I know i know old news but i was abit scared to write this one...i want to stay alive for long but oh well here goes..whats life without risk.
If you’re not familiar with the above phrase and you’re a Ugandan I have to say am highly embarrassed by you and how dare you not know the title of our dear president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is song. Well everyone is up in arms at the release of this track and they feel his Excellency has stooped a little too low in the search for votes but my opinion is that the Obama campaign that addressed the youth vote not only stopped in the states but crossed over to the African continent and settled in our small 37 million populous Uganda. Obama endorsed Weezy(Lil Wayne) when he mentioned him and gave him a shout out in his speech and we all thought that was the biggest validation of hip hop/rap music and the black culture until The National Resistance Movement Chairman came out with a rap song or as many have called it in a bid to relate it to the runya-flow genre(runyankole flow) rwap song.
Well the rap/rwap song is not bad at all except it alienated a large part of Ugandans that don’t understand runya-flow but thank God it was a hip-hop track. I consider hiphop the best genre, don’t agree well let me break it down for you. I don’t understand runyakole but I got loads from the song, number one tight instrumentals, the xylophone sounds in the foreground in the start and that fadeout to the background in the verses were simply amazing. The overall beat itself was head bobbing and am told the rap/rwap is now a club banger little wonder why. The hook/chorus which was in English, see hip hop gives you the opportunity to mix it up and shake it up it’s not a containerized art form rather it thrives on stepping out of the box and pushing the art form. Back to the hook/chorus who was not answering yes Sevo when his Excellency asked ‘you want another rap/rwap?’ Overall big up to Fenon music…Steve Jean and crew am waiting for the EP and thank you for extremely swaggin’ out our already Swagged out President with his signature Safari hat and checked shirts.
Am not going political but you have to give it up to the president for making this bold gesture to reach out to the disgruntled youth of Uganda, Mao has a face book page but nothing can beat a rap/rwap, did I mention that it’s my ringtone?. Well the electioneering has just began let’s see what comes up next rumor has it that DP(Democratic Party) camp is planning a release of their own, a sort of come back, what’s Hip Hop without beef? Hope this beef doesn’t turn out like the creeps and bloods that lost us some of the greats, 2 Pac and Notorious B.I.G. You want another article? I don’t think so..pay me!
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