Yugen Blakrok explores connectedness, mystique and everyday life in Hip-Hop

Planet Earth Planet Rap - the Virtual World Tour

The Virtual World Tour is PEPR's podcast series where we talk to some of our favourite artists from around the world.

In this episode we talk to Yugen Blakrok who is a South African emcee who lived in France and now in Spain. Yugen became familiar to many from the Black Panther film soundtrack where she was featured, but she has two full length projects in her own back catalogue as well. Her style is magical. What more can we say.

Join us when we catch up with her on the PEPR: The Virtual World Tour.

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ABOUT #PEPR

Hip-Hop culture and Rap music as part of it are global. For years, this has been entirely uncontroversial statement and true on all accounts. Despite the consensus on the spread of the culture, the rest of the world, outside of North America, has been often reduced into its consumers. So when people say, Hip-Hop is worldwide, what they often actually mean is that mainstream, mostly major label top 40 rap artists are listened to across the planet. That is true, but it is not the whole truth. It is actually only a very small part of it.

Planet Earth Planet Rap (PEPR) is part of Chuck D’s And You Don’t Stop! radio show and RAPstation operation and its purpose is to explore and celebrate the full rap map from all continents and in whatever language it reaches us. We acknowledge the global culture and the people in it as participants, not just consumers.

PEPR is curated and hosted by Mikko Kapanen and Amkelwa Mbekeni who have years of experience from radio in different countries and continents and produced by Gia’na Garel.

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