M.O.G – Let Him Go

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I’ve been away for a couple of weeks now visiting the motherland and got to do a couple of shows at home thus getting to know the “hits” driving the streets, radio and clubs crazy. In the next few days I’m going to post songs that are driving the streets crazy in East Africa now hands down!!!. The songs might not necessarily be new but they definitely deserve a spot on GetMziki.

I won’t lie, but the first post I thought I would hit the readers up with is the song “Wi Mutheru” that Leo just posted up the other day ( Its one of the the biggest gospel song in Kenya sahii hands down lol)

The first song that is driving the streets crazy is ‘Let Him Go” by the Kenyan group “Men of God” or M.O.G comprising of Paul “Boss” Onyango, Tony Mburu, and Kennedy “Ken-T” Kiman who won the award for group of the year in the 2009 Groove awards. We’ve had this discussion so many times about Gospel music and its presence in the clubs but like I’ve always insisted good music is good music regardless.  Those who know about this track know how big it is and its impact in the clubs and radio.

Listen to “Let him go” and keep the comments coming !!!!!

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This entry was posted on Sunday, September 20th, 2009 at 6:48 pm and is filed under Gospel Music, Kenyan Urban Soul, Todays Hit and tagged with , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

2 Responses to “M.O.G – Let Him Go”

  1. Bassline says:
    September 23, 2009 at 6:57 am

    We’ve all heard of the “herding instinct” {no pun intended there}.
    It’s the wanting-to-follow-the-crowd phenomenon that so often causes public numbers to grow so exponentially, favouring a particular brand, whether its toothpaste, snickers or a song like this one.
    I always keep referring back to Nameless old hit “nansizia” and how it caught a lot of flack when it first came out. The so-called “industry specialists” had predicted that hell would freeze kwanza before Nasinzia becomes a hit. They said it was “too slow” among other things and they criticized the repetitive “nasinzia nikikuwaza…oH..Oh” hook. Fast-forward three months later, the song has become obese all of a sudden kila mtu yuko down-with-it, Nameless is riding high on a piece that was once despised.
    I didn’t think much of “Let him go” when it chomokad. I wish I could’ve been able to predict and say maze I think Let him go will be a hit but I couldn’t coz it sounded normal at first mpaka everyone else started liking it. Now, I too I’m part of the “herd” and listening to it closely reveals a production mastery.
    I happen to know the producers. They said they simply wanted to come up with a simple, catchy flavor of a gospel song but they too were humongously surprised at how big the song became.
    This is still the biggest gospel joint in Kenya and big up to Mike Sakata and Mr Carena for the tracks, mixing, mastering, instrumentation and vocal processing. Big up to MOG for keeping it real in the faith and kila mtu should remember that MOG used to be 4 guys but the 4th jamaa wasn’t patient enough to wait for legitimate success. He went back to being a thug and was killed in action.

  2. Locom says:
    September 23, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    on point sana.

    Check out this facebook app that allows you to rep your mtaa
    http://apps.facebook.com/mtaa_yangu/

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