AVARY MACK......THE UNDERGROUND PHENOM

Among the hottest and the youngest Gh underground rappers of his generation is the Phenom......"Avary Mack".

Born on 6th November 1989 at Kade in the Eastern Region of Ghana to Mr. James Tabi and Mrs Vicky Awuah.

Avary Mack, known in real life as Michael Acquah was introduced to hip hop by his brother, a very loyal hip hop fan during his early stages in life. He lived most of his life in Kumasi. Avary attended Komfo Anokye J.H.S from stage 1 to J.H.S 2 and continued to Airport Int. School, where he completed his basic education in 2005. During those times, Avary rapped to his friends almost anytime he had the chance to. He was admitted to Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) S.H.S. There, Avary developed more passion for his talent. He freestyled to himself when he was alone, when he heard music beats and when he was with his friends. He performed on school entertainment shows and was soon known for his great skill.

After S.H.S, Avary Mack was featured on a show on Focus fm, a music station in the Ashanti region. While on the show, he battled 3-lah who later became his buddy. 3-lah was really impressed by Avary's flow and he decided to work with him. Together, they founded the group, URBANITES, which is headed by 3-lah. In 2008, Avary and 3-lah released a single they called, "overnight money", which hit the streets of Kumasi big time. He performed on a facebook event somewhere this year (2009). Thus, Avary made a giant step towards his journey for stardom.

Asked what inspires him when writing his lyrics, he says " my dear haters, they give me the chance to write good lyrics, 'cos I've promised myself to shine on them"

Michael " Avary Mack" Acquah is working on a mixtape with Kottage records which is expected to hit the streets by next year.









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Wanlov DaKubolor (Biography)

Wanlov is a half Romanian. He was born in Romania and raised in Ghana. He speaks Twi, English, Romanian and Pidgin English quite fluently.

Wanlov began by rapping lyrics of his favourite artistes; Busta Rhymes and Snoop dogg with his friends back in Adisadel college where he attended his Senior High School in Ghana. During those days he was known by friends and fans as Spooky.

He moved to the states to pursue higher education. Within two years in Temple, Texas, Wanlov was able to win over the respect of the local emcees in the Central Texas area with his pure talent,charisma and unrivaled lyrical skill.

After performing at local events and shows, he ventured out of Texas, making his imprints in both coasts.

Sometime in his life, Wanlov went through I.N.S abduction to a private holding facility in Laredo, TX for school status reasons. The pain of the injustice inflicted on him and most of the detainees he met in there and along the way, led him to the release of BAIL MONEY, a cry for help from family, friends and fans, giving a pretty detailed account of the hardship he went through during that period. This song caught the attention of SOURCE MAGAZINE editor, Geo Hagan, who decided to give Wanlov the necessary exposure he needed. He was featured in the spring 04 edition of the Ave Magazine.

Wanlov, seeing how hard it was to get into the music industry with positive, socially conscious messages while maintaining maintaining secular appeal, decided to started a record label; ROAR ENTERTAINMENT with his childhood best friend and fellow rapper, Gerald Hagan. With this foundation Wanlov was able to further promote himself and seek other "conscious" artistes to work with.

In the early months of 2005, Wanlov performed at Project Blowed in L.A's Leimert Park. He earned respect from the local and visiting emcees and audience alike. He performances keep the audience yearning for more.

He has many hit tracks as KOKONSA, SMALLEST TIME and recently an underground single ; BROKEN LANGUAGE, with his long time friend M3nsa, a UK based rapper of Ghanaian decent. They are also working together on a big time project, which all fans of his, M3nsa and music as a whole should be expecting.

Wanlov came down to Ghana to continue his career, and has since been based here. He has proved to be a multi-talented artiste.


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LADIES IN HIP-LIFE

Like all other parts of the world, the music industry of Ghana could be counted as one of the fastest growing industries. Hiplife in Ghana is not a game for men only. There are female talents who do great in the industry too. These females aint "dull", you know what i mean when i say "dull", i mean " )mo ngyaegyae )mo ho....", direct translation from "twi" will be, "they dont leave leave their body".......lol

They hit the game hard in the face and make the name. Some of these female artistes are, Abrewa nana, Mzbel with the hit "16 years", LA with the hit, "ogya" and many others.

As the phase of Gh music changed, some of these artistes were able to change in its direction. This has made way for much more female talents to rise into the scene. Among these are singer/rapper Tiffany,Becca, Irene and Jane (now gone solo), Dela of mentor fame, Adina of Stars of the future and many more.

watch out for biographies of some these artistes.

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B- Nice (Biography)

The introduction of HipLife music has influenced many talents of Gh and African descent, on the all other parts of the world. One of these great talents is a lyricist, songwriter, rapper, producer of Gh descent known as Kweku Brew A.K.A B-Nice.

Born on July 3rd and raised in the Western region of Ghana. Unlike many other, B-Nice realized his rapping talent at a very tender age. He grew up listening to artistes like; Gyedu Blay Ambulley, Daddy Lumba, Amakye Dede, Papa Yankson, C. K. Mann and more, the music of these great musicians influenced him to put pen to paper to get something started. In 1999, while he was living with TH4-KWAGES, he became a toast of many shows even at his tender age.

He moved to the United States at a very young age where his dream of becoming a rapper got bigger. Rapping and singing to lyrics by some Hiplife MC's like Rockstone, Obrafour, Obour, Batman, Castro and some powerful Hip Hop MC's like Jay-z, Cassidy and 50 Cent.

B-Nice has recorded several sounds with VinGY, including some freestyles and one hit track, "YOU COOL WITH THAT". He also worked with the Hood Africans to produce one single hit known as “MAYA DE”.

These collaboration helped B-NICE establish a name for him self on Facebook, My Space and Hi5. “MAYA DE" his debut song hit the streets in january 2009 and top the charts in the Bronx for several weeks. The pressure was on after ' Masom' to deliver another hit called 'GHANA NAIJA' , but it was not until the third track 'BUWUMU' gave him another hit fondly called {shake} a ladies song which stayed on the streets for weeks also.

B-Nice started doing shows with musicians like; BATMAN SAMINI, Castro, Akwadaa, Hood Africans and some other rappers from USA and GHANA.

His first mixed tape, “KYE NO MAM ME” was out on 27^th April 09 and is “hitting” the stores and the streets of New York.The "KYE NO MA ME mixed tape includes hit track's like "MAYA DE" and "GHANA NAIJA" Remix. Produced by Dee Jay Nyce CEO of N$E, Nyce Entertainment and recorded under the record label, BMB Production in conjunction with 3G Media Inc".

B-Nice has met rappers like Reggie Rockstone, Batman Samini, Kokovelli, Th4 kwages, Nana Fremah, Castro and many others.

WATCH OUT FOR BE NICE IN YOUR HOOD…….. DA NEXT KING ON DA BLOCK…………remember to grab your own copy of his tracks in the next music store across the street. You can also get to meet him on facebook………..

B-Nice, Kye no ma me ….da new king on da block…..

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Ndex Dadabee (Biography)

Ghana has many uncelebrated foreign based rappers. Most of these rappers are usually uncelebrated because their releases are not promoted in Ghana. I would be very glad if u took some minutes of your time to read this post… It is about one of the greatest young U.S based Ghanaian rappers ….. Just relax and let me tell you about this guy…………

Dexter Kwasi Owusu was born in Dallas, TX. After five (5) years, he was brought down to Ghana, he attended UPS and Alsyd. N-Dex realized his rap potential at an early age. By 13, he had already begun recording some of his sounds. He was sent back to the States at the age of 15 where he continued his sounds recording whilst he was still schooling.

In college(back in the States), Dexter “N-Dex” Owusu was known for his great rap skill. In 2004, he declared rap as his career. He released a mixtape entitled Ghanaboy Vol. 1 in 2006; it was a great success; he therefore released a “wild” album with the same title, “Ghanaboy”. Realizing that his music was doing good on the market, N-Dex released his next mixtape in 2007.

He later decided with Jean Pierre Duplan, his manager to do something more African and more “Gh-ish” for his fans back in Ghana; his motherland. N-Dex managed to acquire some beats from Hammer, a Ghanaian sound engineer, known for his great Hiplife instrumentals and began to do some hiplife tracks. He released “Flow me fans” which beat his imagination of how well it was going to do on the market. It is not surprising, how “Flow me fans” is making waves, because it is actually a great masterpiece.

Currently, he is working on a whole Ghanaian/ African album; “Nothing be simple” which he expects to release on 16^th November. Aside this album, he is also working on “OPM” (other people’s music) 3, which according to him, is expected to be released on 4^th July.

Some of his greatest hits are, “Flow me”, “Africa lady” remix and “Sormia”. He is also working with other Ghanaian rappers such as M3NSA, WANLUV (da kuborlor), and R2BEES.

If you really love music and hiplife, then you’ve got to hear N-Dex, when he does his own thing with the MIC. You can access some of his tracks at lifestylzgh.com

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SAMINI (Biography)

I guess you already know who I am talking about. Read through and know who i am talking about.............

Emmanuel Samini A.K.A Batman hails from Wa in the Upper West Region of Ghana. He was born in 1981 to Mr G.A Samini and Theresa Nusala.

He had his basic and primary education at Holy Family Basic School and then continued to St Magaraet Mary Sec school, Dansoman for his secondary education.

He has lived in Dansoman since he was 9 years and that was when he realised the great talent he possessed.

Batman did his own thing in the group popularly known as “Trinity” which was made up of himself, Kokovelli and K.K Fosu .He gained recognition in the eyes of Ghanaians and Africans as a whole with his unique “Ragga” style and “signature tune”….”KPOOOOI” which made him different from all other ‘Ragga artistes in Africa and the world.

He has featured close to 50 tracks with other musicians (both released and unreleased).Samini has performed outside Ghana in countries like canada, UK, Holland and Italy and has shared the stage with artists like shaggy and Ja Rule; he has collaborated with artists from all over Africa including Tu Face Idibia. Unlike other artistes, he does great in live band performances.

Batman does most of his tracks at Ashanti International Studios i.e. with Nana King and Kwame 'G'. He also works with Roland of Best Brain Digital studios.

His debut album, Linda won him two GMA Awards for Hiplife Artist of the Year and New Hiplife Artist of the Year. In 2006, he followed suit with his sophomore album, Samini, which can boast of smash hits like Odo. The self-titled album was to set the stage for his gradual emergence as Samini, an identity that would portray him as an authentic African artist.

On December 22nd, 2006 (his 25th Birthday), Batman officially changed his name to Samini. Today, Samini can pride himself as a consummate musician with several Ghana Music Awards including Best Artiste of 2007, and a Music Of Black Origin (MOBO) Award. He also won the 2008 Hiphop World Award for Best African Artist in Nigeria.

He is the face of MTN in Ghana, and his ringtone/ caller tune can be heard on MTN across Africa.

Some of his hits include Odo, Samini Music, Linda, Gyae shee. His latest hits include “Baby’ and “Movement”

Reference: modernghana.com

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