Genre LensWhat is Asakaa / Ghana Drill?
Drill as made in Kumasi, Ghana. The sliding 808s and stuttering hi-hats of UK and New York drill, rapped mostly in Twi and pidgin, with a crew-chant energy all of its own.
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Identify my track- gliding drill 808s
- stuttering drill hi-hats
- rap in Twi or Ghanaian pidgin
- crew chants and ad-libs
Anchors rather than an exhaustive canon — if your track sits near these, this is probably the right label.
Usual tempo 138–145 BPM. Sitting outside that range does not disqualify a track; it just makes the tells matter more.
The nearest neighbours in African, by tempo. If Asakaa / Ghana Drill does not quite fit, one of these usually does.
- Soukous / Congolese Rumba120–150 BPM
Congolese guitar dance music. Cascading, sparkling high guitar lines over a driving rhythm section, building into a fast, dance-only section (the sebene) where the guitars take over.
- Kuduro130–140 BPM
Angolan dance music at full throttle. Fast, hard, distorted electronic beats, heavy percussion and shouted, chanted vocals built for frenetic dancing.
- Zamrock100–140 BPM
1970s Zambian rock. Garage-rock fuzz guitars and wah, psychedelic jams and soul-style vocals, played over grooves drawn from local music.
- Afrobeats100–115 BPM
Contemporary West African pop. Bouncy syncopated percussion, warm melodic basslines, bright guitar or marimba figures and a relaxed vocal swing.