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Friday, January 30, 2015

Ruyonga Breaks Down His "ReDefinitions' Verse.







By Ruyonga (@RuyongaMusic)

I'm the redefinition; they study my rise from the ash like a phoenix and read the Phoenician


-Redefinition/read the phoenician, ancient language, ancient people, originators of the alphabet, the Greeks jacked them alot, one of their kings built the temple of Solomon. The phoenix is the bird of reincarnation and reinvention, it burns to ashes and a new one emerges. Krukid/Ruyonga reference. Also, natives of Phoenix Arizona are called Phoenicians...Old Phoenicians descended from Canaanites. The phoenix associated meanings are Sun, Red, Early Christianity used it as a symbol (Google)

It’s all Greek to me, seek for me in the dictionary under realest emcee’s definition


-Again, phoenician culture really influenced the greeks, the world trendsetters' trendsetters. As an emcee I aim to write the realest most defining and redefining stuff I can, Dictionary is a book of definitions (Captain Obvious)

Addiction to diction with zero remission, this christian was a former seed of perdition

-Addiction is seen as a sickness, remission is the reversal of a sickness, vocabulary wise I see no cure for me in sight. Seeds are children, and sons of perdition in Christianity is a reference to being children of darkness before Salvation

The game’s on my back, I carry on tradition, I’m Dr. UG if you need a prescription

-The rap game on my back reference, whatever is on your back you carry, I'm a big proponent of the christian, hip hop and traditional home cultures even where they at times conflict. I am all three. Doctors prescribe, doctors prescribe drugs, Doctor (Dr.)UG looked at literally can say DrUG

Get it? We’ll here’s the description,I’m the scribe that you prescribe that’s hard to describe

-Scribes are professional writers, emcees are mordern day scribes, pre is before, de is remove....play on scribing (scribble, subscribe etc)

We fly as a G 5 taking free rides on satellite that’s big enough to need three pilots, Ugandan C Wallace

-References to different objects of flight, G5 is a plane, manned satellites are humongous, C Wallace is Chris Wallace, Notorious BIG

I get to the head quicker than a free stylist, they can’t nail us but they keep filing

-Freestylers go off the head or off the top, could be called freestylists, play off stylists, as in hair stylist, free stylists would probably get more hair work than those you have to pay, nails are filed, we're like a case they can't crack but they keep filing paperwork on us. They can’t catch up but they keep trying.

Me and baru A grade so we be solid, majorly laugh when we see minors try to define us

Grade reference, A as in A plus, B is a solid grade, C minus is barely passable, me and Baru are majors laughing alot when we see minors trying to fine us with a D grade/degrade, not happening. Play off the grades and A B C D concept

Caught in the fire of the refiners, only God himself could’ve designed us

-God is defined in the Bible as the all-consuming fire, the purifier, the refiner's fire. And only he could have orchestrated what we do

My reign on the top, ain’t gonna stop, hate it or not this rise to fame you gone need cable to watch

-This was flow based, unstoppable reign going international, you will need more than access to local channels to fully watch or catch it

With the highest subscription that you could pay for the box sitting ringside by the main stage where the
Watts from the base so loud you hyperventilate from the shock, on the scale of one to five, every
Masterpiece …. That we stage on every stage is similar to a stage six catastrophe


-More cable references, you need the highest international access possible, or the best seats in any building, as close to the speakers (We are public speakers) as possible, as close to the action as you can get. There's a play on stages, we're a stage six on the one to five scale etcetera

Amazing as eating maize in a maze preaching saving salvation to a Mason while he’s macing you

-Play on amazing, a maze is a confusing path, maize is corn, masons are said to be illuminati, Anti-Christ, against the message of salvation or being saved... mace is a burning liquid

We’re here to stay so take a picture it’ll help the gaze linger,see the aim of our mission couldn’t stay simpler

-Take a picture it'll last longer, usually a phrase said to people who overly stare or gaze. We're around for a while. The mission is simple as explained below

Kill the beat,reveal the kingdom that won’t stay hidden, release the heat and preach the peace all to the same rhythm

-It's basically saying the message is life and love to everybody but death to every beat

Keep the truth in their ear even if they never listen, lyrical and beat demolition redefinition…

-They don't hear me. But they will though. The message will keep going out. Kill Beats Spill peace keep refining and redefining...

Shout outs to Baru. New single dropping soon. Pce.

Connect With Ruyonga;
Facebook: Ruyonga
Twitter: @RuyongaMusic
Website: www.ruyonga.com

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

ReDefinitions - Baru ft. Enygma [Download + Lyrics]



All the spitters and the rappers wanna read my mind, will I kill 'em on a verse or will I please be kind/ Will there be another body that I leave behind, for the police to find, when I release these rhymes?/ But I am redefined. I litter because I ain't trashing no rappers no more/ I captured the flow, slick as the oil that I spill but Enygma ain't crude anymore/ I'm refined! Been mining diamonds, redefining punchlining rhyming/ We're the finest, the shine was mine but now it's finally time I'm retiring/ Uh! It's a Game-of-Thrones and you're sitting on the seat-ya-loss while I'm spitting/ Born in Africa, ain't none sicker on the mic since Philly you feel me?
I need the President to pardon me. I'm a prodigy. Killing every beat and probably with out apology/ They want racks on racks, I got raps on raps, it's evident the bars are a part of me/ Is it 'cause I'm from M-bar-ara? Yeah, it's where they'll bury me, before anybody body me/ With Baru on the deck, gonna bar U to death, so you better be the baddest tryina bother me/ I'm fly like a lear jet, you're upset, you're fly like Aaliyah dead/ Wanna bet? I won the bet because I be ahead. You're in debt. Bottomline gonna be red/ Like a girl withoutapad or a clean bed/ 'Cause it's nappy, now I'm happy, so boo hoo!/ I'm a creative dude, my rhymes are the shit, thats what a creative dude do!

Connect with Enygma;
Twitter: @IamEnygma
Facebook: Enygma
Website: www.iamenygma.com

Connect With Baru
Twitter: @BarBeatz
Facebook: Baru
Reverbnation: reverbnation.com/barubeatz
SoundCloud: 
Soundcloud.com/barufrank

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

ReDefinitions Baru ft. Play 01 [Download + Lyrics]


Download ReDefinitions - Baru ft. Play 01

Just another black man with a bad credit
If I ever had a bat car am Prolly gon sell it But I still wanna sing in a Porsche like Nelly Every bump trynna grind hard like Rkelly Cuz I want a couple rooms in a house call home My whole mob bad and straight like Capone Am talking bout Egypt cooks that make Spanish food And some Ghana chic that speak German too Now if u combine ur minds, u can find that my Crew confide in my, mind for a living, meaning We could be walking to ur spot in 5s, offer that u can't refuse in a second Y u lookin so mad That nigga said I ain't that bad, Y my nigga gotta sleep with a gat? Y I gotta make ur family sad Real shit But then new Jordan's I want, Brand new tees that I never done worn Give me that car where the engine roar Give me Benz where 80 per hour real slow But about that, I lay back with a back pack Not packed and a snapbackbthat I flip back Not a sox hat, but em js it gon match it Matter fact, moving with a lean like a hunch back Maybe I can buy myself a mountain Maybe I be showering n sipping water right out of the fountain of Youth, standing in the booth proving am about Hear my thoughts out as am shouting That's the kinda shit that make me know whenever Ima make whatever I'll b doin for the sake o Damn doing it Grind for a living so u know am going through with it I ain't living with the option of blowing it But I get back on my biz I slow down and act am drunk as ish Y u on my biz? Am guessing u ain't got none of urs

Connect with Play01
Facebook: Play01
Twitter: @ThaGameBoy
SoundCloud:https://www.soundcloud.com/play01

Connect With Baru
Twitter: @BarBeatz
Facebook: Baru
Reverbnation: reverbnation.com/barubeatz
SoundCloud: 
Soundcloud.com/barufrank

Sunday, January 25, 2015

So African - A.Y, AirporTaxi & A-Pass [Review + Download]


By Byaruhanga Felix (@TheNinjaFelix)

When you get one of the most hip-hop selling artist (A.Y) out of Tanzania on to a track with AirporTaxi, a hip-hop/RnB group out of Uganda and a dance-hall/reggae sensation as A-Pass then expect to get a refined product like So African’. On a project put together by Talent Africa A.Y, AiporTaxi and A-Pass came together to form a music collective known as the ‘A-Team’ that will be releasing more projects together and ‘So African’ premiers as their debut project with a video (yet to be released) that was shot to accompany it.

On a beat produced by Nessim, A.Y opens the track with a verse in swahili which gives the song a bongo flava feel and closes it with a few bars in English. A-Pass kicks in with the hook who is supported by the AirporTaxi first lady Martha Smallz laying down powerful vocals giving the song a more smooth feel. The AirporTaxi co-pilot Tucker HD takes it away with a second verse that’s filled with heavyweight punch lines as he describes his African lady. A-Pass closes off the song with a strong Jamaican patois verse which shows us that he mastered his dance-hall/reggae craft.

Download So African 


Contact writer;
Facebook: Byaruhanga Felix FeliFed
Twitter: @TheNinjaFelix
Email: theninjafelix@gmail.com

Saturday, January 24, 2015

ReDefinitions - Baru ft. Pryce [Download + Lyrics]

Download ReDefinitions - Baru ft. Pryce

Intro:Teeba 16 kubbo
Nkola kubo


Verse1
Sababanda mu Uganda mafiyoso Pryce Teeba so kulwekyo.Mpanda manda oluganda mpanda muliro,Ewuwo ekyamagero ewange kyabulijo.kibewunyisa nti mbewunyisa!!!(tombusabuda ndi kakensa)Gala oluji mpita mu dinisa
Wegendereze anti nyize epessa
D.U.S.T.V.I Double L.E mumanyi kati nze anni,nanyini motto Nanyini
Street bwenzijja zinyoka.Presidential Rap(okay)kitegezA Sevo,Kitegeza edala lyange dala nyo Ku lilyo.(kuliryo.kuliryo) a.k.a baby jajja a.k.a Zikyajja a.k.a

Nze ndi kingkong KingPin
Mbuza boss ate gwe oli king ki?Oyogera biki mbuza olwo lulimi ki?Rapper ki apapa atamanyi nti nze papa (pa.pa.pa)tonyumiza rapper bakadde nga okimanyi guno mwaka mupya.wrap Up yaggwa nanga bipya mixtape ejja tubasengejje mukasengejja,obamanyi Nkimanyi nawe obamanyi.Obamanyi otumanyi abanna be Ntinda Pryce Tee a mbuza gwotamanyi ehehe



Connect With Pryce
Facebook: Pryce Teeba
Twitter: @PryceTeeba


Connect With Baru
Twitter: @BarBeatz
Facebook: Baru
Reverbnation: reverbnation.com/barubeatz
SoundCloud: 
Soundcloud.com/barufrank

Friday, January 23, 2015

O.P.U Announces 2015 Album “Half Street Half Corporate”



After taking close to 2 years off the Ugandan Hip-hop scene O.P.U is back with a banger.”GET THAT MONEY”. The O.NATION/R.O.W Records artist who on 19th Jan 2015 made a surprise appearance on HOT 100 F.M to promote the 25th Jan Beach Explosion where he will be performing made the surprise announcement. In the close to 40 mins long interview in which he was accompanied by fellow R.O.W Records artist Lethal.

When asked about where he has been O.P.U explained;
“I took a two year break for myself and to get my product ready, I believe in taking my time, but am back now, with my new album “Half Street Half Corporate”.
He explained the theme of the album has a state of mind, a movement and a life style, in his own words “the theme of the album describes the ability to wear a suit and tie to get business done then wear timberlands and a O.NATION t-shirt in the evening, the balance between good or bad, part conformist part rebel”.

So far O.P.U premiered his brand new single “Get That Money” featuring T.Bro & Lethal, production by renowned hit-maker Sam Lamara of Talent Africa Studios and beat by beat maker Izack Young. The rapper was however reluctant to release any more details on release dates, but promised a 2015 release.  
Well for now O.P.U surely has the ears of his fans buzzing with this heavy banger.

Download ”GET THAT MONEY”