Cameroon-American hip hop sensation SCOLLA (formerly Young Scolla) has not rested on his laurels after releasing big hits like ‘Reflection’, ‘Gimme A sign’ and ‘Seconds Away’. The Detroit-based emcee just dropped a new single titled ”Tell me If you down”. The joint was produced by Ric and Thaddeus . He is currently working on an R&B album as well as a new mixtape with celebrity DJ, DJ Ill Will(Manager to Kid Ink)
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We Make Music Wednesday proudly presents South Africa-based Cameroonian rapper C Trix . The tune”All Black Everything ” and ”I can do it” are brand new singles off the LP titled ”All Black Everything”. C Trix is presently working gearing up to drop the album in a few months.
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Naija-based Cameroonian Afro-beat sensation Chinepoh a.k.aXCELENT(previously known as Excel) has broke the long silence with a terrific video of his new single ”Shaye”. The song , apparently an enthralling club-banger is currently being aired on radio across Cameroon and we are optimistic about its success . According his manager Emmanuel Cole‘s declaration on FACEBOOK, this video is worth 2.4 Million CFA frs. Xcelent has been rubbing shoulders with music heavyweights in Naija and recently performed during 2 Face Idibia‘s album launch at Eko Hotel, Lagos.
Visibly, there has recently been a dramatic improvement in the quality of Cameroonian urban music videos. February 16th , Makconcept, NS pictures, etc keep setting the pace and the standard is just commendable. ”SHAYE” video was produced by Shamak of MAKCONCEPT.
Remixing is a derivative art-form, meaning music built from a recorded song either by copying the hook, chorus or an element of the instrumental which appeals to you . Remixing instrumentals have become a norm in contemporary urban music with the fluid evolvement of heavily synthesized digital softwares . US artist Girl Talk is the most famous for creating an entire album using sounds from other music and cutting it to his own. Criticism and controversy on P-Square has been outrageous as a majority of their hit songs have been derivative forms of other recorded music or a mere sampling of western songs;, Last night ,Get squared , Game over, ”Bizzy body’, Danger , ”Omoge mi” , just to name a few are quintessences. Remixing and sampling is used by artists as an easy strategy or short-cut to garner quick attention and popularity. As this strategy worked like magic for P-Square and ” now the don di troway”, budding Cameroonian acts seem to have plunged into the same pool . Big Bzy remixed Akon’s ”Belly Dancer” , Steveslil remixed T-Pain’s ”Buy you a drank” to ”Buy you shack” , King Aluan recently remixed ”Chop ma money” to ” mange mon argent” , ”Don 4 kwat to ” Pa 4 kwat ” etc and criticism gets rave as pundits consider this a non-creative aspect or ”gate-scratching” on another’s success. Are these all acts of plagiarism ? . On the other hand, some artists remix or sample songs just to increase fidelity on the older song which may have degraded. Variety of reasons flourish.
Red Cafe
If you are keen enough, you can rightly say without fear of contradiction that Cameroonian mainstream song ”Don 4 kwat” by JOVI is a derivative song from US rapper and Konvict’s Red Cafe 2009 single ”Hottest in da hood” or Is it just a translation of title ?
Listening to the ”Don 4 kwat” instrumental, you get some musical components that are derived from ”Hottest in da hood”. ”Jovi simply added spicy melody like the whistle and hit strings to make it different” someone told me yesterday. ”The rap style equally sounds similar” he continued . Can the assertion that no contemporary urban music is original be justified ?.
Adah dropped a teaser of his new hit ”Yokoko” which premiered here . The ”Nyango” sultry crooner who is currently on a promotional tour in Cameroon has finally released the full version of the highly anticipated video . If you doubt the prowess of Cameroonian urban artists, this is just a proof of hard work and credibility. The video has interesting cameo appearances like Ruth Nkwenti, Diana ‘Blackpearl ‘ Tambe , Romero, and many more. It’s mouth-watering !. Competition is definitely stiff for video directors in Cameroon. This video is realized by Makconcept.
Rodwyn is a Belgium-based Cameroonian rapper. His brand new single ”Boom Shakata” off is 4-track-LP has been hitting the airwaves , receiving a positive feedback from the Cameroonian music-loving public. The album covers themes like the unity of Africa, Love, racism etc. ”Boom Shakata” is a song which calls on Africans to wake up from slumber and fight for their destiny. This album features a Belgium-based Congolese artist on the song titled ”Ma ding Wa” and he wishes to collaborate with other artists from Burkina Faso, Senegal , and France. Rodwyn who is Taphis’ brother, is presently in Cameroon for a promotional tour.His new video ; ”Boom Shakata” was realised by DigitalMProd.
Finland- based lyricist and rapper , Terencekizz just gave a positive signal with a smash video titled ”Understanding to understand” which features Candy Starr. Terencekizz is apparently the Cameroonian artist who stars the most beautiful video vixens in his music videos reminiscent in ”Women got power”, ”Nobody gonna stop me now” and ”Somethin’ going on” videos. He delivers just what Cameroonians like to see .
I personally appreciate the power of his pen which is quite educative and the high standard of the video. He recently confided in us that he shall be in Los Angeles , USA to record a deluxe 2012 album . Keep it going brother !
Cameroonian Afrobeat and pop music is gradually quenching the thirst of music lovers who had hitherto disbelieved in consuming our urban music. A newcomer in the scene who is currently making indelible footprints is North West-raised and Douala-based ONE ROCKY. After the release of ”Boom boom’‘, he has been one of the most solicited youngsters in the Urban music scene beautifully ranked on the charts. His soul-touching voice is worth-while. His entire album was recorded , mixed and mastered at M1 Studios Buea .Why not become a fan on Facebook
UK based RnB pop sensation AMA , whom we blogged about here has dropped a mind-blowing video of his single ”Make my mind di blow” which features another Cameroonian , Tizo. Remember the mellow-voice crooner was a band member of the defunct CoreSouth alongside Steveslil, C-Hill and Trano. The video was produced by Ace Music Entertainment . Great Stride !
Steveslil‘s single ”Panjo” is already enjoying a warm embrace on radio in Cameroon . Here is the studio session of the hit produced by 18-year-old producer Deecy.
Remixing is a derivative art-form, meaning music built from a recorded song either by copying the hook, chorus or an element of the instrumental which appeals to you . Remixing instrumentals have become a norm in contemporary urban music with the fluid evolvement of heavily synthesized digital softwares . US artist 
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