◇ image via WikipediaAkua Naru
Akua Naru is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Rubblebucket. Those roots explain a lot about how Akua Naru arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Talib Kweli, Hieroglyphics, Dilated Peoples, Guru and Zion I, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Altogether the chart holds 21 connections around Akua Naru, reaching back through Rubblebucket. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Akua Naru, is a rapper from Connecticut, United States. Her hip-hop music incorporates styles including soul and jazz. In 2018 she began archiving the achievements of women in hip-hop at Harvard University as a Nasir Jones Hip-hop Fellow at the Hip-hop Archive Research Institute. Naru has been particularly successful in Europe, where she lived from 2008 until joining the music faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2024. Presently, she holds a Pavel Machotka Chair in Creative Studies at Porter College.
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Akua Naru connections
Akua Naru grew out of Rubblebucket, shares an orbit with Talib Kweli, Hieroglyphics, Dilated Peoples and Guru. 21 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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