Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series about South Africans' memories of watching televised World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) matches and their admiration for John Cena and some of the other WWE wrestlers.

Part II of this pancocojams series provides comments from Africans about their memories of watching televised World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) matches and about how they favored John Cena and certain e other wrestlers. These comments are from (African American vlogger) Mansa Mayne's YouTube reaction video about Sho Madjozi's hit rap track entitled "John Cena".

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/05/south-africans-admiration-for-john-cena.htmlfor Part I of this two part pancocojams series. Part I provides some Information about WWE and some information about John Cena. Part I also showcases a 2019 YouTube video of Sho Madjozi on American television series The Kelly Clarkson Show and a partial transcript of Sho Madjozi's comments on that show about John Cena.

The content of these posts are presented for socio-cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to John Cena and to Sho Madjozi. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/05/south-african-rappersinger-sho-madjozi.html for a pancocojams post entitled (South African Rapper/Singer) Sho Madjozi - "John Cena" (Information, Video, English Translation, & Explanations).

Additional posts that are related to or were inspired by Sho Madjozi's "John Cena" rap will be published ASAP and can be found by clicking the "John Cena rap" tag below or using Google search or some other search engine for "John Cena rap" pancocojams.

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM SOUTH AFRICANS ABOUT WWE WRESTLING
Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.

From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY2Do0sTS9s SHO MADJOZI - JOHN CENA | REACTION VIDEO, published by Mansa Mayne, Aug 20, 2019

1. tshimangadzo khwashaba, 2019
"@Mansa Mayne, im from South Africa and this side John Cena is the ish. wrestlers we recognize The Rock - John Cena & Undertaker"

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2. Natsai Ndebele, 2019
"John Cena was it growing up, like watching WWE was like something everyone was doing Saturday or Sunday evening."

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3. SAUS, 2019
"Growing up, John Cela was a big deal in every household in SA 😂😂😂 everyone's fav wrestler followed by undertaker 🤣🤣🤣🤣"

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4. loxymandles, 2019
"Ray mystero, Coldstone Steve Austin, the Rock. Etc 😂"

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5. Lirrulewon
"My generation was Hulk Hogan for real"

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6. The real mexican-jedi, 2019
"Its true even grannies know him"

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7. Cebo Makhaye, 2019
"And the Big Show!"

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8. Nqobile Treasure Smith
"SAUS you forgot Eddie guerrero 😭😭"

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9. Malika LNG, 2019
"factssssss"

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10. Violet Letsoalo, 2019
"Trueee😂😂😂"

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11. Spepelo Ngondo, 2019
"And Batista 😂"

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12. Mayibuye Magwaza, 2019
"I was all about that Rey Mysterio Jr!"

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13. Kimberley Mataure, 2019
"on e tv 😂😂😂😂"

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14. ThePSYchicPEACH, 2019
"True 😂 😂 In SA WWE as a kid was life"

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15. Mornè Marais
"@Cebo Makhaye the big show was my nickname in school😂😂"

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16. Jaya K, 2020
"Eddie Guerrero all day, every day!!!"

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17. Majda Haddi, 2020
"Mine was randy ortan"

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18. Tehe Whatthe, 2020
"Bret Heart, Undertaker, Steve Austin"

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19. Asumta Daniels, 2020
"Not just SA... I think like the whole of Africa.
Here in Kenya wrestling was 🔥🔥"

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20. Tsitsi Alexander, 2020
"John Cena was a big deal,true.."

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21. Arthemon Nguweneza, 2019
"John cena is a big deal in South Africa"

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22. Mosa Mokebe, 2019
"He, I remember when we had pictures of him on packets of chips"

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23. ndumiso walter, 2019
"Arthemon Nguweneza not really"

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24. Arthemon Nguweneza, 2019
"@ndumiso walter I do live in SA as well, if you grew up in 2000's which was the time more people watched wrestling then you knew John Cena"

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25. Izinga Creatives, 2019
"NOt really"

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26. Gem Floral, 2019
"Whoooaaa really?!"

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27. Dineo Dee Malele, 2019
"Not really!Sho Madjozi grew up in that era. We all watched wrestling at some point in our lives that's why we can relate."

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28. Mabontle N, 2019
"Honestly 😂😂 growing up he was the best!"

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29. Kholofelo Maloma
"Yeah, when we grew up in SA, John Cena was the a huge deal in every kid's life! Outside wrestling, Jean Claude Van Damn, Jet Lee, Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Lee were the heroes of each child..."

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30. Richard Michael, 2020
"Sho Madjozi is South African but I think she lived in Tanzania for a while so she is familiar with Swahili, and apart from John Cena, her song called "Huku" is also in swahili which are both hit songs of her. In Tanzania as well as in South Africa, John Cena is the most idolized wrestler, and in the village where Sho lived, there was only one TV in the whole village and they were only allowed to watch two shows, one of which was wrestling. Hence, you can say John Cena is her idol"

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Visitor comments are welcome.

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This pancocojams post showcases YouTube examples of The Five Stairsteps' 1970 R&B inspirational song "Ooh Child".

Lyrics for this song and information & comments about this song are also included in this post.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, inspirational, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Stan Vincent, the composer of this song and thanks to The Five Stairsteps for their musical legacy. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post, and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.
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This is an exact reprint (with minor changes and additions) of a 2018 pancocojams post. That post has no comments.

Happy Mothers Day to all those who have served in that role and Happy Birthday to my daughter Tazi.

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SHOWCASE EXAMPLES
Example #1: The Five Stairsteps - Ooh Child (Things are Gonna Get Easier) [MP3/Download Link] + Full Lyrics



iTeddy101, Published on Dec 12, 2009

Lyrics:

Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child
Things'll get brighter
Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child
Things'll get brighter

Some day, yeah
We'll get it together and we'll get it all done
Some day
When your head is much lighter
Some day, yeah
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter

Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna be easier
Ooh-oo child
Things'll get be brighter
Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna be easier
Ooh-oo child
Things'll get be brighter

Some day, yeah
We'll get it together and we'll get it all done
Some day
When your head is much lighter
Some day, yeah
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter

Some day, yeah
We'll get it together and we'll get it all done
Some day
When your head is much lighter
Some day, yeah
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter

Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child
Things'll get brighter
Ooh-oo child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh-oo child
Things'll get brighter
Right now, right now
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Selected comments from this video's discussion thread (Numbers are assigned for referencing purposes only)

2013
1. NewJayqwe2
"Am I the only one who remembers this song from the Bernie Mac Show?"

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2. Rick Pressley
"Before games and movies and whatever else, there was The Five Stairsteps!! What an awesome song of motivation!!!"

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2014
3. Simonas B.
"2Pac & Boyz N The Hood"

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4. Ana Miller
"This song came out during the Vietnam War! The children were deathly afraid of having their Father's killed. We saw the cops beat the Boomers with the clubs. The adult world was a chaotic mess! This song touched the hearts of the children who were caught in this crossfire. It meant a lot to us that someone remembered the Children in all this."

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5. Ana Miller
"I don't know who they wrote this song for. But it became the song for the Vietnam Vets children who lost their Fathers or for those scared out of their wits they would lose their Father. It became our song! It touched our hearts and gave us hope that the chaos would end soon!! This was our song!!!"

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6. RhodainChristJesus
"Isn't it sad when a lot of people Only know this song from Guardians of the Galaxy ;(
but GOTG reminded me of it :)"

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7. DrCrunchElements
"I agree I loves the song before watching the film but it was the film that brought me here"

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8. sealbones, 2015
"No! I think it's awesome that a middle-of-the-road movie's made lots of people interested in something they otherwise wouldn't have known about =]"

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9. Jeffrey Lebowski
"I heard this song, like a zillion times, don't remember where I heard it first but who cares ?! It's a good song, and I don't know wether you found it through Boyz 'n' the Hood, or Guardians of the Galaxy, I'm just glad you found it. Everyone should listen to this at least once in their life, it's a classic."

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10. KirkSH52
"This is the best genre of music that ever happened on this planet in my humble opinion. People need to listen to this music and mellow the hell out. Life is too short to be mad and hateful to others. This life we live is "trivial" and very short. I say we all just say the hell with it and be nice to one another while we are here for this minute period of time."

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2015
11. Brody White
"A great song and inspiration for anyone going through hard times!!"

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12. Diquan Washingbeard
"I'm here mainly from Crooklyn and also Boys N The Hood, two of my fav movies."

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13. Seth Williams
"No, Guardians of the Galaxy did not bring me here. It's a classic, anyone who know music, knows this song Lol. People now days, I tell ya"

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14. ChocoMucho2207
"+Seth Williams well thanks to the movie, this and many more classic songs were reintroduced to more recent generations and bet most liked it"

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15. Fortune Industries
"I know this less from GOTG and more from Ryan Haywood trying to sing the first verse with a hoarse throat during the Monopoly episode of Achievement Hunter: Minecraft."

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16. Vasco2024
"I don't know why so many people have a problem with others (specially young) discovering songs through movies and games... I bet when you were a kid you didn't listen to 1940's songs. You should be happy awesome songs like this are becoming popular. But I just think it's stupid that whenever someone comments "I came here trough...", some people brag they knew it first, and blah blah"

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17. jonathan lopez DRose1
"Boyz in the hood got me here"

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18. Natasha C
"Doesn't matter what brought us all here this is a great song, Crooklyn, Boyz in the Hood or GOTG unite! lol"

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19. Tiffany Owens
"Yas. I swear this is the best comment here."

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2016
20. William Walton
"Recently I have been through some incredibly rough times and to hear this song and listen to the lyrics makes me feel better... Thank you for posting this!"

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21. CatVader101
"One of Tupac's songs had the lyrics from this song in his, that's why I'm here"

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22. stephen spinato
"which one?"

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23. CatVader101
"+stephen spinato Keep Ya Head Up"

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24. stephen spinato
"thanks!"

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25. CatVader101
"+stephen spinato No Problem :)"

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26. Samuel Sannoh, 2017
"CatVader101 that why im here too, keep your head up and one of my friend was listening to this song and i thought it was tupac but it wasnt so i had to look up this song"

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27. George David
"What a great song to send to your grown up kids when they are dealing with lifes curveballs"

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28. Smooooth
"This song gives me hope"

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29. Renee Vest
"me too!! :)"

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30. Sherrie Wesley, 2017
"Smooooth Me 3 🙃"

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31. fernace333, 2017
"me four"

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32. Randall Wellborn, 2017
"God me tooo"

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33. Zoecrimson DellaRocco, 2017
"Smooooth me too :)"

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34. Will Millhouse
"This was when ice cube got caught stealing and going off to jail on boyz in the hood movie real classic"

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35. Atiba Tolbert
"yeah dude boys in the hood is iconic"

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36. Jason Docker
"boyz in the hood brought me here this tune is the backing track to the father and son fishing scene ...."

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37. Justin Dortch
"you should check out the movie crooklyn really good black cinema with this song aswell."

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38. Jason Docker
"thank you for the tip"

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39. James Doris
"Hard to imagine in this world of ours today but sometimes hope is the best thing we have and I surely hope someday soon things will get easier and things will be brighter... for us and for future generations."

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2017
40. Ivy Vasconcelos
"American Crime Story brought me here. That episode when Mr. Johnnie sings this song. Also, 2pac brought me here too. Amazing music 💚"

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41. mile8650 mile8650
"this song makes me like the world more in a way and makes me a happier person when i listen or think about it"

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42. mmm SOUL
"We are poor but we are doing all we can to better ourselves. This song gives me hope that one day we will be able to prosper. We will be able to help the rest of our family. That we will be able to help our grandma with cost of surgery. I know it. We are giving it all."

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43. AmyKinso
"Go to for sadtimes💓"

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44. Peggy Soto
"Love these old songs"

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45. Spice Shabalala
"For every BLACK person throughout the world, this is our song."

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Example #2: Five Stairsteps Ooh Child 70s TV



Danschutz, Published on Oct 13, 2014

Not sure what show this is from but it is definitely an upgrade to the others on youtube.
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Selected comments from this video's discussion thread (Numbers are assigned for referencing purposes only)

2015
1. Anthony Mackey
"Just found the show from this footage; The Barbara McNair Show 1971 in case anyone wants to know."

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2. Tom Fordi, 2016
"+Anthony Mackey (The 70's Man)

Thank you so much for the information, I do want to know. A search on IMDB says April 4, 1971. It is a Toronto, Canada TV show."

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3. Kevin Goins
"This was from the Stairsteps' 1970 appearance on THE BARBARA McNAIR SHOW, which was syndicated from 1969 to 1971. Barbara was an singer/actress signed to Motown Records for many years. She had many folks on her TV program, from the Edwin Hawkins Singers and the Stairsteps to the Rascals and the Turtles."

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4. Musa Yobabydaddy
"Aloha seems like shes struggling to sing her part, she was still my favorite StairStep."

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6. 5.ME-Tube Your Space!, 2017
"Musa Yobabydaddy Yeah. Her voice has gotten really deep. She had a nice saprano when they first came out back in 1966."

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2016
7. Annette Rome
"A great performance!!! are they all brothers and sister??????????"

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8. JPfromFlint
"Yes. They were known as the "'First Family of Soul.""

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9. Aminah Shabazz
"Yes! The Burke Family. Sis is the oldest! :-)"

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10. Mario Fields
"I love the way my man fell in line right b4 she started singing! Very slick!"

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11. Tommy Grey
"I like that too.
what religion did she convert to?
Which one is Clerance Burke who died 3 years ago?"

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14. OldschoolMusicJunkie
"Mario Fields The group is made up of 4 brothers and 1 sister, her name is Alohe Jean.

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15. Joe Johnson
"Tommy Grey - The talented Clarence Burk is singing lead and he is to the far right. The guy in the orange is Kenny Burk author of the song " Keep On Rising To The Top", was a big hit in '80's."

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16. Joe Johnson
"Mario Fields - That's Clarence Burk Jr. he wrote a lot of the songs. Stevie Wonder produced a lot of their songs and I believe this was a Stevie Wonder production."

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17. Tommy Grey
"I thought she converted to another religion and changed her name?"

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18. Mario Fields
"she did"

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19. patty1977
"Who is the young dude singing lead, saying the "oooh Child" part?"

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20. Al Atherley
"That's Kenni Burk. He went on to become a much in demand Bassist on several albums."

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2017
21. Nia the Gulf Gypsy
"A wonderful song preformed by truly great people! Honest, live, pure talent. And the message of this song is so needed today.
Life isn't always easy but life is a gift and it's up to each of us, to try to make the best we can, of it.

Bright blessings to all. Have faith. See the good and the beautiful around you."

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22. Craig Busick
"I would to hear their back story."

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23. Jay J.
"They're four brothers and a sister. They got their name when their mom remarked that when they stood in line from oldest to youngest they looked like five Stairsteps"

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24. Charles Zachary
"The Burke Family could get their groove on without a doubt. One of my all time favorite songs. Incredible live rendition of a timeless classic."

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25. Phillip Burns
"Did this group came out before The Jackson 5 ???"

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26. hendrixnut64
"yes"

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27. markeobrien
"wow...that is awesome. so cool to see a live performance instead of the usual lip sync. the vocals have such a nice rawness and warmth."

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INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SONG
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-o-h_Child
"O-o-h Child" is a 1970 single recorded by Chicago soul family group the Five Stairsteps and released on the Buddah label. Previously, the Five Stairsteps had had peripheral success recording in Chicago with Curtis Mayfield: when Mayfield's workload precluded his continuing to work with the group they were reassigned to Stan Vincent, an in-house producer for Buddah Records, who had recently scored a Top Ten hit with the Lou Christie single "I'm Gonna Make You Mine". The Five Stairsteps' debut collaboration with Vincent was originally formatted with the group's rendition of "Dear Prudence" as the A-side with Vincent's original composition "O-o-h Child" as B-side. However, "O-o-h Child" broke out in the key markets of Philadelphia and Detroit to rise as high as #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1970. The track's R&B chart impact was more muted with a #14 peak, although "O-o-h Child" is now regarded as a "soft soul" classic. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 21 song of 1970.

The Five Stairsteps' only pop Top 40 hit, "O-o-h Child" would be the group's last R&B top 40 hit (they had several top 40 R&B hits in the 1960s) until 1976's "From Us to You". Included on the band's The Stairsteps album from 1970, it has become the Stairsteps' signature song and has inspired more than twenty covers since its release. The song featured various members, including lone female member and eldest sister Alohe, brothers Keni, Dennis, James, lead singer Clarence Burke, Jr. singing in various parts of the song and also drummer Jerome Brailey on the original recording.

The lyrics tell the listener that "things are gonna get easier" in times of strife. The song's uplifting message helped it to become popular among pop and rhythm and blues audiences when it was released.

The song is ranked #402 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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This pancocojams post showcases a 2015 video of South African Gospel choir Joyous Celebration singing a Gospel medley entitled "I Beat".

The lyrics to this song are included in this post along with selected comments from that video's discussion thread. Special attention is given to comments about the yellow cushions that the choir and congregation are holding in one hand and beating with the palm of the other hand.

The content of this post is presented for religious, cultural, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Joyous Celebration and all those associated with this video and this medley of songs.

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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/10/videos-examples-of-south-africas-urcsa.html
for a October 5, 2019 pancocojams post that showcase videos of the South African Christian congregations which are known for their use of hand held cushions that are percussion instruments.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Joyous Celebration - I Beat



joyousVEVO Oct 19, 2015
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Statistics as of May 19, 2020 as of 1:39 PM EDT
Total # of views-1,770,929
Total # of likes -9.5K
Total # of dislikes-363
Total # of comments -506

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
(with numbers added for referencing purposes only)


1. winiswa nxele, 2015
"This song gives me life (literally)..I find healing in this song on so many occasions. It empowers me in such a way, words are not enough to describe how I feel listening to this guy.. Khaya has the anointing..The harmonies are on fleek."

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2. Melesha Williams, 2015
"I totally agree with you, even tho I do not know what is being sung."

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3. Bernadette Bethel, 2015
"Verse 1:
Sithi Oh Msindisi (We say, Oh Savior)…
Oh Msindisi, oh Msindisi Nguwe olithemba lam
(Oh Savior, oh Savior; You are my hope)
(Repeat)

Verse 2:
Ithemba lam Baba (My hope Father)
Ithemba lam ndonyuka nalo (I will rise with my hope)
Ndingene endumisweni (To enter the place of praise)
(Repeat)

Verse 3:
Ndingene, ndingen’ endumisweni Baba (To enter the place of praise Father)
Oh ndingene endumisweni, (Oh To enter the place of praise)
(Repeat)

Verse 4:
Ngena, oh ngena ngob’ indawo isekhona (Come in because there’s still a space left)
Ngena, ngena, indawo isekhona (Come in, come in there is still room)
Ngena nawe mama, Ngena nawe Baba (Come in you mother, come in you Father)
Ngena, ngena, indawo isekhona (Come in, come in there is still room)

Verse 5:
Ngonyama kaJuda, Wanqob’uSathane (Lion of Judah You defeated Satan)
Xa simi ngakuwe sonqotshwa ngubani (If we stand by you who will defeat us)
(Repeat)"

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4. Kandice Long, 2016
"What is that instrument they have on their hands?"

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5. Msmadam msmadam, 2016
"Kandice Long we call it a beat"

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6. glorious n, 2017
"The bass at 1:29 though 😍😍 , I literally don’t understand anything but blessed"

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7. Thando Ndwandwe, 2017
"Its a mix of hymns sung in IsiZulu
https://africangospellyrics.com/2013/03/16/i-beat-lyrics-by-joyous-celebration-16/"

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8. Tafae Machimbiz, 2017
"I'm kinda confused 😁 Can someone please explain to me why this song is called I Beat? I mean how does it fit into what they are saying? What do they beat?"

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9. nobubelo moyo, 2017
"Tafae Machimbiz Cause they all beating that thing in their hands"

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10. debo adediran, 2017
"seen this video a million times. brings joy to my heart.
please this yellow thingy what is it call? where can i get it?"

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11. Thando Ndwandwe, 2017
"The back of a hard cover bible will give the same effect, grew up watching the elder men in the church using that as a means to get the beat because back then, there were no keyboards and drums in the church, or we just simply clap our hands till they go numb hahaha. South African gospel hymns will get you going lol..."

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12. adaeze okoye, 2019
"Please can someone tell me what that yellow bag they are all holding is."

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13. Okay then, 2020
"adaeze okoye it’s called a beat"

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13. Azizi Powell, 2020
"Here's a quote from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/44f5/464c1570df0258d80affad087a77371f5782.pdf
"The emergence of amakhorasi as an art form did not replace hymns, but is rather a functional evolution in Christian Xhosa music...

The following instruments are sometimes used in some mainline churches and in most independent churches: tambourines/rattles, triangles, cowbells, umpampampas (Bible-sized cushion covered with leather and beat with the palm of one hand), drums, sound pipes."...
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Given this quote, I believe the Xhosa name for those yellow bag is "umpampampas". In certain YouTube discussion threads of videos of Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) services, some people refer to these bags or cushions as "pillows".

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Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents information about South Africa's URCSA (Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa denomination.

This post also presents information about Khayeitsha, South Africa.

This post also showcases five YouTube videos of URCSA Khayeitsha congregation singing. Most of those videos feature members of those congregations singing and playing a musical instrument whose Xhosa name is "umpampampas", but is colloquially called "ibeat". According to https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/44f5/464c1570df0258d80affad087a77371f5782.pdf ..."umpampampas [are] (Bible-sized cushion covered with leather and beat with the palm of one hand), drums, sound pipes."...

Selected comment from the discussion threads for four of these videos are included along with the lyrics for one of these songs.

The content of this post is presented for religious, cultural, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those featured in these videos and thanks to Sivuyisiwe Lutango, the publisher of these videos on YouTube.

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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/10/videos-examples-of-south-africas-urcsa.html
for a October 5, 2019 pancocojams post that showcase videos of the South African Christian congregations which are known for their use of hand held cushions that are percussion instruments.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/05/joyous-celebration-i-beat-south-african.html for a May 10, 2020 titled "Joyous Celebration - I Beat Medley" (South African Gospel Medley with special attention to the hand held cushion percussive instrument)".

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE UNITING REFORMED CHURCH OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (URCSA)
From https://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/uniting-reformed-church-in-southern-africa
"Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa
Church Family :
United and Uniting churches
Based in : South Africa
Present in : Lesotho, Namibia
Membership : 496,744
Pastors : 536
Congregations : 758

[...]

In 1994 the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) was established through the union of the former Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) and the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA). Both churches were the fruit of the mission work done by the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. Shortly after their arrival in 1652 the Dutch introduced slavery in the Cape and started a slave school to further the Christian religion, Dutch language and culture. The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of the time had no organized mission activity and accommodated all racial groups. The baptism of slaves was left to the will of their masters. Very few baptized slaves were however confirmed as members of the church. In due course various mission organizations from abroad started working in South Africa, which led to a number of denominations amongst the indigenous people and slaves. This motivated the DRC to start its own independent mission work in 1824. Although the 1829 synod formally rejected discrimination on the basis of skin colour, in practice people of colour were discriminated against, particularly at worship services and holy communion. The synod of 1857 decided to allow separate services for coloured members "because of the weakness of some". The next logical step was the formation in 1881 of the DRMC as a separate church for the converts of the DRC's mission work. In each province of South Africa separate churches for blacks and coloureds were formed. All the coloured congregations eventually joined the DRMC, and the black churches the DRCA. Both remained under the control of the DRC for decades.

In 1966 the DRMC decided in favour of structural unity between the churches of the DRC family. The DRCA put a similar emphasis on unification in 1975. It took another 19 years for that ideal to be partially fulfilled. The DRC did not join the union of the DRMC and the DRCA. The name of the URCSA (in the continuous tense) and its logo (an incomplete circle) reflect the church's emphasis on and hope for the re-unification of the DRC family and the wider family of God.”...

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INFORMATION ABOUT KHAYEITSHA, SOUTH AFRICA
From https://www.tripsavvy.com/visiting-khayelitsha-township-cape-town-south-africa-4158886"How to Visit Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town: The Complete Guide" Written by JESSICA MACDONALD
Updated 04/09/19
"Located in the Cape Flats area of the Western Cape, Khayelitsha is the second-largest black township in South Africa (after Soweto). It’s a 30-kilometer hop from Cape Town city center; and yet, life in Khayelitsha is very different to life at the prosperous heart of the Mother City, where elegant colonial buildings rub shoulders with world-class restaurants and art galleries.

The township, whose name means “new home” in Xhosa, is one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Cape Town area. And yet, despite its problems, Khayelitsha has earned itself a reputation as a hotbed of culture and entrepreneurship. Visitors to Cape Town are increasingly drawn there on guided township tours: here are some of the best options for a meaningful Khayelitsha experience.

Khayelitsha's History
Before planning a visit to Khayelitsha, it’s important to understand the township’s history. In 1983, the apartheid government announced its decision to re-home legal black residents living in informal settlements on the Cape Peninsula to a new, purpose-built site called Khayelitsha. Ostensibly, the new township was created to provide those living in sub-standard squatter camps with improved formal housing; but in reality, Khayelitsha’s role was to give the government better control over the area’s impoverished black communities by grouping them together in one place.

Legal residents were classified as those that had lived on the Cape Peninsula for more than 10 years. Those that didn’t meet that criteria were considered illegal, and many were forcibly repatriated to the Transkei, one of several black homelands created during the apartheid regime. When apartheid ended, people living in the homelands could once again move freely throughout South Africa. Many of those that had been removed from the Western Cape decided to return, along with countless migrants who flocked to Cape Town in search of work.

These migrants arrived with nothing, and many of them erected makeshift shacks on the edges of Khayelitsha. By 1995, the township had expanded to accommodate over half a million people.

Khayelitsha Today
Today, over two million people call Khayelitsha home, earning it its status as the fastest-growing township in South Africa. Poverty is still a crippling issue, with 70% of the township’s residents living in informal shacks, and a third having to walk 200 meters or more to access clean water. Crime and unemployment rates are high. However, Khayelitsha is also a neighborhood on the rise. New brick houses are being built, and residents now have access to schools, clinics and an incredible array of social development projects (including a canoe club and a cycle club)."...




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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Video #1: URCSA Khayelitsha Hosana 65(1)



Sivuyisiwe Lutango, Mar 14, 2018
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Selected comments from this video's discussion thread, with numbers added for referencing purposes only:
1. Hazel Nkosi, 2019
"So touched. AmaUniting amahle. U killing it. My church. I am a blessed CWL for 5 years"

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2. Bessie Waller, 2018
"This is so beautiful, I wish could understand what the words they are singing in english"

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3. Nxonxo Masixole, 2018
"Aawww nkosi yam iyandiphilisa umculo walenkonzo phambili maURCSA"
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Google translate from Xhosa to English
"Awww my lord brings me the music of this service in front of the URCSA"

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4. Andiswa Nkabi, 2019
"Wooww am crying evry time ndimamele eliculo😢😢😢 ndicela nibhale iculo lonke please. Am blessed"

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5. Sihle Tsengiwe, 2019
"Bhota mnqamlezo weNkos
Hlathi nqaba liwa lam
Xa uMtyholi eqhayisa
Zono xa zincamisa
Ngxonde yokusabela
Bhota mnqamlezo Nkos
2.
Khanya mnqamlezo weNkos
Gxotha ubumnyama bam
Khwezi lomso wothando
Langa lomhla woxolo
Ngqina lobulungisa
Khanya mnqamlezo weNkos
3.
Xhasa mnqamlezo weNkos
Xhasa seka qinisa
Ekulweni khaka lam
Phawu lwabasindiswa
Xhasa mnqamlezo weNkos
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Bhota mnqamlezo weNkos
Hlathi,nqaba,liwa lam
Xa kufika ukufa kwam
Yakuphela imihla yam
Nguwe olithemba lam
Bhota mnqamlezo weNkos
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Google translate from Xhosa to English:
"Bow the cross of the Lord
The forest is my stronghold
When the devil brags
When sins are overwhelming
A fortress of refuge
Cross the Cross Lord
2.
Shine the cross of the Lord
Cast out my darkness
The morning star of love
It's a day of peace
He is a witness of righteousness
Shine the cross of the Lord
3.
Support the cross of the Lord
Support and strengthen
In fighting my shield
The sign of the saved
Support the cross of the Lord
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Bow the cross of the Lord
A forest, a stronghold, my rock
When my death came
When my days are over,
You are my hope
Bow the cross of the Lord"

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Video #2: URCSA Khayelitsha



Sivuyisiwe Lutango, Aug 22, 2018

Hosana 184: Vuthelani Ixilongo
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Google translate from Xhosa to English: "Blow the Trumpet"
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Selected comments from this video's discussion thread, with numbers added for referencing purposes only:
1. Athenkosi Mandlendoda, 2019
"Sizoyishaya ngempel'iKhayelitsha Aw Heshe Ntsizwaaa.... Looool, awu madoda yhiiini yhiiini yhiiiini.... iza!!! Watching these videos just revives me. Siyabulela!!!"
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Google translate from Xhosa to English:
"We are going to hit it off on a real day. Watching these videos just revives me. Thanks !!!"

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2. Nelly Shange, 2020
"Ai,ai,ai, lesembatho singkhumbuza umama wami ai,ai,ai ukbe kukhona okwenziwayo ukvusa asebalala ngabe ngyakwenza"
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Google translate from Xhosa to English:
"Ai, ai, ai, this dress reminds me of my mother ai, ai, ai if something was done to wake her up she would have done it"

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Video #3: URCSA Khayeitsha Hosana 106



Sivuyisiwe Lutango, Aug 22, 2018

Nkosi Ndive Ngezibele
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Google translate from Xhosa to English -"Lord Hear Me About Mercy"

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Video #4: URCSA Khayelitsha Hosana 76



Sivuyisiwe Lutango, Aug 22, 2018

Kukho Umnqamlezo
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Google translate from Xhosa to English - "There is a Cross"

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Video #5: URCSA Khayelitsha Hosana 353(2019 Easter Friday)



Sivuyisiwe Lutango, Apr 25, 2019
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Selected comments from this video's discussion thread, with numbers added for referencing purposes only:
Hellen Kekana, 2019
"I dont understand the words but joh! The synchronization and the boy with the bell moves me!!! Its electrifying 2🙌🙌"

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malakia solomon lekgothoane, 2019
"The little boy with the bell yoooooh he blesses me"

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Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases the official YouTube video of "Jerusalema" by Master KG featuring Nomcebo.

The lyrics to the South African song "Jerusalema" is included in this post along with comments about how this 2019 song came from the Hymn/Gospel song "Ndilondoloze".

The content of this post is presented for religious, cultural, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Master K and Nomcebo for their musical legacies. Thanks also to all those who are featured in all of the videos that are embedded in this post. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publishers of these videos on YouTube.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Master KG - Jerusalema [Feat. Nomcebo] (Official Music Video)



Openmic Productions, Premiered Dec 13, 2019
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Statistics as of May 12, 2020 at 11:41 AM EDT
Total # of views- 17,709,577
Total # of likes- 227K
Total # of dislikes- 9.3K
Total # of comments- 13,935

Master Kg sits on top of the world as one of the most decorated musicians of his generation as a recipient of the coveted continental and African diaspora Afrima 2018 Award for Best Electro and Dance; Afrimma 2019 Award for Best Male Southern Africa; SABC Summer Song 2018 for Skeleton Move; and the Limpopo Music Award for Best House Single for Skeleton Move.

On this smash hit he features the multitalented vocalist Nomcebo Zikode who is better known for blessing sweet vocals on Emazulwini and Imizamo Yami.
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Click https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_KG for more information about Master KG.

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LYRICS: JERUSALEMA

Jerusalema ikhaya lami(Jerusalem is my home)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Uhambe nami(Walk with me)
Zungangishiyi lana(Do not leave me here)
Jerusalema ikhaya lami(Jerusalem is my home)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Uhambe nami(Walk with me)
Zungangishiyi lana(Do not leave me here)

Ndawo yami ayikho lana(My place is not here)
Mbuso wami awukho lana(My kingdom is not here)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zuhambe nami(Walk with me)
Ndawo yami ayikho lana(My place is not here)
Mbuso wami awukho lana(My kingdom is not here)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zuhambe nami(Walk with me)

Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zungangishiyi lana(Do not leave me here)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zungangishiyi lana(Do not leave me here)

Ndawo yami ayikho lana(My place is not here)
Mbuso wami awukho lana(My kingdom is not here)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zuhambe nami(Walk with me)
Ndawo yami ayikho lana(My place is not here)
Mbuso wami awukho lana(My kingdom is not here)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zuhambe nami(Walk with me)

Jerusalema ikhaya lami(Jerusalem is my home)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Uhambe nami(Walk with me)
Zungangishiyi lana(Do not leave me here)
Jerusalema ikhaya lami(Jerusalem is my home)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Uhambe nami(Walk with me)
Zungangishiyi lana(Do not leave me here)

Ndawo yami ayikho lana(My place is not here)
Mbuso wami awukho lana(My kingdom is not here)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zuhambe nami(Walk with me)
Ndawo yami ayikho lana(My place is not here)
Mbuso wami awukho lana(My kingdom is not here)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zuhambe nami(Walk with me)

Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zungangishiyi lana(Do not leave me here)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zungangishiyi lana(Do not leave me here)

Jerusalema ikhaya lami(Jerusalem is my home)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Uhambe nami(Walk with me)
Zungangishiyi lana(Do not leave me here)
Jerusalema ikhaya lami(Jerusalem is my home)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Uhambe nami(Walk with me)
Zungangishiyi lana(Do not leave me here)

Ndawo yami ayikho lana(My place is not here)
Mbuso wami awukho lana(My kingdom is not here)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zuhambe nami(Walk with me)
Ndawo yami ayikho lana(My place is not here)
Mbuso wami awukho lana(My kingdom is not here)
Ngilondoloze(Guard me)
Zuhambe nami(Walk with me)

online source: https://afrikalyrics.com/master-kg-jerusalema-translation
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Here's a comment from the discussion thread for the official YouTube video (embedded above). This comment is directed to one of the people who posted the lyrics to that song:
Islesofhome, 2020
"THANKS Bro but you forgot one thing: Master KG's now famous intro- Wanitwa Mos!"
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And here's some information from https://genius.com/Genius-south-africa-translations-master-kg-jerusalem-english-translation-lyrics
question: "Is it a gospel song?
reply: "Yes it’s a Zulu gospel chorus sung in church to praise Him."

Written By Nomcebo & Master KG
Release Date: October 11, 2019"

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COMMENTS ABOUT MASTER KG'S & NOMCEBO'S SONG "JERUSALEMA"
Excerpt #1
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SanoEBSx7Ig MASTER KG - JERUSALEMA FT. NOMCEBO | REACTION VIDEO by Mansa Mayne, Dec 23, 2019

(with numbers added for referencing purposes only)

1. Letlhogonolo Esau, 2020
"This song is actually a hymn but a house version."
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The word "house" in this comment refers to South African "House" music. Here's information about two South African forms of house music from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styles_of_house_music
"Afro house
African music mixed with a house beat. Afro house is a sub-genre of house music, with its roots predominantly in South Africa. A fusion of kwaito, tribal, deep and soulful house music, in South Africa it is classed as deep house or soulful house, although it has its own unique sound and is reflected in the musical style – particularly in the “stripped back” original percussion sounds and rhythms of South African culture.[1]

Amapiano
Amapiano is a popular style of house originating in Gauteng, South Africa in mid to late 2010s. Amapiano is a sophisticated hybrid of deep house, jazz and lounge music characterized by synths, airy pads and wide basslines."

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2. Noxie Mvula, 2020
"The reason its emotional is because it's based on a hymn, it's actually a prayer "ngilondoloze" means "protect me, watch over me".

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3. Asiphe Madonda, 2020
"No she's not talking about nature she's talking about Jerusalem and God , Jerusalem is a place thats mentioned in the Bible. She's asking God to be with her and show her the way and all that"

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4. TF Mkhonza, 2020
"For now it's a top song in SA the like of Umlilo n Amatorokisi, for me Jerusalem is the song of the year in SA."...

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4. Thuli Dlamini, 2020
..."This is an old Gospel Song that is usually sung in funerals here in South Africa. It means "THIS EARTH IS NOT MY HOME, JERUSALEM IS MY HOME. GID [correction GOD] PLEASE TAKE CARE OF ME AND NEVER LEAVE ME ALONE"
Indeed it is an emotional song that Master KG has turned into a very good dancing song. In SA most of the times, at the parties and clubs when people are really drunk they start singing Gospel Songs. I suppose that is where Master KG found an inspiration from to turn Gospel song into a dancing song but I personally feel that he did do good by his version of the song with this kind of video.
The video is good if the song was in Church version but he made the song in the groove version, where people are supposed to be dancing and having fun and the video just takes straight to the funeral. I personally think, the video is contradicting the vibe of the song.

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5. The Alex, 2020
"I was at a club last night and this was the last song they played at closing time. You can't even get mad that they closing at 2am and you not about sleep😒. Great song!"

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6. Okuhle Osh, 2020
"At a party you don't know whether to dance or pray when this song is playing.

It's really an end of the party song."

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REPLY
7. Thabisile Makhoba, 2020
"Lool true"

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REPLY
celeste ahouma, 2020
"u can dance AND pray 🙏🏾🤣"

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Excerpt #2
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1-5uAHqrvM&t=337s Master Kg - Jerusalema [Feat. Nomcebo] | That American Reaction; published by That Fire LA, Jan 3, 2020
1. Noxolo Ayanda, 2020
"Jerusalema is Jerusalem from the bible😂actually the lyrics are from church song."

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2. ToughBlackseed, 2020
"This song though of gospel genre is a great party Jam also.( I don't think it has a thing to do with "gangsters' paradise"). It was played at a friend's 40th birthday party on the 26th of December, and the dancefloor was jammed up.....in port Harcourt Nigeria, not in South Africa or anywhere in that region. It's a fantastic song...Nocembo showed out incredibly."...

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3. TarCarNey Hail, 2020
"😂 😂 😂It is Jerusalem as in the one in the bible. This is a gospel song with a twist 😉

"Jerusalem ikhayalami" translate to Jerusalem my home ( sort of in the afterlife)

There is also a South African film with the same name. But that's not what she is singing about

Master Kaygee comes from the same province (Limpopo) as Sho Madjozi 😁"

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4. Thuli Dlamini, 2020
"A Gospel song with a twist is great way of describing it.

This indeed is a classic Gospel song here in South Africa, normally sung at funerals, as you see the lady
in the video wearing black and picking dead tree leaves and throwing them on air.
The original song means, Jerusalem is my home that I love, all my hopes and dreams will be achieved when I arrive at my home (Jerusalem).

You see, in Africa when Missionaries came and introduced Christianity and the Bible, African people thought that the places mentioned in the Bible, were in heaven because they had never heard of such places! Also the Missionaries always emphasized that Jerusalem was the Holy place of God. So African people assumed that when you are a Christian, you die and go to heaven and be able to see the Holy Jerusalem. Therefore they composed songs about how they longed to see Jerusalem and calling Jerusalem their eternal home. This is where this JERUSALEMA song comes from. I guess Master KG turned it to a dance song because here in South Africa, at the groove have a tendency of singing Gospel Music when they are tipsy. So he wanted them to have a sing along that they can dance to.

There are many other DJ's here in SA who have successfully turned Gospel songs into a good dance song without changing the meaning of the song, one of them is Bojo Mojo."
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I reformatted this comment to enhance its readability.

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REPLY
5. Mulanga Tunchie, 2020
"Jerusalema is the same as Jerusalem Big Raph.. Its a south African accent... Actually the song is saying Jerusalem is my home..

This song Jerusalema is a prayer to God.. The singer is simply saying "Jerusalem is my home (ikhaya lami)

Ngi londolose means God protect me, Unga ngini shiya Lana means don't leave me

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a sound file of and a version of the lyrics for the chant "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" (also given as "Your Mama Don't Wear No Drawers").

While this example comes from the United States Armed Services, "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" has its origin in African American culture outside of the military.

Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/10/yo-mama-dont-wear-no-drawers.html for Part I of a pancocojams post about this chant. That post includes a 1938 example of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" that was published as part of the short story "Big Boy Leaves Home" in the Uncle Tom's Children collection of short stories by the African American writer Richard Wright.

For additional examples of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" (and its much newer spin off "Your Mama Don't Wear No Socks") click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2018/11/examples-of-yo-mama-dont-wear-no.html.

The content of this post is presented for cultural and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are featured in this sound file and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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This pancocojams post was inspired by the trending tweet "YoMamaGate". Click https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/yomamagate-takes-over-twitter-everyone/28627/ for information about that twitter page.

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SHOWCASE SOUND FILE: Your Mama Don't Wear No Drawers



Double Time Records, May 15, 2017
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Here's my transcription of that recording (Additions and Corrections are welcome)

[caller] Your mama don’t wear no drawers
[others]Ding dong
[caller] I saw her when she took them off
[others] ding dong
[caller] She threw them in the sky
Now Superman don’t even fly
[all] Ah ding dong
Ding dong
Dinga ding dong
Hey!
Ding dong
Dinga ding dong
Hey!

[follow this pattern for each verse]
-She threw them in the dish
I swore we was eatin fish

-She put them on the line
Now the sun don’t even shine
-She threw them on the wall
Now the bugs don’t even crawl

Left go left go lefty righty leyo
[left go left go lefty righty leyo]
Lo right leyo
[Lo right leyo]

[caller] Lo right leyo
[others] Lo right leyo
[caller] I love to double time
[others] I love to double time
[caller] I do it all the time
[others] I do it all the time

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Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents some examples of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" from a 2010 lipstick alley.com discussion thread.

A quote about these chants from a now inactive website is included in this post along with two related videos.

The content of this post is presented for cultural and entertainment purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and featured in this embedded video. Thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2011/10/yo-mama-dont-wear-no-drawers.html for Part I of a pancocojams post about this chant. That post includes a 1938 example of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" that was published as part of the short story "Big Boy Leaves Home" in the Uncle Tom's Children collection of short stories by the African American writer Richard Wright.

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/05/example-of-your-mama-dont-wear-no.html for a United States armed forces example of a running cadence entitled "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers. While that example comes from the United States Armed Services, "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" has its origin in African American culture outside of the military.

Click the "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" tag below for additional examples of that chant as well as examples of its much newer spin off "Your Mama Don't Wear No Socks").
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This pancocojams post was inspired by the trending tweet "YoMamaGate". That twitter hashtag was coined to make fun of Trump's hashtag #Obamagate that alleges that former President Obama did some unspecified criminal act or acts when he was in office or afterwards. Click https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/yomamagate-takes-over-twitter-everyone/28627/ for information about that twitter page.

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QUOTE ABOUT "YO MAMA DON'T WEAR NO DRAWERS"
Here's a great explanation about "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" from a July 15, 2008 post by Kymberli on a site that seems to be no longer accessible:
"Oh, but the best of all, I mean the absolute best and the one that we still play today is Yo' Mama Don't Wear No Drawers.

Now, before I say another word, let's get one thing straight. You have to put a ghetto lilt on the word "drawers." In this song, it's pronounced draaaws. Got it? Good. Now, the game is a song and the challenge is to take turns adding improv additional verses. It's an elimination game; you're out when you can't figure out a verse before your time is up. The first few verses are always the same, and after those have been sung, the improv verses begin."
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Since at least the 1990s, White Americans (and other races) campers have been introduced to a sanitized version of "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" which is titled "Your Mama Don't Wear No Socks". And those "poor" campers probably don't know that they are learning a pale imitation of a naughty, creative, pre-dozens insult exchange rhyme. Incidentally, "drawers" mean "panties"/"underwear".

"Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" is also chanted as a military cadence (jodie) and an adult drinking song. It therefore may be posted to websites that may not be suitable for children.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: -Yo Momma Dont Wear No Socks



Brittney Weaver, Published on December 08, 2007

a sing along we use to sing back n da day so we thought we would make a video out of it. me and my lil sistas
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Here's my transcription of that video:

YO MAMA DON'T WEAR NO SOCKS
Chorus:

Ah ding dong dong dong dong
Ah ding dong dong dong dong

Yo mama don't wear no draws (ah ding dong)
I saw her when she took them off (ah ding dong)
She threw them in the tree (ah ding dong)
And the dog refused to pee.

Chorus

Yo mama don't wear no socks (ah ding dong)
I saw her when she took them off (ah ding dong)
She threw them in the sky (ah ding dong)
And Superman refused to fly

Chorus

Yo mama don't wear no socks (ah ding dong)
I saw her when she took them off (ah ding dong)
She put them in ah nest (ah ding dong)
And the birds refused to rest.

Ah ding dong dong dong dong
Ah ding dong dong dong dong
Rest in pea-eece
Ah ding dong dong dong dong
Ah ding dong dong dong dong

Yo mama don't wear no socks (ah ding dong)
I saw her when she took them off (ah ding dong)
She threw them on the wall (ah ding dong)
And the roaches refused to crawl.

Chorus"

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MORE EXAMPLES OF "YO MAMA DON'T WEAR NO DRAWERS"
From https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/finish-the-verse-yo-mama-dont-wear-no-draws.245106/

Warning: Some examples of this chant and some other comments on that page contain profanity. However, the examples below don't include profanity with the exception of the word "damn".

These showcased examples and comments are only a portion of the chants that don't include profanity.

Numbers are added to these examples and comments for referencing purposes only.
1.CLIFF D, July 13, 2010
"yo mama dont wear no draws. I saw when she took em off. She laid them in the street....the cars said beep beep beep."

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2. "phatgirl, July 13, 2010
"Yo mama don't wear no draws. I seent her pull 'em off

She put 'em on the fence, them birds ain't been back since.

She put 'em in the washing machine, out jumped Mr. Clean.

She put 'em on the track, that train went rolling back."

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3. Maxine Shaw, Jul 13, 2010
"Yo mama don't wear no draws
I saw 'em when she took them off
She dropped 'em down on the floor
And the rats scurried for the door

Yo mama don't wear no draws
I saw 'em when she took them off
She put 'em out on the line
Now the sun don't even shine

Yo mama don't wear no draws
I saw 'em when she took them off
She draped 'em on the top of the head (toilet)
And now the Tidy Bowl man is dead

Yo mama don't wear no draws
I saw 'em when she took them off
She put 'em out on a dish
I could've sworn we was havin' fish!

(Yo mama's draws were a favorite topic of conversation among young boot camp recruits.)"

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4. Lafawnduh, Jul 25, 2013
"Yo mama don't wear no draws - hump deedump, deedump
I saw when she took 'em off - hump deedump, deedump
She threw them on the floor - hump deedump, deedump
Roaches don't crawl no more - hump deedump deedump

We used to sing these while marching cadence in AJROTC *memories*"

5. Kimmo, Jul 13, 2010#7
"Yo' mama don't wear no drawers. I saw her when she took 'em off. She laid them on the tracks- that train jumped ten feet back!

lol my mom taught us this one when she chaperoned a field trip when I was in 3rd grade.

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6. libramama, March 24, 2010
"Yo mama dont wear no drawers
I saw when she took them off
She put them in the bathroom sink
roaches said her booty hole stink

Yo mama dont wear no drawers
I saw when she took them off
she laid them by the front door
company wont come back no more"

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7. Aristochat, July 14, 2010
"yo mama don't wear not draws, I saw it when she took em of...

"she threw them in the washing machine. Damn things just wouldn't come clean...ya funky mama"

that's what we used to say...lol"

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8. nette0065, Jul 14, 201o
"I hate to admit this,but my mother taught me this song.She had 4 brothers and they used to battle to see who would come up with the funniest lines. I havent heard it in years."

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITORIAL NOTES
The first example that is given in that 2010 lipstick alley.com discussion contains the lines "the cars said beep beep beep. A form of those lines are found in African American girls rhymes that have the title or include verses of "My Mama Short And Fine".

Here's a YouTube video of a variant form of that rhyme along with my transcription of that video:
My momma short and fine



naskew01, Jun 10, 2015
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Here's my transcription of that video:
My momma short and fine
She got hair like mine
When she walkin down the street
All the cars go beep beep beep
All the cars go beep beep beep
Break it down now
[performs an up tempo stepping routine]
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Notice that in this children's rhyme "My mama short and fine" verses are self-complimentary. However in the "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" chants, the cars going beep beep beep" is a taunting put down of someone's mother.

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CLIFF D, the first commenter for that lipstickalley.com discussion also added this comment:

"a dingy dong dong dong dong"
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Variants of "ding dong" appear to be the standard refrain for "Yo Mama Don't Wear No Drawers" and its much newer children's camp variant "Your Mama Don't Wear No Socks".

However, notice that in the example given as Example #4 above, the "hump deedump, deedump" refrain is used instead of the ding dong dingy ding dong or other ding dong refrains.

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INFORMATION AND COMMENTS ABOUT SINGING SOULFULLY
(These excerpts are presented in no particular order).

Excerpt #1:
From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soulful
"soulful adjective

Definition of soulful
: full of or expressing feeling or emotion"

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Example #2:
From https://www.quora.com/Why-were-African-American-singers-so-much-more-soulful"Why were African-American singers so much more soulful?"
Thomas L. Johnson, Answered December 8, 2014
"Church culture.

They all got their start in church singing songs that were more emotional than logical and that drew from the great tradition of the pre-literate slavery era. When white people sing in church, they sing out of a hymnbook and follow the notation just as it is in the book. A gospel choir never sings from the book; they always allow the spirit of the song to direct their performance. I sang in a gospel choir for several years and there was that moment when the director told us to put away the paper, which was the natural crutch. Only once the paper was gone did the choir start to learn how to sing the music.

I had the pleasure of seeing Aretha in concert last summer and she still sings in a fashion that is totally different from the typical pop singer whose only intention seems to replicate whatever they originally sang."

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Excerpt #3:
From https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/22kjyp/lets_talk_the_term_soulful_in_regard_to_voice/
"TheLawTalkinGuy, 2014
"Soul is a style of music which is fairly easy to recognize and define. Initially it was a combination of Gospel and R&B, and it developed from there. A soulful voice would belong to someone who sings in the style commonly known as soul. As you already noted, soul singing would traditionally rely on improvisational additions and twirls. Most soul singers will avoid singing a melody perfectly straight, and are more likely to add their own improvisational touches and ornamentation than other singers.

The problem you're running into is that soul is a term that is also frequently used to identify music or elements of music that people find appealing. Like the terms "emotion" or "feeling," soul can be used to describe the music or elements of music that we like but can't articulate. If you like the way a person sings, but you can't explain why, you might be inclined to say he sings with "soul," even if he's not singing soul music or in the style of a traditional soul singer.

I personally dislike the use of vague terms like "emotion" or "soul" in this manner. Generally, the elements of music that we find enjoyable or appealing are readily recognizable if a person is willing to put forth the effort to learn a little bit about the subject. Terms like "soul" become a crutch... It's vague, confusing, and a weak way to describe something. In my opinion, music lovers should think more deeply about why they enjoy a particular piece of music instead of dismissing the tune quickly as being good because it's got feeling, or emotion, or soul - words that don't actually tell us anything."
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The sentence "Most soul singers will avoid singing a melody perfectly straight" is the same thing as the sentence "A gospel choir never sings from the book" which is given in Excerpt #1.

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Excerpt #4:
From https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-sing-with-soul"How do you sing with soul?"
Timothy Christian Liu, Updated October 5, 2015
"I am only an enthusiastic amateur, but from my experience in all my lessons, I can tell you one thing: technique does play a part of it although many people tend to suggest otherwise. If someone tells you that technique is not important and must be ignored when it comes to singing, take that as baloney and do not believe it. While it is true that there are some well-known singers who have adequate technique at best, great technique will only enable you to enhance the emotion of a song more. When you have a good vocal technique, you have all the capability in the world to sing more softly without sounding weak and loudly without sounding like yelling and too forceful and accordingly express yourself more freely, hence helping you in giving a soulful and emotional performance to the audience. Besides, most great singers have already trained their technique very well to the point that it has become a natural part of them; we hence cannot say that technique is not important.

At the same time, understanding of the lyrics is very important. When you know the lyrics by hard, you can connect to them better, and having a similar experience as the composer or songwriter in the context of the tune will really help in giving you a great performance since you can immerse into the world of the song even more...

Last but not the least, a sense of respect towards the melody is crucial. Although we want to make a song our own, we also need to ensure that we respect the original melody and not butcher them with too many melismatic attempts and additions of unnecessary notes that do not even contribute to the song. Many talent shows in television nowadays tend to sell overmelismatic singing and screaming at the top of your lungs as 'soul', although the opposite is often true. We must never forget that the main reason why a song is timeless despite its simplicity is its melody... There is time and place for high notes, whistle register, melisma, riffs and runs, and abusing them is not going to make our singing soulful, but rather forgettable and tiring to listen to.

But it's not just technique. Singers are conveying a mood and a message when they sing. They are telling a story, having a conversation with the audience."

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Excerpt #5
From https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94186584'What Is Soul?' New Faces Have Answers National Public Radio [NPR] interview, Ashley Kahn, September 2, 2008
"Today, as it was then, there's no easy answer. But if you're talking about music, soul is easy to define: It's a gritty, vocal style, filled with a feeling straight out of the black church. Soul music was born in the '50s, took over the charts in the '60s, and remains alive and well today. Soul often has horn sections and sometimes strings, but it doesn't like to be too dressed up with polished production: Soul is more about naked emotion and personal testimony.

Soul music was so prevalent by the end of the '60s that the word itself took on a world of meaning for black America. "Black people identified themselves as soul brothers and soul sisters," says Nelson George, who has been writing about African-American music and culture for more than 30 years. "There were soul shakes, soul haircuts, soul barbershops, soul food. There was a lot of soul. It was so widely used, it almost lost its meaning, quite honestly."

The triumph of Soul music meant a lot, signifying a major shift in popular musical taste in America.

"By the '60s, soul music was mainstream black pop music and became mainstream American music," George says. "Certain styles of music are incredibly connected to the times, and certainly soul music and the '60s are intertwined — things like Aretha Franklin's '(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman,'" Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness." I also think that soul music gets stereotyped by the rawer stuff, and actually there's a quieter tradition from Smokey [Robinson] to Curtis Mayfield and the Delfonics. So I would say that 'La La (Means I Love You)' by the Delfonics is soul music."

Soul music has grown and changed and kept up with the times. Today, it seems to be enjoying a revival.

"You know what? It's always been here," says Sharon Jones, a gospel-trained singer who started performing soul in the '70s. "You're just hearing about it again.

"They say, 'Well, isn't soul, like, black people?' No. Look at my band: young white guys, Jewish guys, or Spanish... You know, it's all mixed up there," she says.

Jones recently released a new album, 100 Days, 100 Nights, with her group The Dap-Kings. Her voice can be a formidable force, especially when it shifts an entire song into high gear. Jones can sing with sweetness and grace, but she says there's a lot more to it than that. "I think when you go soul, you got to get the ugly face," she says. "Soul is singing with the ugly face."...
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"Singing with the ugly face" is very similar to "having a stank face" when you dance or "grittin" [putting on a grit face; "mean mugging"] when you are representing your fraternity. Having an ugly expression means that you are really being touched by [you feel deeply about] what you are experiencing.
Click http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-grittin-on-someone-means-in.html for a 2013 pancocojams post entitled "What "Grittin On Someone" Means (in African American Vernacular English)".

People also often put on a stank face when they are performing social dances, and is often mentioned in discussion thread for YouTube videos of contemporary South African dances.

Nevertheless, people who sing soulfully (or dance soulfully) don't have to have an ugly face, grittin, or mean mug.

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This pancocojams post provides information about South African's "vosho" dance movements.

This post also showcases videos of South Africans performing vosho movements. Selected comments from the discussion thread of one of these videos are also included in this post.

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INFORMATION ABOUT VOSHO DANCE MOVEMENTS
Excerpt #1
From https://www.enca.com/life/watch-can-you-do-the-head-vosho WATCH: Can you do the head vosho?, Thursday 22 March 2018 -
"JOHANNESBURG – The popularised dance called the ‘vosho’ can be described as a South African dance that involves squatting and kicking at the same time.
The dance move has evolved into the ‘head vosho’, where instead of squatting and kicking you extend your arms and you lean your head forward to the rhythm.
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This article includes some videos of head vosho."

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Excerpt #2
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gqom
"Gqom
Stylistic origins: House, kwaito, techno
Cultural origins: Early 2010s, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Gqom is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 2010s from Durban, South Africa.[1] It developed out of South African house music, kwaito and techno.[2] Unlike other South African electronic music, gqom is typified by minimal, raw and repetitive sound with heavy bass beats but without the four-on-the-floor rhythm pattern.[1]

[...]

Name and characteristics
The word gqom derives from an onomatopoeic combination of click consonants in the isiZulu and isiXhosa meaning a hitting drum. It is also expressed as qgom, igqom, gqomu or variants thereof.[5][6]

Gqom is known for its beats which have a minimal, raw and repetitive sound with heavy bass. It is mainly described as having a dark and hypnotic club sound. The style of beats does not use the four-on-the-flour rhythm pattern which is often heard in other house music.[1] Typical lyrical themes include nightlife. It often uses one phrase or a few lines which are repeated numerous times in the song.

Dance moves
Gqom music is associated with a number of distinctive dance moves, including gwara gwara, vosho and bhenga.[9]

Gwara gwara is performed by rolling and swinging the arm and the elbow in terms of making a circle, and one of the leg moves in connection with the arm's rhythm. It has some similarities to the Stanky Leg.[10] The dance move created by disc jockey and producer DJ Bongz, was heavily imitated by South Africans and other African people mainly during 2016.[11][12] It also received widespread globally as the choreography was adopted by notable musicians: Rihanna performed the dance move while performing Wild Thoughts at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018. Childish Gambino performed the dance in the video of his song "This Is America".[13][14]"

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Excerpt #3
From https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5106&context=edissertations Soweto, The “storybook Place”: Tourism And
Feeling In A South African Township, Sarah Marie Kgagudi [dissertation], 2019
...South African house dance is characterized by bent legs moving rapidly back and forth, the top half of the body swaying back and forth in half the speed of the leg movements, and arms performing a series of movements such as bent arms with the elbows pushed back and one arm (often the left) moving forward and backwards perpendicular to the waist. A repertoire of specific house dance moves emerging from hit songs such as ‘sika lekhekhe,’ ‘gwaragwara,’ or ‘vosho’ are also inserted into this basic framework of house dance. In tandem with these dance moves, appropriate placements of whistling or verbal expression
of ‘woza,’ ‘hayibo,’ or a repetition of a syllable such as ‘ye,’ ‘ayi,’ or ‘hey’ over and over in descending tone until the last syllable which jumps up in a sort of shout are also signs of musical expertise."

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SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Video #1: TOP 5 VOSHO DANCE [Compilation]



Ako Ideal Media, Jun 10, 2019

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Video #2: How To Vosho "South African Dance" (Dance Tutorial) | Chop Daily



Chop Daily, May 25, 2018

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Video #3: Sho Madjozi - John Cena | A COLORS SHOW



COLORS, Aug 15, 2019
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Sho Madjozi says "Haibo! Haibo!" and then she does the vosho dance move (squatting down and kicking up one foot). Madjozi then says "It's too much". [This portion begins around 2:56 in that Colors video.]

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Video #4: Kwapata 01

Sizwe Ngcobo, Sep 7, 2016

Vosho in PMB

Song: Isgubhu Sam
Artist: Ronald Lowe
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PMB= Pietermaritzburg is the capital and second-largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietermaritzburg

Kwapata is the name of a secondary school and a high school in PMB, South Africa.
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Here are some comments from this video's discussion thread (with numbers added for referencing purposes only)
1. Trivis Tab, 2019
"Africa.... the mother of dances ..."

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2. Larrypint, 2019
"0:30 that looks like traditional russian dance"

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3. lolololololo lololololololol, 2019
"@Larrypint lol Tsonga people have done that dance for over two thousand years pipe down mate"

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4. Larrypint, 2019
"@lolololololo lololololololol any proof?"

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5. lolololololo lololololololol, 2019
"@Larrypint mate ask any Tsonga people or go to south Africa and ask you can even ask your fellow whites who live among or close to Tsonga people or any traditional south African historian mate also that dance was also done in Turkey before Russia so claiming it to be Russian is funny"

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6. Larrypint, 2019
"@lolololololo lololololololol I was asking for a proof. I can show you 400 years old Russian literature talking about these traditional dance. Turkey? It doesn't exist 500 years ago."

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7. 3rd Eye, 2019
"@Larrypint Nah that dance came from Africa. Africa is the oldest continent. Nice try though slav"

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8. 3rd Eye, 2019
"@Larrypint Africa is the mother of Russia too. So mother russia is really daughter russia 😄"

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GQOM MUSIC
Excerpt #1:
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gqom
"Gqom ... is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 2010s from Durban, South Africa,[1] pioneered largely by producer DJ Lag[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10], duo Rudeboyz[2][11][12][13], Emo Kid and Dominowe[14] developed out of South African house music, kwaito and techno.[15] Unlike other South African electronic music, gqom is typified by minimal, raw and repetitive sound with heavy bass beats but without the four-on-the-floor rhythm pattern.[1]

[...]

Name and characteristics
The word gqom derives from an onomatopoeic combination of click consonants in the isiZulu and isiXhosa meaning a hitting drum. It is also expressed as qgom, igqom, gqomu or variants thereof.[18][19]

Gqom is known for its beats which have a minimal, raw and repetitive sound with heavy bass. It is mainly described as having a dark and hypnotic club sound. The style of beats does not use the four-on-the-flour rhythm pattern which is often heard in other house music.[1] … It often uses one phrase or a few lines which are repeated numerous times in the song. …

Dance moves
Gqom music is associated with a number of distinctive dance moves, including gwara gwara, vosho and bhenga.[22]

Gwara gwara
Gwara gwara is performed by rolling and swinging the arm and the elbow in terms of making a circle, and one of the leg moves in connection with the arm's rhythm. It has some similarities to the Stanky Leg.[23] The dance move created by disc jockey and producer DJ Bongz, was heavily imitated by South Africans and other African people mainly during 2016.[24][25] It also received widespread globally as the choreography was adopted by notable musicians: Rihanna performed the dance move while performing Wild Thoughts at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018. Childish Gambino performed the dance in the video of his song "This Is America".[26][27]

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Excerpt #2
From http://www.factmag.com/2016/01/05/gqom-feature/"Gqom: A deeper look at South Africa’s new generation of house" BY BEN MURPHY, JAN 5 2016
...“In Africa, electronic music is bubbling. Across the vast continent, fresh machine-generated sounds are popping off, sometimes drawing on outside influences, sometimes made within their own creative bubble. In Egypt, electro chaabi, the computerized update of urban folk music, recently caught the ear of Kode9 and other forward-thinking UK DJs. Afrobeats, with its hip-hop leaning, accessible 4/4 vibe, has travelled beyond its origins in Nigeria and Ghana to grow in the UK and beyond, whilst in South Africa, house and its many regional variants like kwaito have been popular for a long time. Its most visible house artist, Black Coffee, is a superstar at home and popular worldwide.

Of all these exciting, recently unfolding forms, gqom could be the most outlandish. Emerging mostly from the townships of Durban, South Africa’s second most populous city, gqom is a raw dance music blueprint with a polyrhythmic bustle – part broken beat, part chrome-plated synth menace. Skeletal, robotic, unsettling and irresistible, it sounds somewhat influenced by UK sounds like grime and funky, but has nothing to do with them, says gqom producer Citizen Boy, part of the Mafia Boyz collective.

"I think the style was invented when some unknown guy from elokishini, the ghetto, got hold of production software and began experimenting and making something he could dance to, and gqom was born,” says (brilliantly named) producer Emo Kid, but some reckon that it mutated from other previously existing styles. Gqom shares some similarities with the local house sound, despite its non-4/4 pattern, and it’s often blended at house parties by DJs playing a mix of gqom, sgubhu and hip-hop.

“I think I heard about gqom music in 2012,” says Citizen Boy, who believes the style comes from “an old genre called Sgxumseni, which means ‘make us jump’.” He adds: “DJ Clock and DJ Gukwa used to produce it, then after a while Naked Boyz arose and they took the spot like it’s the genre gqom. It’s almost the same as gqom, but the difference is that Sgxumseni is a four-step and gqom is a broken beat — it can be a three-step or two-step beat.”

“Gqom music relates a lot to house music but it is also slightly different from house music, it is very tribal and the kick drum has an unfamiliar pattern,” adds Emo Kid. “It is very easy to identify a gqom sound because it is unique.”...

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Excerpt #3
Note: This quote is included in https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/05/south-african-rappersinger-sho-madjozi.html [with italics added to highlight those sentences]

From https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/arts/music/sho-madjozi.html Sho Madjozi’s Mixed Up, Pan-African Rap
..."[Sho Madjozi's] lyrics mix it up, too. She mostly raps in a combination of Xitsonga, the language of the Tsonga people, and English. Her bubblegum-bright party track “Huku” is in Swahili, a language Madjozi learned to speak fluently in Tanzania.

Madjozi’s music features multilingual rap flows — in Xitsonga, Swahili and English — over beats from a style of house music called gqom.[photo caption]

These multilingual flows unfold over a style of music known as gqom, a shadowy strain of house that began bubbling out of townships in Durban, South Africa, in the early 2010s.

To untutored ears, gqom can sound gritty, with its apocalyptic sirens and ribcage-rattling bass. In Europe and the United States, Madjozi said, the style is often “perceived as being alternative or experimental.” But in South Africa, she added, “Gqom is the biggest sound. Gqom is the pop of South Africa.”

Recently, American hip-hop heavyweights seem to have recognized gqom’s combination of rough-hewed authenticity and commercial potential. Kendrick Lamar’s soundtrack for the superhero movie “Black Panther” features gqom beats, and Beyoncé’s new “Lion King” album brings in South African gqom musicians on the track “My Power.”
Madjozi hasn’t had her Hollywood moment yet, but her songs are among gqom’s most accessible examples. On her debut album “Limpopo Champions League,” released in December 2018, she put the genre’s beats into a typical “verse, chorus, verse,” pop song structure, she said."Sho Madjozi's 2019 viral song "John Cena", rapped/sung in Kiswahili and English (with a few South African words) also features gqom beats.

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AMAPIANO MUSIC
Excerpt #1
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amapiano
Amapiano is a style of house music that emerged in South Africa in 2016. Amapiano is a sophisticated hybrid of deep house, jazz and lounge music characterized by synths, airy pads and wide basslines.[1] It is distinguished by high pitched piano melodies, Kwaito basslines, low tempo 90s South African house rhythms and percussions from another local subgenre of house known as Bacardi.[2]

Origins
Although it is known the genre gained popularity in Gauteng, there is a lot of ambiguity in terms of where the Amapiano style of music originates, with various accounts of the musical style in Johannesburg townships, Soweto, Alexandra, Vosloorus and Katlehong where it is most common. Because of the genre's similarities with Barcadi, some people assert the genre began in the Pretoria area with DJ Mojava which was made popular by Pretoria taxi drivers and has been an on going debate about the origin of Amapiano.[3][4][5]

Various accounts as to who formed the popular genre make it impossible to accurately pinpoint its origins.[6]

Popularity
Initially, Amapiano[7] was a confined success in the townships, playing in popular pubs and taverns around Gauteng. The sound itself was underground music, being shared around using messaging apps, more commonly WhatsApp, before it became mainstream being recognised by streaming services such as Deezer, Spotify, Apple Music. The genre was further popularised by DJs who would transform popular music hits and incorporating the jazzy low-tempo into those tracks, including DJ Ganyani, Sun-El Musician, DJ Maphorisa and Kabza De Small.[8]

As of 2020, Amapiano is getting more mainstream across Africa; there are several dedicated charts now, more playlists on digital platforms, not just by South Africans alone.[9][10][11]

The sound is filled with some melodious piano tunes, coupled with a "gong-gong" sound, making it up to what is called "Amapiano". Some DJs and producers do mix it up with Gqom.

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Stylistic origins: Deep house, kwaito, jazz, lounge
Cultural origins: Mid-2010s, Gauteng, South Africa
Typical instruments: Piano, drums, synthesizer

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Except #2:
From https://newsroom.spotify.com/2019-10-02/charting-the-meteoric-rise-of-south-africas-amapiano/ Charting the Meteoric Rise of South Africa’s AmaPiano
OCTOBER 2, 2019

During the early days of its popularity in 2016, AmaPiano, the uniquely South African take on house music, circulated via low-quality file shares on messaging apps and online forums. Developed by bedroom producers with limited resources, the music spread from phone to phone faster than anyone expected; by early 2019, you couldn’t walk through the streets of South Africa without hearing AmaPiano’s sunny melodies seeping into the air from car windows and phone speakers

“If you put one hundred guys in a room and you asked them where [AmaPiano] started, you’ll get one hundred answers and some very heated debates,” said Siphiwe Ngwenya, cofounder of Born in Soweto, a homegrown label that’s backed AmaPiano since its early days.

[...]

The genre’s popularity with bedroom producers may also have something to do with its well-established sonic lineage. AmaPiano’s sound is somewhat, though not entirely, influenced by kwaito—a midtempo, lyrically rich brew of R&B, hip-hop, and house that emerged from Gaunteng in the ’90s. Both genres combine the drum patterns and basslines of their 4/4 cousins, but AmaPiano carries a cheery brightness—characterized by jazz-inflected keys, eager vocal cuts, and organ licks constructed over a laid-back 115 bpm framework—that kwaito lacks.

[...]

The genre’s popularity with bedroom producers may also have something to do with its well-established sonic lineage. AmaPiano’s sound is somewhat, though not entirely, influenced by kwaito—a midtempo, lyrically rich brew of R&B, hip-hop, and house that emerged from Gaunteng in the ’90s. Both genres combine the drum patterns and basslines of their 4/4 cousins, but AmaPiano carries a cheery brightness—characterized by jazz-inflected keys, eager vocal cuts, and organ licks constructed over a laid-back 115 bpm framework—that kwaito lacks.

South African DJ and radio host DJ Da Kruk attributes the success of AmaPiano to a wider DJ culture. “The AmaPiano movement has a huge mixtape culture attached to it, which I think was a vehicle to move new music from one ear to the next while festivals, club nights, and (specifically in Mznasi) its own form of dance."

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Excerpt #3
From https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/top-amapiano-songs-january-2020
"Top amapiano songs of January 2020
By Apata Bayode, 10 Feb 2020, ZA [South Africa]
"Last year saw the kwaito-derived amapiano become one of the most talked-about genres in South Africa. The sound made waves around the continent and became inspirational for a number of artists outside its country of origin.

Many producers in South Africa have made the transition from gqom to amapiano and are currently forging a scene that is eclipsing leading genres like hip hop, Afropop and Afro-soul.

As more amapiano releases line up for a 2020 debut, below is a short playlist of the top amapiano songs released in January and featuring some of the genre’s most well-known South African artists.

Emcimbini by Kabza De Small, DJ Maphorisa, Samthing Soweto, Aymos, Mas Musiq and Myztro

'Emcimbini' is no doubt the top amapiano track so far this year. The song is off Kabza De Small and DJ Maphorisa's 2020 Scopions Kings album, which is doing well on streaming platforms.


Phoyisa by Kabza De Small and DJ Maphorisa ft. Cassper Nyovest and Qwestakufet

The song is a definite hit and serves as a new-year gift from the hottest artists of 2019 – Kabza and Phori.
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Warning: The label on the video that is included in that article indicates that "Emcimbini" has explicit content.

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All copyrights remain with their owners.

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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/05/information-about-south-africas-gqom.html for this closely related pancocojams post entitled "Information About South Africa's Gqom Music & Amapiano Music."

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
In addition to watching these dances, I'm interested in documenting selected comments from the discussion thread of certain YouTube videos for historical and cultural reasons.

I'm also interested in observing the use of colloquialisms, slang, and idioms that are found in these comments. For instance, the use of South African interjections such as "Eish" and "Iyah!" and the use of South African abbreviations such as "PTA" for Pretoria (Pitori) and "Jozi", "Joburg" for Johannesburg are other examples from that broad category of colloquialisms and idioms that I'm interested in noting.

I'm also interested in noting Africans and other non-Americans' use of African American Vernacular English terms such as "fam", "killed it", "fire", "lit", and "in the house" as well as the use of the Jamaican term "big up" by Africans and other non-Jamaicans.

In addition, I'm interested in documenting who is commenting in a particular discussion thread. For example, I read the entire discussion thread as of the publishing date for this pancocojams post and of the comments that identified commenters by their country, the only comments that were posted by people outside of South Africa were from the United States, Namibia, one person from Ghana, and one person from one comment from China.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO- Pitori's Amapiano vs Durban Gqom Dance




Alles Mzansi, Mar 21, 2018

1st Song: Dadaman - Skorokoro
2nd Song: Dj Cubic - Gqom Emotions
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Statistics as of May 20, 2020 at 1:38 PM EDT
Total # of views- 1,312,340
Total # of likes-6.1K
Total # of dislikes-538
Total # of comments-619

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Selected comments from this video's discussion thread, with numbers added for references purposes only

2018
1. ostip
"Hahah ah this vid was made by someone from Durban"

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2. Khani Hlahla
"Pretoria makes a simple thing fun,meanwhile Durban dances you sweat n its fast moves.... I'll give it to pitori...mind you I'm from Soweto"

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3. Simphiwe Sibusiso
"not every dance in Durban makes pple sweat, it differ with music personal style, people can do one same dance in different pace."

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4. Thapelo Mokoto
"The best one is whoever YOU think is the best."

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5. Kaleah Collins
"GO BABY GURL GET EM"

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6. Brandon Mphela
"I’m from Pta but I route with Durban on this one"

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7. Chwepheshe
"ill give the music to Capcity and Dance moves to Dubane"

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8. Nale Montoedi
"um from Northern Cape but i'll go with petori mahlanyeng big up Pretoria"

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9. David Mehnert
"Forget about the regional rivalry and answer me this: why haven’t these moves taken over the world yet? Am I just an American “early adopter”, emulating this style and trying to do it on my own? Or am I seeing the beginning of (yet another) great South African cultural export?

Om tellin yah these kidzis omna summin"

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10. Lethu
"Im from Jozi but Durban takes the crown in terms of music and dance. Pitori u too guys are dope but never compare ur selfs to Durban house n dance"

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11. Kagiso
"Stop dreaming. Sepantsula is Pretorian. It all started this side"

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12. SA HipHop Lyrics
"Wait a min....pitori rocks fam✌️✌️✌️"

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13. MOS TEE, 2018
"I think we can all agree that Cqom is loud and aggressive just like the Zulus who invented it. We tshwanas just like our music are chilled and very gentle

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14. Nosipho Ndlovu
"It’s a well known SOUTH AFRICAN fact that DURBAN PEOPLE ARE BORN WITH DANCE 💃🏽even ibimbi can dance 🤣🤣🤣"

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15. Kate Mncwabe
"AWEEEEEE! @Dbn 💃💚"

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16. nkululeko shandu
"Leave the Dance to Durban and Music to PTA. that's all i can say."

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17. KP QHIBI
"I'm from Mpumalanga and I tell you now, PTA will kill you when it comes to music. amapaino one way."

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18. Willy Songs
"When it comes to music I like Pretoria baba , Durban music is too loud and Durban dance is like they training karati , so Pretoria is the best"

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19. Bonga Radebe
"First time hearing the PTAs sound honestly sounds similar to kwaito so I understand why you would dance slow. Gqom will always win baf2 don’t build excuses on you have to sweat when you dance like come on who cares when you at a party and you drunk cause sweating is the last thing you think about plus they are slower dance moves you can use kwiQgom that’s if you know how to dance 😂😂 but Durban baf2 is the king of Anything in a sub category of House ex deep house, deep base house to qgom, Jozi holds it down in Hip hop while Capetown holds it down in Events"

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20. develop sentiment
"lol people can't dance like Durban peeps do... That's the thing, Pitori you can do the moves even if you're not a good dancer, but with Durban, if you can't you can't."

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21. Thembelani Ndaba
"Lol why are "Pitori" dancers doing the vosho? Its a Durban move mos...Also why is this even a contest? Durban, any day bakwethu"

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22. agiso
"The aim is not to sweat 😍"

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23. Tsepo Ndlovu
"as Pretoria we not properly represented"

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24. Lungelo Seboya
"About 60% of those u claimed r from durban, are not really, durbanites r not wild dancers theyr ppl of rythm,they move wit the beat"

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25. Mpumelelo M
"I guess Cape Town is more similar to Pitori cause we're very chilled here."

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25. Bradwell Timba
"that little girl yooh"

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26. Dj Laza _SA
"Lol, Durban likes lots of noise and confusion, us in petori, we're chilled, it makes sense now"

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27. Kagiso Matlala
"Pitori just took Durban straight to the cleaners"

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28. Lwazi Nzimande
"When it comes to dance, none can touch Durban. That's a given. But when it comes to house, deep house? AH man, Pitori takes it."

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29. lady liwinski chantele
"that little girl dancing to Pusha Skorokoro made my day💃💃"

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30. Jeremia Mueze
"Durban is full of copy cats der is no creativity der. Pitori is top class wen cuming to dancing. People 4rm durban dey stil dance moves wen ever dey ar here nd mix da dance,name them in their lingo. Even da gwaragwara dance dey stole it 4rm Ghanaian dancers. Durban dancers dey research for dance moves lol is like doing a copy nd paste."

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31. digger g rocky
"And don't forget the Soweto pantsula moves also"

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32. Africa Mpanza
"but petoli stole the gwara gwara bruv"

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33. Fah Ngwane
"ummm.. there is something called dance school. Universities have it as well. You learn how to dance from observing other people dance. From there some dance-moves- variations come to you naturally hence making how you dance as an individual unique.

How Jeremia Mueze used the term creativity is an insult to human intelligence.
One can use an existing idea to create something new, and that is creativity."

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34. Sbu Mo'
"Durban takes the cake!!"

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35. Dede Padi
"sorry, but as a pretorian, and a guy that grew up ko Sosha, i must say PTA wasn’t well represented in this video. that’s crap, by PTA standards. they even do the gwara-gwara (durban dance) in a PTA vs Durban vid. really misrepresented. get bafana ba ko kasi straight, not this choreography and up-and-down jumping nonsense; we don’t dance that nonsense in PTA. check the ‘Survivor pila’ videos if wanna get just an idea of PTA, and look at DJ Buckz as well. that’s PTA. no city in this country can challenge PTA.

la re embarrassa man"

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36. Forgive Mathebula
"Durban dance moves are nice and jolly , Durban gqom music makes one sweat and their moves are fast so ..."

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37. Kaleah Collins
"But lets not forget they takin from AMERICAN( Black ) Dances too."

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38. ntlakanipho ngwane
"Kaleah Collins Americans take it from here not the other way

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39. Princess Dafiyah
"Kaleah Collins no it goes both ways...nobody is better than the other

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40. Kaleah Collins
"Camilla Brown exactly never said we was better but. I noticed them fusing some American dances with the traditional ones."

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41. ntlakanipho ngwane
"Kaleah Collins you have just exposed the typical dumb American mindset y'all are known for."

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42. Kaleah Collins
"ntlakanipho ngwane of course you would say that to negate that we both influence eachother though removed completely for centuries"

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43. Eezzy John
"ntlakanipho ngwane .....Kaleah never disrespected you nor insulted you.....American blacks are not that exposed to African culture....Africans are far more influenced by American blacks then we are of them.....the way young Africans dress and in even in some of their speech they pick up on American culture...if you so no, then either you're blind or a liar....alot of African dances are now mixed with some of American culture dances."

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44. Kaleah Collins
"Eezzy John thnk you my brother. I love my diaspora"

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45. ERNEST MOFOKENG
"im glad you only said pitori le Durban.... cos Tembisa and Limpopo are the best dancers... handz down"

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46. MONICCA MAMASHELA
"Pretori wins chilled vibes not durban dancing as if ur at war."

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47. Derrick Siyanda
"To the girls dancing vosho to amapiano, don't 4get where that dance came from #ethekwini dlala Durban"

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48. Thato Selokela
"Durban music is too fast and too much for the ear in PTA their music is good chilled music"

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49. Kgaogelo Sibeko
"Durban music is for dancing competitions, takes a lot of energy. Pretoria music is just for good times so everyone can dance to it, that's why it takes the cup for me. In Pitori we say the aim is not to sweat."

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50. digger g rocky
"this Qhom thing is just an irritating off beat and i don't know if i should call it music"

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51. Dede Padi
"sorry, but as a pretorian, and a guy that grew up ko Sosha, i must say PTA wasn’t well represented in this video. that’s crap, by PTA standards. they even do the gwara-gwara (durban dance) in a PTA vs Durban vid. really misrepresented. get bafana ba ko kasi straight, not this choreography and up-and-down jumping nonsense; we don’t dance that nonsense in PTA. check the ‘Survivor pila’ videos if wanna get just an idea of PTA, and look at DJ Buckz as well. that’s PTA. no city in this country can challenge PTA."

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52. Bonga Radebe
"First time hearing the PTAs sound honestly sounds similar to kwaito so I understand why you would dance slow. Gqom will always win baf2 don’t build excuses on you have to sweat when you dance like come on who cares when you at a party and you drunk cause sweating is the last thing you think about plus they are slower dance moves you can use kwiQgom that’s if you know how to dance 😂😂 but Durban baf2 is the king of Anything in a sub category of House ex deep house, deep base house to qgom, Jozi holds it down in Hip hop while Capetown holds"

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53. Boniface Mwangi
"who hates or dislike this needs to wash off dem heart"

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54. gerrald
"Gqom is the future. Great time to be alive"

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55. KP QHIBI, 2020
"And then Kabza happened."

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56. lil kasa, 2020
" Then DJ Maphorisa started making amapiano with Kabza
#Scorpion Kings"

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2019
57. Noni Nonny
"Mhhh I'm in love with pitori peeps😍😍this amapiano thing really work for yr prvnc"

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58. Andrew
"Different songs different tempo so you can't compare the two fairly..each dance moves match the respective song .."

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59. Lungelo Ntully
"Durban yes yes yes we're burning flames🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"

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60. Reginald Swartz
"I am a Namibian but I would like to say that pitori rules and gqom just sounds random and the same."

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61. Sibonelo Mmelokuhle
"Pitoli is coming but it will take some time to reach dbn, you cant catch igqomu now its already international. Shoutout to pitoli boyz are really making good music and they vibe is chilled n lit"

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62. Kgotlello Makhura
"Hey guys Pretoria takes this one. Bana le swenka as for me Durban reminds me of soweto kwasa kwasa days. The metavo days."

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63. sergio mapossa
"SOUTH ÁFRICA WIN"

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64. Precious N
"@ 6:20 Isipansula...Classic South African Dance mives♥♥♥"

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65. Danielle Leverock
"When beat is that good you HAVE to put your plate down !"

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66. RO Tail
"dancing all the way to land reparations ayi."

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67. dwinosam
"Theres no vs in styles, just moods qnd expressions"

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68. Palesa Bhengu
"Its funny how you guys say PTA killed it but using dances and songs that originated from Durban artists😴 Just saying...."

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69. Flakka Goat
"amapiano originated from durban?? since when????????lol not to mention the old durban sgubhu from which gqom came from was inspired by sgubhu sa pitori back in the early 2000's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de3L8W5B32g

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70. Spantoes Wa lekhosi
"This is cheatin guys how come they play few of pitori dance with a selection of a slow track n more of Durban dance? N beside i know we pitorian we good tooooo much

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71. Setjhaba Lawrance
"Guys amapiano does it all, imagine listening to Gqom on a chill Sunday picnic, aah people let's be honest Amapiano is the best. Coming to dancing skills Amapiano accommodate all in terms of not good and good at dancing but with Amapiano u can dance. People who mostly dance to gqom music are people who a good in dancing it doesn't accommodate robots like us."

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72. Philemon Dibobo
"From North West - Residing in Durban. The music in Durban is hyper and good for going all sorts of crazy, which doesn't match its chilled weather, The pitori music is chilled, which doesn't match its weather either. The two should swap music, gqom and umgunyo(ecstacy-excuse my spelling) must go to pitori mahlaneng and amapiano must come to durban - from there you can read in-between the lines which one I prefer."

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73. sk lizer
"Ohk now pitori are people who LOVE to dance and have fun and durban are people who KNOW how to dance and will show you flames"

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74. Hlanzeka Qwabe
"Lol in drbn they dance to impress others byanong Rona we dance to impress ourselves - hearing yourself say "tjuu"🙆 while dancing is the best or byang mahlanya?!!! #pushdaideng"

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75. Thabsile chamane
"So all Joburg people voted for Pitoli🤔🤔 we all know the truth though Durban rocks"

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76. Darryl Van Rensburg
"Can never Compare Gqom to amapiano. Its like comparing Champagne with Vodka😂 it depends on occasion"

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77. Bongeka Nyamazana
"where are my people from Durban at?"

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78. Iamtrust
"All said and done, and after reviewing, I think I like both styles. So they both in their respective categories win."

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79. Iamtrust
"On second note, I understand both arguments.. Gqom is noisy, and fast, it needs boundless creativity, That what Durban has... That's why it's call South Africas playground. Pretoria though I must admit I love some of the music, the dance part of it bores me"

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Sthembiso Mthembu
"I guess its still early days for us. But soon the world is getting to know about us."

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77. Oo Jay
"From Ghana 🇬🇭 but loveeee Tsa Pitori"

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78. Rudy Gertse
"Not meant to swear but love there vibe qgom creative ma patori takes the cake"

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79. tangeni neshila
"Durban music is almost like angolan music kuduru. I give it to pretoria. And i am from windhoek lol"

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80. Mizz Lee from SA
"Pitori stand up!!!!"

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81. Virginia Motsomane
"Lol amapiano is taking over, gqom is dying now."

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82. red bull media
"Lool if they can here this in durban they will lough straight up .durban when it comes to bhenga kill it fam z like comparing benz en a honda lool ppl aybo loool"

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83. Oageng Msiza
"Pitori -- It's all about 'the aim is not to sweat' --Their moves are effortless ---Even the music

Durban ---Energy Energy Energy"

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84. Chef kubza mueze
"Lol guys don't forget al dance moves start from capital city of south africa.da dance called gwaragwara derives from bula masepao, durbanist are not creative. Dey stil moves nd mix dam. They are lot of student's who ar from kzn nd durban who schools here in Pta. They take videos of people dancing nd distribute them to their friends. They change everything by adding something.Artist always stills dance moves of Pretorians we ar used to dat,even arthur changed a dance song called Tobetsa to qopetsa. Pretoria is a king of dance music nd a capital city of house music. Creativity nd Originality is from Pretoria tlohelang ho te kapesa mapanta ka ho utswa."

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85. Russel Mtlokwa
"Durban dance is not child's play baba all in all Durban music is good when you want to move a crowd, Pitori amapiano when you chilling at home , you cant just listen to Gqom chilling at home and you cant listen to amapiano in the club"

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86. Khai Blacco
"As far as dancing is concerned, PTA got nothing on DBN... Music? It depends if you like amaPiano or Gqom."

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87. Sweet Science
"This comparison isn't fair! They didn't compile from the best dances in Pitoli as they did with those in Dbn. It gives of the impression that Gqom is better than Amapiano from the visual. However comparing the two music genres without any visual effects - Gqom ngomtshana to Amapiano."

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88. Willy Songs
"That Durban music called qoum I honestly don't feel it I just hear a loud sound that makes no sense at all"

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89. Chris O'Reilly
"Imagine a Piano instrumental over a Gqom beat??? The person who is able to strike the balance there... Pure gold."

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90. Oddblood01
"South Africans have the best footwork in Africa."

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91. INNOCENTIA MPHO SHIKWAMBANA
"hai baba Durban will humble you....#Gqom babe❤❤"

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92. ATM TM
"I'll say this for people in the Western world Durban seems more appealing bc its close to afro american dance moves whereas Pit seems more african to me it remind me e.g. more of congolese dance moves etc.
But both are dope keep doin yo ding my brothers and sister one love"

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93. Moipone Maredi
"We dance like PTA till old age buy Durban dance is only for teens"

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Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post presents an exchange of comments about the meanings of the terms "Afro House Dance", "Afro Dance",and "Afrobeats" from the discussion thread of the 2019 YouTube video entitled "How To Dance Afro House from Angola/Portugal 🇵🇹🇦🇴 (Tutorial) | Chop Daily."

That video is also showcased in this post.

Several other online comments about these terms are also included in this post.

The Addendum to this post showcases a 2019 Afro Dance video featuring Congolese choreographer Petit Afro who is based in Holland.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to the producers of these videos on YouTube.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: How To Dance Afro House from Angola/Portugal 🇵🇹🇦🇴 (Tutorial) | Chop Daily



Chop Daily, May 29, 2019

Song used for tutorial is Dj Poco - Omunye Vs Mondengue

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COMMENTS ABOUT THE MEANING OF THE TERMS "AFRO HOUSE DANCING" AND "AFRO DANCING"
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7uHtgAxjgc&t=4s How To Dance Afro House from Angola/Portugal 🇵🇹🇦🇴 (Tutorial) | Chop Daily
Chop Daily, May 29, 2019

1. Tamar - Unique Tay, 2019
"Thank you. Love this. Finally house dance love it.

Can we be clear with where it is from and the origins, names and termologies. Just generally speaking on 'afro dance' styles. I love house and know this is Portuguese, angolan..."

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2. Andrew Ndambuki, 2019
"Should check out Limpopo Boyz....King of afro house dance....afrohouse is very footwork intense.....Naile walk, thuso phala dance etc.."

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3. Anthoniette Agyemang, 2019
"What's the difference between afro house and afro dance???"

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4. Alana Alberto, 2019
"Ngl im not too sure on the term Afro dance - it’s probably the general term for African dancing, usually the popular dance moves. AfroHouse is a genre and there’s certain dance moves you dance to it:"

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5. Elaine xo, 2019
"Anthoniette Agyemang Afro House is usually from central & southern africa (Angola/Congo/SA etc) Afro Dance/Beats is usually from western africa (Nigeria/Ghana etc)"

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6. Unique Movez Dance Collective, 2020
"House dance it self is part of the street dance family. House originating from Chicago. But afro house is typical Angolan and/or south African culture. Foot walk and lower half of the body

Afro dance is not a real term. Its just to identify dances of the African diaspora. But we must call the dance of its original name to be honest.

Hope this helps"

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7. Marggie Ponce, 2020
"Afrohouse has its own style, the dance to Afro House is called kuduro from Angola. Afro dance is a general term. Afrobeats is more commonly Nigeria/Ghana. There are many styles and I’m still learning myself but this is what I know so far lol"
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There is also a separate discussion in those comments about the video publisher's inclusion of Portugal in the title "How To Dance Afro House from Angola/Portugal." Here are a few of those comments:
1. Keren Ariana Mendes, 2019
"Loved your dance, but being from Angola 🇦🇴. I must tell, our afro beats and our dance have nothing to do with Portugal."

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2. Marggie Ponce, 2020
"Keren Ariana Mendes 💯💯💯"

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3. omalone11, 2020
"@Marggie Ponce it depends I mean what a out the producers?"

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4. Marggie Ponce, 2020
"omalone11 There are producers everywhere but its origin is not from Portugal and has nothing to do with Portugal. The music originated from South Africa and the dance from Angola"

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5. omalone11, 2020
"@Marggie Ponce not to mention Fabio ? And how about Dj Telio? Unless mistaken he is based in Portugal...if that means anything"

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6. Marggie Ponce, 2020
"omalone11 I’m not one to speak for the culture but I’m just saying what I’ve learned from Afro House teachers. They never mention Portugal as it’s origination 🤷🏽‍♀️ I know there are producers from other countries but the origins are not from Portugal. If we’re talking about the scene itself right now in 2020 that’s different"

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7. Kizomba Fusion, 2020
"Kudurooooooooooooooo!!!! 😍"

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ADDITIONAL ONLINE EXCERPTS THAT MENTION "AFRO DANCE", "AFRO HOUSE DANCING", AND/OR "AFROBEATS".
(These excerpts are given in no particular order)
1. From http://socialdancecommunity.com/dance-afro-house/ BY RACHEL CASSANDRA "SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE AFRO HOUSE" [no date given]
"If you go to a big kizomba party or festival, at some point in the night there is sure to be an Afro House animation. The DJ changes the music to something upbeat and pulsating with energy. People line up facing the DJ booth or stage, then follow the moves of a leading artist. After a while another confident dancer may stride up to take over for a while or a different teacher may be pushed to the center. People copy the moves until they are too tired or sweaty or the DJ relents and brings it back to a semba or kizomba song.

Some people can’t wait for that point in the party. They find it revitalizes them. Other people roll their eyes, go check their phones, and maybe even call it a night if the set goes on longer than a few songs. I used to be one of them – but somehow in the past couple years I’ve become super excited about taking any African solo dance on offer at festivals.

I would attribute some of that shift to an amazing hour dancing Kuduro and Afro House behind an ever-smiling and tireless Paulo Cruz at the Hamburg Kizomba Gala in 2014....

[...]

Introduction to African Dance

For most people in the kizomba scene, the Afro House set is how they first encountered any kind of solo African movement. For me it was Kuduro line-ups at big salsa parties. From Casablanca to Lyon to New York, the only time I saw Kuduro from 2010 to 2011 was as part of an animation or choreographed dance, usually performed to a Caribbean or Brazilian dance tune like Don Omar’s infamous “Danza Kuduro.” I assumed it was a recent Latin craze.

My first real encounter with Afro House was when my kizomba partner in 2012, Nelson Campos, insisted that we add some to our kizomba/semba show. I was very resistant to the idea. “Aren’t we supposed to be showcasing the dances we teach? I don’t know how to dance Afro House!”...

And it wasn’t because I hadn’t taken any classes. I did go to Afro House and Kuduro classes at festivals, but their purpose also seemed to be animation. The classes were a game of “Do what I do – if you can keep up!” and trying to memorize the choreography du jour. I spent so much time trying to remember the basic blocking and order of the moves I never got any better at the actual movement.

Fortunately, things seem to be changing. Increasingly festivals are offering not just a single Afro House or Kuduro class, but a range of classes that include other African dance styles. The quality of instruction has improved to include assessment of and adjustment to students’ needs. Most importantly, more and more people are beginning to recognize the dynamic freedom of these various dances. Like me, they’re coming to class wanting to learn more than they can from line-ups at parties.

An Incomplete Alphabet

In a single weekend this month at Hamburg’s Ginga Festival I got to do workshops in six solo African dances. Here they are in alphabetical order, to avoid any question of hierarchy: Afro House (mixed origins), Afrobeats (Nigeria), Azonto (Ghana), Coupé Décalé (Côte d’Ivoire), Kuduro (Angola), and Ndombolo (Congo). While there are certainly many others out there, I’d say these six are pretty representative of the offerings I’ve seen across festivals in the last two years.

When it comes to the kizomba scene, the most commonly taught solo dances are Kuduro and Afro House. Kuduro has been party music for decades in Angola. The dance is a bridge between traditional tribal dances and modern African movement. Kuduro translates into English as “hard ass,” and the energetic leaps, squats, kicks, and various isolations that characterize Kuduro absolutely deliver on that name.

Afro House comes from the intersection of South African music and house. The dance is popular across several African countries and therefore varies wildly. I’ve even heard people say that they dance “Angolan Afro House” or “Afro House from Congo.” In most festival workshops, there’s no real explanation of what defines Afro House, and our objective as attendees is simply to fit the mold presented to us. Personally I have seen elements of many other dances in Afro House."...
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2.
From https://medium.com/the-dao-of-dance/my-beginners-journey-with-afro-dance-2968ca232ed0
My Beginner’s Journey with Afro Dance
Respecting and appreciating the diverse cultures and histories of the African continent through dance.
John Joseph Wong, Sep 18, 2019

"I love dancing.

Earlier this year, I started exploring a variety of popular dance styles that span the vast, beautiful continent of Africa. From Nigerian and Ghanaian Afro Fusion and Afro Pop, Congolese Ndombolo, Angolan Kuduro and Afro House, Ivorian Coupé-Décalé, to South African Gqom, and many more.

I fell in love with the emphasis on rhythm and syncopation found in many of these popular music and dance styles. There’s heart and soul embedded in every track.

The music grabbed my attention, but the dances kept me coming back for more.

I find that Afro dances often celebrate community. At the same time, these dances provide space for individuality, flavour and sauce. It’s not just about technical ability or skill — it’s about the energy you bring to the dance floor and the vibes you share."

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From https://www.aileyextension.com/classes/afrodance-0

"Afro'Dance
Afro'Dance class is a mixture of the new generation of African influences and street dance. In the class, you will work on musicality heavily influenced by the rhythm and musical trends from The Congo, Ivory Coast, Angola, and beyond. Urban street styles are incorporated into the backdrop of this heavily African based technique"...

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4.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrobeats
"Afrobeats (not to be confused with Afrobeat or Afroswing[1]), also known as Afro-pop, Afro-fusion (also styled as Afropop and Afrofusion), is an umbrella term for contemporary pop music made in West Africa and the diaspora[2][3] that initially developed in Nigeria, Ghana, and the UK in the 2000s and 2010s. Afrobeats is less of a style per se, and more of a descriptor for the fusion of sounds flowing out of Ghana and Nigeria. Genres such as hiplife, jùjú music, highlife and naija beats, among others, are often lumped under the 'afrobeats' umbrella.[4]"...

Characteristics
Afrobeats (with the s) is commonly conflated with and referred to as Afrobeat (without the s), however, these are two distinct and different sounds and are not the same.[9][10][11][12][13][14] Afrobeat is a genre that developed in the 1960s and 1970s, taking influences from Fuji music and Highlife, mixed in with American Jazz and Funk. Characteristics of afrobeat include big bands, long instrumental solos, and complex jazzy rhythms.[15][16] The name was coined by Nigerian afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.[17] Fela Kuti and his longtime partner, drummer Tony Allen, are credited for laying the groundwork for what would become afrobeats.[3][18][19][20][21]

This is in contrast to afrobeats, pioneered in the 2000s and 2010s. While afrobeats takes on influences from afrobeat, it is a diverse fusion of various different genres such as British house music, hiplife, hip hop, dancehall, soca, Jùjú music, highlife, R&B, Ndombolo, Naija beats, Azonto, and Palm-wine music.[22][9][10][23][2][12][24][25][4] Unlike Afrobeat, which is a clearly defined genre, afrobeats is more of an overarching term for contemporary West African pop music. The term was created in order to package these various sounds into a more easily accessible label, which were unfamiliar to the UK listeners where the term was first coined."...

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ADDENDUM: Petit Afro Presents - #PetitAfroChallenge || Afro Dance || Video By HRN



Petit Afro Official, Sep 1, 2018

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a 2016 YouTube video of Afro House dancing in Uganda, East Africa.

Some comments from this video's discussion thread are included in this post. Those selected comments refer to an incident near the end of this video when a mother (or grandmother) angrily removes her daughter (or grand daughter) who is solo dancing in the middle of the gathered crowd of onlookers.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to all those who are featured in this video and thanks to the producers of this video on YouTube.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Sherrie Silver and Mathew IDU - Desarruma Dance Choreography



Sherrie Silver, Oct 19, 2016

Music: Desarruma (feat. Gaia Beat & MestreS)" by Staff Paulo
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Statistics as of May 22, 2020
total comments -17,271,955
total likes-171k
total dislikes-7.1k
total # of comments-4,982
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The dancing incident that is the focus of the following comments begins at 3:13 of this video.

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
(These are all of the comments on this subject as of May 21, 2020. Numbers have been added for referencing purposes only.)

1. Shauna Rose, 2016
"Yes !!!!! Oh momma is not playing!"

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2. Angelxbaby88, 2016
"Seems like Grandma isn't ready for the modernized dance moves LOL"

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3. Sharonda Lewis, 2016
"shoot, that wouldvr been my momma when i was a teen lol"

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4. Angelxbaby88, 2016
"That's still my granny today and i'm past my teenage years"

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5. Angelxbaby88
"+Ricardo Cadet yupp, granny knows best.."

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6. cumensu, 2016
"Angelxbaby88 , it wasn't the moves but how the lady was dancing in the short skirt. And she had her head covered. She's probably Muslim."

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7. Tal B, 2016
"cumensu probably"

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8. TheDamianino1, 2017
"Not quite modernized... African dances have always been mostly like that... Many are yet to be documented."

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9. r3ndomgirl, 2016
"That grandma thought the girl was probably doing something important, while she was watching her baby. Hahahaha"

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10. Younes Farooqi, 2019
"r3ndomgirl
I think so
But she was dancing front of crowd 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣"

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11. Gabrielle Joseph, 2016
"The girl got embarrassed by her mom. African parent don't take rubbish😄"

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Z G, 2016
"flowers4u there is no Sound so WE dont know, maybe she was surposed to Cook,Go Shopping,Go and Fetch water,or Clean the House, but she is Not doing that , instead shaking her goodies Outside."

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13. OCHI VICTOR, 2016
"newlife grandmas always feel the modernized African dances are inappropriate."

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14. Ahmad Ahmed, 2017
"😂😂 so true ."

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15. Bubacarr Jallow, 2020
"It makes me remember my grandma, when she use to kick my ass. But I love her so much even though"

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16. Sabah la Hermosa, 2020
"@Ahmad Ahmed right"

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17. julus jack, 2016
"the end lol ...what are u doing here GO TO COOK!!!! lfmao"

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18. urchstar nuel, 2016
"julus jack nailed it 😂😂😂"

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19. Lexi Nemhard, 2016
"looooolz"

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20. shambz, 2016
"it was about the woman's lack of decency"

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21. Z G, 2016
"shambz can you elaborate more, how exactly did she lack decency?"

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22. shambz, 2016
"ich und ich there's nothing more I can elaborate on if we are in fact watching the same video. the woman's skirt rode well up her thighs and I would assume the older woman (probably a relative) thought the men had seen enough"

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23. Z G, 2016
"@shambz they are not in the church, they are dancing to a secular music not gospel , so nothing was indecent there. Just a pretty normal way teenagers dress and dance"

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24. SylviasWorld, 2016
"shambz It is also the way she was dancing. It's a generational gap. I feel bad for her though because you know she got beats when she got home. Some dances you just don't do in front of your older relatives in Africa. Well some African countries."

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25. kilamanjaro Mountain, 2016
"SylviasWorld shut up"

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26. SylviasWorld, 2016
"kilamanjaro Mountain When you grow up you will understand what I said."

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27. uma Bakongo around the world, 2016
"julus jack 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡"

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28. Asha Adan, 2016
"julus jack is not easy black mom every strong 😂😂😂 just had slaps and hit 😴😴😂"

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29. julus jack, 2016
"Lol true!!!"

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30. Ezeani Favour, 2017
"The end lol a true african parent"

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31. JudahBenLevi 2020
"WAIT! TRUE BLACK AMERICAN PARENTS WHEN I WAS GROWING UP! You had better not be out THERE shaking and gyrating your body parts! MALES OR FEMALES AND HOLDING YOUR PRIVATES PART MALES AND THE FEMALES SHAKIN ASS.NO WAY! when parents had since and the fear of YAH(GOD) they didn't play that!"

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32. Salammy, 2020
"The old lady killed it 😂😂. A true African mum."

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33. Malu Kone, 2020
"No joke with African grandma"

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34. Lavander Jackson, 2020
"The old guy and the mother was hilarious, she was a grown woman mommy didnt care."

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post provides information about Ghanaian Highlife singers Kuami Eugene and Ghanaian Highlife singer KiDi.

This post also showcases a 2019 YouTube video of Kuami Eugene ft KiDi - Ohemaa

Some comments from this video's discussion thread are included in this post. Those selected comments refer to an incident near the end of this video when a mother (or grandmother) angrily removes her daughter (or grand daughter) who is solo dancing in the middle of the gathered crowd of onlookers.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Kuami Eugene and KiDi for their music legacy. Thanks to all those who are associated with this showcase video and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube.

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EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE ABOUT GHANAIAN HIGHLIFE MUSIC
From https://blackpublicmedia.org/9-important-things-know-ghana-highlife-music/ [no author or date given]
The 9 most important things to know about Ghana highlife music
..."One way to draw comparisons between African and African-American culture is to consider pop culture trends across these different societies. The evolution of art, music, literature, and media has always offered one of the clearest views into the changing shape and tone of a country. For instance, jazz emerged in the United States parallel to Ghana highlife music in West Africa. Highlife started in Ghana in the early twentieth century and remains vital to the African music scene today.

[...]


2. Use of Western instruments
Part of what makes highlife a unique musical genre is its method of melding traditional and contemporary sounds from all corners of Africa and the world. When highlife began to gain momentum in the early 1900s, it was known for incorporating foreign guitar techniques, creating layers of sound and cultural fusion on top of existing brass-band and percussion traditions.

3. Living the highlife
When it first emerged in colonial Africa, highlife music was distinctly associated with Ghana’s aristocracy, because it was performed primarily at exclusive clubs along Ghana’s coast. Most Ghanaians did not have the wealth or social status to enter these concert venues, so the music earned it the name “highlife.”

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9. The birth of hiplife
Hiplife refers to the most recent product of the highlife genre, Taking elements from American hip-hop music, hiplife still uses Ghanaian languages and is backed by traditional highlife styles. Reggie Rockstone, a UK-born Ghanaian rapper, is known as the pioneer or the “grandfather” of the hiplife movement and has enjoyed success as a musician in Ghana since the 1990s."...
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INFORMATION ABOUT KUAMI EUGENE
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuami_Eugene
"Eugene Kwame Marfo (born 1 February 1997), who goes by the stage name Kuami Eugene is a Ghanaian high-life and afrobeat singer-songwriter. He is signed to Lynx Entertainment,[1] and is known for several songs of his, including "Angela", "Wish Me Well", "Ohemaa", and many others. He won the New Artist awards from the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards and the Ghana Music Awards UK. He also received the Most Promising Artist in Africa award from (AFRIMA)[2

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Music career
Kwami Eugene was a contestant in the season 5 of the reality competition show MTN Hitmaker in Ghana in 2016, where he finished third overall.[7] He was signed shortly afterwards to Lynx Entertainment and has gone on to release several singles. In 2017, "Angela"[8]" reached one million views on YouTube, the most for any music artist on that label, and was indicated to be in rotation among the top 10 songs in Ghana.[9] He is a featured artist in "Adwenfi" by DJ Vyrusky and Shatta Wale.[10] In 2018, he released a continuation of the story line in the "Angela"[11] song called "Confusion".[12] And in June 2018, he released the single "Wish Me Well", which was in response to the negative comments he received on social media,[13] some of which alleged he was stealing lyrics from another artist Ice Prince.[14]"...

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INFORMATION ABOUT KIDI
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiDi
"Dennis Nana Dwamena, better known as KiDi, (born August 18, 1993) is a Ghanaian high-life and afrobeats singer-songwriter. He is signed to Lynx Entertainment and is best known for his hit single Odo. The remix features Nigerian superstars Mayorkun and Davido and has received massive airplay across Africa.[1]

Music career
Early beginnings and breakthrough
While studying Economics and Information Studies at the University of Ghana, KiDi's love for music led him to perform on various "Moonlight Café" platforms – a production that supports underground artistes and gives them a platform to display their talents. He also recorded covers of popular songs. In 2015, KiDi took a leap of faith by joining the MTN Hitmaker competition.[3] He went on to win the competition and was later signed to Lynx Entertainment.[4] KiDi shot to prominence in 2017 when he released "Say You Love Me" a song he not only composed but also arranged and produced. KiDi established himself as one of the fastest rising stars in Ghana when he released yet another chart-topper titled "Odo" in July 2017, the remix with Nigerian artist Davido and Mayorkun in December 2017, and Adiepena in April 2018.[1]

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KiDi received 6 nominations[9] at the 2018 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards including ‘Best New Artiste’, ‘Afro-pop Song of the Year’ and ‘Male Vocalist of the Year’ and went on to win the award for ‘High-life Song of the Year’ at the awards[10] in April 2018."...

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Kuami Eugene ft KiDi - Ohemaa (Official Video)



Lynx Entertainment •Jun 19, 2019

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Talented label mates, Kuami Eugene (RockStar) & KiDi (Sugar) release the video to their long awaited first collaboration, 'Ohemaa'.

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Directed by REX
Copyright (c) Lynx Ghana Limited
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Statistics as of May 24, 2020 at 3:22 PM
total views-4,068,787
total likes-28K
total dislikes-1.1K
total comments-2,010

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LYRICS- OHEMAA

High Life Music
Oh Lord Of Mercy
All yeah yeah
Hmmm sugar daddy
Rockstar!
They call me Eugene

The way I dey love you nerr
Nobody go fi love you like I do
Odo aa me do wo deɛ
Dem dey talk say you do me Juju

The way I dey love you nerr
Nobody go fi love you like I do
Odo aa me do wo deɛ
Dem dey talk say you do me Juju

Nɛ so whatever go happen ee (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)
Whatever go happen ee (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)
You bi my alomo oo (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)
You bi my alomo oo (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)

Ntsi zaa zaa za (Ohemaa)
Ntsi zaa zaa za (Ohemaa)
Whatever go happen ee (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)

Ɛye woara against eni bɛwo oo
Ɛye woa baby against eni bɛwo

Medi sika kokɔɔ na ɛbɛhwɛ wo (baby oo)
Me kyerɛ wo odɔ abrɛ yina aa
And ago love you even though they hate you
Mema wo medɔ ne me sika yina aa (baby oo)
Dem say you do me like mʋmʋ
I no know way thing ago do do do do oo
I be your school bi dodoo do oo (sugar)

Dem say you do me like mʋmʋ
I no know way thing ago do do do do oo
I be your school bi dodoo do oo (sugar)

Nɛ so whatever go happen ee (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)
Whatever go happen ee (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)
You bi my alomo oo (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)
You bi my alomo oo (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)

Ntsi zaa zaa za (Ohemaa)
Ntsi zaa zaa za (Ohemaa)
Whatever go happen ee (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)

Ɛye woara against ɛni bɛwʋ
Ɛye wo aa baby against ɛni bɛwʋ
Ɛye woara against ɛni bɛwʋ
Ɛye wo aa baby against ɛni bɛwʋ

Ahoɔfɛ neɛ mese ɛyɛ wo aa
Mebɛ kyerɛ odɔ bi aa akyen sika
Me hwɛ woso yie, mebo woho ban
Mepeni ma obiara bɛtse akoma
Girl ago tell them you are the one
You are the one that everyone want
Girl ago tell them you are the one
You are the one that everyone want
Aah...
Mepɛ wo saara, against ɛni bɛwʋ
Mepɛ wo saa, baby against ɛni bɛwʋ

Nɛ so whatever go happen ee (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)
Nɛ so whatever go happen ee (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)
You bi my alomo oo (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)
You bi my alomo oo (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)

Ntsi zaa zaa za (Ohemaa)
Ntsi zaa zaa za (Ohemaa)
Whatever go happen ee (Ohemaa)
Meni wo aa na ɛko oo (Ohemaa)

Ɛye woara against ɛni bɛwʋ
Ɛye wo aa baby against ɛni bɛwʋ
Ɛye woara against ɛni bɛwʋ
Ɛye wo aa baby against ɛni bɛwʋ


Source: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kuamieugene/ohemaa.html

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Given the comments about "Scooby-Do" in the discussion thread for that song's official video, I believe that the lyrics "I be your school bi dodoo do oo (sugar)" should be corrected to "I be your Scooby-Doo" etc. Read the comment that I posted to that discussion thread (given as #20 below).

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THAT VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
(with numbers added for referencing purposes only)
1. Estelle Dansi, 2019
"Don't even understand the song very well but i love it from de day kwami posted it on IG gud job kwami and kidi💜💜💜"

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2. Efya Efya, 2019
"Thats sweet of you.😊 In a nut shell, Ohema means queen in Ghana. He's saying no matter what happens he's always gonna love them (african women) and that they're precious and that she be his alomo(the showcased liquor in the video) .. which is a every expensive alcohol in Ghana and made in Ghana too. So basically women are all queens and precious and expensive like the drink. Hope that helps 🤗😊"

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3. Jessy B, 2019
"Love love love it ! Even though i dont understand what they saying lol besides great visuals"

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4. Efya Efya, 2019
"Aww kudos for being fan🤗😀darling. Ohemaa means QUEEN in Ghana.. He's saying African women are queens and beautiful and that they are the only women he/African man wants so no matter what he will forever be with them. People who envy will be ashamed."

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5. Efotonga Channel, 2019
"The rich culture of our beloved country has been showcased... Lovely"

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6. aspiringdoc23, 2019
"Paying tribute to the melody of the past with current beats; hiplife meets highlife...great collaboration. Well done!"

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7. mzz bennie, 2019
"I LOVE HOW OUR RICH CULTURE IS PRESENTED IN THIS VIDEO😍😍😍😍"

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8. Kobe Ewusi, 2019
"This doesn't look like our culture though... just saying... This has coming to America and one of MJ's classic vids written all over it...."

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9. DJ Massa Filla, 2019
"So the ntoma wear, face painting, gold jewelry, beads, calabash and others things display in this video is the culture of an MJ video and coming to America. Massa a movie/video doesn't create a culture, it's display or showcase. And u realize these videos u mention usually takes ideas from African cultures and just display them like with Black Panther. I think maybe u trynna say the concept of this video resembles some MJ video u know and coming to America. Then I can understand where u coming from but those video hasn't created any culture. So I think mzz Bennie right"

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10. Kobe Ewusi, 2019
"@DJ Massa Filla You see oo chairman you understood me and still wanted to play mischief so you could say Mzz Bennie is right.. I never said those videos created a culture but like you rightly pointed out, their concepts influenced this video so unless Mzz Bennie is not Ghanaian then I stand by what I said. Kidi was dressed like a Prince Pharaoh from that MJ classic video (Ghanaian royalty don't dress like that) and Eugene like the Prince of Zamunda (wherever that is, it ain't Ghana lol). The ntoma wear your refer to; is that how our ntoma looks like or how we wear it for most part of the video? I saw some kente elements in the video which I'd admit is part of our culture, the beads yes and calabashes (which I didn't see) but for most of the video it has an infusion of what Westerners seem to think represent Africa but it's unto us to tell our story ourselves and tell it right. Africa is not one country and indeed Ghanaian culture is still rich and beautiful even when unadulterated!"

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11. DJ Massa Filla, 2019
"Kobe Ewusi oh ok boss got u 👍🏾👍🏾"

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12. Charles Eghan, 2019
"Woow Ghana music to the world
Am injoy dis music"

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13. YAFEU CULTURAL FASHION, 2019
"Awesome video❤️🇬🇭 🔥🔥🔥🥰🇬🇭🎶These brothas are some kinda fine..let’s show them love ladies! Keep showing how BEAUTIFUL GHANA is. BIG UP to all contributors of this video ✌🏾🙏🏾❤️❤️❤️❤️ from the U.S. 🇺🇸"

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14. Sarah Mensah, 2019
"I'm in luv with song,thnx kuame n kidi for putting Ghana on top"

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15. Lady Taffy, 2019
"Enti zaaaa zaaaa zaaaaaaaa 🥰😍 that dance .. oooh laaaawd 😆😍.. 🎵 on repeat 🔊"

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16. Jaysha Williams, 2019
"Love the authenticity of this video ❤❤ha! But of course! Ayee"

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17. Efotonga Channel, 2019
"The rich culture of our beloved country has been showcased... Lovely"

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18. Gabriel Boateng,2019
"I can’t stop playing this it’s too good🔥🔥I listen to it with my headphones on, through the speaker, and just regularly and as a fellow Ghanaian child I’m proud to say this is one Ghanaian song that my parents enjoy as well😂"

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19. Ilo' L, 2019
"Ça fait 4jours que je l'écoute en boucle...

Dem say you do me like mumu
I no know way thing ago do do do do o
I be your school bi dodoo do o"

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20. Azizi Powell, 2020
"an African American here. You wrote "school bi do..," In this song it's actually "Scooby-Doo". Scooby-Doo is a United States cartoon character who is a great Dane (dog) who acts somewhat human & is smart enough to join with some teenagers in solving supernatural mysteries.
What does" Scooby-Doo" mean in this bangin Highlife song? Maybe it has something to do with the American characterization of men being dogs-but that has negative connotations. Maybe the name "Scooby-Doo" was used just because it sounds good."

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21. John Hannah Ezinne, 2019
"This what I was looking for, between you guys kuami Eugene and Kidi I so much love your music and dancing like no man business, keep it up you both, hail rockstar (kuami Eugene), hail sugar daddy(kidi), more grace brothers from Ezinne."

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22. Michael Sakah, 2019
"Let's support these guys to take over Africa music like the way Nigerians supported wizkid n davido all over the place."

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23. Beckie PM 2019
"These are the type of videos I like to watch cuz I see women who have my features and are appreciated 🙂😍🇭🇹"
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"HT"=Haiti

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24. Joyceline. O, 2019
"Kidi be careful u are becoming bad boy ❤❤😂😂but we love you soo much"

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25. Rachel atta mensah, 2019
"I love how golden our culture is 👑❤️"

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26. Hilda Hamilton, 2019
"Black Beauty is the best. Rock star nd kidi thanks for the collection 🤩🤗😘😍😘😘😘😍😘😘🤩🤩. U guys are the best 🤩😘😍🤗🤗😘😘😘🤩😋😋😎😎😉😉"

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27. susuilu, 2019
"Big ups to our african brothers giving us wonderful music !!! Big ups - kings and queens outfits, the way its supposed to be. Well done!!"

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28. Fareed Ishmeal, 2019
"This video actually depicts the true and beautiful African culture. Everything speaks to itself. #BlackAndProud. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Bigups Kwame Eugene and Kidi for these amazing piece of art. Hits the like button if you agree. Fareed Ishmeal was here some 🙏🏾🙏🏾 Cape Coast"

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29. David Berchie, 2019
"Projecting African culture and Ghanaian brand (Alomo). The colours were really projected"

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30. Calvin Okaikoi Aryee, 2019
"kuami Eugene and Kidi did their part but the Video exhibited the Geniuses of Rex( the Director)"

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31. Ibe Matt, 2019
"He’s just too much. Even if he was the only musician from Ghana, the country would still be known worldwide. Long live K. Eu. From Asia China"

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32. teddlyn tackie, 2019
"Sound✅
Graphics ✅
Concept ✅
Quality ✅
Collaboration ✅
Display ✅
Costume ✅
Models ✅
Accessoires ✅
Complexion ✅

This video is everrryyyttthhiinnngg👏👏...it’s worth the wait❤️"
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Regarding complexion, a number of commenters wrote that they were glad that all the women in the video were dark skinned. Four of those comments are included next.

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33. nana akua, 2019
"thank you for using dark skinned beauties only. its about time."

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34. Real Lydia Davis, 2019
"Finally I see black beauties. Enough of using discolored people. I can't stop people from bleaching, but at least this one really shows the beauty of our ladies."

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35. Nicole Smith, 2020
"I truly respect n support artists who showcase African women's beauty on their videos, most artists tend to employ lighter/mix race girls in their videos so again darker complexion girls are left out of earning a check."

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36. Lisa98 uggh, 2020
"All the way from South Africa. I'm so in love with these guys 😍 Ghana got talent 🙌

It's nice to see beautiful women of different shades not just light skinned women"

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37. KingHacks, 2019
"Nice video , keep broadcasting the unique African print , Proud to be an African .. Ghana higher we go .. Hit the like button if you are a Proud Africa .. :)"

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38. Kalusha. 2019
"High life ain't dead yet with Guys like Kuame Eugene still reigning......Thatboy Kalusha"

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39. MidouYah Êvêo, 2019
"Powerful ! let's promote ourselves as who we really are Kings and Queens!!#treeoflive"

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40. Barbees Marley. 2019
"We should support songs like this to keep our Hi-Life heritage going..... Big ups kuami & Kidi ✌🏾✊🏾"

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41. Jemila Amissah, 2019
"I love the traditional outfits😍😍😍👏👏"

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42. Nanaeffia Boahine, 2020
"Honestly we’ve been waiting to be represented for so long...I’m glad y’all are listening And clearly it works! The Ghanaian culture is probably the richest of all the nations. Well done this was perfection"

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43. sosSylv, 2020
"Doing it for the culture! 😀"

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44. Constance Owusu, 2020
"I love to see dis two sing together, two great singers....kidi with de deep and sexy voice, kwame Eugene with de still and beautiful voice😘😘😘😘😘"

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45. KORANTENG JOSEPHINE, 2020
"The zaazazaza dance alone deserves 1k likes"

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46. Jeanne Townsend, 2020
"Just feel like home again listening to ur voice. By the way from Togo"

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This pancocojams post provides information about contemporary Nigerian singer Mr. Eazi whose music is a blend of Ghanaian Highlife and Nigerian music. Information about Ghanaian singer Mr. Promise and British Nigerian record producer/recording artist Maleek Berry are also included in this post.

This post also showcases the official YouTube video and the visualizer (cartoon) video for late 2018 song "Dabebi" by Mr. Eazi featuring Ghanaian singers Mr. Promise and Maleek Berry.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Mr. Eazi, King Promise, and Maleek Beery for their music legacy. Thanks to all those who are associated with this showcase video and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/05/comments-about-languages-used-in.html
for this closely related pancocojams post entitled "Comments About The Languages Used In Contemporary Ghanaian Or Nigerian Music (from a discussion sub-thread of Mr.Eazi's "Dabebi" cartoon video)".
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INFORMATION ABOUT MR. EAZI
From https://blogs.elon.edu/geo1311803/2018/02/22/its-ya-boy-eazi-zagadat/ Published by Chris, Fe, 22, 2018
Written By: Christopher Luciani
"Early Life
Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, better known as Mr Eazi, is a 26 year old musician from Nigeria. Born in Port Harcourt, the largest city and capital of Rivers State, Nigeria, his parents encouraged him to pursue an education at a university in Ghana. Mr Eazi relocated to Kumasi and studied mechanical engineering at the world class Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). This is where his passion for music began as he started recording music in his final year.

One of the interesting things about Mr Eazi is his national identity. He describes himself as Nigerian by birth, but Ghanaian by heart. That is all he is usually willing to say in interviews and tries not to talk about it any further because he believes that a distinction of where he is from does not determine his style of music. Mr Eazi is taking over the music industry by storm in not only Ghana and Nigeria, but in the entire world, with his YouTube channel having a combined 76 million views in the last 5 years.

Mr Eazi’s Style
Mr Eazi [‘s]... music style is unique when compared to other musicians in the region. Mr Eazi pioneered “Banku Music” (named after the popular local Ghanaian meal), which is described by him in an article by Evatese Blog as a fusion between “Ghanaian bounces, Ghanaian highlife, Nigerian chord progressions, and Nigerian patterns. The essence of Banku music is a mixture of Nigeria and Ghana.”

Just by listening to how Mr Eazi fuses these two genres of music together, you can see how important globalization and migration is in his music producing process. Mr Eazi says in an interview with Google that who he is today is a product of living and spending time in both countries and being influenced by both cultures. Also, in this interview, he mentions that he grew up listening to Bob Marley because of his father but listened to artists like Jay Z and Lil Wayne while studying at University. With every song he writes, there is a different part of each influence in his music style that can only be created by him and his experiences. He states that “although every song I write has iconic African drums and an African feel to them, it draws influences from all genres of music.” It is also very apparent that his lyrics are written in half English and half Hausa, one of the many languages spoken in Nigeria, proving that his music is not only made for people in African countries.

Accra to Lagos
His album Accra to Lagos represents how his music style changed from an Accra (capital of Ghana) style to a Lagos (Nigeria’s largest city) style.

[...]

Mr Eazi’s Social Media
... Part of [Mr. Eazi's] marketing strategy is to respond “Zagadat” (his signature catchphrase meaning ‘confirm,’ ‘correct,’ ‘roger that’) to every single tweet that included “Mr Eazi.” This was so more people would look him up after hearing from their friends about a celebrity responding to their tweet. This shows how greatly globalization is working in favor of artists such as Mr Eazi today and how easy it is for anyone to become famous.”...

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INFORMATION ABOUT KING PROMISE
From https://www.glusea.com/king-promise-net-worth/
"Risen to be among the great talents in Ghana Music Industry, King Promise has won the heart of lots of people with his songs. The singer is known for his skills and creativity in his songs.

[...]

King Promise Biography
King Promise whose real name is Gregory Bortey Newman is an award winning Ghanaian singer and songwriter born on August 16, 1995.

He is the son of Francis Newman, a businessman and Angela Quaye, a trader.

King Promise is an Accra based recording artiste with a vast music genres of hip hop, high life, R&B and Afro beats

The singer who is currently 23 year-old attended De Kings Academy for his childhood education in Ghana. He later proceeded to Nungua Senior High School located in the suburbs of Ghana’s capital city, Accra for his secondary school education.

After taking a break from pursuing his education, he went back to school and graduated last year from Central University.

He revealed that he got the opportunity to learn a lot during the break from education because he was able to hone his skills . It is right and just to call him a prolific songwriter because of the fact that he has co-wrote a lot of songs , he co-wrote Adina’s ‘Too late’ and it won an award at the 2017 Ghana Music Awards."...

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INFORMATION ABOUT MALEEK BERRY
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleek_Berry
"Maleek Shoyebi (born 11 August 1987), professionally known as Maleek Berry, is a British-Nigerian record producer and recording artist.[2] After his break into the spotlight in 2012, Maleek Berry was nominated as "Music Producer of the Year" at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Maleek Berry has worked with prominent artists such as Wizkid, Davido, Wale, Fuse ODG, Runtown and Iyanya.[3][4][5] In 2017 he was nominated in the Best Male category of the annual MOBO Awards.[6]"....

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
Here's a translation for the Twi word "dabebi" from Kofi-gha Kwawoo, 2019 (from the discussion thread for the video that is embedded in this post)
"in twi, dabebi literally means "sleeping elsewhere", but in the context of the song, he is basically saying he doesn't share the same bed anymore with his girl because of some relationship issues."

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Mr. Eazi's "Dabebi" is a remix of the 2001 Ghanaian Highlife song "Damabi" by Ofori Amponsah. That song is considered one of the best Ghanaian Highlife songs of all times. Mr. Eazi credits Ofori Maponsah in his song "Dababi" and ends that song with a brief portion of Ofori Amponsah singing "Damabi".

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INFORMATION ABOUT OFORI AMPONSAH
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofori_Amponsah
"Samuel Ofori Amponsah (born March 2, 1974), also known by the name Mr. All 4 Real, is a Ghanaian music artist from Agogo, Ashanti Region, Ghana.[1] He won seven awards in one night at the 2006 VGMA awards, including 2005 Artist of the Year, and has a combined total of 17 Ghana Music Awards nominations, making him one of the highest nominated artists. He has performed in places such as London, New York, Chicago, and Sierra Leone.[1] His music has a heavy R&B influence. He has collaborated with the likes of Kofi Nti, Barosky, and K. K. Fosu.[2] Some of his most popular songs are “Lady,” “Emmanuella,” and “Otoolege.

[...]

2013-16: New image
In 2013, Amponsah made the decision to leave secular music.[1] He released a gospel album in 2014 called The Gospel According to Ofori.[13] His decision included becoming a pastor.[1] He founded the Family of Faith and Love Ministries to spread the word of God.[14] It wasn't long before he switched back to secular music, claiming he would save souls through his love songs.[14] After announcing his decision to go back to secular music, he began rehearsing and preparing his fans for a new experience and new image for his future performances.[15] He was reported to have spent a month in seclusion at his home in order to focus on preparing for his stage performances.[15]

The 2015 release of his single “Alewa” earned him a nomination for 2015 Highlife Artist of the Year and 2015 Highlife Song of the Year.[16] The song was in collaboration with Sarkodie, a fellow Ghanaian music artist and rapper.[17] The pair performed the song at the 2015 Rapperholic concert.[18] “Alewa” is featured on Amponsah's album Songs of Solomon, which includes the hits “Not Falling,” “Serious,” and “Wonkoaa.”[19] The eleven-track album features music producers Kaywa, Appietus, and Bodo Staiger.[20]

2016-Present: Comeback
In 2016 Amponsah released several singles including "Fab3gye" with Paa Kwasi and Atom (produced by Appietus), and "TinTin" in collaboration with Samini.[21][22][23]

On April 21, 2017 Amponsah released yet another love song, "Seventeen," featuring the vocals of Kwabena Kwabena. The song was produced by Kaywa.[24] His second release of 2017 was "Dangerous," a collaboration with singer Akwaboah Jnr and Black Nayaka, produced by Cedi Gh"...
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Amponsah has recently published YouTube videos of several of his past hit songs such as "Dabambi" to take advantage of that audience.

WARNING: The official YouTube video for Ofori Amponsah's "Dambami" may not be suitable for children because of nearly female frontal nudity and near explicit posing by the woman who is featured in that video.

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SHOWCASE VISUALIZER (CARTOON) VIDEO: Mr Eazi - Dabebi (feat. King Promise & Maleek Berry)



Mr Eazi, Nov 12, 2018

[...]

Lyrics
Girl I want to dey your skin
Girl I wan dey your side (din dan dan di din)
You should be here with me
Me and you go dey alright (It’s your boy Eazi)

Girl I want to dey your skin
Girl I wan dey your side
You should be here with me
Me and you go dey alright

Is it a crime to gum body (Gum body o yeah yeah)
I need somebody o (Somebody o yeah yeah)
Is it a crime to gum body o (Gum boy o yeah yeah)
O mo pe anything for you baby o (Zagadat)
I suppose to be your man, I no go fall your hand
While the rain is pouring girl, I am longing for you
Baby help me understand why you never dey around
If one more night should go by, tell me what I for do ye!

Odabebi menso me Dabebi
Dabebi ooo Dabebi
Odoyewu Dabebi
Baby ooo Dabebi
Menso me Dabebi
Dabebi ooo Dabebi
Odoyewu Dabebi

Girl I want to dey your skin
Girl I wan dey your side
You should be here with me
Me and you go dey alright

O girl I want to dey your skin
Girl I wan dey your side
You should be here with me
Me and you go dey alright yeah

Give me your heart may I keep
Give me your heart make I light up
Give me your heart may I keep
Give me your heart make I light up
Maria, Soweto Maria Maria Soweto
Vanilla from Orlando
Vanilla Vanilla Orlando


I say I suppose to be your man
I no go lef your hand
While the rain is pouring girl I am longing for you (ye)

Baby help me understand why you never dey around
If one more night should go by tell me what I for do ye (din dan da di di din)

Odabebi menso me Dabebi
Dabebi ooo Dabebi
Odeyewu Dabebi o
Baby ooo Dabebi
Menso me Dabebi
Dabebi ooo Dabebi
Odoyewu Dabebi

O girl I want to dey your skin
Girl I wan dey your side
You should be here with me
Me and you go dey alright yeah

O girl I want to dey your skin
Girl I wan dey your side
You should be here with me
Me and you go dey alright (yeah)

Credits: Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, Gregory Promise Bortey, Maleek Shoyebi, Ronald Banful, Joseph Addison & Soji
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Here's the introductory lyrics to that song as posted in that video's discussion thread:
"Another guilty beat
Came Running
Zagadat!"
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"Guilty beat" is the stage name of the Ghanaian producer of the beats for Mr. Eazi's song "Dabebi".
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Statistics as of May 25, 2020 at 9:03 AM EDT
total views-3,780,417
total likes-21K
total dislikes- 439
total comments-488
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Notice that the visualizer (cartoon) version of this song has more views than the song's official video.

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Mr Eazi - Dabebi (feat. King Promise & Maleek Berry)



Mr. Eazi, Premiered Dec 20, 2018
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Statistics as of May 25, 2020 at 9:38 AM EDT
total views-3,670,942
total likes-43K
total dislikes- 662
total comments-1,199

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Visitor comments are welcome.

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post provides an excerpt from the discussion thread for the YouTube cartoon (visualizer) version of contemporary Nigerian singer Mr. Eazi's song "Dabebi.

This excerpt is the complete (to date) comment exchange about the languages that are used in contemporary songs from Nigeria or from Ghana.

This post also showcases the official YouTube video and the visualizer (cartoon) video for late 2018 song "Dabebi" by Mr. Eazi featuring Ghanaian singers Mr. Promise and Maleek Berry.

Mr Eazi's music is a blend of Ghanaian Highlife and Nigerian music. That song also features Ghanaian singer Mr. Promise and British Nigerian record producer/recording artist Maleek Berry.

The content of this post is presented for cultural and linguistic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Mr. Eazi, King Promise, and Maleek Beery for their music legacy. Thanks to all those who are associated with this showcase video and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/05/mr-eazi-featuring-mr-promise-and-maleek.html for this closely related pancocojams post entitled "Mr. Eazi featuring Mr. Promise And Maleek Berry - "Dabebi" (official video & cartoon video)."

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SHOWCASE VISUALIZER (CARTOON) VIDEO: Mr Eazi - Dabebi (feat. King Promise & Maleek Berry)



Mr Eazi, Nov 12, 2018
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Statistics as of May 25, 2020 at 6:10 PM EDT
total views-3,781,589 views
total likes-21K
total dislikes- 440
total comments-488

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COMPLETE SUB-THREAD AS OF May 25, 2020) FROM THAT VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
(Numbers are added for referencing purposes only. All of these comments except the last one are from 2019.)

1. Chidimma Justina
"This song is dope !!!🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬😊 , but I want to ask why is it ghanians don’t sing in Nigerian languages 🤔I think , it’s actually a strategy to get Nigerians more Nigerians listening to your music, like a lot of ghanians taught easi was a ghanian wen he started singing 🤔"

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2. Wapdome
"They're doing it buh it ain't working for them"

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3. Clifford Amofah
"@Wapdome lol Ghanaians never sing in niaja language. The twi language is too nice to the ears that's why Nigerians love it. That's why sarkodie doesn't rap in English yet Nigerians love his rap"

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4. Wapdome
"@Clifford Amofah nah... Who Nigerian sing in full Twi?? Bro dey just add Twi words like Odeyewu Odo e.t.c and some Ghanaians also use words like "Oluwa" and Naija Pidgin
Infact Nigerians mainly sing in pidgin cuz we have abt 500+ languages in Nigeria.. So not everyone will understand Yoruba songs or Igbo songs e.t.c.. Pidign is use so dat every Nigerian can Understand the song and able to sing along. If Ghanaian artists use Naija Pidgin and Pidgin pronunciation in their songs, den it means they've used Naija language to sing... Kuami Eugene Kidi dey do these stuff.. Even Kwesi Arthur.. Check their songs and pay attention to it, u go notice am"

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5. Clifford Amofah
"@Wapdome hihihihi you are confused with pidgin bro. most African countries speaks pidgin. If you check the meaning of pidgin you will understand.
We Ghanaians speak pidgin which is very different from Nigerians pidgin. So don't tag all pidgin as niaja pidgin
So if you hear a Kenyan speak pidgin, does it mean it's niaja pidgin?
But I know you won't understand because your elders have made you understand you brought pidgin. That's why I love Nigeria. They claim and own things with force and affirmation not like my country Ghana"

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6. Wapdome
"@Clifford Amofah LMAO Kenyans don't speak Pidgin bro... It's mainly West African Countries dat speak Pidgin.. Goan read about Ghanaian Pidgin Origin.. Na Naija influence Ghanaian Pidgin... Words like Shebi Abi Oya Commot y'all use these days are originated from Nigerian Pidgin

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7. Clifford Amofah
"@Wapdome oh okay I get you. But you should know we don't say oya, shebi in our pidgin. That's purely niaja we have others we say that Nigerians don't even understand.
But see its same way Fela came to Ghana to learn highlife music which influence the Nigerian sound now as #Afrobeat.
Ghana has always been the gateway to Africa bro..lol"

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8. Wapdome
"@Clifford Amofah Fela sound doesn't even inflence Nowadays Naija songs... Dats why the new term us Afrobeats.. Meaning any song coming out from Africa. Only few Naija songs are influenced by Fela which Fela created from Jazz old African Beats American Rock music and Ghana Highlife.. I barely even recognize the highlife sound in Fela Afrobeat sound.. He only sang 1 or 2 Highlife song, not that his sound was mainly inflenced by Highlife.. And besides dat, Highlife genre is a very old Genre of Music, so it shouldn't be a surprise dat people outside Ghana tap from it to create their own Sound. It's called creativity... Now the Afrobeat is even gaining more recognition In and Outside Africa than the Highlife Genre itself"

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REPLY
9. Wapdome
"Now when u see Americans trying to sound African, they prefer tapping from Fela's Afrobeat sound than Ghanaian Highlife sound"

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10. Clifford Amofah
"@Wapdome yeah it is a numbers game music strive on numbers. That's why American musicians are topping chats . If Nigeria is to get strong system where you can only get music from iTunes, Spotify etc. Nija musicians will compete boot to boot with those in Europe and America.
Your population is crazy!! That's why Americans are hearing more of your sounds than ours. But truth be told you know the Ghana sounds can't be touched in Africa bro .it is too rich. Please kindly spent time and listen to sark sarkcess music's Akwaboah, king promise, Kidi, Kumi guitar, kuami Eugene. You know am telling the truth."

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11. Chidimma Justina
"I really love the twi language , the sound is just 🔥and wen sarkodie starts to sing omg 😊I think I would start learning it pls who is teaching me🙈"

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REPLY
12. Chidimma Justina
"Clifford amofah you guys have a very rich sound which is true , but population is not a factor for music popularity if not China would have no competition in the world wen it comes to music , personally I enjoy the way some Nigerians add some ghanian flavor to their songs especially the highlife , now you people have the sound but I have not really like heard any ghanian musician use the high life sound , like the so mi so by wande coal it has the touch of the ghanian high life, why don’t they use the sound , wat am trying to say is , is it that Nigerians know how to use your sounds better or wat

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REPLY
13. Chidimma Justina
"Clifford amofah to me kuami Eugene sounds Nigerian in his songs, for example his song Angela wen I heard it I thought it was lilkesh"

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REPLY
14. Clifford Amofah
"@Chidimma Justina my dear lol its a factor paa. You think Chinese need Americans to love their stuff??? They don't even care! You are on YouTube. Please check their views.. lol Americans don't even come close lol... and they don't care about collaborating with them unlike we Africans."

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REPLY
15. Chidimma Justina
"Clifford amofah of course Chinese would listen to their own music, but you are saying Nigerian population is the reason why their songs are popular, so if Chinese listen to their songs very well why are there songs not popular in the world since their population is 20 countries joined together"

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16. Chidimma Justina
"Being the most populated isn’t a factor but how you push your music and content, a lot of African music have more contents than American music but it now boils down to how the promotion is done"

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REPLY
17. Clifford Amofah
"@Chidimma Justina eeii really lilkesh can't sing like that.. lol his voice .. ahh well that's your view. I thought lilkesh is a rapper o"

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18. Clifford Amofah
"@Chidimma Justina language"

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REPLY
19. Clifford Amofah
"@Chidimma Justina but Nigerians really have to explain why you like sarkodie. Am sure to your ears he is speaking in tongues lol.. yet you love it"

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20. Chidimma Justina
"Clifford amofah yeah he is a rapper but also sings"

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21. Chidimma Justina
"Clifford amofah lol sarkodie’s flow is wat kills everytime he sing

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22. Chidimma Justina
"Clifford amofah lol his flow is wat kills wen he sings and then the sound of the language is beautiful"

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23. All About You
"Chidimma Justina
Listen to kumi guitar's song entitled Betweener and have a feel of some high life... you should try Kurl song's Jennifer lomotey song ft. sarkodie too"

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24. Chidimma Justina
"Shedrack assuakoh thanks dear will listen to it , the vibe will be nice"

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25. All About You
"Chidimma Justina , you can decide to add Akwaboah's love unfair... In fact Akwaboah can make you fall in love simple koraa... you can also try Akwaboah's "I do love you" song.... Thank me later dear"

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26. NA Music
"Wapdome I agree they are similar and some are different."

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27. manuel six, 2020
"Ghanaian (TWI). is one of the most easiest and fastest language to learn read and probably write in Ghana's its easier for foreigners to emulate faster, and it sounds better when its in music too"

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post provides information about contemporary Ghanaian rapper Kofi Kinaata and showcases the official YouTube video of his December 2019 track "Things Fall Apart".

Lyrics for that song in Fante are included in this post along with their English translation.

This post also includes a few comments that explain what this rap track means.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Mr. for his musical legacy. Thanks to all those who are associated with this showcase video and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube.

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INFORMATION ABOUT KOFI KINAATA
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofi_Kinaata
"Martin King Arthur popularly known as Kofi Kinaata is a Ghanaian musician and songwriter from Takoradi.[1] He is noted for his fante rap and freestyle and therefore known as the Fante Rap God (FRG).[2]

In February 2020, he won the Hybrid song of the year at the Ghana National Gospel Music Awards 2019.[3]

Music career
Just after High school, Kofi Kinaata was the 1st runner up for the Melody FM Kasahari Battle in 2009.[6] He is noted for his lyrical dexterity in terms of unique rhyme schemes and humorous Fante rap style with a touch of traditional African proverbs in his local language to entertain and educate morally.[7][8]

Made in Taadi
In December 2015, he released a song "Made in Taadi" which was a jam for most Fante people due to the link to their famous "Ankos" (Fancy dress and Masqueraders Xmas Carnival) annual festival which happens during Christmas.[9]

[...]

Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart, a 2019 release has topped charts across music platforms, including iTunes Ghana Top 100, Audiomack Ghana Top 20 and Boomplay AfroBeats charts for weeks.[22][23][24] The song has been widely played, circulated and shared on both traditional and social media, it has been number 1 on Twitter trends. The song has also been number one on YouTube's Ghana trends with fellow celebrities giving it rave rating: Asamoah Gyan[25], Michael Essien, Kwami Sefa Kai, Phillip Osei Bonsu, Sadick Adams, KiDi, Efya, Berla Mundi, Joe Beecham among others.[26][27][28][29]”...

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Kofi Kinaata - Things Fall Apart (Official Video)



Kofi Kinaata, Dec 6, 2019

Music video by Kofi Kinaata performing 'Things Fall Apart'. Song produced by Two Bars. Video directed by Babs Direction. (C) 2019. Team Move

Video features cameo appearances from Pamela Odame Watara, Dr. Pounds & Jacinta.

Kofi Kinaata, Premiered Dec 6, 2019
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Statistics as of May 26, 2020 at 5:45 PM EDT
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LYRICS - THINGS FALL APART (In Fante and English)
(Kofi Kinaata)

Oh oh aah ooh ah ah Call me Kofi Kinaata
[Verse 1]
Friday chapel all night Saturday na ye wo club no mo
Yɛ le yɛ more things Women, shoker bugu cup no mo
Ade ye ship na ɔde Bible no baa yɛ no
Nkrɔfo sie nara nso di schnapp no bɛ yɛ
Nti girls na wo duro chapel a wo kɔ yɛ no
Bra bɛ hwɛ, wɔn nso a na club no wo kɔ yi

[Chorus]
Nti Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
Bisa wo nua, ne bisa woa so wo ho
Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
Ma Jehovafo no rebaa ne ɛrɛguani
Nti Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
Nae ɛtale obi nu kun dɛ plaster yi
Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
Hwɛ so ma me a ɛleku no agye ne dan yi

[Verse 2]
Me sie atamuda paa…
Ɛda a Nyame bɛba physical
Sɛ won consider pa dia…
Anhwɛ na heaven wɛn ya nipa
Cos, nokware no wɔ hɔ Nso asɔfo yi w’ntumi w’nka
Sikasɛm ne nti chapel ahiafoɔ ntumi w’mba
W’ntumi w’mba oo
Ɛho mpo na ndi the things fall apart
Ɛka a wo sie anointed men touch
Chapel yi w’wɔ schools paa
Nso members yi w’ntumi w’nkɔ bi

[Chorus]
Nti ɛyɛ Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
Bisa wo nua, ne bisa woa so wo ho
Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
W’ma agyanka na asɛm ayɛ mɔbɔ yi
Nti Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
Wo nua fom wo a, atumi fa nkyɛ no yi
Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
Don Nana Amu ade na wo de ahyɛ bitters yi, asey

[Verse 3]
Hwɛboo sofo yegyi woa wo ho
Adi yi a, ɛka yi ɔda woa w’nu
Wo ara hwɛboo na di ye ɔda woa’nu
Hwɛboo sɔfo yegyi woa wo ho
Ɔsie ɔyɛ American ne Muslim, ɔnom bibiabi
Nkurofo w’adi yi ɔda woa w’nu
Hwɛ, ɛhu Christian, ɛhu Muslim, ɛhu nkaefo no Ɛhu sɔfo, ɛhu komfo basaa
Kataasihyɛ, prɔyɛ, bɔ na ɔhyɛ nso wa nyɛ MP wo kurom kwan no nsu tɔ a pakyaa
Obia sie ɔyɛ bad man
Ɛno nti lecturer pɛ sɛ ɔno wo da
Ansaa na wa ma wo pass mark
For money we go shed blood
Nyame bɛ yɛ, ɔbɛ kye, yɛ ntum, yɛ pɛ no fast fast
Nti (so) fast life, fast cars, fast trap pot
Church service hɔ na yɛ hu snap chat calls
31st ɔwo church, ɔdi ne ho a ma Nyame
On the 3rd na w’gye no ho kɔ Trek
Part time Christian, you want fight full time devil
You dey joke

[Chorus]
Nti Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
Nti Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
Nyame som paa na yɛ le som yi a?
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These lyrics were added to that video's discussion thread by AFro.Music.Station, 2020
I added spacing to enhance this comment's readability.

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LYRICS - THINGS FALL APART (in English)
(Kofi Kinaata)

Friday is all night in the chapel
Saturday we all go to the club
We are mixing up the drinks in the glass
Cos the ship that brought the Bible
People say is the same that brought the schnapp
So the girls that attended the church service
Were the same that turned up at the club

Is this Christianity ( true worship )?
Ask your neighbor
And ask yourself as well
Is this Christianity ( true worship )?
When Jehovah's Witnesses appear
You run to hide
Is this Christianity ( true worship )?
Unrepentant side-chick
Is this Christianity ( true worship )?
Tenant trying to usurp a landlord

On judgment day when God appears physically
He would have to lower His standards
Else no soul will make it to heaven
Because the pastors are refusing to preach the truth
The demand for money
Is preventing the poor from attending the church
It's like Things Fall Apart
When you complain they retort
"Don't touch my anointed"
The churches have schools
But the members are unable to afford it

Is this Christianity ( true worship )?
Ask your neighbor
And ask yourself as well
Is this Christianity ( true worship )?
The needy is made miserable
Is this Christianity ( true worship )?
You never forgive your offenders
Is this Christianity ( true worship )?
"Drink but don't get drunk"
You've turned it into bottles full of 'bitters'

Imam stop worrying yourself
The people are still drinking
I have observed that Abu is still boozing
Imam stop worrying yourself
He says he is an American Muslim
So he smokes weed and steals
There is no difference between the Christian and Muslim
Nor the pastor and the traditional priest
It's a total mess
Corruption, decadence, unfulfilled promises
MP the road to your village is un-motorable when it rains
Everyone wants to be bad
So the lecturer wants sexual favours
Before you pass his course
Others shed blood for money
God can help but He is slow; we can't wait
We want it fast-fast
So fast life, fast car, fast track court

In the church we see snapchat gods
31st December she is in church
Dedicating her life to God
3rd January she is back on trek

Part-time christian, you want fight full time devil
You are joking!

Is this Christianity ( true worship )? ........
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This translation was added to that video's discussion thread by Samuel Ofori Kwakye, 2020.

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COMMENTS FROM THIS VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD THAT EXPLAIN THE MEANING OF THIS RAP
(These comments are numbered for referencing purposes only.)

1. Sophy Abrokwa, 2020
"He's basically talking about how hypocritical Christians live, as in the Christians you find at the club are the same ones you find at church. The truth is bare but the pastors are reluctant to talk about it,( in the church )things fall apart, you not allowed to complain cos they claim ' annointed men don't touch'. (Chorus) is this Godly life we living? Ask your brethren and ask yourself.
I hope i added to your ideas😊💕"

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2. DANIEL AWUKU, 2020
"Sometime we only listen to the beat of the song, things fall apart is a song admonishing us to repent from our evil ways. Our actions always keep people away from the truth and one day God will ask us to account for those souls"

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3. RICHIE AGYEMANG, 2020
"Aside the entertainment, this song is a wake up call for everybody. We need to check our lives paaa o. May God have mercy on us all and give us strength to serve Him well!!! God bless you Kinaata"

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4. Adelaide Oforiwaa
"He is telling us about how some Christians live their lives outside church not only Christians though mulisms too...pretending to religious but inside life doing things which are way contrally to the wills of God”
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The line from this rap that a number of commenters quoted is "part time Christians fighting a full time devil".

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