RAPPER 50 CENT NA SAFARI YAKE YA KENYA, SOMALIA ILIKUWA KAMA IFUATAYO

On February 11, 2012, Rapper 50 Cent visited Kenya and famine-hit Somalia

50 Cent nairobi na watoto waliokumbwa na janga la njaa

Rap star Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson visited Kenya and famine-hit Somalia this week to raise awareness on hunger and poverty issues. Jackson flew to the southern Somali border town of Dolo, which has provided refuge to the thousands of women and children fleeing drought and conflict in the nation.

"What I am seeing is devastating -- these women and children have risked everything to come to this Somalia camp, just to get food," Jackson said. "They need our help."

Somalia has battled famine conditions in some regions and an Islamist insurgency that has disrupted aid to people in danger of starvation. The United Nations declared an end to Somalia's six-month famine recently, but said the situation is still fragile.

50 Cent Akimbeba Mtoto aliykumbwa na njaa Nchini Somalia

The Rap star teamed up with the World Food Programme for the Wednesday and Thursday visits that included a stop in a slum in neighboring Kenya.

In Nairobi, he visited with children at the sprawling Kibera slum, most of whom are orphans.

"To meet those kids was so inspiring, they have nothing, yet they are so positive and optimistic," he said in a statement posted on the U.N. agency's website. "I want to do my part so they get food and an education. I hope more people will join me to help end this devastating situation."

Jackson has pledged to provide one billion meals for the hungry, and is donating a meal from every sale of a new energy drink, Street King, according to the World Food Programme. The rap star has sold millions of albums and produced major hits including "Candy Shop" and "In Da Club."

50 Cent Akisherekea na Watoto waliokumbwa na nairobi nchini kenya 

50 Cent akiwa Somalia na taasisi ya chakula la UN juu ya tatizo la njaa nchini humo 

ICE-T ASEMA "Art Of Rap" SIO SHAMBULIO KWA POP RAP, BALI INAELEZA KUWA MTAZAMO WAKE NA VIJANA WA SASA WALIVYO.

Exclusive: Hip Hop's original gangster discusses his first foray into film-making, why your local weather man inspired his movie and why he couldn't call Kendrick Lamar to appear in it

Rugged rhymer Smoothe Da Hustler recently employed some “Broken Language” to pay homage to “109 MC’s” over a clever flip of Ice-T’s classic “Colors” track for the official music video promoting his S.M.G. partner-in-rhyme’s new documentary, Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap.

Astoundingly, Ice interviewed almost exactly half that number of emcees for the film. Notable names the likes of Dr. Dre, Eminem, Rakim, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Bun B, Nas, Ice Cube, Common, Q-Tip, Big Daddy Kane and Yasiin Bey (along with over three dozen more of their peers) appear alongside Ice as they discuss just what the craft of emceeing means to those that have dedicated their lives to the now nearly 40 year-old culture brought into the universe by some South Bronx kids with little more than two turntables and a microphone.

Reviving the once in-demand industry of in-theater Hip Hop documentaries like The Show and Rhyme & Reason that brought millions of new eyes and ears to the culture in the 1990s, the legendary rapper/actor puts a unique new spin on the old format by utilizing his respected status as the godfather of Gangsta Rap and his personal relationships with his interview subjects to pull out revealing responses that the average journalist could not elicit – along with some impressive, ear-grabbing freestyles (like Lord Finesse’s punch line-packed verse and even some jaw-dropping bars from Ice himself).

Hip-hop DX spoke to Ice late last Friday (May 8th) for a brief promotional Q&A about his film (in theatres today, May 15th), in which one-half of the hit reality show Ice Loves Coco explained why Hip Hop’s devolution into Pop served as the motivation for making his debut documentary but doesn’t serve as the film’s focus, as well as why Kendrick Lamar or any other contemporary spitters were not called in to give their thoughts on the art of rhyming. And after revealing his personal favorite freestyles and interviews in the film, Ice concludes his convoy with DX by delivering a special message to all Hip Hop haters and Bill O’Reilly fans.

BUMPY KNUCKLES NA STATIK SELEKTAH KUTOA ALBUM  AGOSTI INAYOKWENDA KWA JINA LA "AMBITION"

Tracks from 2011's "Lyrical Workout" album, along with new material comes to physical release this summer, featuring Noreaga and O.C.
Emcee Bumpy Knuckles (a/k/a Freddie Foxxx) and producer/deejay Statik Selektah are slated to release a formal, expanded version of their 2011 collaborative album this summer. According to UndergroundHipHop.com, on August 7, the duo will release Ambition on the Gracie Productions label.

Guests include O.C. and Noreaga. This effort, released on CD and vinyl, includes tracks from the pair's Lyrical Workout album released digitally through Statik's Showoff Records imprint, as well as new material.

In March, Gracie released KoleXXXion, the first full collaborative album by Bumpy and DJ Premier. The album debuted on the Top 200 of the Billboard charts.

KRS-ONE AMUELEZEA EARLY HARE KRISHNA MIKAKATI YA KULISHA MASKINI NA SABABU ZA KUBADILISHA JINA  LAKE.

In an exclusive outtake from Ice-T(TM)so the Art Of Rap documentary, KRS-One explains how helping feed the homeless led to a few name changes.

While he answers to many aliases—“Blasmaster” and “The Teacha” to name a few—people generally recognize KRS-One by his Rap name and occasionally by his given name of Kris Parker. All of the above are fine, except Kris is not his given name. It’s Lawrence. In one of the many viral outtakes from Ice-T’s Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap, KRS breaks down how an encounter with the Hare Krishnas led to his name change.

“When I went into the street, I was hanging with the Hare Krishnas,” KRS explained to Ice-T. “They used to come into the shelter and feed the homeless. They used to say, ‘If anyone wants to help us feed the homeless, we’ll give you a free Bhaktivedanta.’ My little philosophical self said, ‘Yeah, I’ll help you feed the homeless.’ And I got my Bhaktivedanta.’”

KRS said he developed an appreciation for a story about Lord Krishna instructing Arjuna on the battlefield. However upon returning to the shelter, the man then known as Larry Parker was uniformly teased by everyone he knew.

“They started calling me Krishna, and I’m like, ‘Yo. Stop calling me Krishna. My name’s Larry. Stop calling me Krishna…that’s the name of their god. That’s like calling somebody Jesus or Muhammad if you’re not down with that.’”

Parker was removed from the shelter due to failing to meet the minimum age requirements. However, due to a clerical error by the Bureau of Child Welfare Services, all of his paperwork said Krishna Parker instead of Lawrence. Krishna was shortened to Kris, and when graffiti bombing became popular, Kris’ tag was shortened to K-R-S. Faced with the prospect of separating himself from the rest of the bombers named K-R-S, Parker changed his tag to KRS-One.

You can ponder how the trajectory of Hip Hop history may or may not have been changed if MC Shan was battling Larry Parker instead of KRS-One, or simply watch the full video below. Ice-T’s Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap releases in theaters Friday, June 15t

O.C. AKIRI KUWA NDOTO YAKE  AWEPO ICE CUBE KWENYE ALBUM YAKE YA "WORD...LIFE"

O.C. Reveals That He Attempted To Get Ice Cube On "Word...Life" Album

O.C. reveals that Organized Konfusion would not have been the only guest on his critically-acclaimed debut.

Veteran Brooklyn, New York emcee O.C. just released his collaborative album with Detroit, Michigan producer Apollo Brown, Trophies. In a recent interview with KevinNottingham.com. the D.I.T.C. member spoke candidly about his 1994 debut album, Word...Life. The Wild Pitch Records effort featured Organized Konfusion's Pharaoh Monch and Prince Po, but according to O, it very nearly had another legendary lyricists guest appearance.

Looking back at the making of Word...Life, O.C. revealed, "I even had [conversations with] Ice Cube [about appearing]…they got at the label or the label got at him about a record called, “Constables” and I think Cube wanted 40 or 50 grand. At that time, he was on the, 'I’m proud/Black' movement." O.C. alluded that his independent label at the time considered the royalty too high. "It would’ve been smart for [Wild Pitch/EMI Records] to pay him that money 'cause it would’ve took us somewhere else."

50 CENT APAKUA ALBUMU YA TANO

During an interview with Hot 107.9 Philly (via HHNM), the G-Unit general revealed that the title of his LP will be Five (Murder by Numbers). "@50cent has a new album dropping July 3rd called Five (Murder by Numbers). Make sure you go and get that," tweeted the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania radio station.last month, Fife said he was going to release the project on July 3rd with or without his label's support. "There’s a lot more business involved [in putting out an album] than the general public is aware of. And that part causes the actual delay with [Interscope]. I’m releasing my album July 3rd, weather is has commercial promotions or not,” he said. “My birthday is July 6 and I planned for it. And I’m doing everything that I planned to do regardless if its huge airplay or not. I could care less; I’m putting the record out.

Nas LENGO LILIKUWA KUTENGENEZA SANAMU LA Jay-Z HALAFU KULINYONGA KWENYE Summer Jam YA 2002

  Nas intended to hang a robotic dummy that resembled Jay-Z at Summer Jam 2002.

A video has surfaced of a robotics team making a Jay-Z figure that Nas originally intended to hang at Summer Jam 2002.

The clip portrays a team making an animatronic figure with Jay's face on it. Esco intended to hang the dummy during his performance at Hot 97's festival, but the radio station forbid him from doing it.

After the station shut it down, the Queens, New York native hopped on the phone with Angie Martinez and went off about his beef with Hov, which had reached critical mass around that time.

 Freeway AELEZA KWA NINI ALIVAMIA MAHOJIANO YA Jay-Z Press Conference KWENYE MJI WA Philadelphia

  Freeway addresses his presence at Jay-Z's press conference in mid-May.

Much was made of Freeway's presence on stage as Jay-Z announced via a press conference in Philadelphia that he would take part in a two-day "Made in America" art festival in the city.

"When I out about the whole festival, and Jay was going to be in Philly, I hit him...and he said 'come down,' and that's what happened," said Freeway in an interview on BET's "106 & Park." "Before he went on stage, he tapped me like, 'C'mon,' and I went up there."

Freeway explained why he wasn't part of the photograph that Jay took with the Mayor of Philadelphia and several sponsors. "[W]hen it was time to take the picture, obviously I wasn't dressed for the occasion. So I slid to the side."

"People understand it, but nowadays with the internet, people wanna make jokes," he continued. "The jokes and everything, when people was making a joke out of it towards me, it was like cool, it was funny to me too. But as far as people trying to put it on Jay...it wasn't even like that. If you got two ounces of sense, you would know that you cannot be near Jay-Z if he don't want you to be. I was on stage with the Mayor of Philadelphia and Jay-Z. If they didn't want me there, there was no way I could've got up there."

"That's the big homie, man... I not going to come around somebody if they don't want me around, because I will feel uncomfortable."

 

Q-Tip WAUNGANA NA Dr. Dre KWENYE "Low End Theory"

 Q-Tip explains how Dr. Dre was the benchmark for A Tribe Called Quest's recording of "The Low End Theory."

Over the course of several years, Dr. Dre and Q-Tip have, in several interviews, provided a timeline of back-and-forth inspiration beginning in the late '80s.

Q-Tip has stated that NWA's 1988 release Straight Outta Compton was a direct influence on A Tribe Called Quest's 1991 album The Low End Theory. In turn, Dre revealed that Tribe's project greatly inspired the Compton rapper/producer's 1992 classic, The Chronic.

In a recent interview on Shade 45's "All Out Show," Q-Tip spoke to Rude Jude and Lord Sear about the nature of his drawing inspiration from Dre for The Low End Theory. "Everybody deals with shit in a competitive way. But not in like an egregious way, how shit looks a little bit today," explained Tip. "But more like one-upsmanship in the music. Tryin' to stay fresh...just keeping your eye on that dude. And for me, personally, when I went in, that dude was Dre."

"The group was NWA, and to me, that was the benchmark. And of course I was listening to everything else around..."

"The bar was set very high," continued the ATCQ member. "Musically, my main thing was Dre. That was like, trying to make something he would like and appreciate in a way. Musically."

Canibus ATOA KITAU CHA MISTARI KWENYE Rap Battle

 UPDATE: After forfeiting in the third round of his "Vendetta: Battle Royale" against Dizaster, Canibus pulled out a notepad.

Canibus was slated to partake in the rap battle "Vendetta: Battle Royale" against Dizaster when things took a strange turn.

The event, which took place Saturday, June 9th at Exchange LA, marked the first time that Canibus took the stage for a one-on-one battle. While wearing an arm sling/cast, Canibus took place in the pre-scheduled three round rhyme bout before ultimately forfeiting. However, ‘Bis was intent on continuing to rhyme, and as various source footage from "King of the Dot"'s Ustream page shows, Canibus pulled out a notepad and began rhyming previously written verses with varying degrees of success.

Things got tense halfway through the pre-written bars, when fans rained down a cascade of boos on Canibus, causing him to pause to address the crowd.

“Yo, y’all wanna hear this shit or not?” he asked. “Yo, don’t be a dick man. I came out here and you paid me my bread, they paid their bread…let me spit my shit!”

Canibus has yet to further explain exactly what happened during the battle. His Twitter feed hasn’t been updated since before the battle, but that hasn’t stopped fellow emcees from weighing in. A portion of the battle can be seen below.

Lauryn Hill ASHINDWA KULIPA KODI ......!! JAMANI WASWAHILI TUJIPANGE KABLA MAMBO KUHARBIKA....!

 UPDATE: Lauryn Hill faces a $100,000 penalty and will go before a judge.

Lauryn Hill has been charged on three counts of failure to file tax returns from 2005, 2006 and 2007.

According to Philly.com, the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey filed the charges earlier today. Between 2005 and 2007, Ms. Hill earned $1.6 million in income from royalties and operating four companies: Creations Music, Inc., Boogie Tours, Inc., L.H. Productions 2001, Inc. and Studio 22, Inc.

The former Fugee faces a maximum $100,000 fine and is scheduled to go before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael A. Shipp on June 29th.

[June 7]

UPDATE: Lauryn Hill took to her Tumblr account to post a lengthy response to the charges brought against her for failing to file tax returns. Read the full post below.

“For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground.  I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.  Having put the lives and needs of other people before my own for multiple years, and having made hundreds of millions of dollars for certain institutions, under complex and sometimes severe circumstances, I began to require growth and more equitable treatment, but was met with resistance.  I entered into my craft full of optimism (which I still possess), but immediately saw the suppressive force with which the system attempts to maintain it’s control over a given paradigm.  I’ve seen people promote addiction, use sabotage, black listing, media bullying and any other coercion technique they could, to prevent artists from knowing their true value, or exercising their full power.  These devices of control, no matter how well intentioned (or not), can have a devastating outcome on the lives of people, especially creative types who must grow and exist within a certain environment and according to a certain pace, in order to live and create optimally.

I kept my life relatively simple, even after huge successes, but it became increasingly obvious that certain indulgences and privileges were expected to come at the expense of my free soul, free mind, and therefore my health and integrity.  So I left a more mainstream and public life, in order to wean both myself, and my family, away from a lifestyle that required distortion and compromise as a means for maintaining it.  During this critical healing time, there were very few people accessible to me who had not already been seduced or affected by this machine, and therefore who could be trusted to not try and influence or coerce me back into a dynamic of compromise. Individual growth was expected to take place unnaturally, or stagnated outright, subject to marketing and politics.  Addressing critical issues like pop culture cannibalism or its manipulation of the young at the expense of everything, was frowned upon and discouraged by limiting funding, or denying it outright.  When one has a prolific creative output like I did/do, and is then forced to stop, the effects can be dangerous both emotionally and psychologically, both for the artist and those in need of that resource.  It was critically important that I find a suitable pathway within which to exist, without being distorted or economically strong-armed.

During this period of crisis, much was said about me, both slanted and inaccurate, by those who had become dependent on my creative force, yet unwilling to fully acknowledge the importance of my contribution, nor compensate me equitably for it.  This was done in an effort to smear my public image, in order to directly affect my ability to earn independently of this system.  It took a long time to locate and nurture a community of people strong enough to resist the incredibly unhealthy tide, and more importantly see through it.  If I had not been able to make contact with, and establish this community, my life, safety and freedom, would have been directly affected as well as the lives, safety and freedom of my family.  Failure to create a non toxic, non exploitative environment was not an option.

As my potential to work, and therefore earn freely, was being threatened, I did whatever needed to be done in order to insulate my family from the climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism that I was surrounded by.  This was absolutely critical while trying to find and establish a new and very necessary community of healthy people, and also heal and detoxify myself and my family while raising my young children.

There were no exotic trips, no fleet of cars, just an all out war for safety, integrity, wholeness and health, without mistreatment denial, and/or exploitation.  In order to liberate myself from those who found it ok to oppose my wholeness, free speech and integral growth by inflicting different forms of punitive action against it, I used my resources to sustain our safety and survival until I was able to restore my ability to earn outside of it!

When artists experience danger and crisis under the effects of this kind of insidious manipulation, everyone easily accepts that there was something either dysfunctional or defective with the artist, rather than look at, and fully examine, the system and its means and policies of exploiting/’doing business’.  Not only is this unrealistic, it is very dark in its motivation, conveniently targeting the object of their hero worship by removing any evidence that they ‘needed’ or celebrated this very same resource just years, months or moments before.  Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego.  Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

It was this schism and the hypocrisy, violence and social cannibalism it enabled, that I wanted and needed to be freed from, not from art or music, but the suppression/repression and reduction of that art and music to a bottom line alone, without regard for anything else.  Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual.  I Love making art, I Love making music, these are as natural and necessary for me almost as breathing or talking.  To be denied the right to pursue it according to my ability, as well as be properly acknowledged and compensated for it, in an attempt to control, is manipulation directed at my most basic rights!  These forms of expression, along with others, effectively comprise my free speech!  Defending, preserving, and protecting these rights are critically important, especially in a paradigm where veiled racism, sexism, ageism, nepotism, and deliberate economic control are still blatant realities!!!

Learning from the past, insulating friends and family from the influence of external manipulation and corruption, is far more important to me than being misunderstood for a season!  I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities, but I did however put my safety, health and freedom and the freedom, safety and health of my family first over all other material concerns!  I also embraced my right to resist a system intentionally opposing my right to whole and integral survival.

I conveyed all of this when questioned as to why I did not file taxes during this time period.  Obviously, the danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

My intention has always been to get this situation rectified.  When I was working consistently without being affected by the interferences mentioned above, I filed and paid my taxes.  This only stopped when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

As this, and other areas of issue are resolved and set straight, I am able to get back to doing what I should be doing, the way it should be done.  This is part of that process.  To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue.  I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.”

 

Tha Dogg Pound WARUDI NA  "Doggy Bag" Tracklist & Artwork

  Death Row Records is back for their second unofficial album from Daz Dillinger & Kurupt. This one features two alternate mixes from "Dogg Food," as well as Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg and Warren G.

Death Row Records/WIDE Awake Entertainment will release Doggy Bag from veteran Gangsta Rap duo Tha Dogg Pound on July 3, as reported by DubCNN. Daz Dillinger (f/k/a Dat Nigga Daz) and Kurupt were formerly signed to the label founded by Suge Knight and Dr. Dre in the 1990s. These recordings were kept by Death Row, who was purchased by WIDE Awake in 2009.

The group's mentor, Snoop Dogg, along with Nate Dogg, The Lady of Rage, Warren G and Crooked I are featured on the 15 recordings for sale on Doggy Bag. Original and alternate mixes for early singles "Let's Play House" and "Me In Your World" are included.

Tha Dogg Pound released their first group album, 1995's Dogg Food on Death Row. The album would become a record-breaking #1 independent debut and multi-platinum success for the pair. In 1997, Kurupt left Death Row to form Antra Records while Daz stayed on to be the Musical Supervisor for the notorious label. By 2001, Daz had left Death Row and Kurupt returned to serve briefly as label president with Suge Knight, before departing in the mid-2000s a second time.

Daz and Kurupt have released seven studio Dogg Pound albums since Dogg Food. Death Row has previously released an unofficial DPG album, 2001's ironically-titled 2002.

The tracklisting to Doggy Bag is as follows:

01) Like Dis
02) Every Single Day (Feat. Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg)
03) Gigolo
04) Everybody Needs To Slow Down
05) I Don't Care What the People Say
06) Me In Your World [Original] (Feat. The Lady of Rage)
07) Let's Play House [Original] (Feat. Warren G, Michel'le)
08) These Reasons
09) It Might Sound Crazy [Remix] (Feat. Too Short)
10) Farewell To My Enemies [Interlude]
11) Save a Life (Feat. Prince Ital Joe)
12) Big Pimpin' (Feat. Snoop Dogg)
13) U Ain't Tha Home (Feat. Crooked I)
14) Life I Lead
15) N.Y. 87 (Feat. Deadly Threat)

WAJUE Emmanuel Okwi NA Amir Maftah MEMBA WA SWAHILI HIP HOP FAMILY CLUB WANAOFANYA VIZURI KWENYE TIMU ZAO ZA TAIFA

 EMMANUELI OKWI STORI

okwi

 Simba Sports Club Of Tanzania and Uganda National Team  Cranes strikers and our Swahili Hip Hop Family Club Memba,in the post-Magid Musisi era have always had a harrowing tale to tell - one fraught with barrenness as much as vagaries.

Although goals give strikers lots of currency, Ugandan strikers have not quite developed an affinity for finding the onion bag. This has perennially left The Cranes in a quandary as last year's goalless draw at home to Kenya attests.

Over the past couple of years, The Cranes had found something of an antidote in David Obua. The enigmatic utility player was deployed in the final third of the pitch, playing off the battling ram that is Geoffrey Massa. He didn't disappoint, bailing The Cranes out of jail on a number of occasions.

When Obua pulled the plug on his Cranes career after an altercation with Fufa bigwigs, questions were bound to proliferate as to who would be the source of Team Uganda's goals on the international stage. Obua's gangly frame and nippy feet had helped themselves to 14 goals in 27 appearances for The Cranes.

Football may be a team sport, but teams sure are crafted around individuals. The Cranes had markedly been crafted around Obua in the past couple of years or so. Obua wasn't as prolific as Musisi, but he had a subtle knack of finding a gear that would rev The Cranes.

This is possibly the solitary reason why, his shenanigans notwithstanding, Ugandans purred over Obua so much so they christened him King David. Now, the same Ugandans are purring over Emmanuel Okwi after the youngster's goal - his 10th in a Cranes jersey - secured Uganda a credible 1-1 draw away to Angola in a 2014 Fifa World Cup qualifier.

They believe that a surrogate for Obua has been found. They have every right to think as much. Ever since Okwi nonchalantly opened his Cranes account with a cushioning goal in Uganda's 2-0 win over Rwanda in the 2009 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup final, he has always delivered when fielded.



OKWI



His four goals apiece in the 2010 and 2011 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup tournaments state as much. But whether Okwi has what it takes to continue delivering similar cameos over a protracted period remains to be seen.

Many Cranes strikers have tended to pull up short on this front, notably Massa. A brace at home to Lesotho saw Massa get out of the blocks quickly amidst lots of fanfare, but his international goals inextricably dried up along the way.

Nowadays, he is renowned not as much for his goals than hold up play. Massa's not alone, though. Brian Umony also had a searing start to his Cranes career, scoring eight goals in eight games that were sprayed out over three months.

Umony then forthwith put on the skids in his subsequent games for The Cranes. He has never flirted with the word prolific since hitting that rather barren patch. In fact, bar Okwi, the only active Cranes striker who has looked something close to being productive, if not consistent, is Geoffrey Sserunkuma (with 15 goals in 21 appearances).

But Sserukuma also hasn't done himself any favours by cutting the image of an impact player as opposed to a bonafide leader of the line. Sserunkuma performed dismally when asked to lead the line in the 3-1 loss away to Congo-Brazzaville early this year.

Sserunkuma's languid style has always merited a start from the bench as his performance in Congo-Brazzaville indicated. So, from the looks of it, Okwi will continue to lead The Cranes' attack, or be it temporarily in the absence of the injured Massa.

How Okwi fares in the homes matches against Senegal and Congo-Brazzaville will undoubtedly determine the strength of his clench on the No.9 position. The jury, though, won't pass its verdict until the youngster delivers, as did Obua, over a protracted periodin his spare time spends with the swahili hiphop family club in Dar es salaam,TANZANIA.

AMIR MAFTAH STORI
Amir Maftah is a Tanzanian footballer. A left back born 26th feb 1988 nik name "PELE of Mwanza", he currently plays club football for Young Africans FC. He is also a member of the Tanzania national football team.


Amir akimkabiri Gervinho wa Ivory Coast



On May 18, 2010, former Young Africans player from last two season's  registration list.
the wing-back Amir Maftah has been outstanding to Simba squad which is the current tanzanian champion,and now preparing for the new league and ahead their CAF Champions League fixture next season . 

Maftah, who joined the Msimbazi Street outfit from their Yanga is an mwanza city origin,

who inspired alot young talents ,maftah is working on his Documentary "Dakika 90 na Amir Maftah" under a company called ASAR ENTERTAINMENT in mwenge Dar es salaam.

amir is a very dynamic when he's playing for national team ,we could all understand the young talent wants recognition.in his spare time spends with the swahili hiphop family club .

  

LIL' CEASE ASEMA "MIMI SIO SNICHII...!" AMWAMBIA LIL KIM

Lil' Cease said that he never said anything during her perjury trial that led to her incarceration.

Back in 2005, Lil’ Cease took the stand and testified against Lil’ Kim in her perjury trial that eventually led to her spending a year and a day in prison. But he maintains that he never snitched on his former ally.

During an interview with ThisIs50.com, Cease-A-Leo said that he never said anything that led to her guilty verdict and that he was a victim of media manipulation.

"The way the media made it, they made it seem like it was something more than what it was. It wasn't that much of a thing. Just the fact that I was on that stand, it made it look funny. It's public records, it's paperwork. I can't hide my government name. I put out albums before. My name is James Lloyd. If you go down to the federal plaza, you can get a case number. You can buy the paperwork and see what I actually said."

He said that he couldn't have said anything that would have put her behind bars. The Notorious B.I.G. protege continued by explaining that perjury was her own undoing and that he would still like to reconnect with her on the basis that they have history ("I love you like a bag of weed," he said).

"She wasn't in a situation for me to say something that would send her away. Maybe the people around her made it look that way or she felt that way because of the situation she was in, but I just felt like it was a situation where she could have done things to change things and she didn't. But it was nothing that nobody said on my end, as far as anybody. Not just me, but anybody from the M.A.F.I.A. Nobody said nothing that sent her away. I think no matter how her situation would have went down, she would have still went away for the things she lied about. There's nothing that we discriminated on." 

HUYU NDO WITNESS DIVA WA SWAHILI HIP HOP 

WITNESS

Witness Fred Mwaijaga (Amezaliwa Tar. 15 Novemba, 1982) Ni Msanii Wa Hip Hop Narapa Kutoka Nchini Tanzania. Anafahamika Sana Kwa Jina Lake La Kisanii Kama Witness "Au" Bad Jiah. Pia, Anafahamika Zaidi Kwa Kuwa Mmoja Kati Ya Washindi Wa Shindano La Coca Cola Pop Stars Na Mmoja Wa Waanzilishi Wa Kundi La Muziki Wa Hip Hop Maarufu Kama Wakilisha. Anavuma Kwa Baadhi Ya Vibao Vyake Kadhaa Alivyofanya Na Kundi, Pamoja Na Vya Peke Yake. Vibao Hivyo Ni Pamoja Na: Hoi, Kiswanglish,Kichekesho Na Zero.
Witness, Alisoma Katika Shule Ya Msingi Ya Oysterbay Ya Jijini Dar Es Salaam, Vilevile Shule Ya Sekondari Ya Jitegemee Ambapo Ndipo Alipomazia. Pia, Alishafanya Kazi Na Mashirika Ya Kimataifa Kama Vile Unicef Na Alikuwa Akifanya Mikutano Inayohusiana Na Masuala Ya Vijana.
Pia, Alishawahi Kuwa Mnenguaji Wa Ngoma Za Asili Wa ISHI, Shirika La Maendeleo Ya Vijana Tanzania.


HAKUNA TENA BEEF KATI YA OPRAH NA 50 CENT 

50 Cent and Oprah have reconciled their differences, and 50 will appear on Oprah's show "The Next Chapter" this Sunday.

50 Cent has finally made peace with Oprah. Although he dissed Oprah in the past, the rapper connected with the interviewer recently for an interview that will appear on Oprah's OWN Network for the program Oprah visited Fif's grandmother's house and where they had "Great conversation about rap culture, fatherhood, love, and life." Oprah continued, "He describes himself as two people—Curtis and 50 Cent—I was fascinated to hear his description of them both. Really glad I did it. Really liked him."You can watch a preview of the episode, which airs at 9 P.M. this Sunday, below. Michael Jackson's daughter Paris Jackson also makes an appearance.


RAPA A$AP APORWA SAA YA DOLLA 15,000 NA KURUDISHIWA..... KUKAA KITAA KUNAMATA..!!


A$AP Rocky has been doing some shows in Europe, and at his most recent show overseas, his extremely expensive watch was stolen and later returned to him.
While A$AP Rocky was performing overseas, his $15,000 watch was stolen from him during his set.
He was performing at England's Camden Electric Ballroom and during his interaction with the crowd, someone from the crowd managed to get his watch. Luckily, fans in the crowd were able to identify the culprit and snatch it back before he got away, all the while causing commotion in the crowd.In the video below you can see what happened, as the lights turn on in the venue Rocky says, "We not gon’ end our show just ’cause somebody took a $15,000 watch. Fuck it, man," right before the watch was returned.


LUPE ADONDOSHA ALBUM MPYA 



Lupe Fiasco's upcoming album gets a release date: it'll hit stores and the internet on September 25th.
Lupe Fiasco took to his Facebook page to reveal that his album Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1 is dropping September 25th.
The first single off the album, "Around My Way (Freedom Ain't Free)" is out now.

GZA's "The Liquid Swords" Box Set To Release, Includes Chess Set, Instrumentals

Get On Down Records adds RZA instrumentals, detailed liner notes and a chess set to GZA's 1995 classic.
On July 24, Get On Down Records will collaborate with Wu-Tang Clan's GZA and Geffen Records to release a deluxe 2CD box set of the emcee's sophomore album, Liquid Swords. The November, 1995 album's re-issue will include a bonus disc of the album's instrumentals, almost entirely produced by RZA. Also included are liner notes penned by the emcee, and a chess set pulling from much of the album's lyrical influence.
Liquid Swords featured the single "Cold World," and was a mainstream introduction to Killah Priest. In recent years, GZA has alluded to releasing a sequel to his first and only Top 10 album.
Previously, Get On Down has partnered in vinyl and CD deluxe reissues of Ironman and Supreme Clientele by Wu-Tang's Ghostface Killah.


 DJ Premier ATOA ONYO KWA WALE WANAO IBA MITINDO YAKE (DJ Premieracknowledges the criticism Statik Selektah and The Alchemist have received on sounding like him, says that he probably will not be on Nas' "Life Is Good," but the album is coming.)
DJ Premier is more than willing to offer encouragement to today’s up and comers taking the genre into new directions. The Hip Hop sonic pioneer is beyond chastising the younger crowd, which isn’t to say that he doesn’t love hearing his own influence every now and then. Every Rap fan seems to know the story of this Texas-born producer who gave the New York sound its signature grit in the early 1990s. The man often referred to as "Primo" is a legend of course, but he feels no need in stating the obvious to promote his already-unwavering position. Instead, he looks toward the future, remaining true to himself, his craft and his love for the culture.


HipHopDX recently had the chance to sit with the Gang Starr legend before the Red Bull EmSee National Finals in Atlanta. He spoke about “Premier-isms,” his Sirius situation, and a possible name for the collaborative album with Nas.


HipHopDX: Your style has been immortalized in the culture as "The Primo Sound." Was there ever any added pressure from yourself to remain affixed to the sound you started with?


DJ Premier: Yeah well, I’ve always just felt like: make what you like to hear or what you like to buy and that’s really what it is. I like buying the type of music that I make, which is not to say that I’m riding my own dick or nothing like that but it’s just the sound that I make reminds me of what I used to buy prior to having a record deal. Stetsosonic, MC Shan, [Big Daddy] Kane, Kool G Rap, Eric B. & Rakim, Run-DMC, Public Enemy… Even underground people like U.T.F.O., Full Force, The Real Roxanne, really every Roxanne, all 100 of the Roxannes... [Laughs]


I wanted a record that sounded like “the city,” like if you looked at them and at the album cover, and you heard the music and closed your eyes, it sounded like New York. It’s not like that now, but I don’t wanna see that part go away, because that’s what paid me and got me a house and got me cars and got me to help people that need to borrow $8,000 and I just said, "Oh yeah, I got it. Here." That allowed me to do it, so the last thing I’ma do is stray away from that. The younger generation, I have no problem with what they’re doing because they have a style that they’re into, let them have that. But our lane shouldn’t go unrecognized because our lane opened doors for them to do what they do.


DX: There are a lot of producers who’ve clearly been inspired by you. Some people do pretty well at recreating that Primo vibe, but not quite… [laughs]


DJ Premier: There’s a lot of triers, yeah [Laughs].


DX: So you agree.


DJ Premier: Oh, yeah. Yeah. There’s a few. There’s a few.


DX: Can you name some?


DJ Premier: A lot of people reference Statik Selektah who’s a good friend of mine, mainly on the scratching side, not on the beat side, he definitely has paved his own lane on production style. Even in the earlier Alchemist days when he was sort of veering away from the Soul Assassins style, of how [DJ] Muggs and all of them put their thing together, I could hear Premier-isms in that but again he’s another friend of mine that I hang out with and we go listen to each other’s beats over at the house and be like, "Oh, that’s dope," and not like, "Oh man, that sounds like me." It’s all healthy competition and at the end of the day we’re all in it to stay on top of our craft and it’s also flattering.

I don’t look at it as biting or stealing. You just hear little things and go, "Ahhh… That reminds me of my little snare or my drumroll." It’s not taken in any other way but flattery and on top of that, they keep me on my toes. I was over at Alchemist’s house the day he played“We Gon’ Make It” beat [that was eventually used by Ras Kass and later Jadakiss]. He made it for Nas and I was like, "Yo, Nas gonna kill that." Nas didn’t like the track. I was like, "Damn!" Then he said like, “I’ma give it to Jadakiss.” I was like, ‘I hope [The L.O.X.] kill it." Jadakiss and Styles [P]… Whew… And that’s one of their biggest records, to this day, when it comes on. So you know, it was like, if Nas doesn’t kill it, it’s gotta be somebody else that handles it on that level and that’s a record that comes on to this day and everybody’s like, “That’s my jam.” But we all borrow from each other. Me, 9th Wonder, all of us, we all borrow from each other and we all get on the phone or text each other like, "Yo. You heard that new joint? Oh my God." Or I’ll hit ‘em like, "I hate you, 9th." Or I’ll call DJ Scratch like, "Oh, I hate you." And they know I hate you means I love the shit out of you  because you’re so dope you know.

MTAALAM WA MACHATTA LEGEND VULCAN NA KAZI ZAKE

Legends WA MACHATA DUNIANI

VULCAN

History: The word GRAFFITI simply means--words or drawings scratched, scribbled or painted on a wall. The word originates from the Greek word "graphein" (to write) and the word "grafitti" itself is plural of the Italian word "graffito." Graffiti markings have been around since the beginning of time, remnant of early graffiti can be seen in caves all over the world. It represents a human desire and need for communication, and in some cases the simple display of existence.A tag or a mural for graffiti artists is an advertisement for an individual--the goal is to get your name known. You have to have a marketing strategy, what will be the most effective way of getting your name (product) well known, everywhere! Sound familiar? Well it should, because that is exactly what all of us are doing on twitter every day, facebook or any other medium that we use to promote ourselves, our business etc. Companies with money use billboards and TV ads, people with less or no money in the 70's, 80's, and 90's used a marker.In part one of a 3 part series, I will talk about 5 individuals that brought street art to the mainstream.