AKA, a popular South African rapper who helped create a brand of hip-hop that melds local sounds with Western influences, was fatally shot on Friday night outside a restaurant in the coastal city of Durban. The police said that AKA, 35, had been walking to his car on a popular nightlife strip shortly after 10 […]
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Phyo Zeya Thaw, Burmese Pro-democracy Rapper, 41, Is Executed
U Phyo Zeya Thaw, a Burmese hip-hop pioneer whose democracy-affirming lyrics led to a career in Parliament and, after Myanmar’s military coup last year, as a resistance leader, was executed on Saturday in Yangon, Myanmar, by the country’s military junta. He was 41. His execution, and those of three other political prisoners, were announced in […]