Abbas on some new ish

After a collabo with the famed Gospel artist Juliani, for the track Piga makofi, and a successful tour in Germany, Abbas is on some new tracks. He recently collaboed with formerly coast based rapper Sharama, for a joint titled Sharabbas. The rapper who is yet to comment on his alleged physical altercation that is said to have occurred last week at a city pub, is known for collabos whose title is a combination of the rappers’ featured names. In 2007 he did a similar collabo with friend-cum-foe Chiwawa, titled Abbachiwa.

Other hot staff that Abbas has released in the midst of his Town-to-Town and regional concerts is Toklezea which he is featured by the 20 year old newcomer, Chantelle, and the less serious –yet-witty track 'Realty Cheaque'. This two are solo projects that have been coupled with collabos such as Blunder ft Kswiss, Morroko and Gdash, and Monkeyflip by Modeselktor-a Berlin based electronic music band, in which he(Abbas) features alongside Kinya’s first lady of Hiphop, Nazizi.

Once again this veteran emcee proves that he is indeed the man with a million rhymes.

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You Can Call Him Daddy: Collo is a proud father

The onlyremnant of the yester-year rap trio,collo, is now called 'baba Tawala'. Phoebe the wife of the 'ChiniyaMaji" rapper gave birth to the baby girl mid-this month at the Nairobi Hospital.

Collo whose government name is Collins Majale joins the growing list of local baby daddy rappers,others being Labala and Chiwawa amongst others.

The rapper whose claimance of the 'king wa Rap' title, has earned him jabs previously from Abbas, the veteran emcee and more recently from the fast-rising star rabbit who incidentally titled his latest mixtape " King".

Dakika! Media wishes Collo all the best as he begins the fatherhood journey while protecting his endangered throne.

Bringing Back Cool G Rap’s Juice Courtesy of Necro

The All-time Juice crew’s vibe will soon be coming back to life when one of its members, Queens, New York legendary emcee Kool G. Rap team up with Necro for a collaborative album , to be titled The Godfathers. This will be an entirely Necro produced album who will double up as the executive producer. The Brooklyn, New York emcee/producer Necro who has laced tracks for amongst others Raekwon, Non-Phixion and Cage, laid to rest the speculation of this project via Twitter post on 22/07/2011. The completion of the album is expected to be in 2012. 

Monday Night Raw: Abbas Turns His Battle Skills Physical

"I'm still single, looking for Cleopatra, African queen/look at me I'm a bachelor, ya'll guys in trouble , keeping girls behind closed doors, crossing your fingers/be lucky I haven't met yours" One of Kenya's pioneer emcee Mr. Abbas Kubaf must had taken these words by Nas off Common's new single "ghetto Dreams" a little too serious.
It was an outright crazy Monday for Abbas, the one third of the now defanct K-South flava. Abbas is said to have found himself behind bars of the five.o, after allegedly being involved in physical altercation with Trust-an up-coming artiste. It is believed that Cause of the beef was Trust's girl who Abbas is rumored to have tried to'steal' before the Monday night incident.Abass has since been charged with assault and malicious damage of property at the city pub where the incident took place.

Now, if I am to qoute Ice cubes words, hope it won’t be taken too seriously "If I act like an animal, ain't nothing to it, Gangsta rap made me do it"

Nonini in Jo’berg

Kenya's self-proclaimed Godfather of genge has been slated for a performance at bigbrother africa amplified this Sunday in Jo'berg South Africa. Nonini who in recent past has been a newsmaker in the local social media and tabloids, for an alleged assault of Pulse magazine's cameraman, and consequent arrest -will be directing his energy to the stage with amongst other artistes, his country mate Jaguar.

The rapper is currently doing well on the charts with the release of American rapper tobias' single 'I got it', in which he features. The astute genge rapper has in the past recieved international accolade from a singapore university, recently partnered with the giant company Apple Inc, to develop his on application on the apple phone.

And if you thought his fans were just a handfull, think again. A fortnight ago, when the rapper was arraigned in court-fans streamed on his twitter page to start a thread #freeNonini which lasted for over 24-hours. Big Brother must had been watching as all these drama unfolded. All the best to Nonini during his Sunday(tomorrow) performance, and all the bestest *did I hear Nicky Minaj giggle* our Kenyan girl Milli as he looks forward to survive the final eviction and hopefully get the 16 Milli!

Denouncing my engagement to hiphopcrisy to remarry Hiphop to eternity

 

"Oh! How come I’ve never watched this movie?” that was the question racing through my head as I was watching the 2002 movie ‘Brown Sugar’ six years after its release. To evade this question I quickly thought of the old phrase “revolution will not be televised” saying to myself that the likes of MTV and BET had kept this movie a secret, for they wouldn’t have wished for the truth to flourish and reach out to people like me.

But then, what’s the fuss in my mind and heart all about? The truth is, watching a movie that I ought to have watched six years ago made me tremendously ashamed of myself. It is not like am ‘a latest movie fad’ and that I have to keep up with anything that premier on the big screen. No, it is that this specific movie was of great significance to someone like me in relation to the community that I represent.

The main theme of the movie Brown Sugar was Hiphop and how its name has witnessed a downhill transformation, from being used to represent what is realty to becoming a word synonymous to a carefree lifestyle of the modern-day youth. The writer and the director of Brown Sugar try to champion the return of Hiphop to its state of purity and originality. Therefore for someone like me who is considered as a representative of Hiphop culture, it had to be embarrassing knowing about such a film, leave alone watching it, six years after its debut.

The thwarting fact is that I go by the title of Hiphop head and many expect me to be abreast with the happenings within the Hiphop circles, yet I am finding myself so much behind.  The irony in it all is, just a night before the movie, I came up with the phrase; “I am a Hiphop head to the sole of my foot” after noticing that the pads inside my newly procured sneakers had the word ‘Hiphop’ inscribed on them.

As this movie was progressing, something funny happened. I received a text and its opening words were “hey stranger”, despite the sender being someone who knows me  only too well, she still referred to me as a stranger. This outlandish happening made me understand, that I have become a stranger to Hiphop just as I have become a stranger to her, for the narration behind the movie was based on falling in love with the art of Hiphop.

When I heard Dre, the main cast in the film rhyming about a girl whom he met when he was two years old, and that his liking for her is that she had so much soul, I was astounded. That rhyme was there way before Kanye West’s home coming single, it was something that Common had done way back in the nineties.

Now, as I am writing this article, my radio is on and the music that is playing is Acrobatik’s “Remind my soul”, and I can’t help but come to the realization that Hiphop is not being degraded by the bling bling propagators. Hiphop almost had the last nail pinned on its coffin, but its killers were never the rappers who continue to parade skimpy dressed women on our television sets. Hiphop is being killed by people like me who are under the pretext that we are real yet in real sense we know nothing about reality. So when my good pal Barrack a.k.a H.O (as he fondly he fondly refers himself to), starts calling me his younging and keep sending me all those text’s with rhymes exhibiting a moral decay from DjKhaleed’s album, I got no one to blame but me.

As I listen to my stereo, the Hiphop mantra that follows “remind my soul” is Immortal Technique’s “Internally bleeding”, and as he sings “…these are my last words…”, I come to the sense that these might just be the final words am jotting down. And should that be the case (God forbid), then I won’t be mad, for the false pride in me would have died and I would have condemned my hypocrisy and proclaim my love for Hiphop.