feeling blessed to have made it this far into our beatmaking journey. enjoy this compilation of very different sounds -- endeavoring to solidify a style. enjoy references to classic NY hip hop, old Ghanaian song, lofi, and more.

my heart? justtake1 [v.3] | ny style beat

Tell me this doesn't fill your heart with joy. Motion picture forthcoming.

Sample is the beloved Eartha Kitt's interview on Love and Compromise, as well as Ralphie Choo's "Juan Salvador Gaviota"

reasons

Short little 8-bar loop, went from a lofi beat to a weird trap beat. It works, though. 

Non-Sample Beat

dissoci8

She's cute, she's sparkly, she's sexy, she's enchanting, she catches your eye at the club and you don't know if you want her or want to be her.

Sample is 11am by Melo-Zed.

always, i

like NONE other [nanaama X NONE]

The Word to the people! A little UGK/Outkast type take on the Dirty South Style Study. Sample is Not About Us by Bishop Noel Jones and his choir. Imagine pullin up to a red light and hearing this in someone else's speakers -- you'd be intrigued for sure.

glowrious

First ever Sample Beat, featuring Koo Anim's Yaree Ye Ya. An atmospheric, moody vibe.

a kool ting

A slow house-adjacent beat with bouncy keys and a bouncier bassline.

model walk

stargirl (studio rap beat)

[bonus track] stargirl

love reaching the stars, music gracing the continents. influences from soul, Sudanese music, afrobeats, alte, alternative hiphop, and more.

lullaby 4 lonestars

tiger's eye

azza

full send [116BPM]

yuu cant imitate me [ft. lowkeii]

nanaamapiano to the world! phonk, afrobeats, and amapiano. varied influences and styles.

returns, returns [with TC] [130BPM]

First foray into sound design and scoring for visual media. Originally made for GamesWithoutMusic and the Baby Driver trailer.

past eden [video game design]

where ya goin? [video game design]

vroom vroom [Baby Driver 2]

if you! [Baby Driver 1]

the synthesis of soul, culture, silliness, and stardust -- aka music in progress. a beatmaker in the making. influences lie in house, highlife, and alt r&b/hip hop

contact: amakwabs@gmail.com

nanaama is local to Raleigh, is Ghanaian, rooted firmly in the diaspora. As part of various brass ensembles, jazz bands, choirs, church groups, and even a steel-drum band, her first foray into digital music is one informed by her long musical background.

Her music is for the people who try to sing every part of the song -- bassline, harmony, drum fills, adlibs -- all at once. For those unaffiliated with genre in the same way one may be with social construction, normativity, in other words, for those who live genreless. For those who cling to culture and community, instead. For diaspora in every way it can mean. For the people who love to drown in a song. For those who adore weird sounds and silly moments. For those whom hair is a forum for intimacy, and matching grills a goal. For the girlies with blue notebooks and beads in their hair.

nanaama

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