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Video – Blitz The Ambassador Native Sun Short Film

soulrocks — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:13:54 +0000

Native Sun • A short film by Blitz the Ambassador & Terence Nance from MVMT on Vimeo.

The short film corresponding to Blitz the Ambassador‘s Native Sun LP is now viewable here online and no disrespect, Yeezy? But in the category of “Short Films Produced By Rappers” I’m not sure all of your lights can compete with this African boy saga. All other rap video directors: you are so fired. Film by Blitz the Ambassador and Terence Nance, photography by Shawn Peters.

Blitz the Ambassador

soulrocks — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:40:16 +0000

Born and raised in Accra, Ghana, Blitz the Ambassador grew up to the sounds of Afro-Beat, Highlife, Jazz, and Motown. But when his older brother introduced him to Public Enemy’s classic album, It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, as a young boy, he was changed forever. “I had never heard young Black people express themselves in that way before,” recalls Blitz.
After moving to the U.S. to attend college, Blitz continued to hone his musical skills, releasing several mixtapes as an undergrad at Kent State University. After graduation, Blitz moved to New York City to pursue his dream. In NYC, Blitz began to record, Stereotype, a live-instrument-heavy musical exploration, that tests the limits of Hip Hop. Drawing from his diverse musical background, he dove into the project with explicit intent of changing Hip Hop forever. In order to achieve the live sound he was looking for, he formed a band, The Embassy Ensemble, and brushed off his own djembe skills.
After three long years of recording, Blitz took the album to several major labels. Getting the major label run around one to many times, Blitz decided go it alone.
“One day I just said, ‘Fuck it’,” recounts Blitz. “I was tired of record labels telling me I had to be like somebody else. So I came home and wrote, Rememebering the Future,” Blitz explains. This epic, instrument-laden, track illustrates Blitz’ refusal to be a Stereotypical rapper. The chorus of the song is, ‘I am who I am / and you can never change me / Reaching for the sun / remembering the future.’
Now, his label, Embassy MVMT is proving that Hip Hop fans are ready for the future. Hungry for a change, and sick-and-tired of the juvenile radio hits, Blitz the Ambassador is here to give the people what they want.

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Video – Blitz the Ambassador – Best I Can ft. Corneille

soulrocks — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:09:18 +0000

All Afro-everything renaissance man Blitz the Ambassador drops his new LP Native Sun today and in case the full streaming version with video montage wasn’t enough to sell it, he dropped this video too! (Sidebar: what a difference a plane ticket makes. Based on this and the Baloji joints, I don’t care if you are from Yonkers–from now on ALL rappers should shoot their videos in Africa.) It makes sense though, cause this song seems like kind of a mission statement for the ambitious goals Blitz set for himself with Native Sun–doing the whole damn diaspora proud–and it does not disappoint.

Video – Blitz the Ambassador – Native Sun (Full Album Streaming)

soulrocks — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:19:18 +0000

Native Sun, the upcoming highlife meets conscious rap meets afrobeat meets everything magnum opus from Blitz the Ambassador is now streaming in its entirety online here at soulROCKS Click to listen

Video – Blitz The Ambassador: Out Da Box interview

soulrocks — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:49:08 +0000

This past Friday, Out Da Box TV dropped the latest clip from their weekly interview series. In this edition, they sit down with Ghanaian emcee Blitz The Ambassador. Blitz speaks on hip-hop’s influence on Africa, the types of music that make up his sound, as well as the stereotypes Africa as a whole continue to face to this day. The clip also gives a sample of Blitz’ live show with his band, The Embassy Ensemble.

Video – Blitz the Ambassador “Something To Believe”

soulrocks — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:06:28 +0000

Something to Believe • Blitz the Ambassador from MVMT on Vimeo.

Directed by Terrence Nance, this vid captures the detachment we struggle with when thinking about the world’s large, overwhelming issues.