on top of their impressive catalog of past EPs albums and mixtapes. The group is also responsible for the <\/span>Palmwine Music Festival<\/span><\/a>, hitting its third season this December, hosting the premier of Nigeria\u2019s alternative music scene including artists such as Falz, Ladipoe, and MI. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Palmwine is a reference to a uniquely West African musical genre and predecessor of j\u00f9j\u00fa, which gave rise at the beginning of the 20th Century and is attributed to the Kru people of Liberia who used guitars brought by Portuguese sailors to combine a diverse set of styles encouraged by fermented <\/span>palm-wine<\/span><\/i>. However it was Nigerian musicians like Lagos born Baba Tunde King who popularised the sound in the 1920s and 30s. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Just as Tunde King used palm-wine to create his brand of j\u00faj\u00f9, Show Dem Camp is using the calypso and Yoruba folk melodies to create a Nigerian alternative that explores modern hip-hop, afrobeats, and R&B with creative precision. <\/span><\/p>\n