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\"\"<\/a>The ever-impressive US-based Ghanaian rapper, Blitz the Ambassador has released his much-anticipated follow-up to his critically-acclaimed debut album, \u2018Stereotype\u2019 and follow-up live album \u2018Stereolive\u2019, on iTunes<\/a>. The 12-song \u2018Native Sun\u2019 was released on iTunes worldwide on May 3 worldwide and would be followed up with Album Release shows in New York and Washington, DC this week. <\/p>\n

\u2018Native Sun\u2019 has been described as the most ambitious release from Ghanaian-born, Brooklyn-based emcee, bandleader and composer, Blitz the Ambassador.\u00a0 Native Sun unfolds from a kaleidoscope of perspectives, with help from a Rwandan sweet soul singer (Corneille on the track \u201cBest I Can\u201d), from sleek Francophone sirens (Les Nubians on \u201cDear Africa\u201d), from buzzworthy Canadian-based\/Rwandan-born rapper (Shad on \u201cNative Sun\u201d) and from bold Congolese and Brazilian samba-loving MCs (Baloji and BNeg\u00e3o on \u201cWahala\u201d). Blitz even got a boost\u2014including an invite to play at a packed Central Park SummerStage show\u2014from Public Enemy\u2019s Afrocentric thinker and rapper Chuck D himself (whose shout outs grace \u201cOracle\u201d).<\/p>\n

\u201cNative Sun the album is a journey backwards, back through hip hop, the Caribbean soundsystem culture that preceded it, back to its African roots, with the final kora,\u201d notes Blitz. \u201cThe film looks forward, to what could be. Both are about the longing for home we feel in the diaspora, and about letting go of old notions and embracing new ideas. The sound in itself speaks to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The brand new video for the single \u2018Best I Can\u2019 ft Corneille, and directed by Terence Nance is already enjoying a lot of hits on the internet. \u201cNative Sun\u201d is one of the most organic marriages of African music and hip-hop we\u2019ve heard \u2014 an effortless release that incorporates Afrobeat, highlife and kora music into old-school hip-hop. It\u2019s a warm and danceable record with a social conscience, and it speaks to anybody who\u2019s lived between two cultures \u2014 as more and more of us do.\u201d — Youtube<\/p>\n

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Off the heels of a successful month-long tour of Europe, Blitz the Ambassador and The Embassy Ensemble take Native Sun to New York City and Washington, DC this week.\u00a0 Blitz returns to Europe this summer and then back to the USA for a late summer, nation-wide tour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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The ever-impressive US-based Ghanaian rapper, Blitz the Ambassador has released his much-anticipated follow-up to his critically-acclaimed debut album, \u2018Stereotype\u2019 and follow-up live album \u2018Stereolive\u2019, on iTunes . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":400875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-417046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"\nBlitz the Ambassador\u2019s \u2018Native Sun\u2019 out now! - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/blitz-the-ambassadors-native-sun-out-now\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Blitz the Ambassador\u2019s \u2018Native Sun\u2019 out now! 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