Hiplife Rewind (Documentary) – BBC Africa
Hiplife Rewind explores the story of Ghana’s influential music genre through personal accounts of key artists and creatives in the scene.
Featuring pioneering icons such as Reggie Rockstone, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, and filmmaker Abraham Ohene–Djan, as well as rich historical archive of Highlife music and Ghanaian life, reporter Akwasi Sarpong…
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Lol funny how ghanians take hiphop from the us chang the name and claim they invented it its giving yt ppls vibes
M anifest you don't have Sense to say Afrobeats is Ghana and Nigeria genre….u are blind
What I could deduce here is that, This was a documentary on Hiplife or Highlife but they still found a way to bring Nigerian Afrobeats to it.
I have watched several BBC documentaries on African music genres, all of these documentarys still mentioned Nigerian Afrobeats success which we as Nigerians are honored to be driving the facelift for Africa.
Nigeria needs to get it right for Africa sake.
As long as the artists and are recognized/rewarded and it's recognized that it came from Africa, who cares what it's called? 🤷🏾♂️
So basically Hiplife is the fusion of Ghana highlife traditional music and hiphop(FBA music) 🎶🎶
Love this. Great job Mr Sarpong😍😍😍😍
Hiplife is Ghanian. No one will ever take that away from them.
14:37 Let’s be clear first and foremost, Afrobeats is not Ghanian and Nigerian.
Afrobeats is Nigerian!
Ubarikiwe..
What they call Hip life looks like a bootleg version of Hip-hop. In Hip-hop don’t come from Africa it comes from Black Americans.
Nice documentary
1, I love this. So matured and beautiful, i shame wen anytime Ghanians start making noise about Nigerian success. It is their time we should deal with. And go back to the drawing board.
2, We should not copy what they are doing , its only add to their success, we should modify our beautifulll sound which is Highlife, and learn to push , help each other, learn there be compitition among U. we will get there
If you are the tree then what about the Rambless and Osibisa.
I like that he made the point to state that High-life did not originate in Ghana. Ghanaians added more African rhythms into it. Nigerians, Congolese, Liberians etc.. have their own indigenous High-life music. When Afro Caribbean and Afro West Indian rhythm merged with Continental Africa. New forms of music emerged.
Thanks to Akwesi Sarpong and the BBC for this masterpiece of a documentary. Let the world know Hi-life is the root of African music.
BBC YOU COULD REALLY HAVE DONE BETTER “REWINDING” YOU COULD HAVE SORTED THOSE WHO MADE HIPLIFE HIPLIFE LIKE AKATAKYIE JAY Q AKYEAME HAMMER THE LAST TWO OBRAFOUR ETC AND YOU WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A CONCRETE RESEARCH ON HOW THEY HELD AND MADE HIPLIFE HIPLIFE COS REGGIE ALONE COULDNT MAKE IT THEN YOU FUSE IN THE NEW GENERATION AT THE END OF YOUR SUBMISSION.
WAIT HOW THE HELL DO YOU EVEN DO A HIPLIFE DOCUMENTARY WITHOUT SARKODIE WHO ROCKED HIPLIFE AND TOOK TWI GLOBALL FOR OVER 13 YEARS AND STILL HOLDING THE MANTLE
Hip-Life will NEVER die. We have so many legends that have carried the sound to the world!
They always forget also that Ghana is the originator of afrobeat. But because they are not telling their stories, Nigerians and they Western world wanna change the narrative. But still we the upcoming ones will surely bring it out Go and ask fela kuti
I find it weird that people who are simply spectators to life come to social media to compete over a craft they have nothing to do with. Burna boy is suddenly all of Nigeria?
How was Zapp Mallet not mentioned. Whaaat!! You can’t mention Hip-life without Zapp Mallet! The man behind the sound was Zapp Mallet!
Ghanaians haven't even appreciate what BBC has done look at the views now hmm
There's nothing like HipLife, it's just a straightforward appropriation of the American Rap and Hipop styles.
What's KiDi doing in this documentary?
M.anifest has about 50% screen time in this doc.
80% of the music videos are from M.anifest.
Someone who is always pushing "hiplife is dead" agenda ,and has contributed zilch impact to the genre. Such an irony.
It was nice to see this. Well done. 🇳🇬🇬🇭
Hiplife is dead our people who are privileged and are supposed to put us out there and promote us are in our radio stations are asking unnecessary questions ..Nigerians are not better than us in any way and the fact is they tapped our sound and made theirs, made it better and they were able to sell it across ! I remember when I was coming up our Nigerians used to feature most of our songs both hipflife and highlife in their movies … what happened to us as Ghanaians !!!!!!???????
Will BBC or any other station narrate the evolution of modern Ghana music and parallel that similar to evolution of modern Nigeria music. That will be a very interesting narrative and quite revealing…my $0.02
FINALLY THE TRUTH IS HERE🔥🔥🔥🔥