{"id":3118,"date":"2011-11-29T15:16:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2011-11-29T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:16:46","slug":"alesh-reveil-the-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/alesh-reveil-the-awakening\/","title":{"rendered":"Alesh &#8211; Reveil (the Awakening)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alesh is one of our favorite new names on the Congo hip hop scene. The emcee\/slam artist from Kisangani (eastern Congo) released his first album &#8216;Mort dans l&#8217;ame&#8217; last year. &#8216;Bana Kin&#8217; was on the African hip hop radio playlist for weeks and we ran into Alesh at SKIFF in Goma last year (watch him in the <a href=\"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/africanhiphopnews\/hip-hop-from-eastern-congo-salaam-kivu-all-stars\/\">&#8216;Saisir l&#8217;avenir&#8217;<\/a> video).<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of the 2011 presidential elections, Alesh unleashed this new video, shot by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicwax.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nomadic Wax<\/a> crew who traveled to Congo earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/alesh-mort.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3121 alignnone\" title=\"Alesh - Le mort dans l'ame\" src=\"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/alesh-mort-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Reveil\/the Awakening&#8217; is a critical look at the condition of Alesh&#8217;s mother country, released in a time where many popular artists refrained from any political comments, instead recording songs in favour of Joseph Kabila&#8217;s presidential campaign. The video was filmed in different parts of the country, including Baniele, a squatter area on the outskirts of Kinshasa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alesh is one of our favorite new names on the Congo hip hop scene. The emcee\/slam artist from Kisangani (eastern Congo) released his first album &#8216;Mort dans l&#8217;ame&#8217; last year. &#8216;Bana Kin&#8217; was on the African hip hop radio playlist for weeks and we ran into Alesh at SKIFF in Goma last year (watch him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,31],"tags":[122,338,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118"}],"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=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}