{"id":41507,"date":"2019-09-03T10:47:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/ghanaian-rapper-kwame-dame-unveils-visuals-for-protect-your-life\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T21:17:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:17:33","slug":"kwame-dame-protect-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/kwame-dame-protect-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian rapper Kwame Dame unveils visuals for &#8220;Protect your Life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IBbN41jbPfQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>The music video, like the track, has a very simple hip-hop aesthetic, rough and straightforward.<\/h4>\n<p>If the track sounds like a pure freestyle, it is actually taken from his very first project <em>Hillstreet<\/em>, released in July 2019. The 9 tracks EP is a tribute to one of Accra&#8217;s main avenues that link the neighborhoods in which the artist grew up: Nima, Accra New Town and Kokomlemle. His attachment to his city and culture is a recurring theme in his work: one of the rapper&#8217;s first successes was his music video &#8220;Good morning Ghana&#8221; released in 2016, in which Kwame Dame explains some aspects of the Ghanaian lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, his talent even crossed his country&#8217;s borders when his artist name was still FreQuency RAP. Indeed, Nigerian superstar Mr. Eazi spotted and included the young rapper in his platform <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.empawaafrica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emPawa Africa<\/a><\/span>, a\u00a0funding and mentoring program\u00a0for emerging artists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Hillstreet<\/em> is available on all platforms via independent label Hillstreet Records.<\/p>\n<h4><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28547\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kwame-Dame.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kwame-Dame.jpg 900w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kwame-Dame-759x403.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kwame-Dame-661x351.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kwame-Dame-465x247.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Kwame-Dame-375x199.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music video, like the track, has a very simple hip-hop aesthetic, rough and straightforward. If the track sounds like a pure freestyle, it is actually taken from his very first project Hillstreet, released in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":28547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944,9408],"tags":[5434,5864],"location":[7994],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41507"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41507"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}