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Living the hiplife : [musical life in the streets of Accra]

"This film is a musical portrait of street life in urban West Africa. It follows the birth of Hiplife music in Accra, Ghana, a mix of various African musical forms and American hip hop. Archival footage and hip hop music videos are remixed with interviews and the daily lives of rap artists. We follow Reggie Rockstone, the Godfather of Hiplife in the founding of the musical movement, as well as the Mobile Boys a group of aspiring rap artists as they try to make it in the music business. With humor and personality these characters move across the political and musical landscape of urban Ghana."--Container.

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  • "Living the hip life"
  • "Living the hip life"@en
  • "Musical life in the streets of Accra"@en

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  • ""This film is a musical portrait of street life in urban West Africa. It follows the birth of Hiplife music in Accra, Ghana, a mix of various African musical forms and American hip hop. Archival footage and hip hop music videos are remixed with interviews and the daily lives of rap artists. We follow Reggie Rockstone, the Godfather of Hiplife in the founding of the musical movement, as well as the Mobile Boys a group of aspiring rap artists as they try to make it in the music business. With humor and personality these characters move across the political and musical landscape of urban Ghana."--Container."@en
  • ""A musical portrait of street life in urban West Africa. [The film] follows the birth of Hiplife music in Accra, Ghana, a mix of various African musical forms and American hip-hop. Archival footage and hip-hop music videos are remixed with interviews and the daily lives of rap artists. We follow Reginald "Reggie Rockstone" Ossei (the Godfather of Hiplife) in the founding of the musical movement, as well as the Mobile Boys (a group of aspiring rap artists), as they try to make it in the music business" -- Publishers' website."
  • ""Follows rap musician Reggie Rockstone, known as the "Godfather of Hiplife" as he tries to build hip hop culture in Ghana ... Rockstone's story is intercut with the trials of the Mobile Boys, a young group of aspiring rappers, as they work to make it in the music industry"--Livingthehiplife.com"

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  • "Nonfiction films"
  • "Music"
  • "Feature films"
  • "Documentary films"

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  • "Living the hiplife"