And she does each one justice and then some. On Fountain Baby, the artist’s sophomore album, the multi-hyphenate (who has a production credit on every track) mashes and jumps between the genres of each of her hometowns: the afrobeat of Ghana, the somewhat off-kilter hip-hop of Atlanta, and even the emo that defined New Jersey and the tri-state area in the early 2010’s. ![]() 2/ “Counterfeit” by AmaaraeĪmaarae grew up between Ghana, New Jersey, and Atlanta. “Who told you bad mon don’t dance?” he prods, antagonising the lasting try-hard tough rappers with a breezy afrobeats production that begs for a dance. In 1996, Ice Cube’s rap supergroup Westside Connection declared “Gangstas don’t dance we boogie.” The sentiment became a mainstay in the culture, with rappers insisting as such up to the present day.
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