As we say here 'fungua roho yako ongea'
{in common english for our diaspora fans its Open up, speak!}....Now my beef starts with our very own Local music industry...its so local we don't have a common name for our own music we call it Genge and a variation of it is called Kapuka.....which for our diaspora fans is reggaeton with a kenyan touch!!! My problem majorly does not lay with the producers of the music but rather with the musicians or sorry the artists. Just to set the record straight I don't have issues with all of them but with afew.........let me break it down::
The Banjuka fellow |
This dude might probably be a one hit wonder considering the nonsense that he has put on the particular track!! How do you say that unaeka shida chini unainua mikono juu {putting your problems down and lifting up your hands}...kwani unainulia nani?? It does not make sense at all to me that we are putting our problems down, who are we leaving them for??? furthermore problems and issues have to be there thats what makes life LIFE!!! so deal with it!!! The worst thing is that this is such a big hit, we hear it everywhere from exhibitions in town to matatus! Speaking of the video...there is nothing so significant about it, apart from the fellow wearing some funny white stunnaz that he is constantly spotted with day or night! I even wonder if he sleeps with them...I think he's been nominated for an award at Kisima...let see if the young kids i.e. the high 
school and college generation will vote for him(which i think they will).
Food guy |
Now this is another fellow who doesn't seem to know where his music is going, first he sings about meat {a.k.a manyake} with his counterpart.....coming to think of it, what happened to JOEL? Anyway our good former theological student/Actor/Musician/Celeb, sings songs that mainly dwell on food, and we are supposed to see the creativity in all this....with the meat song we were told that it was to sensitize us on AIDS {oh!really}, then he followed soon with a song on beans....oh my gosh...the video was whack too...I wonder what the story behind that song was????? anyway he followed soon with a collabo with some dude...but i cant remember what the song or the message. There is simply no end to this insanity...considering that this dude commands a following of sort! The Meat song was really a hit and was at one time almost banned for 'demeaning' women, which i thought was a stupid reason...considering what the female folk wear in Nairobi city these days...but since thats a topic for another day I will kill the food guy vibe right here!
King Pin |
OK! by now you should have realised whom am talking about........yes its the guy who had no location for a video shoot he just had to shoot in an elevetor and a staircase.......This brother right here might be talented and all but has no Lyrical content whatsoever....I wonder what people do when they buy his album {if he has one that is}. His music/songs comprise of fmales, females, females...and nuthing else....vunye umebenteba(what language is this)..sijui tera moss.....what is it??? We cant hear anything else apart from the physical features of a woman and common biology which children in class 4 have already explored???
In conclusion, the moral of this piece of literature is that we need to be more creative{& educative} in our music, and for heaven's sake tuimbe nyimbo za kujenga jamii......we need to preserve the coming generation! I dont want my kid to be ekaing shida chini na kubanjuka tuu, when they receive tonnes of homework!! Lets be more serious and stop listening and voting for sensless music that comes to the air waves.....oh yet maybe the genre should be called Club Bangers {as they are called}...since its only there where people don't really care what is playing, since the effects of alcohol and the likes are taking effect!
On a different note what is up with us kenyans hyping people who are almost famous???? am talking akina Dj CK(poor oldman...and not in the literal sense)...we cant say he's suffering midlife crisis can we!!! Akina Debora Sanaipei, I've never understood why she was ever famous....being a beauty queen doesn't make you a celeb, does it??? For example, who remember the Miss Kenya 2002....not many, majority of us (apart from a number the female folk) feel nuthin for these things!!Be careful what you listen to...labda ndo Kenya haiendelei mbele!
Until next time people....
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