Sampa the Great

Hip-Hop/Rap

The next Sampa the Great concert is scheduled for Saturday, June 28, 2025 at La Défense in Puteaux, France. See all 1 upcoming concerts

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Top Songs By Sampa the Great

Listen to Energy (feat. Nadeem Din-Gabisi) by Sampa the Great, see lyrics, music video & more!

Energy (feat. Nadeem Din-Gabisi)Sampa the Great

Listen to Take Care in Your Dreaming (feat. Denzel Curry, Tricky & Sampa the Great) by The Avalanches, see lyrics, music video & more!

Take Care in Your Dreaming (feat. Denzel Curry, Tricky & Sampa the Great)The Avalanches

Listen to Let Me Be Great (feat. Angelique Kidjo) by Sampa the Great, see lyrics, music video & more!

Let Me Be Great (feat. Angelique Kidjo)Sampa the Great

Listen to Final Form by Sampa the Great, see lyrics, music video & more!

Final FormSampa the Great

Listen to Freedom by Sampa the Great, see lyrics, music video & more!

FreedomSampa the Great

Listen to Mwana (feat. Mwanje Tembo, Theresa Mutale Tembo & Sunburnt Soul Choir) by Sampa the Great, see lyrics, music video & more!

Mwana (feat. Mwanje Tembo, Theresa Mutale Tembo & Sunburnt Soul Choir)Sampa the Great

Listen to Never Forget (feat. Chef 187, Tio Nason & Mwanje) by Sampa the Great, see lyrics, music video & more!

Never Forget (feat. Chef 187, Tio Nason & Mwanje)Sampa the Great

Life Goes On (feat. Sampa the Great)Ezra Collective

Listen to Lane by Sampa the Great, Denzel Curry & Powers Pleasant, see lyrics, music video & more!

LaneSampa the Great, Denzel Curry & Powers Pleasant

Listen to OMG by Sampa the Great, see lyrics, music video & more!

OMGSampa the Great

Upcoming Concerts for Sampa the Great

Jun
28
Jun 28, 2025
La Défense
Puteaux

Latest Release

Listen to Emi Aluta (45 Edit) - Single by Seun Kuti, Egypt 80' & Sampa the Great

ALBUMEmi Aluta (45 Edit) - SingleSeun Kuti, Egypt 80' & Sampa the Great

More albums from Sampa the Great

Listen to As Above, So Below (Deluxe) by Sampa the Great

ALBUMAs Above, So Below (Deluxe)Sampa the Great

Listen to As Above, So Below by Sampa the Great

ALBUMAs Above, So BelowSampa the Great

ALBUMThe ReturnSampa the Great

Listen to Birds and the BEE9 by Sampa the Great

ALBUMBirds and the BEE9Sampa the Great

Sampa the Great's Popular Music Videos

Let Me Be Great (feat. Angelique Kidjo)

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Never Forget

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Time's Up (feat. Krown)

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Your Orbit (feat. Sampa the Great)

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Better Days (feat. Sampa the Great) [Lyric Video]

Baker Boy & Dallas Woods

Gold (feat. Sampa the Great & 18YOMAN) [Lyric Video]

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Blurry (feat. Sampa the Great)

Petite Noir & Sampa the Great

Power (feat. Sister Nancy & Sampa the Great)

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About Sampa the Great

Artist Biography

Sampa the Great is the rare artist who can sound in one verse like she’s having the most private, conspiratorial talk with the listener, before sounding like she’s speaking to a global network of like-minded millions in the next. Such is the adaptability that the rapper and singer has shown since she broke through with the EP HERoes Act 2 and the mixtape Birds and the BEE9, both released in 2017. Born in Zambia in 1993, Sampa Tembo has spent her life moving: south to Botswana, across the Atlantic to Los Angeles and San Francisco and the Pacific to Sydney, and eventually to Melbourne. To hear her tell it, this helped shape the artist she’d become by clarifying what she found important. “I don’t need home to feel important,” she raps on “Mwana,” “but I need a feeling of peace.” On that song, the opening track from 2019’s sprawling The Return, her voice at points becomes nearly percussive. Sampa folds innumerable sounds from Africa and the Americas into her work, but what her records primarily channel is the fearless risk-taking of the most experimental ’90s hip-hop, its venue shifted and its face remade.

Hometown

Ndola, Zambia

Genre

Hip-Hop/Rap