Brother Resistance is a musician from Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

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Born Lutalo Masimba, Brother Resistance became the lead singer of the Network Riddim Band, a Trinidadian soca

Soca music

Soca is a style of music from Trinidad and Tobago. Soca is a musical development of traditional Trinidadian calypso, through loans from the 1960s onwards from predominantly black popular music....

 ensemble, in 1970. In between completing studies at the University of the West Indies, Brother Resistance continued to write music for the ensemble, and his 1981 debut album, Busting Out, became a major hit, defining the musical genre that would come to be known as rapso

Rapso

Rapso is a form of Trinidadian music that grew out of the social unrest of the 1970s. It has been described as "de power of de word in the riddim of de word". Though often described as a fusion of native soca with American hip hop, rapso is uniquely Trinidadian.Black Power and unions grew in the...

. Busting Out was the first album to use the word rapso, a style that fuses soca with American hip hop

Hip hop

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

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Discography

• Busting Out (1981)
• Tonight is de Nite (1988)
• Heart of the Rapso Nation (1992)
• When De Riddum Explode (2006)

External links

• brotherresistance.com
• [ Allmusic entry]