September 16, 2023 – 11:00 pm – September 17, 2023 – 5:00 am
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In Ghana, there are eight young men who call themselves the Asakaa Boys, namely: City Boy, Jay Bahd, Skyface SDW, O Kenneth, Kwaku DMC, Braabenk, Reggie and Beeztrap KOM.They ve been hard at work writing music to drill beats and using YouTube’s countless how-to videos to learn how to mix and record their songs, st music videos. and desian cover art.
These rappers have been in the rap game for over FivE years, They made it their mission to ensure that their social media presence was enough to reach their fans at a time when a global pandemic kept them even further awav.
The Asakaa Boys could be heard shouting their favourite Pop smoke songs and getting excited just thinking about his influence. The late rook vn rapper is their chier exemplar and the reason why they began to experiment with drill beats. “Pop smoke is a legend, his legacy lives on through us.” says Jay Bahd. Jay ic known for his baritone voice range, reminiscent of the late Pop Smoke’s sound
At a time when COVID-19 kept most people at home and glued to their phones, the Asakaa Boys’ music filled social timelines with production that screamed Brooklyn and lyrics that epitomised life in the grimy streets o Kumasi. Ghana. But the origin of the drill genre started in 2010 in Chicago. made mainstream by the likes of
Chief Keet. Lin Durk. and Fredo Santana. About a decade later. we are secing the impact or drillinternationally
In their local colloquialism. Saka is another way to say “kasa” which means “to speak” in the Akan language The term Asakaa, therefore, reters to now the group is apie to speak and use street slang on each crack
They’ve officially dubbed the Ghanaian drill sub-genre to be Asakaa. Drill vrics are often regarded as conveving aggressive messages, as seen in plenty or the genre’s music videos. The Asakaa Boys say they are simply rapping about their realities. We rap about what we sce on the streets and what we go through in life” says
KwakU DMC.Asakaa Boys member and sound engineer.
Poo smoke ruelled the kumerica la portmanteau of Kumasi and Americals based rappers to ensure his leaacv lives on. Some Members of the Asakaa Boys dropped out of school or gave up on their dreams of pursuing higher education to embark on their music carcers. They sav they cont rearet a second or it. “we provant a change to the game people look up to us now because they know the music is making an impact and going global savs City Bov. also known as the “Prince of Kumerica”
The Asakaa movement took the region by such storm so much that Ghanaians living in kumasi while mirroring an American lifestyle renamed Kumasi, KUMERICA. They also taken it upon themselves to rename towns in Kumasi similar to the shorthand nicknames we’ve given popular cities like AT for Atlanta and
They’ve allowed the Kumerican culture to become a lifestyle that’s influenced everything from their fashion, to the new names they’ve given towns in Kumasi such as DC (Dichemso), to even a new flag that they pay allegiance to “We only give these nicknames to the places it works for” said Braabenk,
who also designed the flag
