daara j, positive black soul and pee frois form the triumvirate at the top of senegalese hiphop. daara j is blowing up with their new release "boomrang". they were featured on this morning's leonard lopate show on wnyc [http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/03172005]. for the hipsters among you, there is a podcast of the live performance and interview as well (link on the site). boomrang: "rap music was born in africa and only traveled to america during the slavery era to grow up here to go around the world and to come back to africa".
related: "african underground vol. 1: hiphop senegalese" release party this Saturday March 19th at Nublu 62 Ave C in NYCs Lower East Side. details here [http://www.senerap.com/Article265.htm] kofia tip, flavorpill
Posted by kamau at March 17, 2005 10:25 PM