I first heard this tune at a party in the Bronx, Summer 2005 or maybe ’06– I don’t remember exactly. Big up all Ghanaian massive in the Bronx. I can recall a friend telling me at the time that “You May Kiss Your Bride” was a smash in Accra, on the radio, in bars and clubs, at football marches, and of course at weddings.  This clip also appears on a VCD compilation titled Ghana Vs Nigeria: Super Hits Videos –purchased in a street market in Freetown in December ’09. By the way, if you dig this track don’t sleep on Akwaaba Music’s Move It Chaleh — more recent hiplife goodness among other things (like Monou Sidibe’s incredible “Mali Mousso.”)

Wayne killed it last night at Que Bajo?! – Reggaeton book release afterparty, and introduced me to a bunch of people – one filmmaker Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi just made a film (look up 4 di preview) about the Ghanian hiplife group V.I.P. (Vision in Progress) titled Home Grown: HipLife In Ghana and it has already been screened from New York to Los Angeles.

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