American hip hop artiste, singer and songwriter, Gin says the misconception around Hip Hop music being negative should be addressed.
Falling in love with the genre as a young child, she argues there is a lot of positivity in the Hip Hop genre. “There is a lot of positivity in Hip Hop and it is actually felt more in the underground scene and that is actually what I gravitated towards,” she shared with Y107.9FM’s Dorothy Cornelius on the Weekend Rush show.
As a Hip Hop artiste, she has always wanted to put out the positive energy out there through her music. And with happenings in recent times especially, she believes the positivity of the genre it is definitely needed more than ever now.
Finding her calling, she put together a masterful piece titled ‘Spiritual Bars’ on September 18, 2018. as her first album. “The album is basically about me finding myself and after its release in 2018 I developed an international fan base and started touring South Africa and the Middle East.”
Gin had a great time sharing the positivity of Hip Hop with the rest of the world, and shot some music videos while doing so.
She disclosed that she wanted to tour Ghana after visiting South Africa but the lockdown put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus stopped her. Gin however hopes to visit Ghana next year and share some positive aspects of Hip Hop with lovers of the genre.
Although she is open to working with any Ghanaian artiste, Gin is highly interested in collaborating with MzVee, “she is awesome.”
Hip hop culture has a bad reputation in some quarters, mostly because of its association with rap. The two have been bundled together with a range of negative connotations: bad language, misogyny, glorifying crime, violence and drug use.
But according to the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music’s Dr Alexander Crooke, disregarding it without seeing its potential does everyone in society a disservice.
Hip hop is a ‘positive and generous force ‘ that school counsellors, psychologists and social workers are now using as a tool to promote mental health, he says.
