TOP 10 GH RAP SONGS OF THIS GENERATION

By: Zaidu Hashim 

10 GR8 GH RAP SONGS OF THIS GENERATION

10. TEEPHLOW- PREACH; what do you need in a good rap song? Is it punchlines, wordplay, catchy beat or food for thought? You can find all of em in this sermon. It’s rumored to be response to strongman. ‘They go call you honey but when things start dey bee they go sting you’. It’s a brag song, a rap song, a nice song, you for go get it.

9. EL- MY GUY; ‘you dey national T then conference center bill my guy, you call yourself a superstar but you for chill my guy, Africa sef be 1 percent for global scale my guy, you for decide but e be like you make your mind my guy’. El takes the agama lizards hyping demma body down memory lane. He advocates that the true definition of superstardom is not the local hype. This slow hiplife songs comes of his BAR. Just like he still is, he fails to disappoint. One of the most underrated MCs in Africa.

8. M.ANIFEST- BLUES; Hip hop in Ghana is not complete if you don’t mention the godMc. Blues comes in three verses. He speaks about life uptee, how things have changed in Ghana since he left among others. A smooth melody of blues, hip hop and highlife, blues is one of his greatest masterpiece among his long list of wonderful music.

7. PAEDAE (OMAR STERLING) - TEMA MOTORWAY FREESTYLE ft. EFYA; I don’t need to talk much about this. Arguably, the most lyrically acclaimed rapper in Ghana. One half of the successful R2bees, Omar Sterling decides to rip the mic with punches and leaves it for Efya to sooth with her Barbie voice. ‘So tell my step mom that I’m coming back home, prodigal son’.   This jam speaks for itself, go copy!

6. EL- CHOSEN ONE- ft. M.ANIFET, D BLACK AND SARKODIE; it’ll be a long time before we see another combination like this, another song like this or even another generation like that. It wasn’t a competition, but if it was, they all won. None of dem kings failed in this fire of a track. Unique punches from your normal everyday rap song. ‘I no even dey the palace but they hand me the crown’. So fellow MCs if you sleeping, please wake up.

5. SARKODIE- LAY AWAY ft. SWAY; remember the time when Sarkodie would twist until you wanted him to start all over again so that the fun wouldn’t stop? Great times right? Sarkodie didn’t get to where he is today by eating cream crackers and being lazy. At the peak of his career, this song will show you how Sark claimed his crown. Africa rap king, the greatest, the highest, these are some of the words you’ll be mumbling whilst listening to this piece. Prove me wrong!

4. FOKN BOIS- BRKN LNGWJZ (Broken Languages); this song is not for your normal teenager born in the 2000s. Let’s forget the outstanding punches, rhymes or comedy in this hip life song, Wanlov and M3nsa sends you back in time when you were growing up. It shows how nasty we all are. Everyone can relate to this song. It takes only a great mind or a crazy one to think of a concept like this.

3. EL- SAA NA TI3 ft. SHAKER; before you go get to your destination my paddy you for start for some place oo. This is the simple message EL is trying to put across in this masterpiece also form BAR. He start from the beginning after graduating with a good class then later quitting his job to pursue his career in music. He mentions some of the people who motivated him and talks about the time he was just a pawn in the game. We have people who can flow, we have lyricist, but when it comes to storytelling, you’re looking at him.    

2. M.ANIFEST- GODMC; one of the most controversial song in the history of Ghanaian music. A song so good that it has its own Wikipedia page. The most talked about song in our list. It caused the third world war as Ghanaians where forced to choose between him and king Sark. A diss song to Sark, it was however replied with kanta. GodMc got people looking into dictionaries and looking for books on Greek mythology. Any further information on this song would be a ……

1.     SARKODIE- ORIGINAL; there are rap songs and there’s original. This was an intermission to a successful career journey. When you hear the beat, you stand to listen to the whole song. Whether you speak Twi or not, whether you like Sark or not, whether you listen to rap or not, this song will get you to stand up and get your groove on. The Waala people of Wa, northern Ghana have a popular proverb that, ‘if you hate a monkey, don’t say it has horns’. There are something you can’t hate, this is one of them.   

Honorable mentions;

Teephlow- state of the art

Joey B- 89

 C-Real - Game Of Life

Trigmatic- Life