As Shipley's interest in HipLife grew, so did his desire to bring this music to the international community. He began working on a documentary of the genre, its artists and its fans. Now, four ...

The early 1990s were a transformative period in Ghana. As democracy re-emerged and youth culture began to redefine itself, the music scene witnessed a shift. Highlife, once the country’s ...

Hiplife music in Accra, Ghana combines hip hop sampling, scratching, and rap lyricism with older forms of highlife popular music, traditional story-telling, and formal proverbial oratory. Hiplife and ...

Shipley has followed the rise of the HipLife movement in Ghana for the past decade. "In 1997 and 1998, I went back to Ghana and, literally, there were hundreds, thousands of kids going to rap ...