André Jahnoi is a Liverpool-born hip-hop artiste and organiser whose insurrectionary sound and philosophy are heavily influenced by his Afro-Jamaican heritage. He describes his music as decolonial, using lyricism as a means of challenging the babylon systems that bound the ways we imagine the world and our place in it.
Channelling inspirations ranging from Damian Marley to Lil Wayne to Walter Rodney, André's music combines Caribbean rhythm, wheel-and-come wordplay and radical Rastafari thought to provide the crucial soundtrack to the revolution, with love and liberation the key themes of his work.
His live sets integrate call-and-response battle cries borrowed from freedom movements across the globe to create a momentary oasis of connection and hope for crowds from Liverpool to New York to Colombia. Covering topics from love to liberation over drums from across the Afrikan diaspora, Jahnoi combines a braggadocious confidence with gentle vulnerability to take listeners on a journey through space, time and emotion.
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"i ride for my brothers and my sisters and all siblings, til this dutty corrupt system is all crumbling and sizzling, tell my children that i tried til I couldn't…"
