Calvo Mistari (Lyrical Assassins) Feat. Wyre & Opip – Chapi (GetMziki Exclusive ***)
It appears each month there is a new dance emerging in Kenya, talking to Calvo I realize that this whole CHAPI CHAPI is actually a dance in Kenya thats apparently big. I remember going to F2 just to get a better understanding of what the Mosquito dance was and all these other chinese, kangaroo and kuku dance was all about.
Anyway this is some new music from Calvo Mistari feat Wyre and Opip. Personally I like the beat, the beat is on FIRE. Somewhere before I even learned the production I knew this had Musyoka written all over it, unfortunately because there are so many producers in Kenya right now its so hard to find one Producers signature sound – so I wasn’t sure. However I think there is a way that Musyoka uses harmonies or the organ to bring some emotion to a track. Certain elements of this track bring that in to just make it a dope beat.
Thankfully Calvo doesn’t disappoint on his verse as well as the hook from Wyre – everything just come together happily. Opip’s delivery was also okay…. The track is a feel good track and I think it gets a nice warm fuzzy spot in my iPod. As I understand this is part of the upcoming “Madaraka Madness” album that Lyrical Assassins has been working on. And just in case you are wondering the video was shot by Ogopa DJs.
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Brand New: Jangwa – Lyrical assassins Feat. Wenyeji and Shamir
I enjoy great relationships with the Lyrical Assassins crew – Calvo and crew sit on my gmail like neighbors and relatives in your digz. However I have no particular bias to their music, when they produce hot shit I tell them, when they produce whack shit I tell them some tracks make it on to the site and some just don’t. I respect our relationship because its based on honesty – and they understand my opinions are just my opinions. Sure enough they might influence a few people to react differently but essentially I normally have plenty of DJ’s call me out and tell me that I was wrong.
This track is HARDCORE – its titled Jangwa (Jungle) you get the essence of the jungle the forest kinda – the sounds in the background and some of the bottle shakers and other instruments are very distinctive. I know the song is a metaphor of sorts, because it talks about the real jungle – life! But playing around the African Jungle (Forest) animals and other elements that depict the continent is sheer genius. I am not sure if this is a track I will play everyday. Its a song I wont mind listening to and meditating on the lyrics (I guess thats why they call themselves Lyrical Assassins). The tracks features Wenyeji and Shamir – its an interesting collabo – I’ll let y’all be the judges.. enjoy!
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Brand New: Carl the Truth feat Calvo Mistari – Yule Kijana
image courtesy of Cal the truth & Dj Kelz
I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately about the Dallas Memorial festivities, its amazing how folks in Dallas start planning like 30 months ahead of time. he he he. That being said this year seems like Dallas is going to have some heat… But it appears that before Memorial there is an upcoming Easter party that is bound to break the grain – The Easter Extravaganza
Through those emails there have been a few artist names being thrown around one of which includes Cal the Truth. I haven’t really gotten a chance to sample his work and or make a formidable opinion so I will let you guys be the judge. Let me know what you think about this debut track featuring Calvo from Lyrical Assassins
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Brand New: Ground Zero – Haitawezekana
Calvo (Calvin) from Lyrical Assassins dropped a bunch of tracks last week that he wanted to share with the world. I like Calvo because he seems to be one of the few people who really understands what the web can do for their group. Lyrical Assassins has leveraged 50% of all Social Media to put their music and their thriving musical careers out there. I would recommend any Kenyan/local artists to follow these cats because to me the synergies we have been able to build between Lyrical Assassins and GetMziki has allowed them to push more tracks than ever before.
That said – out of all the tracks he sent over, I think I like this Ground Zero joint. I think these are the same cats featuring politely on that Mishuma track that I like so much….(Calvo send me that track – Mishuma).
Enjoy the song here, I dont have any real input yet – I need to give it some more rotations, so for now lets collectively give it some constructive criticism.
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New Instrumentals – Updated
Probably very few people on GetMziki know that there is an official and an unofficial instrumentals hook up on the site. For the more official mixtapes – the link is on top somewhere on this page, viewer ship and participation is strictly on invitation through (leo@getmziki.com). Having said that – here are the new instrumentals available for download (amongst others)
Lyrical Assassins – Mko Tayari Instrumentals:
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Stan -Gachugwa instrumentals:
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Ground Zero Nikikuona instrumentals:
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Indiginas Binti instrumentals:
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International Beauty Instrumentals:
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Lyrical Assassins feat Everyone!! – Piga saluti (remix)
Calvo has become one of my good friends and comrades- we chat every once often. One thing I like about these cats is how they have used the Internet to push their music. If you are on facebook, you will find a new video or a new update every once often from Lyrical Assassins. That being said if you were ever going to do a collabo of sorts this is how you would go about it – put “everyone” on it
This is the remix to Piga Saluti which we posted a few months back – but the remix is sick look at this list of heavy weights blessing the remix
- Jahmani
- Nickdogg
- KillerSyles
- Opips
- Madtraxx
- Jirongi & Jardell
Shit – this is official, you need to listen to the lyrics (BEATS na SNAYAAAA – snare).
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I thought I should add one of my favorite videos from one of my favorite shows also – WAKILISHA which is a BLACKSTAR producshizzle jumps of on NTV – they carried this feature that Calvo was good enough to record and post online…. Check it out.. HOODPASSPORT – Lyrical Assassins