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‘Cupid’s Crooked Bow’ is a delightfully intriguing release from the Ghanian rapper M.anifest featuring Nomisupasta. The blend of a feminine touch from vocals and strings against the male lead is a good combination. The visuals have lots of pretty cultural elements to match the music. A rich beautiful artistic vision is painted.
Cupid’s Crooked Bow is the second single from M.anifest’s new album ‘Nowhere Cool’, due for release this Winter. M.anifest (born Kwame Ametepee Tsikata) is an award winning Ghanaian rapper and songwriter. He has worked with the likes of Damon Albarn, Flea, Tony Allen and Erykah Badu. The BBC tipped him as one of four acts to look out for in 2012 and in 2013, M.anifest won Best Rapper of the Year and Hip-Hop Song of the Year at the Ghana Music Awards. In 2015 M.anifest's single "Someway Bi" earned him a third place honour in the International Songwriters Competition. In the same year, The Guardian named M.anifest as "the foremost
rapper on the continent".
"Cupid's bow was crooked and found
the wrong lover. That's how it's
felt in some of my prior
relationships. The song was
inspired by having been
loved by a woman or two
who always knew the
difficulties of dating an
artist, never wanted to make
that choice, yet we found
ourselves in a spin of
intoxicating love that
always threatened to end.
Nomisupasta is easily one
of my favourite
contemporary voices
in Africa, and she
smashed it on this
one.”
M.anifest