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Why do these people stay and live in these buildings?
Windmills? - What do they use it for?
To generate power and for making bread.
Does it generate enough power to run a washing machine?
To wash clothes?
For the people who make bread. - Yes.
The bread is done differently.
With a generator. - Yes.
I am Wanlov the Kubolor, also known as the African gypsy.
And this is Mensa. And we...
are known as the Fokn Bois.
We are here today in Lieshout...
we are not here to tell any lies, we've left them out.
We have a partnership with Bavaria, we just did a tour with Bavaria in Ghana.
So, hopefully this is something we can continue doing every year.
We've got the opportunity to explore Lieshout a bit.
It's nice you know. It's very... picturesque. - Yes.
Mensa and I met in high school.
We started rapping when we were supposed to be in class.
I was a senior, so I would go to his classroom and lie to the teacher...
that he had to come and do some work for another professor.
I would take him out of class and we would run off to the village and rap all day.
We were bad students, but good rappers.
The stuff we do together as Fokn Bois is shocking,
we have a lot of shock factor in our lyrics.
When I first saw Jesus, I wanted to be white. When Eminem started rapping, it was very tight.
The only black rappers, who want to be white. We want to be white, we need to be white.
That is what we do with Fokn Bois.
Without knowing we are speaking on behalf of a lot of people...
who think strange things but never say it.
Nothing to lose.
This is my new friend here, Doris, who reminds me of an English girl I know.
Most English girls look like this.
Singers, rappers, musicians, is it your dream to make it big in Ghana?
Then pinch yourself because this is real. Fokn Bois bring you the Big in Ghana talent hunt & tour.
Selected artists join the Fokn Bois: Efya & Yaa Pono, on the Big in Ghana tour.
With free concerts.
Big In Ghana is a tour with unsigned, new talent to give them exposure.
Because a lot of the musicians in Ghana that play live are in their 40's.
So children coming to these kinds of shows,
or people watching these shows, think you have to be old...
to play an instrument.
Because Big In Ghana is on TV...
If a child now says: "Oh mommy, I want to play an instrument,"
the mother is also seeing somebody young on TV playing an instrument.
So now that stigma is being removed.
The timing for Big In Ghana is perfect because...
the music industry has begun to boom.
If a musician in Ghana went up on stage and said...
"Don't vote for this politician, vote for this politician,"
the impact that he would make is bigger than any person from the government could make.
It's just the freedom that the youth is finding in the music now.
Thank God we're not a Nigerian. Thank God we're not a Nigerian.
Good day. - Hello.
How are you? - Good.
We want to try something very Dutch.
Very Dutch. - Friet!
Thank God we're not a Nigerian. We like school more then any African I've seen.
Potatoes with onions and mayonnaise...
and saté sauce.
By the mix of ingredients: mayonaise, onions, pinda sauce, we call it...
we call this 'frietje oorlog'.
Because of the mess we make. - Yes.
From the mix. - I see.
I feel we are at the tipping point of jumping into really big audiences.
As far as Ghana goes, we've established ourselves.
I can't hear you, make some noise!
A lot of times artists hear our music and they like what we are doing.
Because it's fresh, it's different from anything else that's out there.
What's crazy is that we rap in Pidgin, we don't rap in plain English.
We rap in broken English.
So they might not understand what you are doing,
but you can see how people react to you.
They know you have something and then they pull you along to join them.
That is how we've worked with some artists like...
M1 of Dead Prez, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, Gorillaz Soundsystem, Erykah Badu...
Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers, a lot of artists.
But that's not what we do it for, we do it to laugh in the studio.
I think that's why the music comes across the way it does, because...
it's not contrived, it's just two friends having a good time...
and recording that process.
Lieshout is a really trimmed neighbourhood.
It's like the place where I would like to retire if I had a 9 to 5 job.