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Hip hop began in Africa. USA made it famous and saleable, but now it is heading back home across the Atlantic. This is how the trio Daara J Family construe things.

The Senegalese have since 1992 made Africa proud by making excellent, tuneful hip hop that both draws on the American bigwigs of the genre and on an Afro-Caribbean freedom message that can be hard to find among the flashing dollar signs on the US scene.

Not that the political message has made Daara J Family an obscure act. Their multi-language rap has long since secured them a big audience that appreciate the international class and the high artistic level in the blend of hip hop, R&B and soul.

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