[1][2] He started his career in the late 2000s, publishing four studio albums and being awarded the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Contemporary Music.

While in school, he amassed awards for his visual art, but later developed an obsession with hip-hop music after hearing his older brother play the Public Enemy album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.

Drawing on his love for history and social observation, Bazawule began to research and write historically loaded rhymes for which he became famous in school.

In order to achieve the live sound he was looking for, he formed a band, The Embassy Ensemble, and brushed off his own djembe skills.

[18] In 2018, Blitz directed and wrote his debut film The Burial of Kojo, which featured actors Ama K. Abebrese, Joseph Otsiman, Joyce Anima Misa Amoah and Cynthia Dankwa.

[25] Blitz is also a 2019 Senior TED (conference) Fellow,[26] and founded the Africa Film Society, an organization focused on the preservation of classic African cinema.

[27][28][29][30] In 2020, it was announced that Bazawule was set to direct The Color Purple, a film adaptation of Alice Walker's book of the same name and the Broadway musical produced by Oprah Winfrey.

[32] The film starred Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Colman Domingo and Danielle Brooks.