Pepe Haze and Rabbit's New Videos

Late last week saw the release of two rap videos in the Kenyan market. The first video is by the multi talented Afro actor-cum-rapper Pepe Haze who happens to be a poet and beat-boxer as well. This video for Rain On My Lips is a unique piece of art directed by Loi Awat from Stop-motion animation studios.

The second video posted on late Friday evening is by Kenya’s ultimate story teller Rabbit. The video is for a highly charged political joint Kaza Moyo and features two of Kaka Empire’s new signees Dan Dan and Bwenyenye(the one on Kiwewe hook). This video curtsey of Snap Productions-the ones who did Octopizzo’s On Top- follows the theme of the song showing the ravaged life lived by Kenyans in the Northern part of the country.

Rabbit took a big chance with this one by including the head of state’s face on the video, and that of the Government spokesman Alfred Mutua.  It remains a doubt if it will receive airplay on our TV stations. It also risks a possible deletion from youtube all together.

All said and done these two videos are well done, and they help drive the message of the respective songs home, have a look.