Here is a great track from BNP entitled "Yow milédal." (on top of Luniz's "I Got Five on it" beat). BNP is a hip hop act from Dakar, Senegal. Check out the note that my dude Ghislain wrote about the track:
I was in Burkina Faso in 1998. On my way back to Montreal in January 1999, I had a 12 hours transit via Dakar to take the plane Dakar-NYC. Yes, at that time there was a direct flight Dakar-NYC with Air Afrique.
During my 12 hours transit, all Senegal was celebrating because the Ramadan just finished and it was the first real big meal ! I had the chance to go downtown Dakar and driving a car for the first time in Africa (nice experience) to chase some African Hip-Hop cassettes that I wasn’t able to find in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). On the many cassettes that I bought that day there was Senerap Freestyle 1 (1997) and Senerap Freestyle 2 (1998).
Still today, I love these cassettes and I finally did a cassette rescue and digitalized them. BNP "Yow milédal" is taken from Senerap Freestyle 1.
peace,
ghislain
Mp3: BNP - "Yow milédal"
Thanks for the link Mr. Poirier.
Edit: Sorry I was confusing Darfur and Dakar. Sorry about the confusion. Dakar is very much different than Darfur. Thanks to Ghis and reader "H" for the heads up.
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Good track, but Dakar isn't exactly war-torn. There is a low-level and long-standing conflict in the South of the country, but Dakar (and Senegal overall) is relatively peaceful. Africa isn't all about bad news!
Yeah sorry bout that. My mistake. I was getting DAKAR and DAFUR mixed up for some reason. Feel like a fool given that I love geography. It was the 13 hour work day yesterday that had my mind all fuzzy. Thanks for the heads up.
Also, just as an FYI, it's Darfur, not Dafur!
thx silk...i had all sorts of problems with this post ;)
Don't they have an auto race in Dakar?
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