Musicvideo’s
GOKH-BI SYSTEM: “RAP TASSU”
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The music video for “Rap Tassu” from Senegalese Hip Hop band “Gokh-Bi System”.
Produced by AMU Music and Ilse”Boogie” Rumes for Hybrid Lounge Productions, vzw.
Directed and edited by Ilse “Boogie” Rumes.
Director of Photography: Michael Green.
It was shot on HD with an HVX 200 camera with prime lenses and a budget of +/- $4000.
The song is about the origins of Hip Hop.
While it is well known that Hip Hop is an American creation(and both the song and the video pay tribute to the American founding fathers of Hip Hop), its origins are rooted deeper than the Boogie Down Bronx. Historically in Senegal, the drum and rapping have been part of Tassu, a system of communication used by jeli(or griot, a storyteller from West Africa) to spread news amongst villagers. Tassu survived the Middle Passage, crossed over oceans and time and found it’s rhythm reincarnated in the microphones of emcees who continue to ride the beat, sending a message about what’s going down in the streets and telling their stories just like the jeli of Senegal.