Is Dreamville rapper coming to Kenya?
Abbas Hamad popularly known as Bar has hinted on an upcoming performance in the country,Bas who is signed to J Cole’s Dreamville label took to Twitter to announce his trip however he has not yet revealed the date.
“Kenya, Sudan, & South Africa. I got good news coming,” the Sudanese-American rapper wrote on Friday.
Kenya, Sudan, & South Africa 😁😁😁 I got good news coming.
— Bas (@Bas) November 2, 2018
currently plottin my next trip back https://t.co/WcnseG9CdY
— Bas (@Bas) November 2, 2018
Bas had previously tweeted that he wanted to perform in Africa,with many Kenyan fans flooding the replies section asking him to come.
Kenyan fans its like Bas heard your cry so get your dancing shoes ready.
“I’ll go anywhere in Africa. Dead-ass got December blocked off for just that reason, he went a head to ask his fans to hook him up with hyped promoter ,”Somebody plug me with the most active promoters in your city,” he posted in August.
It is expected that the show will take place before the end of the year.Bas, from Queens, New York, is signed to Dreamville Records and Interscope Records.
His first studio album Last Winter was released on April 29, 2014.
It was followed by followed by Too High to Riot that was released on March 4, 2016 before the August 2018 release of Milky Way.
His latest album debuted at number 35 on the Billboard 200, selling 13,150 album-equivalent units in the first week.
Bas has a keen, 21st century artist’s understanding of how to grow and maintain a loyal audience. The genial conversational style that the Dreamville rapper has cultivated between himself and his most ardent fans comes naturally because it’s the same one he uses when talking to close friends. One particular shorthand that his supporters have latched onto is the word “milk,” both he and they use the word liberally.
Abbas “Bas” Hamad was raised in Queens and was deliberate about being close to home for the release of his third studio effort, aptly titled Milky Way, released this August but his story began in Paris, where he was born to Sudanese parents. His father’s work as a diplomat led to an itinerant lifestyle and the family rounded out by his mother, sister, and brothers moved back and forth between France and Qatar before settling in New York when Bas was eight-years-old.
So while he does consider himself a New York rapper, it has more to do with the city’s melting-pot reputation than loyalty to regional signifier.