Sampa the Great releases her brand new single \u201cCan\u2019t Hold Us\u201d via Loma Vista Recordings, marking the beginning of a new era for the Zambian musician and rapper. The track is included in EAFC 26 and will be dropped into in-game playlists from today. \u201cCan\u2019t Hold Us\u201d is also accompanied by an official visualiser directed by Iggy London.<\/p>\n
The song was first teased on a live performance in Brixton last month with legendary streamer DJ AG – watch back here. Sampa also this week announced a free block party in Lusaka, Zambia for November 22nd. The party will be hosted in conjuncton with the Lusaka Thrift Market, a creative collective who put on monthly pop-up themed fashion & art youth events in the centre of Lusaka. Any profits from the event will go back into the local creative community. In September, Sampa also released an exclusive new track \u2018GOAT\u2019 for the soundtrack of new film HIM – listen here.<\/p>\n
As she embarks on a new era, Sampa finds herself reimagining Zamrock – that daring fusion of rock, funk, and African rhythm – through her own lens, merging it with hip-hop, poetry, and soul to create Nu Zamrock, a form both ancestral and futuristic. \u201cZamrock is my sound,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s my voice. Being Zambian, being loud, being defiant \u2014 that\u2019s what Zamrock is.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan\u2019t Hold Us\u201d stands as a declaration of that awakening: a fierce statement of arrival that fuses the raw energy of rock, hip-hop, soul, and Zambian rhythm into a sound that\u2019s entirely her own. \u201cThis is the declaration track. I\u2019m saying: I\u2019ve stepped into my power, into my sound, into my purpose. I\u2019ve claimed this thing \u2014 Nu Zamrock \u2014 as something of my own, something I\u2019m shaping in real time. And in this new form, with this much clarity and drive? You can\u2019t hold us. You can\u2019t stop us. Not anymore.\u201d Radiating confidence and creative freedom, \u201cCan\u2019t Hold Us\u201d captures Sampa\u2019s evolution into an artist fully in command of her voice, her heritage, and her moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan\u2019t Hold Us\u201d is the first taste of a forthcoming 3rd album project, following on from Sampa\u2019s acclaimed \u2018As Above, So Below\u2019 (2022) and her breakout debut \u2018The Return\u2019 (2019), which was met with a series of accolades including three ARIA Awards (from six nominations), Bandcamp\u2019s Album Of The Year, BET\u2019s Amplified Artist of the Month, and the 2019 Australian Music Prize – the latter making Sampa the first artist to win the award twice. Sampa blew up globally, beyond Australia and gracing The Roots Picnic, NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk series, AFROPUNK and, Later\u2026.With Jools Holland. An artist who landed on Michelle Obama\u2019s personal playlist, who earned support from industry heavyweights like Zane Lowe, Ebro Darden and Annie Mac.<\/p>\n
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