Meta Returned Back Home to Have His Foundation As An African Artist

The tribal Hip-Hop artist, creative director, writer, fitness and creative artist Meta Tjiho, born in New York and raised in Namibia has found a way back to pursue his dreams. Meta finished his High School at Windhoek High, then did a year at UNAM before returning to the States to study Criminal Justice. Meta started developing a passion for Hip-Hop at a young age. He formally started off freestyling, and then swiftly he started writing, until it became a thing. As the passion started kicking in earnestly, Meta wanted to come back to Africa, and develop as an African artist. Meta has been back for four years now and has just released his first project titled “HEADSPACE”. A result of nine years of honouring his craft and delivering a message as best as he can.

Meta started doing music in 2009. Starting off with writing lyrics and mounting himself into something superior that everyone would want to listen to. It was such a long process for him, waiting to come back home and deliver his music in a more African mode. Meta expresses himself musically in a sense of tribalism and culture. The tribal Hip-Hop artist, inspired by Michael Jackson, 2Pac, Kanye West and Kendrick Lemar to mention but a few is proud to have released his first project, that he released in June 2018.

“Music became an outlet for me to express the way I feel and my thoughts on certain things. I grew up listening to a lot of music, from larger than live characters. It is like a blend, like me wanting to come back home and develop as an African Artist. I collaborate with a lot of artists, many from Zimbabwe and learned different aspects of music. On the other side of Music rather than just writing my own Lyrics, it’s unique.”

Being an athlete, performer, footballer and gymnast, Meta’s athletic sense gives him an inspiring energetic energy to comfortably deliver his message as a tribal rapper into a performance art. Meta clarified Hip-Hop as the people’s music because it comes from a place of creating nothing into making it something. “I will always love Hip-Hop because Hip-Hop gave me purpose, my avenue, to expand as an artist, as a human being and just express myself differently. I see a means and an outlet in it.” He passionately said.

What stimulates him every day is getting better, learning more, seeing new things, experiencing new things, meeting new people and creating new things. Meta performs his music almost anywhere he can reach the crowd, Warehouse, The Loft, Creamers, Chops’s etc.

“If you have a dream, go for it if you believe in your dream. Just know that at the end of the day, the hardest workers in the room are going to get what they deserve. Believe in something, work for it, and achieve. Try and enjoy the most out of life, we take ourselves way too seriously. Remember why you are doing what you are doing, have a plan, have a goal and put in that positive work”