{"id":1744,"date":"2010-05-26T15:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2010-05-26T15:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T13:57:00","slug":"congo-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/congo-groove\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo Groove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pitcho.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1745 alignnone\" title=\"pitcho\" src=\"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pitcho-450x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe have known Pitcho, Fredy Massamba and Lexxus Legal for a while now. Living in different parts of the world, the three are now teaming up on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of DR Congo (while Fredy&#8217;s native, Congo Brazzaville, also celebrates its 50th independence day) under the joint flag of &#8216;Congo groove&#8217;.<br \/>\nFredy Massamba has been around the world with Les Tambours de Brazza, worked with the likes Zap Mama and Didier  Awadi and just released his album &#8216;Ethnophony&#8217; in 2009. Lexxus Legal from KMS is one of the pioneers of hip hop in Kinshasa, and Pitcho is a veteran of the Belgian hip hop scene, the latter just released a new album &#8216;Crise de negre&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Their first presentation together will take place on Friday May 28 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zuiderpershuis.be\/events.php?id=756&amp;parent=18\">Zuiderpershuis in Antwerp<\/a> (Belgium) and their tour will take them to Brussels, Paris and the Gabao Hip Hop festival in Libreville (Gabon). Soon we&#8217;ll post more news about Congo Groove. In the meantime check out their videos and if you&#8217;re near Antwerp on the 28th, don&#8217;t miss their first performance together!<br \/>\n<!--more-->Lexxus Legal ft Ekila &#8211; L&#8217;art de la guerre:<br \/>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7dJYaFfiIlo[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Pitcho &#8211; Anges noirs:<br \/>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pl6BY8l-twQ[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Fredy Massamba &#8211; Zonza:<br \/>\n[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IGdEkLRG15w[\/youtube] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have known Pitcho, Fredy Massamba and Lexxus Legal for a while now. Living in different parts of the world, the three are now teaming up on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of DR Congo (while Fredy&#8217;s native, Congo Brazzaville, also celebrates its 50th independence day) under the joint flag of &#8216;Congo groove&#8217;. Fredy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[219,382,391,79,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}