Reggie Rockstone, also known as Hiplife grandpapa, is one of the pioneers of the grenre
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Hiplife is a music genre birthed in Ghana in the early 90s from a fusion of American hip-hop and Ghanaian highlife music.
It established itself as music with a truly African identity for a new generation of Ghanaians.
BBC News Africa spoke to some of the originators of the genre about how the sound came to take over West Africa.
Watch the full documentary Hiplife Rewind:
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