"Bully," the latest album by YE—the artist formerly known as Kanye West - is a surprisingly good album. The album marks a heartfelt return to the old Kanye we’ve come to admire, blending vulnerability with his signature style. The striking black-and-white album cover features a touching photo of West’s childhood, sporting titanium grills—a bold visual that sets the tone for what’s inside.
"It’s Been Awful" marks the moment Isaiah Rashad fully becomes his own genre. The Top Dawg Entertainment visionary returns with his third studio album expanding his sonic world beyond hip-hop into flashes of genre-blurring experimentation. With "It's Been Awful", he enters a new chapter defined by clarity, confrontation, and creative rebirth- reaffirming his place not just in rap, but at the forefront of music's most compelling storytellers.
An unlikely pair of Africa's best contemporary rappers and music producers come together to make a song which in every right is an anthem for today's African spirit.
RootWords is an independent rap artist born in the United States to Zambian parents. He lives in Switzerland from where he reaches out to an audience of listeners with his rap music. In 2016, RootWords released the EP "Inappropriate Behaviour" featuring the track, 'My Identity' which got a review on the UbuntuFM Hip-Hop website. UbuntuFM's Ikenna Okeh reached out to RootWords for this exclusive.