Abrahmz Tekya established Break-dance Project Uganda to teach Ugandan kids to connect to themselves and escape their predicaments through dance. His efforts set against the historical backdrop of Idi Amin and amidst the present-day evil of the Lord’s Resistance Army’s child soldiers wandering Uganda and the Congo causing untold devastation, Tekya — a b-boy devotee whose parents died when he was seven — has reached hundreds of youth.
Three weeks after introducing the first of their groundbreaking Messengers tributes, J.Period & K’NAAN present their final offering: The Messengers (Deluxe Edition), a long-play version of their epic trilogy, including previously unreleased bonus tracks and selected 12” singles. Taking hip hop fans on an unprecedented journey into the legacies of Fela Kuti, Bob Marley and Bob Dylan, J.Period & K’NAAN’s The Messengers has racked up over 85,000 downloads/plays in only a few short weeks online, making this mixtape a bonafide phenomenon, as well. Remixing and re-imagining the classic work of these legendary artists, The Messengers is already being called “one of the year’s best albums or mixtapes” by top hip hop journalists, including HipHopDX.com.
