{"id":1249009,"date":"2022-11-11T15:48:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T15:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/sarkodie-defines-african-hip-pop-on-jamz\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:48:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T15:48:35","slug":"sarkodie-defines-african-hip-pop-on-jamz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/sarkodie-defines-african-hip-pop-on-jamz\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkodie defines African Hip pop on \u2018Jamz \u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Sarkodie-12-1200x900-1-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Sarkodie-12-1200x900\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Award-winning rapper, Sarkodie goes deep on his 8th studio album, dubbed \u2018Jamz\u2019 a 10 \u2013track album.<\/p>\n<p>JAMZ, which blends African-inspired hip-hop, tropical Afropop, and vibrant amapiano features; King Promise, Oxlade, Ink Boy, Lojay, Kranium, Cina Soul, Joeyboy, Black Sherif, and BNXN.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the songs on the album, it is only \u2018Confam\u2019 that Sarkodie decided to go solo.<\/p>\n<p>Back in September 2022, Sarkodie released Labadi, the first single off the project, which featured, King Promise.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with 3  Network on Thursday, November 10, 2022 the \u201cCoachella\u201d hitmaker revealed how Black Sherif was featured on \u2018Jamz\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Blacko hit me up last minute of this project<em>, \u2018Landlord I have to be on Jamz\u2019. I said, pull up,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Sarkodie disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Sarkodie also revealed that Black Sherif had major influence on the direction of the song and even came up with the title \u201cCountry Side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the album in a recent interview with \u2018Rolling Stone\u2019, the Coachella hitmaker revealed, \u201cActually, it didn\u2019t start up as me recording an album. I was just recording some random songs and realized that I was in the space where I was having fun in life, so I needed music that I could have fun with. Of course, there were certain moods, for instance, when you are on a boat or a yacht with your beautiful family or loved ones. There\u2019s a type of sound that you would want to hear, and that is what inspired JAMZ. It\u2019s basically like you listening to your favourite playlist on the radio and do not want to skip it. That\u2019s how this project is \u2014 a batch of good\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <!-- A generated by theme --> <\/p>\n<p> <!-- end A --> <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1&appId=1201200913327594&autoLogAppEvents=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starrfm.com.gh\/2022\/11\/sarkodie-defines-african-hip-pop-on-jamz\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning rapper, Sarkodie goes deep on his 8th studio album, dubbed \u2018Jamz\u2019 a 10 \u2013track album. JAMZ, which blends African-inspired hip-hop, tropical Afropop, and vibrant amapiano features; King Promise, Oxlade, Ink Boy, Lojay, Kranium, Cina Soul, Joeyboy, Black Sherif, and BNXN. Of all the songs on the album, it is only \u2018Confam\u2019 that Sarkodie decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1249011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[461,13429,7168,25215,6235,8312],"class_list":["post-1249009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-african","tag-defines","tag-hip","tag-jamz","tag-pop","tag-sarkodie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}