Something beautiful is happening musically with @kumericanz bro, I beg try and look at it differently. What I see is an authentic Ghanaian representation of the new age hip-hop genres mainly trap and drill. Your generation grew up on a different type of hip-hop https://twitter.com/_nenesenor/status/1297129827909226496

My generation grew up on others and yet there's a new wave after what I listened too in my earlier years. My younger brother is a huge trap fan, listens to all these lil lil peeps and Migos, and I personally don't see that as rap cos I prefer a different type of hip-hop...

But it is all the music and it is all the culture, and this year has seen the rise of authentic Ghanaian waves of these versions of hip-hop, now it is more popular to here Gh Trap and drill that gives adequate representations of us

And isn't just young people trying to sound like their fav foreign hip-hop artistes. For me what does it for me started with @bosom_pyung 's Ataadwoa, the story was something every young Ghanaian man can relate tooand we loved it, pyung spoke his realities...

Another tape worth considering on this thread is @marinceomario 's Oblitey, which is a beautifully woven new wave hip-hop Project in Ga, Telling stories from an authentic Ghanaian perspective. For me I don't understand Ga, neither do I like trap but I fw this tape

@kumericanz have been Kumerica for a while now, I heard about them from @Wanzam_Class_Dj about 3 months ago, @KOJO_Cue also tweeted about them Earlier, they've been doing their shit before akatafoc went viral, and even if the craze dies down they'll still continue what they do

Akatafoc went viral because the @kumericanz told their authentic stories and spike to their realities and people fw it, observe and see that it isn't just about the beats, the artistes have stories to tell yes, and they will do just that and more waves would pop up...

@_nenesenor @Togbe_Gavua yes I can understand how all of this looks problematic on a wholesale given the name "Kumerica" and their flag and all but I blame that on neoclonialism, we haven't defeated that monster yet, but let's not throw away what's happening artistically too

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and these authentic movements can be of a serious influence in our fight, cos the first step is to tell our stories especially in this digital age, you can't blame the music for people starting to name their local towns after US States

The hip-hop culture itself span out of our diasporan siblings reclaiming their voices and speaking and telling their stories, @HipHopEducate can throw more light on this, as a rapper and an educator he has more info on it, so can uncle @panjianoff

The problem isn't the new wave, but how neoclonialism and imperialism reveals itself in every aspects of our lives

Not to add that the very earlier forms of hip-hop from a Tribe called Quest and Afrika Bambata, has so much similarity to indigenous African drum language and poetry. Infact certain schools of thought say hip-hop emerged out of Africa. Diasporans creating out of the elements of

African drum language and poetry culture that was taken away from Africa with them and survived through the slave trade