PURE AFRICAN RAPS THE MIX-TAPE COMING TO YOU SOOOOON!!!

IN THE MEANTIME CHECK OUT www.youtube.com/africanraps TO VIEW THE INTERVIEWS AND THE HOT 16 BUZZ... IT'S BEEN A LONG JOURNEY BUT ONE WE ENJOY WALKING WITH ALL OF YOU. THE JOURNEY IS NOT OVER YET AS READY TO ROUND THE LAST FEW RECORDINGS SO YOU CAN GET THE PRODUCT SOON. ONCE AGAIN BIG UP TO EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE PROJECT AND THOSE WHO ARE STILL TO CONTRIBUTE.... YA'L ARE LEGENDS IN MY BOOK...

RHYTHM AND POETRY: PRODUCED BY BLAQ FAITH

THIS COLLABORATION HAS BEEN IN MANY PEOPLES MINDS FOR A WHILE. FROM BACK IN THE SESSION DAYS MOST PEOPLE WOULD APPROACH ME ON SOME “YOU AND BLAQFAITH”… “THAT WOULD BE A SICK COLLABO”. IT TOOK TIME TO HAPPEN AND I’M GLAD IT FINALLY DID AND WHAT A PERFECT VISION THEY HAD JUDGING BY THE END PRODUCT, TOO SICK. BLAQFAITH INSPIRES ME A LOT, ESPECIALY WHEN IT COMES TO RIPPING FREESTYLES, I MEAN REAL TIME FREESTYLES NOT WRITTEN FREESTYLES AND WHEN I HAD HIM IN STUDIO GOING THROUGH HIS BEATS WHICH ARE CLASSICAL IF I HAVE TO SAY, THIS ONE BEAT JUST CAPTURED THE BOTH OF US AND GOT US THINKING ON THE SAME FREQUENCY… LOVE THE TRACK, WE GOING BACK TO BASICS ON THIS ONE, NOTHING FANCY, JUST THE RHYTHM AND POETRY!!!

BLAQFAITH INTERVIEW

CYRUS: WHO YO IS? AND WHERE YOU FROM?

BLAQFAITH: I’M BLAQ FAITH, REPRESENTING UNFAMILIAR SYSTEMS. I’M FROM ROCKVILLE.

CYRUS: I KNEW YOU FROM THE CYPHERS SO WHATS THE MOVEMENT NOW?

BLAQFAITH: THE MOVEMENT IS PRETTY INTACT RIGHT NOW, BEING THAT MOST CATS ARE STARTING TO EMERGE AND REALESING THEIR MIX-TAPES. EVERYBODY IS ON THE MOVE RIGHT NOW SO THAT’S ONE OF THE BIGGEST HIGHLIGHTS WITH HIP HOP RIGHT NOW IN S.A CAUSE CATS ARE JUST PUSHING THEIR WORK.

CYRUS: SO WHAT ARE YOU INVOLVED IN, IN THAT PART OF WORK?

BLAQFAIH: I’M A PRODUCER, I’M AN MC, I’M A MUSIC COLLECTOR YOU KNOW CRATE DIGGING. I’VE BEEN WORKING ON A LOT OF PROJECTS. I WORKED ON THE UNFAMILIAR SYSTEMS, I DID J.LOVE, WAR BANDIT… A LOT OF MC’S BEEN JUST COMING TO STUDIO, I’M INSTUDIO RIGHT NOW.

CYRUS: ANYTHING WE CAN LOOK OUT FROM YOU (PROJECT)?

BLAQFAITH: I’M ACTUALY WORKING ON MY FIRST SOLO MIX-TAPE; IT SHOULD BE DROPPING BY NOVEMBER, DECEMBER. I’M LOOKING AT WORKING WITH A LIVE BAND.

CYRUS: HOW DID YOU FALL INLOVE WITH HIP HOP?

BLAQFAIH: IT WAS IN 2001, AND JUST GROWING IT WAS’NT ABOUT THE LOVE I JUST WANTED TO RAP, BUT WHEN I GREW UP I STARTED LEARNING MORE AND REALISED THIS COULD ACTUALY HELP ME TELL MY STORIES OUT THERE AND STARTED TAKING IT SERIOUS…

CYRUS: SO WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND YOUR MUSIC?

BLAQFAITH: CHECKOUT www.soundcloud.com/blaqfaith

TO VIEW MORE AND THE 16 BUZZ FOLLOW THE PURE AFRICAN RAPS, VISIT WWW.YOUTUBE .COM/AFRICANRAPS.

 

FASHION & STYLE AVENUE: Being, Living & Loving Fashion

MY PASSION FOR FASHION

My passion for fashion started way back in the day, I think I was about 10 years of age. Of-course I wasn’t as clued up about fashion as I am now, but I remember having this edge of changing some of my clothes into what I might like though unfortunately I couldn’t even come up with the actual idea at the time...then 1 day, we were at school and I noticed a very beautiful beaded ring that my friend had on, I asked her where she bought it and to my surprise she had designed and created it herself, we made an appointment to meet over at her house the following weekend, I got there very early Saturday morning...ready and fiery for my first designing class ever .I got to say, life was never the same from that day onwards, now I knew I could do it. From simple beaded rings, I started designing them giving them a few extra touches of my own, mixing colours and jinxing them around...then eventually bracelets, neck-pieces and earrings, now I was a jewellery designer. I remember how proud my mother was, she owned a couple of them. She would always parade the new ones to her friends and colleagues. That’s how I got inspired and motivated to want to learn more about fashion as an art so that I’d be able to offer more.

So for me, being a fashionista is not all about dressing up and looking fabulous...it’s mainly about sharing beautiful creations with the people, celebrating excellence and our existence as people.

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FASHION & STYLE AVENUE: Being, living and loving fashion.

 HEALTHY YOU!!!

Literally hot tip…

I know most of us when we hear the word aging blood starts rushing, some of us don’t even want to think about it…but really I don’t think the fear here has anything to do with actually being or getting older, the scary thing is looking and feeling old, yes! I know the thought of looking myself on the mirror and not seeing what I like, or waking up every morning feeling like a tea bag scares me off my fabulous boots…but apparently there’s like a thousand ways to avoid this, regular exercise, drinking enough water being the primary ones. But this week I want us to look at this one that seems to be surrounded by a lot of controversy…the sun. Spending a few minutes of your time in the sun daily, rejuvenates skin, revives your energy, strengthens and grows your hair giving you your youth forever. Our very own daily rising sun is the perfect solution to anti-aging. Isn’t life truly fabulous!!!!

‘IM GONE’: INTERNATIONAL BEAT

ONE THING I LOVE ABOUT THIS TRACK IS THAT THE CONCEPT IS OFF THE WALL WE JUST FOLLOWED THE SAMPLE ON THE BEAT AND IT WAS FUN. WHATS MORE FUNNY IS WORKING WITH THE NEW GENERATION OF RAPPERS, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN IDEAS OF HOW THEY WANT TO SOUND LIKE BECAUSE THE FUNNY PART IS THAT I HAD A DIFFERENT BEAT FOR THEM AND A CONCEPT FOR THEM BUT THEY WERE LIKE NO WE WANT TO START FROM THE SCRATCH, GET A BEAT WE FEEL WE FIT IN, AND IWAS LIKE WHAT!!! THEY GOT THE BEAT AND ITS THANKS TO THEM THAT THE TRACK IS SOUNDING SUPER DOPE. WHO AM I TALKING ABOUT, FIZZY FIZZ AND P.SMAX, TWO OF THE DOPEST YOUNG LYRICISTS TO COME UP. I ENJOYED WORKING WITH THEM AND THEY GOT SO MUCH CONFIDENCE THAT WAS MY REMINDER FROM THEM, TO BELIEVE LIKE YOU’VE NEVER FAILED BEFORE. BIG UP TO THEM…  

P.SMAX & FIZZY FIZZ INTERVIEWS

CYRUS: WHO YOU BE AND WHERE YOU FROM?

P.SMAX: P.SMAX AND IM FROM MEADOWLANDS.

CYRUS: DO YOU HAVE A CREW?

P.SMAX: YEAH, BUT NOW WE JUST BOYS USED TO BE STREET KOS.

CYRUS: SO WHAT ARE YOU BUSY WITH?

P.SMAX: WE WORKING ON A MIX-TAPE, THE LATTEST STUFF WE WORKING ON.

CYRUS: IS IT NEW SCHOOL, LOL?

P.SMAX: WELL ITS INFLUENCED BY OLD SCHOOL BUT ITS NEW SCHOOL, WE TYRING TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT’S DIFFERENT.

CYRUS: HOW DID YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH HIP HOP?

P.SMAX: IT WAS TH BEST THING, IN 2004, I BOUGHT THE NAS ALBUM ‘THE GOD’S SON’ BECAUSE I HAD EXTRA CASH AND JUST GOT HOOKED. THEN IN 2005, I GOT THE ALBUM ‘THE REAL O’CYRUS’, AND THAT ALSO PLAYED A ROLE IN INSPIRING ME.

CYRUS: WHERE CAN WE FIND YOU?

P.SMAX: WELL FOR NOW TEAM EFFORTS GOT MY BACK, PERSONALLY IM STILL WORKING ON HOOKING THAT UP.

CYRUS: WHO YOU BE AND WHERE YOU FROM?

FIZZ: YHO YHO I GO BY THE NAME FIZZY FIZZ, ILLMATIC FIZZ AND I COME STRAIGHT FROM MEADOWLANDS.

CYRUS: DO YOU GOT A CREW?

FIZZ: IM A FORMER MEMBER OF STREET KOS BUT NOW I JUST REPRESENT MYSELF.

CYRUS: SO WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON AT THE MOMENT?

FIZZ: IM WORKING ON A MIX-TAPE WITH MY BOY P.SMAX, LOOK OUT FOR IT ON THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER. ITS COMING DOPE THE RECORDINGS ARE PROFESSIONAL, WE LOVING IT.

CYRUS: SO WHAT MADE YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH HIP HOP?

FIZZ: ONESS, SPIRITUALNESS LIKE FROM THE OLD SCHOOL MUSIC, YOUR DIANA ROSS AND ALL THOSE TYPES. WHEN IT CAME TO THE STREETS IT WAS LIKE UNITED AND EVERYONE COULD EXPRESS THEMSELVES FREELY.

CYRUS: WHEN WAS THAT?

FIZZ: IN THE NINETIES, THAT’S WHEN STARTED LISTENING BUT I DIDN’T RAP THEN, LATER I PICKED UP THE SKILL TO RAP AND EXPRESS MYSELF, BATTLING.

CYRUS: WHERE CAN THE PEOPLE FIND YOU?

FIZZ: YOU CAN FIND ME ON MIXIT THAT’S MY CHATROOM, ON THE STREETS OR ON YOUTUBE.COM/AFRICANRAPS.

KNOWLEDGE REIGNS SUPREME: RESPONSIBILITY ( HAILE SELASIE)

Responsibility

It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many.

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.

As generations come and go, those assuming responsibility for the period do not cease to try and improve on the past in order to meet newly arising demands. In this respect, it is quite evident that to march with the time members of the coming generation should build on what their forefathers have bequeathed to them.

It is because the present generation is cherishing and keeping intact what it has received from the past that it has succeeded in attaining its present stage of development, by making the necessary changes and improvements called for by conditions now existing. This would require great foresight and the-work accomplished as far as regards to this task of great responsibility is no small matter. It has been fulfilled as a result of God's blessing and His Divine guidance.

It is both the responsibility of the governor as well as elders to create harmony among the people in initiating them to discuss their common problems and work towards the problems and the betterment of their standard of living.

It is the duty of teachers to direct the thought and outlook as well as mould the character of their students. For this reason, the responsibility of teachers in training student-teachers aimed at the future progress and development of our country and the proper upbringing of students, could hardly be underestimated.

In the age in which we are living especially when different philosophies of life are competing against another, the responsibility of teachers has been even more exacting. Those who will be serving the people in future should follow this same path in endeavouring to develop their country and maintain her freedom. This is one of the main responsibilities of teachers.

In this age when man, through his knowledge of science, has created dangerous weapons to destroy himself the responsibility of the great powers for the maintenance of world peace is well known to everyone. We believe that the exchange of visits by statesmen to talk over matters on which their points of view will greatly help remove the misunderstandings and mistrust prevailing among States.

KNOWLEDGE REIGNS SUPREME: SELF HELP ( HAILE SELASIE)

Self Help

The people themselves must come to realize their own difficulties in the development of their community and try to solve them by collective participation following an order of priority and taking their potentiality into account.

It is well known to you all that recognizing one's problems and striving hard to challenge them is a mark of an attempt at self-sufficiency. Self help in the benefits to be acquired through education, will save the individual from asking someone's assistance.

DEVELOPMENT

Although the beginnings of civilization of each country vary in time, the fundamental factors which gave impetus to each country to awaken and embark on the road to progress to reach their present level of development, are those qualities which are enshrined in the nature of man, namely desire and fortitude.

The partner who places his own short-range ambitions ahead of the long-range interests of the partnership has embarked on a course which will ultimately result in the dissolution of the partnership itself.

It is by the understanding of past difficulties that we can bequeath fundamental guidance which would be of pride to the coming generations we therefore urge our people to struggle and to make sacrifices for those things which will enable them to ameliorate their conditions of life and leave a richer heritage.

Economic Development

Where enterprise and initiative are not lacking, the pace at which the growth of a country's economy normally proceeds can be quickened or slackened by global developments far or near. In our effort to raise the living Standard of our beloved people, in our endeavour to bring prosperity to our country, the feeling of cooperation and understanding has always characterized our people.

A special case is the recent development in certain provinces where the people are seen voluntarily raising funds to build schools, clinics, roads and similar other projects. What can give one more pleasure than to see such a measure of self-help in one's life time, for the prosperity and progress of his own country? Let every citizen of our empire strive hard to strengthen this espirit de corps everywhere.

We entrust the spirit of good-will to our people to work diligently and cooperatively in order to arrive at the realization of this socioeconomic development that has been launched by either our government or our people. You have a rich land that yields a variety of products, do not be contented with the satisfaction of your bare needs but instead, cultivate your land among others with oleogenous plants, the seeds of which you can export for your greater benefit. Use the forest woods to make furniture and implements and exchange them for money. Your workmanship will be a monument to your name.

One should realize that thriftiness is the basis for the accumulation of wealth and the economic growth of a nation. One seldom minimizes the value of money earned by the sweat of the brow however small it may be, but for the extravagant even a huge amount of money is worthless.

The co-operative movement has long been known throughout the world, and we Ourself have on numerous occasions urged Our people to join increasingly in cooperative enterprises.

Co-operatives must, ultimately, play a highly important role in the growth of our economy, and no time can be lost in availing ourselves of the benefits to be derived from therm During the past year, we decided upon a programme designed to provide specific encouragement to the creation of agricultural co-operatives, and a number of Government-sponsored co-operatives, farms have been established by Our Ministry of National Community Development. We have provided lands, agricultural machinery and expert assistance to these farms and we entertain high hopes that their success will spur Our people to embark increasingly upon co-operative endeavours. Should Our people fail to avail themselves of this opportunity, the consequences will be regrettable indeed.

Community Development

The fundamental purpose of a community development movement is to teach the rural people of Our Empire that through cooperative self-help and a united approach to common problems, the vast potential for their own self-improvement which they themselves represent, can be translated into effective programmes which can do much to improve their standard of living.

Social Development

Lasting progress can only be built on deep and enduring foundations. When a solid foundation is laid, if the mason is able and his materials good, a strong house can be built.

To develop oneself, one has to develop one's own initiative and perseverance - a man has to strive in order to grow. Let us work out our own programmes in all fields - political, economic, social and military. Man's contributions which live to influence the life and progress of posterity, are the most permanent monuments that can ever be created. We must become increasingly willing to analyze our efforts, to experiment, to admit our failures as we take pride in our successes.

KNOWLEDGE REIGNS SUPREME: WORK ( HAILE SELASIE)

Work

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily.

Once a person has decided upon his life work and is assured that in doing the work for which he is best endowed and equipped, he is filling a vital need, what he then needs, is faith and integrity, compiled with courageous spirit so that no longer preferring himself to the fulfilment of his task, he may address himself to the problems he must solve in order to be effective.

Rich and poor have always existed and always will. Why? Because there are those that work and those that don't, those that wish to earn their living and those that prefer to do nothing. Those that work, that want to work, are not poor. For it is true that Our Lord the Creator sends us into the world as equals, but it is also true that when one is born one is neither rich nor poor. One is naked. It is later on that one becomes rich or poor, according to one's desserts.

Yes, we too are aware that giving alms serves no useful purpose. For there is only one means to solve the poverty problem. work.

We have said that whoever doesn't work because he doesn't want to is poor. We have said that wealth has to be gained through hard work. We have said those who don't work starve. And now we add that the capacity to earn depends on the individual: Each individual is responsible for his misfortunes, his fate. It is wrong to expect help to fall from above, as a gift: Wealth has to be deserved. Work is one of the commandment of Our Lord the Creator!

If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us.

It is not sufficient simply to see and admire the natural beauty and fertility of Ethiopia.

It is our obligation to work upon and benefit from this country whose fertile soil has been granted us by the Almighty God. We have to gain honour and pride for the country.

Whatever the task may be, man may begin it but he cannot complete it, unless God sustains and supports him. If he fails to accomplish the task on which he has set out, having worked to the best of his ability, he is not to be maligned by being called lazy.

CNYX INTERVIEW

CYRUS: WHO YOU BE? AND WHERE YOU FROM?

CNYX: NAME IS CNYX A, AND NOW IM IN MEADOWLANDS.

CYRUS: SO WHAT ARE YOU BUSY WITH

CNYX: IM WORKING ON AN ALBUM TITLED “AFTER THE FLOOD” WITH PYSKEY AT THE SAME TIME WE BUSY EITH OUR SOLO PROJECTS. WE BUSY WITH VERBAL ACROBATS AND PUSHING THE PREVIOUS ONES.

CYRUS: ANY PREVIOUS PROJECT WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT?

CNYX: POETRY MUSEUM IS A JOINT I DID IN 2008, IT HAS 16 TRACKS.

CYRUS: HOW DID YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH HIP HOP.

CNYX: YEAH MAN, THRUOGH INFLUENCES AT DIFFERENT TIMES. THE FIRST TIME WAS IN 95/96 THAT WAS THEN I GOT INTRODUCED… IT WAS TOO REAL.

CYRUS: WHERE CAN PEOPLE GET YOUR MUSIC?

CNYX: POETRY MUSEUM IS OUT AND AVAILABLE AT STREET HAWKER CONCEPT STORES.

CYRUS: THANK YOU MA MANS FOR THE BLESSED TIMES YOU PUT IN THIS WE ALL INSPIRE ONE ANOTHER…

‘STREET SOLDIER’: INTERNATIONAL BEAT

ON THIS TRACK I DECIDED TO TAKE AN INTERNATIONAL BEAT, AS SOON AS I HEARD THAT BEAT I FLIPPED, THE HOOK CAME FIRST AND THE VERSE FOLLOWED AND FELL IN TO PLACE. I NEEDED ANOTHER RAW ELEMENT TO COMPLIMENT THE MILITANT FEEL THAT WAS SO DOMINANT ON THE TRACK AND CNYX DID JUST THAT. CNYX LACED THE FIRST VERSE AND I DID THE SECOND, MAD TRACK. CNYX IS ONE TALENTED MC, THE BEAT WAS A CHALLENGE BECAUSE IT’S A NEW SCHOOL BEAT BUT HE MURDERED IT LIKE IT WAS HIS OWN. THE SONG IS A BANGER, YOU CAN’T KEEP STILL WHILE BUMPING THE JOINT AND THE CONCEPT IS JUST WHAT IT IS "STREET SOLDIER" BUT NOT AS SHALLOW AS IT SEEMS. IF YOU ARE A HARDCORE HIP HOP FANATIC THIS TRACK IS DEFINITELY YOURS AND FOR EVERYONE WHO APPRECIATES GOOD LYRICS. BIG UP TO MY PEOPLE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE TRACK FROM THE ENGINEER TO THE BEAT MAKER AND MY NINJA CNYX, HMMMM! YOU JUST HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE TRACK TO KNOW WHAT I MEAN!!!!!

‘STREET SYMPHONIES’: PRODUCED BY JFX(AMSTERDAM)

I WOULD LOVE TO WELCOME YOU FIRST  TO MY DOCUMENTATION  OF THE ‘PURE AFRICAN RAPS’, I HOPE YOU WILL GET AS MUCH AS I GOT OUT OF THIS EXPERIENCE. THE CONCEPT PURE AFRICAN RAPS IS A CONCEPT MEANT TO EMBRACE AFRICAN LYRICISM.

THIS TRACK I MUST CONFESS WAS MOST CHALLENGING IN THE WHOLE MIXED TAPE. I GOT THE BEAT FROM MA NINJA JFX WHOM I THINK IS ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED BEAT MAKERS, HE HAS TWO BEATS ON THE MIX-TAPE ‘STREET SYMPHONIES’ FEATURIN EMPRESS D’VINE AND BIG MIKE AND ‘1852( I LOVE MA GHETTO) OF WHICH THE FEATURES ARE STILL PENDING. AFTER MONTHS WRESTLING FOR A CONCEPT THAT COMPLIMENT THIS DOPE BEAT, IT FINALLY CAME TO ME AND THE RESULT IS THIS TRACK I’M DOING WITH EMPRESS D’VINE AND BIG MIKE TWO OF THE DOPEST LYRICISTS IN AFRICA. I COUNT MYSELF BLESSED TO HAVE WORKED WITH SUCH GREAT TALENT. THE TRACK IS MORE OR LESS ABOUT THE CHALLENGES WE MEET ON OUR TRAVELLS ON THE STREETS. IM LOVING THE END PRODUCT AND I HOPE THE FEELING WILL BE MUTUAL ONCE YOU LISTEN TO THE SONG. BIG UP TO EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE SONG AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST THE X-GENERATION FAM….  

BIG MIKE INTERVIEW

CYRUS: WHO YOU ARE? AND WHERE YOU FROM?

BIG MIKE: I’M FROM THE 1852 AND MY NAME IS BIG MIKE.

CYRUS: BIG MIKE IN THE HOUSE LEGENDARY, SO TELL THEM WHAT YOU BUSY WITH?

BIG MIKE: WELL BASICALY I WORKED ON A COUPLE OF ALBUMS, MAINLY ON THE “WORDSMITH”, WHICH IS ME AND O.B.K AND THE CREW IS CALLED MAGIC MUSIC. RIGHT NOW IM WORKING ON A SOLO PROJECT AND SOME FEATURES, ILL BE FEATURING CATS LIKE IS AND DARK SPARK USUALLY ON PRODUCTIONS. ALSO WORKING WITH STICK UP KIDS, DEVIOUS D, EXPRESSIONS, ETC. GOT A LOT OF EVENTS COMING THROUGH, PRFOMANCE AND RELEASING A BEATTAPE.

CYRUS: SEEMS LIKE THERES A LOT, SO HOW IS THE PRODUCING SIDE?

BIG MIKE: IVE BEEN WORKING ON PRODUCTIONS FOR TWELVE YEARS AND IVE BEEN RAPPING FOR NINETEEN YEARS SO ITS SOUNDING GOOD. WHEN YOU WORK WITH ME THERE IS A LOT OF EXPERIENCE I CAN WORK WITH ANY ARTIST FROM JIGGY TO THE UNDERGROUND.

CYRUS: SO HOW DID YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH HIP HOP?

BIG MIKE: WELL I WAS FORCED IN TO HIP HOP IN A WAY, I DIDN’T PERSONALLY DECIDE. I USED TO GO TO CHURCH WHEN I WAS 8 YEARS AND SOMEBODY THOUGHT I HAD A BETTER VOICE FOR RAPPING THAN SINGING, SO THEY STARTED WRITING SCRIPTS FOR ME AND LIKE ANY OTHER ARTIST I WOULD FIX THAT UP AND MAKE THEM MINE, PUT MY FLOW ON. I KEPT ON DOING THAT AND EVOLVING WITH THE ELLEMENTS BECAUSE I DID A BIT OF GRAPH, DJ, A BIT OF B BOY SO I CAN SAY I AM HIP HOP.

CYRUS: WHEN CAN PEOPLE GO TO FIND THE MUSIC?

BIG MIKE: THEY CAN GO TO MY BLOGS, GOOGLE BIG MIKE OR MAGIC MUSIC OR EXPRESSIONS AND FOLLOW THE LINKS.

TO VIEW MORE AND THE 16 BUZZ FOLLOW THE PURE AFRICAN RAPS, VISIT WWW.YOUTUBE .COM/AFRICANRAPS