Brand New: Nazizi – Jeshi (GetMziki Exclusive ***)
I just got this track today and honestly I wasn’t sure if I should post it or wait until I get a better sense of the style and production. At GetMziki we have a habit of holding the songs, listening, sharing internally and then forming opinions based of initial comments. However I think this track is too hot to hold onto even for a week.
I am posting this song today more specifically because I want to demystify this whole patois movement in Kenya. Here is a good example of an artists who goes back and forth, yet when you talk to her or listen to her interviews she is just a regular Kenyan. This track has some elements of Dancehall, Genge, Kapuka as well as other familiar urban sounds. I dig this song in particular because of the lyrics.
The intro has Kenyatta (Killer on getting the clearance to that audio 
) Second the whole metaphorical flow, bigging her JESHI or their JESHI. She practically bigs up every important artists in Kenya and rhymes with their title tracks in mind… For the slow ones here is an excerpt of her flow –
Karibia (song) Namemless (artists) niku show, Jeshi lime Sinzia (song) tuwa amshe bro
JuaCali (artist) nguvu ongeza kiasi (song) – jeshi icheki bidii (song) yako iki grow
lets get down (song) seriously Prezzo(artist) tuongoze Jeshi na hizo doo
DAMN I cant even pen these lyrics.. this is just a bad ass track she kills it on this one… I have to say its been a while since ive seen some intelligent rhymes.
Nazizi as usual… Mad Love.
BTW Rip Feroze, I miss that cat, I can’t lie and I don’t know why – Was a friend and a soldier Bongo for life… One of these fine days we will do a concert for all our fallen soldiers, Feroze, Cool James, Esir… One of these fine days..
listen to Jeshi here:
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Legends : TID feat Nazizi – Watasema Sana
I had the grand opportunity of working with TID for a little over a year after he had fumbled with an event in Kenya. The Kenyan market was unforgiving, regardless of whose fault it was – the reality is that they had completely blocked their mind from letting Khaleed Mohammed get on stage any other day after he jammed to perform at Carnivore one fine Saturday.
My job was simple, kindly reinstate this artist in the East African market whilst giving him the image and grand appeal he deserves. Together with Seven (some tough ass, fine ass chile) one of my good friends soon to be – we embarked on a journey that was bitter sweet. Ive never worked with anyone with as much passion as Seven (better known as Christine M) but truthfully if there is a chile who will work for what they believe in, its this chile. Several months later we had an album, which was a compilation of all the East African talents and producers. The hit single is what I am sharing today – It was an instant club banger, blessed by Kenya’s Dr Dre (Musyoka).
TID never really got the Kenyan market back as well as he had hoped to, but to me I think that album was probably his best album to date. I will hopefully share the entire album with his/their permission in time but for now here is “Watasema Sana” an old track to commemorate one of East Africa’s finest artiists. Working with TID was a challenge because his lifestyle was a little exuberant and fiilled with drama, but the reality is that the cat was talented. PERIOD.
Today TID sits in a cell in Dar es salaam, after being charged with battery, his fans hope that the president will pardon him in December so that he can get back to doing what he loves. Which is making good music, talking to his people recently – I hear he is struggling in there, but we all wish and pray for the best for him.
Listen to TID’s Watasema sana here:
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