{"id":8043,"date":"2018-01-19T03:44:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T03:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/fokn-bois\/"},"modified":"2018-01-19T03:44:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T03:44:13","slug":"fokn-bois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/fokn-bois\/","title":{"rendered":"FOKN Bois"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:1280px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe hidef\" id=\"WYL_xhKbiYohn6k\"><div id=\"lyte_xhKbiYohn6k\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FxhKbiYohn6k%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xhKbiYohn6k\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FxhKbiYohn6k%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"1280\" height=\"700\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:1280px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Das Duo besteht aus den ghanaischen und ghanaisch-rum\u00e4nischen Musikern <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/m3nsa\">M3nsa<\/a> und  <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wanlov\">Wanlov the Kubolor<\/a>. Sie machen &#8220;Gospel Porn&#8221; &#8211; und sind damit nach eigener Aussage &#8220;<span class=\"bcTruncateMore\"><span class=\"peekaboo-text\">the most celebrated Ghanaian music duo in the world due to their most unconventional way of entertaining with ingeniously tasteful shock lyrics, revolutionary performance art &amp; indulgent progressive sounds&#8221;. <\/span><\/span>Seit 2006 machen die beiden zusammen Musik &#8211; geographisch und musikalisch irgendwo zwischen London, Accra, Budapest, zwischen Dub, Rap und Global Beat\/Pop. Mit Texten auf Pidgin Englisch und voller Ironie gegen\u00fcber <a href=\"https:\/\/foknbois.bandcamp.com\/track\/want-to-be-white\">rassistischen Zuschreibungen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/foknbois.bandcamp.com\/track\/thank-god-were-not-a-nigerians\">nationalen Identit\u00e4ten<\/a> und szene-typischen Posen. Dar\u00fcber hinaus sind beide Musiker auch mit Soloprojekten unterwegs.<\/p>\n<p>Der hier verlinkte Musikfilm <em>Coz of Moni 1<\/em> geh\u00f6rt zum gleichnamigen <a href=\"https:\/\/foknbois.bandcamp.com\/album\/coz-ov-moni-o-s\">Album<\/a> aus dem Jahre 2010 und trug erheblich zur Bekanntheit der FOKN Bois bei.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.wdr.de\/radio\/cosmo\/musik\/global-pop-lexikon\/fokn_bois104.html\">Dieser Artikel<\/a> des Radiosenders Cosmo versammelt ein paar Infos und Hintergr\u00fcnde, einige Tracks sind <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/foknbois\">hier <\/a>zu finden und eine Discographie gibt es <a href=\"https:\/\/foknbois.bandcamp.com\/\">hier.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duo consists of Ghanaian and Ghanaian-Romanian musicians M3nsa and Wanlov the Kubolor. They do &#8220;Gospel Porn&#8221; &#8211; making them, in their own words, &#8220;the most celebrated Ghanaian music duo in the world due to their most unconventional way of entertaining with ingeniously tasteful shock lyrics, revolutionary performance art &amp; indulgent progressive sounds.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[459,413],"tags":[393,387,448,441,442,363],"class_list":{"0":"post-8043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"category-videos-en","9":"tag-africa","10":"tag-empowerment-en","11":"tag-nationalism","12":"tag-pop-culture","13":"tag-popular-music","14":"tag-racism"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois.jpg",480,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois.jpg",480,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois.jpg",480,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois.jpg",480,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois.jpg",480,360,false],"bunyad-small":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois.jpg",150,113,false],"bunyad-medium":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois.jpg",450,338,false],"bunyad-full":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois.jpg",480,360,false],"bunyad-viewport":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois.jpg",480,360,false],"bunyad-768":["https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/fokn-bois.jpg",480,360,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"glokal e.V.","author_link":"https:\/\/www.mangoes-and-bullets.org\/en\/author\/glokal\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The duo consists of Ghanaian and Ghanaian-Romanian musicians M3nsa and Wanlov the Kubolor. 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