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MC Yallah


Goat’s recent, eponymous album hit the listener like hip hop reverse-engineered — a record built to be the perfect fodder for samples and sound systems. Its mix of breakbeats, funk-scuffed guitar, and burnt sonics offers up a producer’s playground waiting to be rifled through and roughed up, but why wait? Scrapping the need for the …

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After announcing their 12″ EP Mama Waliwamanyii along with the exhilarating title track earlier this month, Ugandan rapper MC Yallah and producer Eomac (one half of acclaimed electronic duo Lakker) have today shared the darker, brooding sounding ‘Kakana’, ahead of the EP’s release this Friday, 3rd July via Phantom Limb. ‘Kakana’ translates to “calm down” in response to the criticism Yallah has faced as an outspoken, independent MC in her local scene. …

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