{"id":6344,"date":"2014-03-26T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T15:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2014-05-24T00:47:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T00:47:40","slug":"xumans-begge-senegalese-take-on-pharells-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/xumans-begge-senegalese-take-on-pharells-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Xuman&#8217;s Begge: Senegalese take on Pharell&#8217;s Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since it became a trend to produce localized videos of Pharell&#8217;s worldwide hit &#8216;Happy&#8217;, everybody had been waiting for &#8216;The African Happy&#8217;. Well, we soon got more than we&#8217;d ask for, from <a href=\"http:\/\/africasacountry.com\/happy-africans-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">all over the continent<\/a> and created by people from different walks of life (including expats in Kenya, if you were wondering what their lives look like).<\/p>\n<p>By now, it&#8217;s hard to surprise us anymore with your Happy, but our hearts beat a little faster by seeing that Xuman recorded a version. One of our favorite Senegalese emcees, and part of the team that does the <a href=\"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/jtrappe\/best-of-journal-rappe-avec-xuman-et-keyti\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal Rapp\u00e9<\/a>, Xuman didn&#8217;t just pick up a video camera and shoot, he went into the studio and added his vocals.<\/p>\n<p>The result is an instant hit, since it was posted yesterday the video already did 25,000 views &#8211; that&#8217;s more than the Journal Rapp\u00e9 does in six months. Check it out, and if you&#8217;re familiar with Senegalese music you may recognize a few people in here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it became a trend to produce localized videos of Pharell&#8217;s worldwide hit &#8216;Happy&#8217;, everybody had been waiting for &#8216;The African Happy&#8217;. Well, we soon got more than we&#8217;d ask for, from all over the continent and created by people from different walks of life (including expats in Kenya, if you were wondering what their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344"}],"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=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}