{"id":16320,"date":"2018-02-20T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=16320"},"modified":"2018-02-20T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T10:09:09","slug":"video-ko-jo-cue-lil-shaker-drop-new-video-featuring-kwesi-arthur-aake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/video-ko-jo-cue-lil-shaker-drop-new-video-featuring-kwesi-arthur-aake\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Ko-Jo Cue &amp; Lil Shaker Drop New Video Featuring Kwesi Arthur &#8216;Up And Aake&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ko-Jo Cue and Lil Shaker are telling us their Black History.<\/p>\n<p>BBNZ Live signees, Ko-Jo Cue and Lil Shaker have dropped another project off their critically acclaimed album \u2018Pen &amp; Paper\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the official music video for the single \u2018Up and Awake\u2019, which features Kwesi Arthur.<\/p>\n<p>The video is directed by Esianyo Kumodzi.<\/p>\n<p>The music video takes place in the past. It takes place during slavery and the movement to end it. The video evokes powerful, deep, heavy and uncomfortable emotions.<\/p>\n<p>The song talks about getting out of oppression and risking it all to enjoy freedom. This is despite if its an impossibility. The video perfectly conveys that message.<\/p>\n<p>The video follows Ko-Jo Cue, Shaker and Kwesi Arthur planning as escape from their masters or oppressors. It showed the perils they faced just to enjoy freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The Album \u201cPen and Paper\u201d has recorded awesome trends on iTunes since its release\u00a0last year (2017). Few weeks ago, it rose up to number 3 again in the top 20 albums in Africa.<\/p>\n<h4>Watch The Video for Up And Awake<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;https:\/\/youtu.be\/HjNYW6_6SLc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ko-Jo Cue and Lil Shaker are telling us their Black History. BBNZ Live signees, Ko-Jo Cue and Lil Shaker have dropped another project off their critically acclaimed album \u2018Pen &amp; Paper\u2019. It&#8217;s the official music video for the single \u2018Up and Awake\u2019, which features Kwesi Arthur. The video is directed by Esianyo Kumodzi. The music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6037,"featured_media":16345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16346,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16320\/revisions\/16346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}