THE NEW ALBUM FROM BOOBAH SIDDIK IS HERE!!!
.. Boobah Siddik is done recording his solo album, titled Dead Goats: Chronicles Of A Jindo, featuring on the production Olatunji Mason, Dr Yswaad, Lone Star and avant guard work by Boobah Siddik himself. The album is slated to be released in July 2007, and two videos have already been shot and are being edited to help promote the album. You will soon be able to check out the whole Shadow Zu crew minus Lord Cheik in the video for the neo-traditional scorcher "Harmattan Winds" that will feature Boobah Siddik along side Sandstorm JA and Smoka Seezy. This video will support the main single for the album, the one song that is sure to get you singing along to the tune of "Boobah Siddik! Woyyy! Music For Your Soul!". For more info on the album, visit Boobah Siddik's website at BoobahSiddik.com . The album is 19 tracks long and this is an album that will sink deep in your psyche. Boobah Siddik is known for his catchy hooks and lyrical saber swinging so this is an album that will definitely rotate in your car or mp3 playlist. He is taking you from straight boombap hip hop to a more dancy playful wybes on tracks like "Come Reprezenta" and "One Million Souls". The versatility on the album is what make the essence of the DBS, and you can definitely see the uniqueness of the artists through ironically and deliberatelly so, the diversity of the styles and flows he delivers on the album. Early listeners of the album have qualified it as an "eversolid" "African Hip Hop classic". It will be available digitally through ITunes and physically through ITunes at a soon to be revealed date. Reserve your copy now!, the first batch is a limited edition release.BIOGRAPHY
"Do you not see how your Lord extends the shadow? And if He pleased He would have made it stationary. Then We have made the sun an indication of it."
Quran 25:45: Al Furqhan (The Criterion)
Still reasoning on the meaning of the verse ...
Born and raised in Ivory Coast(Cote D'Ivoire), and living between Abidjan and Dakar, the duality helped him view himself more as a African citizen than a citizen of a particular nation. Early on in his life, Boobah has always been influenced by music. "Borrowing" his Dad's boombox, he used to record radio broadcasts on his mom's old tapes of traditional Senufo music, drawing justified ire from both. Switching from 80s pop, to Italian Pop, mixed with the different African Hits that were submerging Africa at the time (San Fan Thomas, Kassav, Kanda Bongo Man, OUA etc... ), his musical influences were pretty much diverse and eclectic, but in 1995 it focused on Hip Hop, after he got to listen to an old Wu Tang tape made by a high school friend.
This interest crystallized in the formation of the group Shadow Zu in 1995, and the music was made with the available means. They impounded Rash's (original founding rapper) little brother dinky Casio keyboard, created some melodies and free flowed on their creations. From their own production they moved to the model that was used at the time in Dakar, which was to buy a tape of American hip hop hits instrumentals and to do your own songs on top, mixtape style. in 1997, the first official Shadow Zu song was recorded, "Mortel Rap Kombat", which was never released.
In 2003 as part of Shadow Zu, Boobah released "Shadow Storm", which was the first african hip hop album to be released independently in the US to critical acclaim. Again in 2004, the underground release of the album Hipolitics confirmed the rising status of Boobah Siddik and Shadow Zu as leaders in the African Hip Hop movement. The hit song "Hope Dies Last" was featured on countless internet radio stations and helped solidify his status as a unique voice and style. Boobah's style has evolved over the years, and he found his niche vocally in the style of old 1970s chatters like Dillinger, Big Youth.
While maintaining his hip hop roots, he focuses on internal melodies and patterns within his verses, to better deliver the message. A meditative individual, he spends a lot of time reasoning on the daily aspects of life and the nature of the human soul and its struggles with itself and its environment. Boobah is an achiever who works hard to complete his goals, and his reflections, transmitted in his music, deal with the questions of racism, spirituality, morality, religion, social and political activism.
WHAT AM I BUSY WITH NOW? Boobah Siddik is busy running United Nations Of Hip Hop Dot Com , a site dedication to the promotion of African hip hop artists. He is also involved in running websites like Nigerime and RapAlloco , the premiere destination for information on Hip Hop in Niger and Ivory Coast.
On Sundays, you can catch him on Radio Xalima , spinning the latest riddims in Dancehall on reggae on the critically acclaimed Yoots and Roots, Africa's connection to reggae music. He also presents WAV West African Wybes in conjunction with Wanlov on Mtaa FM , spinning the latest tracks in West African Hip Hop.
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