Weekend Burners: Best Tracks of the Week

Download the best African hip-hop tracks dropped this week.

Weekend Burners: Best Tracks of the Week


Artwork by Pierre Christophe.

In Weekend Burners we highlight our choices of the best music content that came across our desks throughout the week. Get ‘em below straight from the Okayafrica bunker:

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Old Money "Rumble In Tenochtitlan"

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Zaki Ibrahim x Kid Fonque x Dj Whisky "Be"

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Yadi "Unbreakable (Mo Laudi Remix)"

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P-Square ‘Personally’

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El Mahdy Jr. "Gravity"

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AKUA "Gravity"

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Faith Child "Over Me" ft. VickyTola

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The Fontanelles "Alagbon"

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