OF SENSE AND CENTS

Hehe, ati niko high ka salamu …Hey, that’s ma line, not Octo’s…n that reminds me (Disclaimer: not personal)…I remember when the guy was still down there at the WAPI ciphers where he would diss the CMB thingy saying that to him, it meant Chang’aa Miraa na Bangi…Wow! That was real ghetto, hehe! But what do we hear now? Braggadocio! His game is now eaten up by the fame and the fortune…in some way, we are all after the fortunes (a reward of hard work, I guess)…but every cent you earn gains you an almost equal repercussion…they start hating and befriending…The friends are the wiser ones (48 Lawz Of Power : Law #14 ‘Pose As a Friend, act as a Spy’)…The haters come up with conspirancies like that infamous illuminati stuff…hehe, maybe the perpetrators wanted publicity the same way they said Octo beefed with Abbas to get known…Kibaki would say “Kubaff” at such. On that note, when are we seeing a live Octo-Abbas cipher where all the gate charges (oops! It’s Damage, damage t’ya wallets before those uncultured victims of the Govt’s UNEMPLOYMENT mug you) is shared among the two ‘beefing’ rappers and their promoters. Um...is Mike Sonko ignoring the smartness of the metaphor king? It’s election time bwana M-hey-shi-mewer!! Get a campaign track…’B-B-B-bila Mike sisi si sonko’ Most people think Octo is over-rated and stuff…yeah! That’s so true through his lyrics where he mostly rates himself…I give him credit for bringing up the poetry nature that Kenyan Mainstram music lacked…his English-Swahili metaphorical rap notably : namake doh ukichungulia na mlango…utanipata kushoto nikicheka nigga nakuachia kulia. Then he starts bragging about what he owns n the money he has… This is where he screws it up… He comes from Kibera, right? Wealth is relative, a rich hustler in Kibera is half as rich as a hustler from Westy and 0.2 that from Karen…Maybe we should understand his traditional culture(…but do I Say...) He’s from the ghetto and should use his talent to help his hood or expose the many struggles the ghetto faces…Maybe he needs lessons from UFMM who came up with the MAUMAU ‘university’ aka Kambi to promote Hip Hop culture and talents. His flossmode is now sickening, he talks as if he makes Platinum sales, this is Kenya where they only eat from shows and small endorsements. Let the Somali Pirate control the seas while the River Road CD writers control the street Piracy…oops,almost forgot Youtube, Reverbnation, Soundcloud, Tubidy and the rest. Am listening to ‘The Message And the Money’ as I write this, Raw n Uncut. Later people…Slither Bee