12 February 2016
Video Clip: Diamond Platnumz, Harmonize & Raymond – Mambo
***Bongo flava is the nickname for Tanzanian hip hop music.
The genre developed in the 1990s, mainly as a derivative of American hip
hop, with additional influences from reggae, R&B, afrobeat,
dancehall, and traditional Tanzanian styles such as taarab and dansi, a
combination that forms a unique style of music. Lyrics are usually in
Swahili or English. The name "bongo flava" is a corruption of "bongo
flavour", where "bongo" is the plural form of the Swahili word ubongo,
meaning "brain", and is a common nickname used to refer to Dar es
Salaam, the city where the genre originated. In the bongo flava, the
metaphor of "brains" may additionally refer to the cunning and street
smarts of the mselah**
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