hiplife
- noun
- By the turn of the millennium, hiplife commanded an estimated 40% of music sales and airplay.
- hiplife artist
- hiplife music
- Ghanaian hiplife
Examples
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Hiplife gained popularity through dance clubs, radio and television play, and the circulation of cassettes and videos.
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Many of the first generation of national hiplife stars began as teens in National Theatre competitions.
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Poor kids can feel successful by associating with hiplife stars.
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As public discourse in Ghana has focused on processes of privatization, the hiplife artist provides a model of business success.
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Hiplife songs become socially relevant through their social transportability and electronic mobility in proverb-like speech fragments.
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Hiplife artists play both tricksters and moral critics by embodying the ambiguities they represent to the nation.
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Hiplife allows Ghanaian youth to inhabit self-sovereign subjectivities and hypermasculine positions of moral speaking.
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Around Accra's open-air drinking spots and nightclubs, markets, taxi stands, and compound houses, hiplife bodily styles and rebellious spirit entered non-elite worlds.
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Many Ghanaian youth enjoy hiplife music for its energetic rhythms and relatable lyrics.
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At the concert, the famous hiplife artists performed their hits, drawing a large crowd of enthusiastic fans.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hiplife comes from joining hip (as in 'hip hop') and highlife (a traditional Ghanaian music style). This is a helpful memory: hiplife is music that mixes modern rap with older Ghanaian beats, which is why it names that genre.
