: By recording in Zambia with a majority African team, Sampa aimed to represent her "younger self," reconnecting with the dreams she had before achieving international fame.
The album marks a major shift from Sampa's earlier work in Australia, where she often felt pressured to be a "multicultural" ambassador. "Tilibobo" fits into a project that Sampa describes as her most personal and transparent work to date. Sampa The Great - Tilibobo
: The song embodies Sampa's "hybrid music" philosophy—a mixture of the global hip-hop that inspired her and the local sounds she grew up with in Zambia and Botswana. Context within As Above, So Below : By recording in Zambia with a majority