Stonebwoy - Pull Up [Remix] ft. Patoranking

What this video is

Released November 23, 2014, 'Pull Up (Remix)' ft. Patoranking sits at the nexus of two pivotal forces in African popular music: Ghana's emergent Afro-dancehall movement, spearheaded by Stonebwoy, and Nigeria's rapidly globalizing Afrobeats scene, represented by the then-rising Patoranking. The collaboration was a deliberate pan-African gesture — Patoranking returned to Ghana specifically to feature on this remix,…

Why it matters

A key early document of Afro-dancehall as a distinct, named genre. 'Pull Up (Remix)' demonstrates the hybrid sonic grammar — Jamaican riddim structures fused with West African melodic sensibility and Afrobeats production touches — that Stonebwoy would come to be recognized as pioneering. The…

The director

Nana Kofi Asihene (born 13 June 1980, Accra, Ghana), professionally known as Nana Asihene, is a Ghanaian music video director, creative consultant, film producer, and filmmaker. A graduate of KNUST with an MBA from Accra Business School, he began his…