Weekend Burners: Best Tracks of the Week

Rewind top African hip-hop singles from the week of April 12, 2013—stream the top modern African hip-hop music releases in this edition of Weekend Burners.

Weekend Burners: Best Tracks of the Week


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We realize our site cycles through an, at times, overwhelming number of videos, tracks, remixes and mixtapes from a deluge of African/diaspora artists that not everyone is familiar with — in fact, we've gotten a large amount of reader feedback stating so. With Weekend Burners we aim to address that by highlighting our choices of the best music content that made it on the blog throughout the week. Get 'em below straight from the Okayafrica bunker:

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DJ Zhao’s Afro Rumba x Soukous Mixtape [Download]

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Zaki Ibrahim ‘Conjure’ [Jumping Back Slash Remix]

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Young Fathers ‘I Heard’

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Exclusive: Chico Mann’s ‘Magical Thinking’ Playlist

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Premiere: Oy’s Ghanaian Electronic ‘Kokokyinaka’ [Album Stream]

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Premiere: Georgia Anne Muldrow x Dudley Perkins Live in SA

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Mohamed Karzo’s Niger Guitar Lullabies

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>>>Stream: Mohamed Karzo 'C'est La Vie'

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DJ Juls’ Afrobeats Mixtape Vol. II

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