Adult Swim & Far Cry 2 | African Swim
October 31st, 2008
Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim has released online a FREE collection of rap tunes from MC’s & Hip Hop groups from throughout Africa called “African Swim” as promo for the new game Farcry2.
Indeed they deserve props for introducing this collection those who may have never heard African Rap/Hip Hop before but personally I feel this collection is a little weak. With 15 tunes on “African Swim” I only was feelin 8 of them…
We Are On Fire - Da L.E.S.
The Place I’m From - Rusty Dusty
Zingu 7- Zola
Organic Boom Bap - Etc.
Dangerous - Maggz
Bring it On -Cook
Kufa - Mapaputsi
Muthaland - Jozi
If you into the hipster type rap then you might digg more of joints than I did. Most of the tunes are in english but some are in African languages. Still it’s a nice little mix of what going with Rap in other parts of the world. I just wished they included more underground Hip Hop sounding tunes.
I didn’t upload any songs from the album because you can listen to all them on site….go to the site to hear and/or download the album.
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Dope Post, Its nice to see Adult Swim thinking outside of the Box. HipHop is a global movement, and is culturally significant throughout Africa. Thanks for posting.
Comment by Salim — November 1, 2008 @ 10:26 pm