Description
Release: 22-09-2023
Kofi Owusu-Ansah (born 17 April 1998), known by his stage name Genesis Owusu, is a Ghanaian-Australian singer from Canberra. He is the younger brother of fellow hip hop rapper, Kojo Owusu-Ansah p.k.a. Citizen Kay. Owusu’s debut studio album, Smiling with No Teeth (March 2021), reached the ARIA Albums Chart top 30. At the 2021 ARIA Music Awards he won four trophies for Album of the Year, Best Hip Hop Release, Best Independent Release and Best Cover Art (WIKI). The singer rejected the archetypical objectification of women by hip hop artists with his second single, “Awomen Amen” (2018), and explained, “As a rapper, I never used to hear those kinds of messages… it was something that always bothered me.”[7] He released a double A-sided single, “WUTD”/”Vultures” early in 2019, which Caitlin Medcalf of Purple Sneakers reviewed, “[WUTD is] a smooth, RnB track I guarantee will never get out of your head and, ‘Vultures’, a wavy rap journey… [his] vocals match the mood with a drawling vocal melody and a light flow that never once feels sharp, but simply goes with the flow.”[15] On 3 July 2019 Owusu performed as an opening act at 5 Seconds of Summer‘s sold-out benefit concert in Sydney.[16] “WUTD” was featured on an ad for Bose noise-cancelling headphones in October 2019
Tracklist:
- 01. Leaving the Light
- 02. The Roach
- 03. The Old Man
- 04. See Ya There
- 05. Freak Boy
- 06. Tied Up!
- 07. That’s Life (A Swamp)
- 08. Balthazar
- 09. Stay Blessed
- 10. What Comes Will Come
- 11. Stuck To the Fan
