HipHop in Uganda is one genre of music that most fans considered dead because of reasons well known to them. During a press conference held at Kampala Sheraton Hotel on Friday last week, Godfrey Jeff Ekongot who is a legendary hip hop artist and one of the festival organizers confirmed that Hip-hop has never died. HipHop is alive and on June 28th, the Yenze HipHop Cultural Festival will happen at the enormous Cricket Oval, Lugogo.
Ekongot said while giving details about the festival that the Yenze Cultural Festival will be a groundbreaking event that merges music, art, dance, fashion, and technology and all other elements of Hip-hop.
The festival will have a whole line up of Hip-Hop players from rappers, dancers, graffiti artists and fashion designers among others and these will be both local and international acts. Hip-hop lovers should also expect live freestyle battles and cyphers, DJ turntable takeovers, and immersive hip-hop culture zones.
At the Press conference, Lagum the Rapper and King Hanny, a female hiphop artiste were also on the panel and according to Lagum, he said that he was excited and couldn’t wait for the Yenze Hip-Hop festival because it is an event he has anticipated for a while.
According to King Hanny, the festival will serve as a unifying platform, bringing together artists, industry leaders, and fans from diverse generations and backgrounds. “If we worked together, people would not say that hip-hop is dead.
Tickets for the festival are now available, with prices starting at UGX 30,000 for regular tickets and UGX 1,000,000 for VIP tables.
