It also comes from a secret language used by a lot of the young boys out in Kumasi-a pig Latin-like language that consists of shifting the initial consonant, or consonant clusters of each word to the end of the Twi word. “Asakaa is just Twi expression on a drill beat,” Jones explains. Along with Kwaku DMC and Sean Lifer, they came up with the name Asakaa and manage the rappers and source production. On lead with production and management, Rabby Jones is one of the core founders of Life Living Records. This movement-which has been dubbed ‘Asakaa’-has garnered so much attention in and around the country that people have nicknamed the city “Kumerica” (a portmanteau of ‘Kumasi’ and ‘America’). Featuring Life Living label-buddies Jay Bahd and O’Kenneth, Yaw Tog’s “Sore” is one of many Twi-infused drill cuts coming out of Kumasi, Ghana. Just last month, a clip of a Ghanaian drill music video went viral: “Sore”, a track by emerging rapper Yaw Tog, left Twitter users across Ghana, the UK and America eager for more. From London to New York to France and now Ghana, the rap offshoot birthed on the streets of Chicago in the early 2010s has spread like wildfire.
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