Comments on: “Authentic” Kenyan Music…

By: Die-hard Eric fan!

Die-hard Eric fan! — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:41:32 +0000

Eish!
harsh but I guess some of us are very near sighted( or is it near hearing), if we think Eric’s music has no depth or doesn’t reflect the issues in Kenya and Africa.
Have you checked out his albums? Maybe you should before pronouncing judgement!

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By: don

don — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:20:25 +0000

My point was not about rap music… although I think it gets a bad rap…. no pun intended.

It is with the idea of authentic Kenyan. Somehow because I am not fluent in my mother tongue… or swahili for that matter, I am not “authentic”. That authentic kenyan music must have nyatitis etc.

I am so tired un-professionalism that gets a pass because it’s kenyan. Kenya aireways crashing like a mutha and then people saying it’s ok becuase it’s kenyan.

An entertainer doing 2 songs or 1 CD and then sitting back, with people saying they should be in the realm of Makeba.

Entertainers making a niche produce (read luo songs) and then wondering why they are not selling.

Jeez… at this point I think I should start a blog. Daam I have issues.

nice post… got my juices flowing…

By: kenyanentrepreneur

kenyanentrepreneur — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:10:08 +0000

At this point in my life, music for me is really about the written word translated via song. I think the best musicians are also the best writers because they write songs that tell a story and I do enjoy listening to those stories.

And in fact, I’ve started listening to some rap music differently. I used to think it was just a bunch of noise, but when I started listening to the words, I realized it was much more of that: it was social commentary on the plight of black people living in the inner city and rap was the medium they used to transmit their “stories”.

White people aways wonder how these rappers are able to make millions of dollars, but if you listen to their music, you’ll learn that a lot of them who started out as drug dealers learnt from that experience how to survive on the streets and how to run a business (selling drugs on the streets is like running a fortune 500 company!) — I’m looking at rap musicians in a whole different light now!

By: don

don — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 00:07:33 +0000

An african cannot get a break. You are saying that for any other entertainer they just have to entertain you. But if they are African, they have to entertain you, teach you, show you cultur and make a living while they are at it…. wow, would you say that you are handicapping a fellow African against their muzungu counterpart?

Black folk always complained that BET did not teach about black culture. Untill the head or… former head mentioned that BET stood for Black ENTERTAINMENT Television. They were not a school!

An african entertainter should not be judged any different from any other entertainer.

This is my opinion.

And yes, to each his own.

By: kenyanentrepreneur

kenyanentrepreneur — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:30:35 +0000

Don:

A luo friend did explain to me what the two songs meant. So, I did have an idea (although it is a good point you make)

I want entertainment too, but I also want to absorb the culture and learn about it (this only applies when I listen to African music and that’s why I’m picky about it0

but to each their own.