A young boy joins his friends for what he hopes will be a random day of swimming and mischief. When events take a turn for the worse, everyone is on their own as the inevitable wrath of mothers threatens their very lives.
In 1998 DMX released two albums in the same calendar year — both debuting at No.1 on the Billboard 2000, marking the start of a two-decade iconic career beset by struggles with drug addiction, legal troubles, and family troubles.
She doesn’t walk to him to inquire what has happened. It is a taboo for pregnant women to see drowned bodies otherwise the spirits roaming the river would enter her womb and inhabit the unborn.
Kenya’s hip hop scene has been nothing but a graveyard of mixtapes which – while offering a glimpse at the spirit and experimentation – deny listeners the beauty of intention, coherence, and completeness.
The hip hop group bequeathed Kenya a unique and identifiable hip hop soundscape, and their oeuvre remains the only most studied by urban music archaeologists, but what happened?
You don’t have time to wait for someone to pick your manuscript and toss it in the trash can or reply an email after six months. Self-sponsorship is the thing and if you can afford it, why not?
Her name was Irene Nzioka. She lived with her sister. We started chatting the way people do when on a queue.
“Do you know I have been to fifty-four interviews so far,” she said.
Four names: Zoro, Phyno, Flavour, KCee. Four installations on YouTube: Ogene, Achikolo, Gbo Gan Gbom, Ijele. These songs have garnered a mere 10 million...