Black Sherif Does Highlife Not Hip-hop – Kwabena Kwabena Says

According to Kwabena Kwabena, Sherif Ismail Frimpong, often known as Black Sherif, the well-known Ghanaian trap and hip-hop musician, actually performs high-life music rather than hip-hop.

Black Sherif is a highlife musician, and the sound and rhythm he incorporates into his songs are highlife sounds, according to highlife musicians; therefore, why is he referred to as a hip-hop musician? The 8th generation of highlife musicians, he continued, is beginning with Black Sheriff.

He gave an explanation for these assertions in an interview with Jay Foley on the Culture Daily show on 3Music.

It's time to refer to Black Sherif as a highlife performer, says the Kwabena Kwabena, because there is nothing remotely hip-hop-related about him.

“We are labeling Black Sheriff as a hip-hop artist, but I don't see him as a hip-hop musician at all,” he said in further explanation. How then do we name him a hip-hop artist if you listen to his music and everything he's done with it?

He is a highlife musician from the new generation, or eighth generation, if you will. We are the seventh generation, and he is the start of the eighth, since nothing about highlife music could have been inspired by his rhythm, delivery, and voice. His “Konongo Zongo” song is totally highlife, to look at it.

Source: Dklassgh.com