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Loud Silence: Confronting Sexual Abuse and Harassment in the Creative Hip-Hop Space.
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Why do we demand truth telling in verses but punish it in real life?
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WILL HIP HOP BE UGANDA’S BIGGEST GENRE IN 2020?
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At the genesis of Hip hop, the worldwide appeal wasn’t foreseeable, but now, almost 50 years later; it’s impossible to imagine a planet without hip hop and rap music. On the Ugandan scene, hip hop has been described as a “wanna be” genre, with radio and television presenters not [most of the time] playing…
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Fresh Kid, leaders and the failure to provide solutions – let’s rethink
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Fresh Kid has been in the news in the past couple of weeks and almost each week it has been on numerous grounds. Being a child sensation in the social media age, different media houses and platforms have covered the seven year old rapper – whose real name is Patrick Senyonjo. Youth Minister Florence…
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Clear The Air, Part Two: Don’t blame the Millennials, teach them about Hip Hop
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Welcome back to Clear The Air Series. If this is your first read in the series, welcome! Last week we put out part one of the series – Clear The Air, Part One: A defence for Ugandan Trap music (read it here). This week’s episode will move further away from the trap music topic…
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Clear The Air – Part one: a Defence for UG Trap music
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I am writing this piece listening to my line up of so-called “Trap songs”. First on the list is Megu by Titi Deewani and shortly Kijanah and his Hakuna Stress will follow. I am a music fan and I listen to anything if it works for me, it should stick right? Even if it…