Danish Hip Hop Queen Karen Mukupa

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Karen Mukupa is a Danish-Zambian rapper from Copenhagen and she has been dubbed the Danish hip hop queen.

Her first big gig was opening for the US hip hop queen: Queen Latifah back in 1990.

In her new album Human, Mukupa sets politics and bling aside and instead raps about her mixed race

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