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Sampa the Great is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Ecca Vandal, 2Pac, Mos Def, Chance the Rapper and Lauryn Hill. Those roots explain a lot about how Sampa the Great arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Little Simz, Rapsody, Leikeli47, Noname and Loyle Carner, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Estelle, Ecca Vandal, Billie Eilish and Ezra Collective, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Sampa the Great, reaching back through Ecca Vandal and forward to Estelle. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Sampa Tembo, known professionally as Sampa the Great, is a Zambian singer, rapper, and songwriter. Between 2014 and 2020, she was based in Australia. Her debut solo album, The Return, peaked at No. 12 on the ARIA Albums Chart. At the 2019 ARIA Music Awards she won Best Hip Hop Release for her second single, "Final Form". In the following year she won the same category for The Return, as well as Best Female Artist and Best Independent Release. In March 2020 Sampa became the first artist to win the Australian Music Prize twice: for Birds and the Bee9 and The Return. The artist was based back in Zambia from late 2020, where she issued her second studio album, As Above, So Below.
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Sampa the Great connections
Sampa the Great grew out of Ecca Vandal, 2Pac, Mos Def and Chance the Rapper, shares an orbit with Little Simz, Rapsody, Leikeli47 and Noname, went on to shape Estelle, Ecca Vandal, Billie Eilish and Ezra Collective. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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