Born
Cyril-Alex Gockel, C-Real is a Ghanaian emcee from Hohoe in the Upper
Volta region of Ghana. He was runner-up in 2009's Channel O Emcee Africa
competition, losing to Zimbabwe's Zeus who was on Big Brother Africa
and Botswana's Cibil Nyte.
The album EMCEO is themed
on a rapper's dual nature as a businessman and an emcee. Featured on
the album are Ghanaian heavyweights like E.L. (who did the hook on
Sarkodie's You Go Kill Me), Efya, M.anifest and Channel O's J.town.
Opeimu and Hewale are two
songs from the album. On the hiphop-ish Opeimu, he features Channel O
nominated rapper, M.anifest while E.L. delivers a strong and touching
hook on the latter which is named for the Twi word for strength, a
ballad to encourage everyone passing through hard times and struggling
for relevance.
A video for Hewale is to
be shot in a forthnight in Accra, Ghana. Be on the lookout for more
materials from C-Real as he takes over the world, one rap verse at a
time.
The album is available on iTunes, Amazon and soon to be on Spinlet
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