R&Bfrench / english
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“[Couplet 1] / Tout est tellement beau”
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LA MÊME HISTOIRE
Tayc
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Makossaduala / french
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“[Verse] / Belembete, mwana sawa”
Co-led single with Eduke — a generational Makossa hand-off that pairs Ben Decca's seasoned phrasing with the younger vocalist's lift.
Belembete
Ben Decca
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R&Bfrench / duala
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“[Verse] / Mwaka mwaka, j''attends”
Off the triple-disc Nyxia — a quietly Sawa-coded title (mwaka = "year" in Duala) wrapped around a slow R&B confession.
Mwaka Mwaka
Tayc
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Rapcamfranglais / french
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“[Verse] / Nnom ngui, le vieux lion”
Title track of the 2018 debut LP. "Nnom Ngui" — Ewondo for "elder" or "old lion" — is Tenor's self-coronation as a Yaoundé street-rap voice with continental ambition.
Nnom Ngui
Tenor
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Rapcamfranglais / french
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“Every song has a line waiting for context.”
A name-check of the kaba dress (the iconic Bamileke/Sawa garment) wrapped in a punchy trap-rap chorus — Tenor at his most quotable.
Kaba
Tenor
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Rapcamfranglais / french
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“Every song has a line waiting for context.”
Camfranglais-heavy rap track that put Mbankolo street slang on national radio rotation. "Do le dab" became Cameroonian shorthand for celebratory swagger.
Do Le Dab
Tenor
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“[Verse 1] / Elle se donne un instant pour réfléchir”
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Album · Princesses Nubiennes
Les portes du souvenir
Les Nubians
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Rapfrench
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“[Couplet 1] / Se rappeler d'où viendront les coups”
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Petunia
Mr cohyba
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Nnom Ngui
Linguistic“Nnom ngui”
Ewondo for "elder" / "old lion." A title of seniority and respect in Beti/Ewondo culture. Tenor claims it as a self-coronation: he is the young rapper announcing himself as a future elder of the scene.
Nnom Ngui
Cultural“Mbankolo”
A working-class district in the north-west of Yaoundé. Tenor's home neighbourhood and the recurring geographic anchor of his early catalogue — the Cameroonian equivalent of a US rapper repping their block.
Kaba Ngondo
Cultural“sawa”
See Ben Decca annotations — the umbrella term for coastal Bantu Cameroonian peoples (Duala, Bakweri, etc.). Tenor, a Yaoundé / Centre-region rapper, name-checks Sawa identity as a pan-Cameroonian gesture rather than an autobiographical one.