{"id":82102,"date":"2021-06-11T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=82102"},"modified":"2021-06-11T14:51:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T12:51:25","slug":"lil-fyve-hey-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/lil-fyve-hey-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumerican rising star Lil Fyve drops visual for \u201cHey Wait\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lil Fyve is tired of social media gangstas and clout chasers riding the hype of the Kumasi hip-hop scene. For his new music video, Lil Fyve pans scenes of his daily life, unafraid to call out those who aren\u2019t true to the gangster drill music.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The spotlight has been on Kumasi hip-hop for the last few months, and Lil Fyve is determined to get something out of it with his new video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No rented cars and no fake jewellery: for his new video, the Ghanaian rapper has decided to be 100% authentic. Rapping in the back of a tuk-tuk with his peers, driving around his city, he calls out the fake thugs who pollute local hip-hop. \u201cIn this song, I\u2019m trying to warn people who are trying to act off since this Drill music came out<\/em>\u201d, he says. \u201cThey are trying to act like they are tough and are telling things they ain\u2019t living. But they\u2019ve never been through nothing, they\u2019ve never done anything bad. They are just social media gangsters<\/em>!\u201d. In Lil Fyve\u2019s words, \u201cthis Drill music\u201d is the now famous Asakaa rap style, a subgenre born in Kumasi, Ghana, under the umbrella of the Kumerica subculture. The genre went viral a few months ago, and the city is now full of emerging rap stars, solicited in Accra but also in the UK or in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a catchy chorus, Fyve tells a fictional rival to wait and step back, as he is about to take the throne of Kumerica. Indeed, the rapper is on a roll. After dropping \u201cLive and Colored From Kumerica (ft. Braa Benk & City Boy)<\/em>\u201d, which had an important impact, and some much discussed freestyles on radio and live shows, the rookie is ready to take Kumasi Drill to the next level. To do this, there\u2019s no better plan than to rap openly about his own reality. \u201cThis song is about my life<\/em>\u201d, he explains. \u201cEverything I say in this song has happened. I\u2019m not proud of it, but I have to stick with it. It\u2019s about street life. I\u2019m trying to tell you that you have to be vigilant whenever you come on the streets. It\u2019s a warning to people so that you better watch out where you are out. In the song I just rap about the bad things we do in the streets, the bad things I\u2019ve been through, the pain and the suffering. This is real street gangsta drill music. But we are back to do good right now. We are focused on our dreams.”<\/em> Long live Kumerica!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to Lil Fyve in our Pan African Rap playlist on Spotify<\/a> and De<\/a>e<\/a>zer<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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