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The AFRIMMA Awards; the biggest African Music Awards and Music Festival, gave Mr. Killa TWO nods. 

Hollice Mapp, Mr Killa, has won the African Muzik Magazine Award in the ‘BEST REGGAE/DANCEHALL’category. The exclusive award ceremony caters to all music genres including but not limited to Afrobeats, Assiko, Bongo, Decale, Funana, Genge, Highlife, Kwaito, Lingala and Soukous, Dancehall, and Soca. Now, since there isn’t an official Soca category, Mr. Killa was the only Soca artiste placed alongside well-known Dancehall artistes: Spice, Patoranking, Steff London, Shatta Wale, Popcaan, and Shenseea. 

Recognition from the biggest and most highly acclaimed African Music Awards is an accomplishment for the Stage God. Mr. Killa saw this as a prime opportunity to continue pushing Soca. This task is never far from his mind, it’s as if it’s been embedded in him. This he feels proud about as he was the first Soca artiste to be nominated at the Award show and for this particular award.

Mr. Killa, with the opportunity at hand, felt naturally inclined to do Soca’s recognition justice the only way he knew best; performing. With his performance and presence at the AFRIMMA Awards, it became an even more historical night. That night, it was announced that the Rolly Polly artiste was named the winner of his category. 

Held on November 19th, 2022 in Texas and tagged ‘This is Africa’, this AFRIMMA Award show was deemed as the celebration of “this time”; the time being Africa’s time. Yes on this night, Mr. Killa further cemented in history the legacy that he’s been fighting to bring to the forefront for years: The Art of Soca.

For a Grenadian to go to Trinidad, arguably the home of soca music, and win their highest and most coveted soca title, is no small feat. The International Soca Monarch competition has not been particularly ‘international’ over the years - the Power Soca Monarch title has never been won by a non-Trinidadian… that is until Mr Killa arrived on their stage in 2019, making his entrance sat on a throne, with a crown already on his head!

2019 International Soca Monarch Champion

Owning the stage, Mr Killa delivered an electric performance with his hit ‘Run Wid It’. Known for his signature dance moves and audience participation, the song calls on revellers to ‘pick up something and run with it’. Surrounded by gladiators and an elaborate castle set, the ‘King’ did Grenada proud, bringing home the real crown.

Born Hollice Mapp and hailing from the coastal town of Gouyave in St John, some of Mr Killa’s earliest memories involve music: fighting with his siblings over a cassette-tape recorder, watching Michael Jackson on an old black and white TV, listening to the guys outside ‘Irie’ barber shop ‘dubbing’ and ‘toasting’ to dancehall beats, and performing in school concerts and fairs. Reflecting on these memories, he’s quite philosophical:

“I didn’t find music, music found me”.

A big break came at the age of 15 when he wowed crowds at Grenada’s first National Teen Talent Search Competition, performing original dancehall compositions, and taking first place. Mr Killa walked onto that stage as an unknown kid from Gouyave, but he left as a star-in-the-making, on a very rapid upward trajectory.

Over the years Mr Killa has consistently churned out hit after hit, from ‘Thunder Rags’, which earned him his first Grenada Soca Monarch title in 2004, to ‘Rolly Polly’, his 2014 tribute to plus-sized women which went viral and made him a household name across the Caribbean, to ‘Balance’, an instructional song that had crowds around the world jump

Hollice Mapp, aka ‘Mr. Killa' Reaches the World Stage

January 12, 2017

St. George’s - Grenadian singer, songwriter, and Cultural Ambassador, Hollice Mapp, aka. “Mr.

Killa”, will be a featured artist in an exciting new BRAVO Network reality TV series titled “The

First Family of Hip Hop”.

The TV series features Sugarhill Records, a label created by the Robinson family, who have

been credited by the music industry as the first family of hip hop. Under the aegis of "Mother of

Hip Hop" Sylvia Robinson, who passed in 2011, Sugarhill Records helped chart the course of

early hip-hop in the late '70s and early '80s.

Now, the next generation of the Robinson Family is aiming to get their label back into the public

eye, with the Robinson brothers, sisters and cousins working with (and sometimes butting

heads against) each other to return Sugarhill to prominence. After establishing the first hip-hop

record label and producing the first charting rap song in history with The Sugar Hill Gang's

"Rapper's Delight," the world will now formally meet the Robinson Family in a new docuseries.

The series is produced by Left/Right and Mad Fusion, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Anneka

Jones, Danielle Medina and Ashley M. Buie serve as Executive Producers for Left/Right, with

Glenda N. Cox as a Co-Executive Producer.

First Family of Hip Hop, premieres in Grenada on Sunday, January 15th, at 10 pm on Bravo

(9pm EST). The Mr. Killa episode airs January

22nd at the same time. The entire series runs for

8 weeks. Follow the series with the hashtag

#FFOHH

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BRAVO TV SERIES ‘FIRST FAMILY OF HIP HOP”

MEDIA LINKS

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