Before all of this, D-Black da Ghana Bwouy between
December 2008 and July 2009 dropped two major singles off his joint mixtape
album ‘Target Practice’ with ex-big brother Africa housemate,Kwaku-T
The self executive produced album which was marketed by D-Black’s “Black Avenue Works” firm boasted the singles “Move” which was nominated in the Best West African Category at the 2009 Channel O Music Awards in South Africa and “Breathe” ft. Jayso which received numerous nods at the Ghana Music Awards, Channel O Music Video Awards, African Music Awards and more.
The self executive produced album which was marketed by D-Black’s “Black Avenue Works” firm boasted the singles “Move” which was nominated in the Best West African Category at the 2009 Channel O Music Awards in South Africa and “Breathe” ft. Jayso which received numerous nods at the Ghana Music Awards, Channel O Music Video Awards, African Music Awards and more.
Rapping in only the English dialect
fused with pidgin English , before his solo career, the D-Black and Kwaku-t duo
were the first and only hip hop artists to be nominated for a Ghana Music
Award in it’s eleven year history, rapping in English, with their music Video
‘Breathe’ directed by Gyo of Phamous Philms winning the Best Video of the Year
Award 2010 and nominated for Best Hip hop song of the Year
D-Black snagged a whooping 27 award
nominations between 2009 and 2011.
The first at the 2009 Channel O Music
Video Awards for Most Gifted West Music Video for ‘Move’, the first music video
off the ‘Target Practice’ album. Following this nomination the D-Black &
Kwaku-t duo were nominated at the Ghana Music Awards in 2010 for hiphop song of
the year and Music Video of the year, winning the award for music video of the
year for the video for ‘Breathe’. Soon afterwards the duo were again nominated
at the 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards in South Africa, leading the Ghanaian
nomination list and attaining the position of the second highest most nominated
african at the awards ceremony with nominations for “Most Gifted Hip Hop Video”
and “Most Gifted Video of the Year” again for “Breathe”.
At this point the duo begun
recording solo albums with D-Black releasing his first single ‘Somebody’ ft.
Kwabena Kwabena a month after the 2010 Ghana Music Awards. ‘Somebody’ was an
instant smash hit in Ghana and soon after, the self directed music video
premiered on MTV Base introducing D-Black as a solo artist to the rest of Africa.
2010 was the beginning of a
successful career for the young entrepreneur as D-Black snagged two nominations
as a solo artist at the 2010 Sound City Music Video Awards in Lagos, Nigeria
for ‘Best Collaboration in a Music Video’ for his “Somebody” song/video and
‘Sound City Freshest Video’ for his “Believe” Music Video as well as winning at
the 2010 African Music Awards, U.K for Best African Music Video for “Breathe”.
Also grabbing a whooping five
nominations at the 4Syte Music Video Awards 2010 in Ghana and winning two of
them in the categories of “Best Collaboration” and “Best Storyline” in a Music
Video.
The man voted by MNet Africa as
Africa’s 2nd Best Rapper for 2010 and 6th Most
Stylish Male Celebrity for 2010 finally dropped his much awaited debut solo
album on the 24th of September 2010 titled ‘Music, Love
& Life”.
An incredible album launch party in
Accra sealed his place as the leading anglophone hip hop act in Ghana that
year.
“Music is the first love of my life
and this album is music from the heart, mind and soul,” D-Black says. I believe
in African unity and collaborations so this album has a lot of collaborations
with artists from around the world.
This is only the beginning for me,
Ghana and Africa as a whole. This is my first album and i’m amazed at the
response i have received so far. My first commercial release was barely 2 years
ago and i give all thanks to God up above for bringing me this far said D-Black
to the press after the release of his album.
On the 24th of September 2010,
D-Black da Ghana Bwouy released his debut solo album titled ‘Music, Love &
Life’ off his Black Avenue Muzik label and begin his musical journey into the
mainstream music scene in Ghana.
The Album’s first single ‘Somebody’
was officially released six months before the album’s release on the 2nd of
April 2010. The song “Somebody” made it into the Ghanaian top 10 Charts on 9
Radio stations around the country barely 3 weeks after its’ release.
Following the huge success of his
first single, D-Black followed up in August with an even bigger record “Get on
da dance floor” ft. Dr. Cryme. This club banger true to its title hit the dance
floors heavy all around the country and Africa almost immediately. The award
winning video for this banger of a tune was released in November 2010 with a
follow up remix to the song released in February 2011 where D-Black featured
Nigeria’s Ice Prince & Kel, South Africa’s HHP, Efya and Dr. Cryme from
Ghana.
D-Black featured on this album,
Wyclef Jean, Buffalo Souljah (Zimbabwe), 2 Face Idibia (Nigeria), Dr.Cryme,
Reggie Rockstone, Sante, X.O, Ayigbe Edem, Tinny, Sarkodie, Kwaku-t, Guru,
Iwan, Efya, Samini and Kwabena Kwabena (Ghana) and worked with some of Ghana’s
most talented producers including U.S.A based billboard chart topping producer
Coptic and also Kwam1, Piesie , Killmatic , Sammi Blacc, M.A. , Bra Kevin,
Female producer ; Chantelle Myers , Green Gafacci , E.L, Jounide and Waxi.
Music, Love & Life received six
nominations at the 2011 Ghana Music Awards with ‘Get on da dancefloor’ winning
the prestigious Hiphop song of the Year award at the 2011 Ghana Music Awards
and a few months after D-Black snagged a Best International Artist nomination
at the 2011 BET Awards in Los Angeles, a win at the Ghana Gospel Industry
Awards for Alternative Gospel Video of the year for ‘Somebody’ and a nod at the
2011 Channel O Music Video Awards in South Africa for Best West African Video
for the smash hit ‘Get on da dancefloor’ .
Having been appointed United Nations (U.N) Celebrity Ambassador in Ghana for the cause of Environmental degradation, D-Black collaborated with the award winning crooner and BET Award winner 2 face Idibia (Nigeria) and fellow Ghanaian rappers J-town and Kwaku-t on “STOP IT”, a song delved around the realization of the United Nations Millennium Developmental Goals which include HIV/AIDS awareness, Poverty and Domestic Violence/Women Empowerment.
Having been appointed United Nations (U.N) Celebrity Ambassador in Ghana for the cause of Environmental degradation, D-Black collaborated with the award winning crooner and BET Award winner 2 face Idibia (Nigeria) and fellow Ghanaian rappers J-town and Kwaku-t on “STOP IT”, a song delved around the realization of the United Nations Millennium Developmental Goals which include HIV/AIDS awareness, Poverty and Domestic Violence/Women Empowerment.
D-Black saw this song as his message
to society, Ghanaians, Africans and the world as a whole. He says “Joint
efforts like this make the world a better place to live in”. He was
re-appointed in 2011 as United Nations Celebrity Ambassador to fight “Hunger in
Africa”.
D-Black was featured on the 2010 BET
(BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION) HIPHOP AWARDS CYPHER with 6 other Ghanaian
rappers; Reggie Rockstone, Sarkodie, Edem, Tinny, Kwaku-t & Baby G. This
was the first time in the history of the BETHIPHOP AWARDS, making them the
first West African Artists to be featured on the BET CYPHER.
This historical feat was directed by
BET’S Lilian Blankson and aired on the 16TH of October 2010 on the BET
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK all over the world to audiences in the U.K, Ireland,
Middle East, Australia and Africa. Other artists that have been featured on the
BET CYPHER include Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Fabolous, Ace Hood, Juelz
Santana, Common, KRS 1, Ice Cube, Jadakiss, K’Naan and more.
The broadcast of this cypher opened
doors for the young rapper and expanded his fan base internationally.
Watch the video below:
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