Biography
Akua Naru (also known as Akua Olatunji), is a rapper from Connecticut, United States. Her hip-hop music incorporates styles including soul and jazz. In 2018 she began archiving the achievements of women in hip-hop at Harvard University as a Nasir Jones Hip-hop Fellow at the Hip-hop Archive Research Institute. Naru has been particularly successful in Europe, where she lived from 2008 until joining the music faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2024. Presently, she holds a Pavel Machotka Chair in Creative Studies at Porter College.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
50 releases · 20 albums · active 2009–2024
- Performance · 94
- Production · 23
- Other credits · 2
Studios: One Two Pass It · VLB Studio, Marseille · Studios Ferber · Kasablanka
Frequent collaborators
- Ancient Astronauts
- Extraño Weys
- The Sey Sisters
- Blitz The Ambassador
- Guts
- Siska (5)
- Bantu
- Various