{"id":68780,"date":"2021-01-06T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/snoop-forever-voyage-dans-les-realites-de-kweku-smoke\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T10:54:31","slug":"kweku-smoke-s-snoop-forever-is-a-trip-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/kweku-smoke-s-snoop-forever-is-a-trip-to-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Kweku Smoke\u2019s Snoop Forever is a trip to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWelcome to reality\u201d: Kweku Smoke\u2019s Ghana is not a country of sunny beaches and sweet parties. On the contrary, Snoop Forever<\/em> focuses on the streets, the poverty, the abandoned neighbourhoods and the crime. The soundtrack of this eerie movie? Drill music, a rap subgenre born in the worst Chicago ghettos. This filthy sound, characterized by sinister melodies and augmented 808 bass, has served as a basis for many American and English artists to rap about their macabre acts. In Ghana, in recent months, the subgenre has met with huge success especially in Kumasi, the country’s second largest city, where rappers deeply relate to this dark and violent music. Kumasi has since been renamed Kumerica, a parallel city where young people feel better represented by Chicago gangster rappers than by sweet afro-pop singers. Kweku Smoke is one of the movement’s most worthy ambassadors. \u201cWhen we started drill here, it was hard for people to even understand this kind of music\u201d, <\/em>he tells us. \u201cGhanaians, we don’t like hip-hop, it’s not our thing. But gradually, drill is taking over, most young people are doing it now. It’s a good way to promote hip-hop, and in our drill you can feel the local vibe<\/em>\u201d. Indeed, Kweku’s lyrics are not necessarily about murders, drug sales or gang wars like in the USA or London. However, Snoop Forever<\/em> remains a striking testimony of the Ghanaian ghetto stories: \u201cIf you listen to this whole album, you feel the street vibes, the things the streets go through, the pain people feel on the streets. And it is also an album of determination, motivation and inspiration for people who don\u2019t have it and who are going through pain. I hope that this album gets out there and touches each and every free guy out there trying to make it in life<\/em>\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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