Dakar based musicians deliver the week’s stories in verse on Journal Tele Rappe
News Rapper (Photo: DC/File)
Dakar:If there is an afterlife for news anchors, Walter Cronkite may well be reaching for his ear muffs and a calming celestial gin and tonic. For five years after the celebrated US broadcaster’s death, two Senegalese hip hop artists are taking affairs in a brash new direction by rapping the news.
Dakar based musicians Xuman and Keyti deliver the week’s domestic and global stories in verse on Journal Tele Rappe to a television and YouTube audience. “It’s the news except that it’s rapping, there is humour in it. We don’t just give the news, we cover positions which are highly subjective, and the public consensus too,” says Keyti, whose real name is Cheikh Sene.
( Source : agencies )
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