ONE SMALL SEED MAGAZINE Issue #29 Digital 04 THE BEST OF | Page 55

Hip-hop artist Blitz
‘The Ambassador’s’
musical journey led
him under the shadow
of Lady Liberty to New
York a decade ago. He
was imbued with the
sounds of afrobeat
and the highlife
music indigenous
to his native Ghana,
and inspired by the
brazen voices of ’90s
afrocentric rap. It
has since garnered
respect with the blend

of African music and
hip-hop that he calls
‘afrohop’, and has
worked with artists like
The Roots, Mos Def
and Talib Kweli, even
getting a shoutout
from legendary rapper
Chuck D of Public
Enemy on his latest
album Native Sun.
Rob Cockcroft chats
to the 28-year-old
Ambassador between
soundchecks at the
Tempo Rives Festival
in France.