Disclaimer – this article was first published on Melkizedek’s personal website. Mental health affects our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. More often than not, adults you meet every day have had mental illnesses in the past. Whether when they broke up with their partners, lacked financial support, got bullied on…
But what does that mean for the local musicians, podcasters, and music-centric businesses? Spotify, the largest audio streaming subscription platform, which is partly owned by two of the three biggest music record labels — Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, has expanded to 80+ new markets. The new markets…
We are living in the age of the internet, where rappers can record, mix, and produce their music using their phones. This has led to an increase in the number of emerging rappers and in turn an increase in songs in the streaming platforms. But… Have you heard three or…
Last week was another dope week in the hip-hop world! A lot of good projects dropped. Here is your weekly dose of hip-hop news. Griselda is continuing with their ferocious run this year. Earlier this year, Westside Gunn dropped a great body of work (Pray for Paris), Conway The Machine…
It seems things are starting to soften up in the music world – artists are starting to drop music, not bothering about the pandemic. Among the main reasons artists were hesitant to release music was because they couldn’t tour to promote their new materials. Artists earn the majority of their…
Meaningful conversations on music and pop culture. Music has been around for aeons now. The art has grown to be an integral part of man’s life. Imagine a week’s trip to your favourite destination, but without music. That would be a boring trip, right? Or imagine that the world has…
Can Gengetone maintain its notoriety for a couple more years? No doubt, the most consumed genre of music in Kenya over the past year is Gengetone. The genre, populated by youths from Nairobi and its surrounding towns, has been in the scene for not so long, as a result, the…
Hip-hop music has proven to be the most popular genre of music over the past decade. The genre has successfully proven to be a hell source of motivation for young people in the underprivileged communities. This has helped changed people’s perspective on this genre of music — it’s not about…
Will there be a better alternative for religion on Mars? People like me who would like to be among the first people to travel to Mars and eventually colonize the red planet are more concerned with the technical aspects of colonizing the planet. Almost everybody is talking about the technical aspect…
2018 has been a busy one for hip-hop artists. Top notch albums, joints, mixtapes, and singles have dropped continuously. We’ve also seen the rise of new artists who embrace the culture (hip-hop culture) stepping up and teaming up with legendary artists to create records. The legends have also not been…
