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baby please don't go

Erica

Buzzie

egwejohn

Smooth

Hip co from Liberia.  From Takun J's 2012 album "My Way".

Game Time

Sweet Love Ft Takun J

A human rights message for Human Rights Day, in partnership with the European Union.

A Human Rights Message

One Love (Reggae Mix)

CECILE - MISSING U - MONTE CARLO RIDDIM - PURPLE SKUNK-21ST-1

Got arrested (twice), set up, and beat up over this song when it first came out.  Gotta speak the truth though.

Police Man

04. CHRIS MARTIN - PAPER LOVING

Busy signal - come over

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Reminisce ft. Takun J and Colorful Will

"Life is Good" available on July 17th!

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Life Is Good

Bye Baby

"God Forgives, I Don't" new album available now. http://smarturl.it/gfidlxit

Rick Ross - "Diced Pineapples" (ft. Wale, Drake)

She Likes It

A new track from the upcoming album, My Way.

Ya Ga Yo

My Way

Everybody pot boiling, my pot can't boil.  Pot Boiling Remix by Xpolay featuring Romeo Lee, JD Donzo, Luckay Buckay, Takun J, and Bentman tha Don.

Pot Boiling Remix ft. Romeo Lee, JD Donzo, Luckay Buckay, Takun J,  Bentman tha Don

From the album My Way, Takun J featuring Bentman tha Don

Shame on Them

Was inspired to write this song after a visit to THINK, a nonprofit that helps girls who have been sexually abused. 

Song for Hawa

Featuring Peaches.  We have to stand up for our women.

Where You At? (Stand Up)

Rihanna "Pour It Up Remix" feat. Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Juicy J & T.I.
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Pour It Up Remix

Track off the "My Way" album.  Takun J ft. Soul Smiter and Scientific

Running

J. Cole - Let Nas Down (REMIX) feat. Nas

"This is the way we all relate to one another easily, through the Hip Co.  It’s the way we talk everyday, put into song; it has great potential.  I want to make sure this Hip Co thing takes the world."  -Takun J


Jonathan Koffa is better known to his fans as Takun J, the Hip Co King.

Takun J was born on May 14 in Monrovia, Liberia, where he survived the country’s 14 year civil war with his single mother and 3 siblings. Even during those hard times, it was clear that Takun had an entertainer’s spirit. He grew up playing soccer, dancing, and entering talent shows. He performed whenever he had a chance. By the time he graduated from high school, he had fully committed himself to music. In 2005, he released his first single, “We’ll Spay You” followed the next year by “You Meaning Me”.

The success of those songs was cut short as the war flared up and a resettlement program took Takun to refugee camps in Ghana, and later, Ivory Coast, where he washed clothes and cleaned houses for people in exchange for food.

When the opportunity arose, he returned to Liberia to rebuild his country. He sees music, and especially Hip Co- the unique Liberian language of the streets and markets- as integral to this. In 2007, he released The Time, his first full length album. The song “Police Man”, which spoke honestly about police corruption, was an instant hit with fans but resulted in two arrests and a brutal beating by Liberian National Police. Takun refused to be silenced: the night of his release, he performed with his eye still black and his shirt still blood-stained.

Since then, Takun has committed himself to writing songs that speak truth, promote unity, and resonate with people’s everyday experiences. He has worked with international organizations, including Action on Armed Violence and UNICEF and is serving as a gender based violence reduction ambassador for Media Impact.  Both his work and his music have been recognized internationally, with features on BBC, Al Jazeera, OkayAfrica, AFP, and more. 

In December 2012, he launched his new album, My Way, and held the world's first hip co festival, opening to crowds of 17,000 people over 2 days.

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