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Fanti Love Song Official HD Video mightymensa 4,994 views Album: No.1 Mango Street http://j.mp/ozl2yn Directed by : Sam Kessie Cinematography : John David Devirgiliis
M3NSA Live at VOA 2 NO ONE KNOWS mightymensa 698 views Part 2 of M3NSA's special Acoustic session with David Vandy, Live at the Voice Of America Studios. Washington DC
M3NSA VOA 1 AFROFUNKIN' mightymensa 461 views Part 1 of M3NSA's special Acoustic session with David Vandy, Live at the Voice Of America Studios. Washington DC
Anaa live @ BBC Lo Res mightymensa 210 views M3nsa performs Anaa (No.1 Mango Street)with Wanlov the Kubolor live at the BBC studios, London
BEHIND THE SCENES . 'FANTI LOVE SONG' mightymensa 1,031 views Catch a glimpse of what happened behind the scenes for the filming of 'Fanti Love Song', off M3NSA's critically acclaimed 'No.1 Mango Street' album released earlier this ye...
M3NSA 'NO ONE KNOWS' mightymensa 27,722 views No.1 Mango Street Album http://tinyurl.com/6d2266o Directed by: Sam Kessie Cinematography : Ross Sebek Produced by :Lane Wooder
COZ OV MONI (Long Promo).mov mightymensa 4,140 views The world's first ever pidgen musical film! Starring the FOKN Bois ( M3NSA & Wanlov the Kubolor ). Produced by Panji Anoff & directed by King Luu. Coming soon into your eye...
M3NSA Go Ga Live mightymensa 4,576 views Most engaging live performer, M3NSA Performs "Go Ga'' Produced by DJ Richy Pitch, live with M3NSA's band ''Late Commas'' at Ghana's most happening night club ''Rockstone's...
M3NSA ADJUMA (WORK!! HUSTLE!) mightymensa 19,179 views First music video off M3NSA'S No.1 Mango Street Album. ADJUMA captures the very essense of what the hustle is, for the average Ghanaian! Enjoyable to watch and inspiring...
M3nsa live @ Cargo mightymensa 1,634 views M3NSA performing ''When it Rains'' from the upcoming ''Weather Report'' album at Cargo, Shoreditch on the 5th Nov, with Wanlov and Friends

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From one half of FOKN BOIS, the renowned Ghanaian duo behind world-wide acclaimed short film Coz Ov Moni comes No.1 Mango Street -- the international debut album by MC, singer and producer M3NSA.

Having conceptualised and performed on the hilarious Coz Ov Moni (known as the world's first pidgin musical) with Wanlov Kubolor, and produced the bulk of its soundtrack, 2010 has been an incredible highlight in M3NSA's 12-year music career.
The film itself premiered in the UK and the US, has been accepted at the Rio International Film Festival (Brazil), and at the Pan African Film Festivals in Los Angeles and Cannes.
It was screened at the Black August Festival in New York, where M3NSA blessed the stage with Hip-hop icons Dead Prez and Talib Kweli.

It is also partly the inspiration for No. 1 Mango Street, a nostalgic yet contemporary take on the place M3NSA grew up in Accra. Here, at a young age he produced songs for the legendary founder of Hip-Life, Reggie Rockstone, (a blend of Highlife and Hip-Hop) and also released the single "If You Don't Know", nominated for four awards by the pan-African music channel, Channel O.

Opening a 14-track set, the title song concisely rounds up the many musical influences of Ghana's number one beat maker: Nu-jazz, Soul, Hip-hop, Afro beat and High-Life delicately underscore sweet harmonies with his guitarist cousin Ryan Ansah, yearning for the place he still calls home. M3NSA paraphrases, "I talk about going back to pick up from where I left things at, and where everything started. It's about acknowledging exactly where I come from and bringing all those experiences with me."

M3NSA's father Tumi Ebo Ansah was a guitarist in the British afro-pop collective Osibisa, while his mother taught him how to play the piano when he was eight. Now living in London, he enjoys the unique global positioning that cosmopolitan city allows. And No.1 reflects this:
From the breezy pensiveness of the first single, the Nigerian soul singer Asa-sampled 'No One Knows', to the party-starter Adjuma ("work") which could easily be as large as erstwhile Hip-hop club anthem 'A Milli' was. Just with the benefit of a dialect switch here and there.
With snatches of Twi and Pidgen, the clever rhyme schemes and narratives are what make this album universally relatable. Says M3NSA, "You don't have to be into African hip-hop to listen to the album, you just have to be into music."

That wide-reaching relevance will be the reason why you may have heard M3NSA's work on legendary North London producer/DJ Richy Pitch's Ghana-inspired Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch LP (on which he wrote 6 tracks). And also why you will have seen him opening shows for Wu-Tang Clan, The Roots, Little Brother and the Gorillaz. Not to mention recently rocking the mic with Damon Albarn, The Gorillaz, Tony Allen and Amadou and Mariam at the Africa Express events in France and Spain.

No.1 Mango Street is one of those albums which will help bring to the menu what Hip-hop has been missing for a long time -- an authentic, everyday perspective which made the genre fun and enlightening at the same time.

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