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Highlife is a music genre that originated in Ghana at the turn of the 20th century and incorporated the traditional harmonic 9th, as well as melodic and the main rhythmic structures in traditional Akan music, and married them with Western instruments. Highlife was associated with the local African aristocracy during the colonial period. By 1930s, Highlife spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gambia and Nigeria via Ghanaian workers, amongst other West African countries, where the music is now very popular.
Highlife is characterised by jazzy horns and multiple guitars which lead the band. Recently it has acquired an uptempo, synth-driven sound (see Daddy Lumba). Igbo highlife and Joromi are subgenres.
This arpeggiated highlife guitar part is modeled after an Afro-Cuban guajeo. The pattern of attack-points is nearly identical to the 3-2 clave motif guajeo as shown below. The bell pattern known in Cuba as clave is indigenous to Ghana and Nigeria, and is used in highlife.
Artists who perform the Highlife genre include:
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The best of Highlife For Your Dancing Feet Featuring Daddy Lumba, Ofori Amponsah, Daasebre Gyamenah, Nana Quame, Praye, Kofi B, Kofi Nti, Antwi ne Antwi, and more. Enjoy, Subscribe and come back for more...Otoolege - Ofori Amponsah - Mr. All 4Real Sardin - Ofori Amponsah, Nika - Ofori Amponsah, Koforidua Flowers - Ofori Amponsah & Kofi BEmmanuela - Ofori Amponsah Sound recordingBroken Heart - Ofori Amponsah, Ye Nea Woho Beto Wo - Daddy Lumba, Araba Lawson - Czar Sound recording, Rakia (original) - Kofi Nti & Ofori Amponsah, The Orchard Music
NoCopyrightSounds, We Upload. You Listen. • NCS Spotify: http://bit.ly/SpotifyNCS David Bulla makes puts out his first NCS release with 'Highlife'. This release has been a long time coming, but I am happy to now finally feature this amazing track on NCS. Free Download @ http://bit.ly/davidbulla_highlife • NCS Spotify: http://bit.ly/SpotifyNCS NCS ➞ Subscribe http://youtube.com/NoCopyrightSounds ➞ Like http://facebook.com/NoCopyrightSounds ➞ Follow http://twitter.com/NCSounds ➞ Listen http://soundcloud.com/nocopyrightsounds ➞ Follow http://google.com/+nocopyrightsounds David Bulla: ➞ Listen https://soundcloud.com/davidbullaoffical ➞ Follow https://twitter.com/itsdavidbulla ➞ Subscribe http://www.youtube.com/user/EnergyyMusiC ➞ Like http://www.facebook.com/davidbullaofficial ➞ Website...
Classic High-life from Ghana Old School. Sweet Talks FT A .B Crentsil, Adam and Eve Album. Hi-life Stars of Ghana. READ MORE;http://www.muzikifan.com/ghana.html Make purchase Here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sweet-Talks-GHANA-HIGHLIFE-LP-Adam-Eve-WEST-AFRICAN-/380158411816 01. Adam & Eve 02. Fakye Me 03. Womma Yenyi Ewuradze Aye 04. Onyame Aye Ewie 05. Adam Nana
Das 7. Lied vom Cypress Hill-Album "Skull & Bones" aus dem Jahr 2000. Das Genre ist, wie bei fast jedem Cypress Hill-Lied Hip-Hop oder Rap, wenn auch relativ untypischer.
High-life Hits, Old Timers Classic highlife Mix 01. Jewel Ackah – Deede 02. Jerry Hansen & Ramblers Band - Ama Bonsu 03. Smart Nkansah – Emma Bekum Mmema 04. Yamoah’s – Biako Ye 05. Yamoah’s – Seewa Akoto 06. Pat Thomas – Odo Adaa da me 07. Marriott – Akoma 08. Smart Nkansah – Humi Mmobo 09. A. J. Adofo – Baabi Dehyee 10. A. B. Crentsil – Samo 11. Ewurama Badu – Medofo 12. Ewurama Badu – Sika 13. Slim Young – Ye obi die yie 14. Yamoah’s – Nya Asem Hwe 15. Smart Nkansah – Yei Nti
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Classic Ghana Highlife Mix 01. Paapa Jeh Mensah - Ahenfie Police 02. Gyedu Blay Ambolley - Adwoa Amissah 03. Nat Brew - Opioto Opioto 04. Nat Brew - Lolo-juju 05. Nakorex - Kpalogo Yede papa 06. Alhaji K Frimpong - Koforidua 07. Adane Best - Maafio 08. King David - Ft Batman - Aaye Fe Notse 09. Kaakyire Kwame Appiah - Kwaadonto 10. Nkasei - Tuabodom 11. Paapa Yankson & Western Diamonds - Obra Ne Wara Bo
I rolled you up like my Rizla
Cut you up, with my sisters
You wanna get us - yeah, the venom spitters
Your style's trash: don't litter
You got the jitters the hardhitters
No quitters your soul quivers
When you see the gats blazin, get out the street now
There ain't no use for you beggin to turn the heat down
You label me coldblooded
You wanna warm me up with hot lead the gat thudded
You can't cut it
You wack, but it's - no use your mouth shut it
Shootin arrows diamond-studded, and still budded
You got to love it, you better chase the paper all day
So you can walk down the long platinum hallway
But now the fools are minutemade;
they get played for a minute
then played out they never get back in it
Gun park I bring chalk for your body outlined on the floor
You got hit by the 4-4!
You're in the game called life, son - how you're livin it
Street corner kids growin up blowin up
You chase dreams you want the highlife, with the skylights
But in the end your soul's lost, you lost the shine right
Never turn your back ever, on niggaz true to you
Stand alone for the cheddar - and they'll be through with you
The highlife; yeah, the highlife
The highlife; yeah, the highlife
You gotta hang out with B. Reezy, and take it easy
It's gettin greasy, I had to learn how to beat me
That's when you go for dolo, and get your meal ticket
And still kick it hardcore I'm runnin real with it
Niggaz getting softcore, the people want more
hardcore shit that's why I give them an encore
Curtains opened, you see the people applaud feelin it
You can't figure out the formula so you're stealin it
Can't stand unoriginal cats with minimal
skills that's criminal - you fake bitches!
You're lookin for riches, in the wrong places
The faces of death look you in the eye cut off your breath
When you fall feel your knees shatter
The bones breakin with your weak blatter
Pissin on yourself it don't matter
Dead weight, the bed waits for you on the set date
Dreams gone instead fate didn't hesitate
to put you away, close the gates now you're locked out
Your life: cable, with all the porn channels blocked out (damn!)
What you good for? Nothin, so be gone suckers
Have a nice trip see you motherfuckers!
I live for the highlife, get my mind right
Fuck the fame, the game and the limelights
Fools that be out there tryin to duplicate
But they can't match the aura, can't impersonate
See the first things that comes to pass, is the blast
of the Cypress Hill weed funk blazin up a path
You can't help, but inhale and get strong
You need that good shit all up in your lungs
I live fast, and keep energy in motion
Jah bless, so I feel I been chosen
But I know, (?) of he who conquers
You gotta come strong and sound off like thunder
I check myself and make sure I'm comin real tight
Rhyme for my fam, the G's and the highlife
The highlife - hah, hah