Sha Sha features on Coming 2 America album

Sha Sha continues to break new ground, with the Queen of Amapiano featuring on the Coming 2 America album track list.

Def Jam released the track list a few days ago and it features numerous African heavyweights including Nasty C, Tekno, Prince Kaybee, Tiwa Savage, Diamond Platnumz and Fally Ipupa to name just a few.

On this mega project which is titled Rhythms of Zamunda: Music Inspired By Coming 2 America, Sha Sha collaborates with South African hip hop artiste Tellaman on the song Overdue.

In an interview with Variety, CEO of Universal Music South Africa and Sub-Saharan South Africa Sipho Dlamini said, “I know how significant a movie it was to people living in Africa or Africans in the diaspora.

“We wanted to bring our knowledge of the music from the continent that is coming up and affecting the youth globally — it’s not just Afrobeat.”

Dlamini added the fact that Zamunda is depicted as more of a fictional, pan-African country gave the Universal Africa and Def Jam teams some creative license, too.

“It allowed us to play with the fact that you don’t have to only reflect genres that are popular in one region or one part of Africa. And much like the movie is about America on one side and Africa, we could draw on the African genres you would expect but you also have R&B, hip-hop, house and so forth. ‘Black and White’ is a great example. It sounds like it could have been made in a studio in the U.S., and it’s a collaboration with an American artist, but Nasty C is as African as it gets.”

Visuals for one of the songs on the project, Black & White which features Nasty C and Ari Lennox has already been released. Check out the video below…