{"id":6507,"date":"2015-02-08T16:03:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T16:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/?p=6374"},"modified":"2015-03-16T19:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T19:25:28","slug":"metaphysicsprince-qwela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/metaphysicsprince-qwela\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysics releases Prince Qwela, the Mudzimu Mixtape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herbert Schwamborn a.k.a Metaphysics is credited for being one of the pioneers of hip hop in Zimbabwe. He has been in various hip hop groups such as\u00a0 Lethal language, A Peace of Ebony, Kataklizim and the current S\u00f6hne Mannheims which is among Germany&#8217;s most successful groups. Metaphysics is not only an Mc but also an activist; based in Germany, he frequently visits the motherland. Three years ago he started a campaign for the legilization of marijuana in Zimbabwe and also initiated an online petition called the Zimbabwe Diamond Trust, to push for the acceptance of <a href=\"\/metaphysics-talks-diamonds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbabwe to trade its diamond minerals<\/a> on the world market.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/zSselx1txiE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Metaphysics&#8217; latest project is entitled Prince Qwela, The Mudzimu Mixtape with 18 tracks. Antiquity is the first single off the Mudzimu mixtape. On the cover feauture two nationalistic figures: Mbuya Nehanda and Sekuru Kaguvi who both fought in the Shona rebellion and Zimbabwe&#8217;s first liberation struggle known as the Chimurenga and were subsequently executed as a result. Mudzimu is a Zimbabwean word for ancestral spirit or lion spirit, usually used in reference to the calling of ancient spirits from Shona cultures rich past.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.datpiff.com\/Prince-Qwela-Mudzimu-mixtape.636987.html\" target=\"_blank\">Download Mixtape at Datpiff.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s original defender of #Africanhiphop released a mixtape under his Prince Qwela moniker. It&#8217;s available now as a free download&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}