Submission | Lincoln The President – HANDE

by Phil Chard

New submission from Harare based rapper Lincoln The President titled Hande. The song is an ode to hard and grimy looped beats from East Coast American rap during the Hip Hop Golden age. Much like the songs of that period the beat is coupled with some great rapping skills as Lincoln unleashes an impressive arsenal of alliterations, wordplay and multisyllabic flows in both English and Shona,

Lincoln Ngorima Aka Lincoln the President is a Zimbabwean born Mc /Rapper/Songwriter & Poet raised in the high density suburb of Chitungwiza. The second child in a family of three children. The Prez was born a fiend for melodies &rhythm which found him joining the choirs both at school &church. (Yes choirs) He met with Hip hop through his brother an avid listener, fell in love with the level of expression (which I feel no other genre can match).Eminem, Ludacris & Lupe Fiasco were some of his first influences. This triggered an additional element that is lyricism, carefully conjugated verbs &nouns assimilated into rhythm &melodies to produce beautiful art for ones listening pleasure. My first local influence was &is my older brother Livingstone (AyyDawg) Ngorima .Already immersed in the art he was writing verses at a time I could even grasp the bare basics. So my lesson I got by playing his little shadow like any little brother. Growing into it I was drawn to the art of freestyling, impromptu to spontaneously time your thoughts to the beat which was & is still a power point before I found that which is mightier than the sword. Recorded my first track in 2012 starting up a chain of events that led to a lot of performances, cyphers and the discovery of spoken word through my fellow artist in a coalition by the name "VeKwaSeKe" which comprises of me Aspaya&Kevin Munetsi.With this collective we managed to organise a monthly open mic event Dream elevation movement. Along with Peace in the hoods events, local clubs ,Bocapa shows in 2014 I managed to perform at Shoko festival alongside the country's top tier in the music industry which I consider a marker for me to take things professionally. Participated in the Next level tour of Zim which found me collaborating with American counter parts in performances. Currently I’m about to release my debut project a compilation mixtape" Peasant's Son" early July