Comments on: Brand New : Abbas feat Harry Kimani – Murume (Juu ya Laa – GetMziki Exclusive ***)

By: ken

ken — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:17:40 +0000

wah wah wah!!!! This is one sick track. Mambo bad!

By: Leo Faya

Leo Faya — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:07:17 +0000

Wakinuthia

http://cid-ae85b0166e40c75a.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/getmziki/Abbas%7C_Harry%7C_Kimani-Juu%7C_ya%7C_Laa.mp3

By: wakinuthia

wakinuthia — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:32:32 +0000

Abbass Kubaff

By: Mzeeiya

Mzeeiya — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:42:21 +0000

How do I download this track?

By: southc12

southc12 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:39:27 +0000

Ever since K-south days never heard dude spit a wack verse…
this dude is too creative n talented !!!!
the chappa song was hot despite the lack of lyricism but he came back hard with song he had with c-zar

By: Harry Moorer

Harry Moorer — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:46:09 +0000

Abbas you a real beast, not to many cats messing with you in the states let alone Kenya. Kimani you already know, you lend your voice to anything and it instantaneously becomes that much better. From California USA nothing but love for ya’ll cats.

By: irush

irush — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:17:47 +0000

kuna barlindi vaa furlana…abass is sick…mchanjama inaanguka lini

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:52:26 +0000

Leo, the name of the track is “Murume”

By: getmziki

getmziki — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:26:47 +0000

Yo!

Does anyone know who produced this track? This sounds like a hiram track? nani ako na nare to shed some light on the production of this track….

By: lisa

lisa — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:17:56 +0000

This guy just might be the best rapper we have in Kenya! What!…

By: Xcel

Xcel — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:55:23 +0000

Naw , i’ma have to disagree with ya’ll about ‘get down’ being hotter than this…this is just hot damn!!, i can respect abbas’ grind. I agree though that he really needs to drop the record ASAP.

By: Jafeni

Jafeni — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:20:27 +0000

@ Leo guess it all boils down to the way and artist packages his/ herself as a brand. Case in point Kanji Mbugua. Kanji works hard, delivers on stage, has quality music and there is a buzz around him. Every month he holds “Live at the village at the carnivore”. Word on the street is that his album launch expenditure was over 2 million bob. I attended the launch and in all fairness i didn’t feel ripped off it was worth every penny. So i guess all Kenyan?/ East African musicians should repackage themselves look at our Nigerian Brodas.

By: Roddy

Roddy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:13:04 +0000

I appreciate all the responses, what i didn’t take into consideration is the kenyan music scene interms of record sales compared to International artist. Reason why i mentioned the Necesarry Noize LP is, i was @ Buru Shoppe and there was a dude who was selling the bootleg for 70 bob. My friend got upset and told him he could get virtually the entire album if he listened to the FM radio stations in Primetime. Hope Abass record does well and is even better than the first. Speaking of Ogopa, Kenzo was on Ghetto radio yesterday and he mentioned that what he liked about Ogopa is once you sign with them, you record 5 records off the bat to keep you relevant. One artist that i do like from that stable is Avril, she did a song called “MAMA” which has 2 versions. The first one is better…Pamoja Jo

By: getmziki

getmziki — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:16:38 +0000

I gotta agree partially with both Jafeni & Roddy… //

1. Any sensible artist needs to know that if you are not relevant you dont exist. Relevancy is all about material, and material is not worth anything if its not being circulated. We currently play a small role for these artists outside Kenya but Radio ofcourse puts their talents on the map. But I would say – its not such a bad thing to have about 4 songs on rotation even before your album comes out, especially because we know album sales in Kenya are a joke – If I was an artists I personally would bootleg all my shit so that I can get more perfomance contracts and shows across the GLOBE. To me the equation is simple. More music being sampled and shared, means the more hype I am getting the more hype I am getting the more my relevancy increases and the more people will want to see me personally.

2. On the flip side, bootlegging your shit doesnt always mean you will be successful without a plan. Artists in kenya I think never have an implementation plan or a penetration plan. Like you see an artists record a single just so that he can be famous, but he doest really have a goal to record an album. I think this is both a good and a bad thing… but the reality is that Kenyan/ East African music has been dominated by singles. Personally I blame OGOPA As much as they were geniuses in their time – I think Ogopa saw the market of building individual artists as a waste a long time ago. so they focused on making compilation albums… that was ingenious but also killed the album market for Kenya for LIFE.

Thats just my take… // Thanks for your comments and feedback. What happened to Kenyanised??? and Gentlemanly???

By: jafeni karanja

jafeni karanja — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:12:51 +0000

@ Rody I think it is as any business minded person with a good business plan, you should create a buzz for your products and services. There is alot of hype sorrounding Abbas right now. The beef with Jua Cali and all this great songs perfect time to drop an album maybe April thats just my two cents.

By: kabugi

kabugi — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:21:43 +0000

i’m with you on that Roddy but i have to up your comment and say that ‘GET DOWN’ is by far the illest track on his album and anywhere else that matters. This track is good, GET DOWN is better. Wee Abbas salimia Mboteka wherever he’s at.
Pamojah

By: Get Mziki » Abbas - A Million Rhymes (GetMziki Exclusive ***)

Get Mziki » Abbas - A Million Rhymes (GetMziki Exclusive ***) — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:14:24 +0000

[...] inspired week, I have had this song for a while but I didnt think much about it in comparison to Juu ya Laa (Murume) however looking through the comments on that post – I think its only right that I share it [...]

By: Roddy

Roddy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:52:36 +0000

Leo the record is called Murume, Jafeni the A Milli freestlye going @ the government is sick. One thing i have to mention that don’t know if this is really a smart move or not but Abbas has got like Seven records out on rotation off the album and it still hasn’t dropped or he wants to do it like the way Necessary Noize did their first album where they had 10 records on local radio before NN dropped

By: Jafeni

Jafeni — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:27:16 +0000

Yea Leo the track is called Murume and get a million rhymes from Doobiez. Sick, Sick, Sick all the way. Big up the GetMziki team am totally hooked on this site.

By: Jafeni

Jafeni — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:21:39 +0000

Hats off kabisa wish most kenyan artists would think outside the box like Doobiez and take the risk of bieng different. The track is on heavy rotation all over Nairobi currently.