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"Best I Can ft. Corneille" from Native Sun
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"Dear Africa ft. Les Nubians" from Native Sun
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Blogroll: Love some funky African hip-hop? Get Blitz the Ambassador's 'Native Sun' today!

“Native Sun” is one of the most organic marriages of African music and hip-hop we’ve heard -- an effortless release that incorporates Afrobeat, highlife and kora music into old-school hip-hop. It’s a warm and danceable record with a social conscience, and it speaks to anybody who’s lived between two cultures -- as more and more of us do." - Youtube

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Read the review - Ghana's Blitz the Ambassador rides his vim onto the international stage

May 3rd marked the release of Native Sun, the most ambitious release from Ghanaian-born, Brooklyn-based emcee, bandleader and composer, Blitz the Ambassador. Native Sun unfolds from a kaleidoscope of perspectives, with help from a Rwandan sweet soul singer (Corneille on the track “Best I Can”), from sleek Francophone sirens (Les Nubians on “Dear Africa”), from buzzworthy Canadian-based/Rwandan-born rapper (Shad on "Native Sun") and from bold Congolese and Brazilian samba-loving MCs (Baloji and BNegão on “Wahala”). Blitz even got a boost—including an invite to play at a packed Central Park SummerStage show—from Public Enemy’s Afrocentric thinker and rapper Chuck D himself (whose shoutouts grace “Oracle”).

“Native Sun the album is a journey backwards, back through hip hop, the Caribbean soundsystem culture that preceded it, back to its African roots, with the final kora,” notes Blitz. “The film looks forward, to what could be. Both are about the longing for home we feel in the diaspora, and about letting go of old notions and embracing new ideas. The sound in itself speaks to that.”

'Native Sun' on iTunes
Native Sun' CD on Fatbeats

Check out the brand new video for the single 'Best I Can' ft CorneilleBest I Can' ft Corneille (directed by Terence Nance).

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