Month: February 2013

In the Ghafla! offices on Friday last week, we had an epic interview with the ex-Calif records artiste known as Choku. What made it particularly fascinating was that her friend and fellow singer Maida (pictured) popped in, and was willing for us to proceed to interrogate her. We found out that the sexy Maida has participated in a Miss Kenya competition before, and she has a song out as well called “Spare Tyre.”

 Here is the video for ‘Spare Tyre’ (a Maich Blaq production):

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Cool story about this video: as you can see in the first verse, there is a scene where she appears to be naked in bed with a male model. Well, first of all, she tells us that she wasn’t completely naked, but she was scantily dressed regardless. This apparently made the male model quite a handful to work with. “He was so horny the whole time!” Maida told us, “it’s as if he wanted to do it there and then in front of the cameras. He couldn’t hold back!”

The male prop got over his hardness with time though, and they proceeded to shoot the video again, but there was just one more problem:

“The dog in the video was also turned on!” Maida said, “as if the model wasn’t enough, the dog was humping my leg during the shoot!”

So, in case you’ve been living under a rock, Jalang’o last week decided to quit his job as a radio presenter on KISS 100’s breakfast show. He also wrote a heartfelt letter to his fans and colleagues which touched many people as he left. Now it seems that KISS are not the type to sit around and mope over spilt milk. They have SWIFTLY replaced Jalas with another comedian by the name of…

Eric Omondi!

Eric made the news official in an announcement where he said:

“Tomorrow I start work on the Kiss 100 breakfast show alongside the gorgeous and sophisticated Caroline Mutoko and the beautiful Linda Nyangweso.”

Will Eric Omondi be an adequate replacement for Jalang’o? Leave your opinion in the comment section below:

The Kenyan rock scene has steadily grown since the early 2000s when the first bands started cropping up. And with the introduction of the battle of the bands series and an all rock station, it grew even further.

One of the bands that came up during that period include Last Year’s Tragedy whose members met in university and were brought together by their common musical interests. The band is made up of Chizi (songwriter,lead vocals), Jose (guitar), Davie (guitar), Mahia (bass), Ruto (keyboard), Stan (drums) and Diallo (guitar, vocals).

The Killswitch Engage/As I Lay Dying/Of Mice and Men/P.O.D./Born of Osiris-inspired band has released its follow-up to Elephant in the Room, Generation Light. Check it out below.
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Baba Yao was at the Kenya Power Charity Cup Concert last Saturday (2nd February) at Kasarani.

As usual, Jua Cali gave a respectable show that left the fans screaming for more as he excited the stage.

Check out in photos how the event was.

Grandpa Records is by no doubt taking over the Kenyan airwaves with hit after hit. I mean when it comes to making songs that have a great impact to the society (especially in our dialogues), these guys don’t play.

Some of the biggest artiste from the Grandpa Family are DNA, Kidis, Amileena and Dogo Bigi just to mention a few. These and more are some of the rappers and singers that have helped put Grandpa Records at the position they are in right now. One of the most successful and recognised recording studio in Kenya.

With hits like ‘Fimbo chapa’, ‘Twajichanganya remix’ and ‘Maswali ya polisi’, Grandpa Family is a force to reckon.

This afternoon, the founder of the recording studio, Refigah, will be at the 1FM studios for the sexy voiced Tina Kaggia’s Drive Show, where he will be revealing most of Granda Records plans, and basically what they are about.

Refigah will even be revealing the army ranks that the Grandpa Family have. Now, this I can’t miss.

In yet another looming court battle involving an artiste and a major political party, The National Party (TNA) faces court summons after renowned photographer and blogger, Michael Khateli, has threatened to sue TNA after the political party fraudulently used his photos without his consent.

According to Khateli, TNA has continued popularizing itself with the photos on their billboards on Jogoo Road in Nairobi. Khateli says that he spoke to TNA’s national chairman, Johnson Sakaja and immediate former MP for Makadara Mike Sonko about the issues but they have not done anything concerning the issue.

This case comes barely a fortnight after another artiste took ODM to court for failing to pay him Sh6 million for songs he composed for the party’s campaigns.For now, Khateli is hunting for a good lawyer to represent him in seeking legal redress. Click HERE to see the photos in contention.

The question on everyone’s lip is: Did Kiss 100 poach Adelle from One FM?

The radio superstar’s departure from One FM was to put it aptly, sudden. She announced her departure late last week then started working at Kiss 100 today? Let me put this into perspective: when your woman leaves your house and after the weekend surfaces in another man -say Kone Sekou’s house, she had been seeing him behind your back making arrangements for her departure.

And so like a jilted ex, One FM can only watch jealously as Adelle takes her savvy to the competition. Already, Adelle’s effect is being felt on Kiss as her show is already playing more local content that was played previously in a whole month! Goodstuff.

This should be interesting as her time slot has her going head to head against her erstwhile colleague Tina Kagia in what will prove to be a mouth watering clash as they fight for the same crowd!

DJ Kamjo was on Thursday night left in shock and loss after his car was hijacked by thugs.

Kamjo had lent his car to his close colleague who was to transport event equipment. While driving through Kasarani Estate, the lady was ambushed by thugs who immediately put her into the boot and sped off.

The DJ told Ghafla!: “The lady is Caro and she’s a colleague. I work with her – she manages the day to day operations of the business.

The monthly coveted inter-college music extravaganza, Mseto Campus Tour is back with a bang. This time it brings one of Kenya’s contemporary music pioneers, Fundi Frank.

Mseto Campus Tour is an event under Royal Media Service’s Radio Citizen and headed by the station’s most popular radio presenter, Willy M. Tuva of the award-winning Mambo Mseto radio show and Mseto East Africa TV show on Citizen TV.

The concert will be heading to Egerton University (Njoro Campus) on 9th February from 2:00 p.m. There will be lots of perfomances from various top artistes. The theme for this leg of the tour is Peace Is A Must.

Chege Miati was enjoying his passtime over the weekend and stumbled across this photo from a rather dubious site…The site is Kenyan List.

And the photo is of none other than former TPF 2 contestant Nakaaya Sumari chilling out without knickers on. For those of you who don’t know Nakaya, she is a Tanzanian songstress who at some point had a whirlwind romance with one half of Dead Prez (M.I) before the flame of that short lived romance blew out.

Well, here she is, i present to you, an exposed Nakaaya… Shameful really. I suspect that this will dent her public image quite abit though!

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Smitta Smitten is back to taking shots at Kenya’s top artists and boy did he go H.A.M on DNG! Going as far as brazenly stating that he does indeed have beef with the recently saved artist.

Smitta says that a man cannot keep hiding behind the “shroud of Turin” everytime temptation comes his way. Basically, Smitta has called out DNG and asked him to stop blaming his “six years in the dark” and take responsibility for all the choices he made during those years he turned his back on salvation.

He seemed exasperated by DNG’s statement that the past 6years have been about “celebrity, booze and funny women” even though he only had his breakthrough in the industry during his 6years in the wilderness.

Andit doesn’t end there, he tears into DNG some more saying that it wouldn’t shock him to see DNg backslide and lip back into the clutches of the wilderness because he’s like a child in high school who joins Christian Union where he gets saved in term one, backslides in term two then rediscovers the joy of salvation because of exams! Ouch!

But the question remains: is Smitta angry with DNG because the latter decided to get saved?

Popularly known for wooing viewers to participate in Citizen TV’s “Tazama Chapaa” and “Bonyeza Ushinde na Safaricom”, associate journalist/presenter, Shiko Kaittany made her debut at Classic 105 this morning. The ever bubbly Shiko left Citizen TV to take up the mid-morning slot on Classic 105.

Shiko takes over from Larry Asego, who according to sources, will be moved to the drive show on the same station. Shiko previously had a stint on radio on Hot 96 back in 2010 and so this will just be a walk in the park for her.

Ghafla! wishes Shiko Kaittany the very best in her new career.

Rabble rouser Cabu Gah is back. Yeah, the same lad who tore into the Kenyan gospel artists is back and this time he has his sights set on controversial blogger Robert Alai.

And as usual, he doesn’t pull any punches. But honestly, i can’t convey all the emotions that have been poured into the open letter as well as Cabu Gah has so let me let you read this from the horses pen… or keyboard.

“LETTER TO ROBERT ONYANGO ALAI

Goodmorning Bugger….err,Blogger…

Hope U had a goodnight last night…though I pity the unfortunate matress that has to PUT UP with You Every Night!
Hope You had a nice breakfast too…how I pity the unlucky spoon/fork that is forced to make endless trips to Your mouth…the same mouth which spits more shit than a baby’s anus…

I have been checking up your incruciatingly annoying FB updates and Boy,DONT YOU SUCK!!!

I hear You are BIG in twitter…am on twitter too BUT I DONT FOLLOW YOU! Because,honestly speaking,following You is like following a sewage pipe! We all know where it takes You! I also hear you have many followers on twitter…Well,even Hitler had millions of followers…BUT DONT BE FLATTERED…Many of those followers are people who would be more than ready to throw You in a gas chamber and walk away singing,”I’ve had the time of My Life……”

Brother,Do You have a history with mental breakdowns??

Its sad that Your IQ is lower than Kalembe Ndile’s ranking in the CORD Alliance…

Your updates /tweets are full of egoism,hate speech,bullshit,tribalism,falsehoods,propaganda,lies and cheap gossip ! You should NOT ONLY be blocked frm Social Media,but blocked from breathing as well!

You once tweeted;
“I am down on my knees praying that people continue to be RAPED and ROBBED in Kileleshwa so they will wake up to the Insecurity!!” Really? Did You say RAPED?? Do You even have sisters? Or female relatives?? B*st*rd! If the Devil ever formed a political alliance,you’d definately be his running mate! Sucker!

Yesterday You updated;
“JUBILEE uses kids in campaigns. I guess they will use them in war also. These kids know nothing about the choices forced on them!!” JESUS! What propaganda! Well,Alai uses toilet paper to wipe his a**…I guess he will use the same paper to wipe his mouth too…that paper knows nothing about the choices forced on it!

Again You updated;
“JUBILEE just picked some white IDLER out there and paraded him like some foreign investor who wil change this country” Hey,it takes an IDLER to know an IDLER! I bet that mzungu idler does more in a day than You have done since 2013 began!!

And again You have just updated:
“I also learnt of William Ruto in GHC.I was still in primary school,in class 7. When he was terrorizing everyone in 1992” Wow! The Question here is : YOU MEAN YOU WENT TO SCHOOL???

And again You updated:
“People want you to fight tribalism but they see NOTHNG WRONG with a KIKUYU succeeding Kibaki “

Another Update:
“Raila is a greedy man who is more interested in going into STATE HOUSE than leading Kenyans”

And this amazing one:

“Your Children will NOT be successful just because You named them after Obama,Rihanna,Jay Z, ALAI or Kemboi. Nurture them! “

The Fuck?? Were You even nurtured Yourself?? Sounds like Tarzan had a better upbringing in the Jungles than You did in a human environment!

Did You just classify Yourself alongside Obama,Jay Z and Rihanna??? Nigga please,My Ex sells torn underwears in Muthurwa AND SHE IS MORE successful than You!

.Spreading hate speech and lies on social media IS NOT being successful!

.Peddling falsehoods and propaganda IS NOT being successful!

.Inciting Kenyans IS NOT being succesful!

.Fanning tribal flames IS NOT being successful!

OBAMA is SUCCESSFUL. All You have is SUCK-S*X-FOOL !!!

Listen here:

.We are SICK of your lies,SICK of your propaganda,SICK of your inflammatory utterances,SICK of your hate speech,SICK of your cheapness,tribalism,bullshit AND crap!

We have just around 30 days to the GENERAL ELECTION and we wont allow cockheads like You to take Us back to war again! WE WONT!

Have a Good Day!

Its a shame we have to SHARE the Day!!!”

Hip hop sensation, Juliani, is just shooting the video for Voter vs. Vulture, which was meant to have come out last week.

Voter vs. Vulture is part of the campaign Kama Si Sisi attitude change initiative that gears towards using music and creative space through young people aiming at making their surrounding better than they found it.

The song will highlights the youth’s perspective of leadership as Juliani found out from his Mtaa Tour lunch meetings. The single expresses the urgent need to be informed voters, to shun the vultures that have led our country to the arms of bad governance, leadership and political environment, with a strong message of peace, knowledge and a plight to Kenyans to vote wisely.

Below you can check out photos from the video shoot in Mathare, with more locations around Nairobi coming up. From the images, looks like activist, photojournalist and PAWA 254 founder, Boniface Mwangi, is going to be in the video.

The Korean people are said to pay attention to the skills of speaking a language and when I first watched this video I wasn’t so surprised having heard some Chinese guy on Thika Road conversing in not so fluent but coherent Swahili.

Now miles away in Korea, there’s a choir that sings in perfect Swahili than most of the natives here. Known as Gracias Choir, the Korean Choir a while back sang, “Cha Kutumaini Sina”, a popular longstanding Gospel song Bible Crusade in Brooklyn, NY and it came out just perfectly.

The choir even throws in some theatrics that gives the performance a great humour. Check out below;

Baba Ghafla and i were recently analyzing Media Stream (the parent company of both One FM and Hits FM) and I was alarmed at the amount of talent lost either because they were let go or because they opted to leave.

Don’t get me wrong, they still have radio heavyweights in the form of the petite Tina Kagia but they have lost alot in the past year. From radio presenters to technical staff.
And here’s a list of those who have exited both 1FM and Hits FM:
Pierra Makena of “The Sherrifs” DJ unit.

Olivia Otieno who has had a stint on either side of the radio industry: both as a presenter and as an administrator. She was let go off by Media Stream and replaced by her ex John Wilkins… Awkward…

Bamzigi hosted the exciting show “Make You Famous” which was the talk of the town because he managed to get showbiz sirens such as Avril to open up about their preferred sexual style… Mhmm… He chose to leave.

Marcus Olang was host of their morning show alongside Tina Kagia before Olivia Otieno decided to let go of him. The decision still buffles me baceasue to be honest, i liked the pairing and chemistry he shared with Tina.

Adelle O chose to walk away from her show which aired in the afternoon. The show was popular and is now hosted by the only other presenter who can hold the attention of her audience: Tina Kagia. Adelle was both a presenter and the HR manager at Media Stream.

Koome Gitobu he held the afternoon slot on Hits FM (1 FM’s sister station) but chose to leave. Why is an answer i cannot furnish. His segment saw him hook people up with job offers and giving them advice from young professionals.

Colonel Mustafa was recently out clubbing and he may have seemed oblivious of the paparazzi because as soon as he landed his hands on some chica’s laps, did the cameras flash.

Right after leaving her job as 1FM radio presenter, Adelle Onyango is now engaged.

Dr. Christopher Obwaka proposed to the poet and activist against sex crimes on Friday during her birthday dinner. The couple had been really good friends for six years but had only been dating since mid-2012.

Adelle, who is also an artiste manager and founder of the NO MEANS NO campaign, left her job as the drive show host last week. Her next destination in radio is yet to be officially announced. Check out the photo of the ring Dr. Obwaka gave her during the engagement below.

Talk about good luck! This celebrity must be spending most of her time in church now after what happened on Friday night.

Sexy and controversial Mombasa based events organizer was on Friday counting her loses after her house completely burned down to ashes. Julia Achieng, popularly known as Beyonce narrowly escaped death as the fire had already consumed a part of the house before she woke from her slumber.

“I had left a candle burning. I woke up in shock as I found a huge flame burning through my bedroom. I called for help and luckily my neighbours were alert,” Beyonce reported to sources.

Julia Achieng is still recovering from the horrifying incidents as she counts her losses.

It’s without a doubt that Classic 105’s breakfast show, “Maina and King’ang’I in The Morning” is the biggest morning show on Kenyan radio. Now, every morning, the duo, Maina Kageni and Mwalimu King’ang’i try to solve your relationship issues and boy, some of the calls received will leave you wondering how on earth some things take place. It now appears, women are the biggest fans of this show going by the number of calls they make during the show.

Apparently, somebody has not been taking lightly the ladies’ opinion about the male species during the show and decided to address them since everyone else seems to have turned a blind eye to it. Take a look;

Morning Married Woman,

I heard You call into the Maina Kageni Classic 105 show, I heard You lamenting about how Your Man is lousy in bed, I heard you broadcast your Man’s weaknesses to the public, I heard You jeering at Your Man, leering at Your Man, lambasting and deriding Your Man ON NATIONAL RADIO! I heard You, Woman!

According to You, he’s a dog!
According to You, he’s lousy!
According to You, he is the reason Marriage sucks!
According to You, ALL MEN are jerks, idiots!

BUT HEY,
Maina will NEVER give Your Man a reason to come home early, THATS YOUR JOB!
Maina will NEVER tell Your Man how to make love to You, THAT’S YOUR JOB!
Maina will NEVER tell your Man what turns you on, THATS YOUR JOB!
Maina will NEVER remind your Man it’s your birthday/­anniversary, THATS YOUR JOB!
Maina will NEVER enlarge your Man’s manhood, ITS NATURE. You either PUT UP with it or SHUT UP!
Maina will never spice Up your sex life, THATS YOUR JOB!

My dear Lady,
It’s about time You started appreciating that Man…It’s about time You started loving that Man like You used to….It’s about time You started treating him like You used to.,. It’s about time You started thanking God for that Man…It’s about time You rekindled that LOVE!

Ask Michelle Obama the stuff she’s been through, AND YET HER MARRIAGE is still going strong!
Ask Hillary Clinton the stuff she’s been through, AND YET HER MARRIAGE is still going strong…
Ask Jada-Pinkett Smith what stuff she’s been through, AND YET HER MARRIAGE is still going strong!

Hey,
Quit Bitching!
Quit whining!
Quit complaining!
Quit grambling!

Before you JUDGE and CURSE your Man, try to UNDERSTAND and BLESS Him!
Maybe, YOU ARE THE REASON HE’S THE JERK HE IS!

You have a choice;
Either choose to entertain the Nation with stories on how crappy Your Man is, OR choose to entertain HIM with stories on How Blessed You are to have Him!

THE CHOICE IS YOURS!!!

WISE Women are busy trying to make their marriages work, while STUPID women are busy seeking advice from a clownish Radio Presenter—who is NOT even Married!

[Cabu Gah]

There have been rumors in the last couple of weeks about one of the hottest groups in the country, Camp Mulla, breaking up at the peak of their popularity. They maintain that they are not, they are just doing solo projects.

The group has now released a new single together, If You Believe. This time it’s not about partying or having swag but to preach about Peace. It’s all about uniting all Kenyans. “As a unit Kenya can achieve much more than as individuals. Camp Mulla wants a better future for all Kenyans,” says their publicist.

Camp Mulla’s first 2013 single was composed by Kanyeria who presented the song on 1FM when it debuted. The lyrics by Miss Karun, Tripper MC and Shappaman and production by Kus-Ma. Check out If You Believe below.
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Madtraxx was on Homegrown with Mwalimu Sonnie this Sunday and they were discussing his new club banger “Kumerera” and he opened up about the name of the track and the influence behind the song.

The song was inspired by a need to be different. A need to experiment with different genres of music. And boy did he ever! Madtraxx called upon his alter ego to do the track and deliver he did. There were no inhibitions. Then he was asked about the name. Well, according to Maddy, the track is Kenya’s version of “Bend Over”.

That got me thinking…Hmmm.. I said to meself, what does the title mean. And so i called upon the expertise of Cinju our resident Kikuyu expert and asked her. Apparently, Kumerera means creeping aorund. Not the TLC creeping though. Then she clarified further that given what Maddy said about the track, the title could be a play on a rather similar sounding Kikuyu word: “Komerera”.

Komerera would mean uhm… literally “lie on me”. I instantly fell in-love with the track. And listening to the lyrics, one is hard pressed not to see and acknowledge the explanation offered. With that, “Komerera” seems legit. Adam Wagwau seems to like the psychedelic video… I just like the movement of the girls. Shallow? Maybe. But care i do not. Watch the video below and let us know what you think about it in the comment section. Personally, i have it on repeat.

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I read this story in Zuqka and i was shocked! Not shocked about the fact that the lad was addicted to P0rn, after all, top Kenyan gospel artist A-Star confessed to being addicted to p0rn and m4sturbation but what was shocking was how young he was.

The artist in question is none other than Solexx Mgenge. And in his interview he confessed to being addicted to p0rn0graphy from when he was in STD 5! That would mean that he was 11 yrs old!

And in his interview, he claimed that his mother was his salvation. She stumbled upon his collection and decided to deal with him. Before he knew what was happening, he was attending counselling sessions.

When he was asked about whether he still feels the need to see p0rn videos, he claimed that he no longer has those cravings. I wish the lad well knowing full well how an addiction can take control of your life and drive you off course.

Here is that excerpt of the interview courtesy of Zuqka:

You told me about something that you thought would be beneficial to share with the world — about a past addiction you had. What was it, and how did it begin?

I was addicted to p0rnography. It all started way back when I was in primary school, to be specific Standard Five. Our neighbour’s son, who was in high school at the time, came home with a variety of video cassettes and one happened to have adult content.

Out of curiosity we (other children and I) locked ourselves in the house when our parents were out and watched the whole tape. At first it was fun, but it started affecting my school work since not a day would pass without me watching or reading p0rnographic stuff.

The fact that you became addicted to p0rn means you did not think it was wrong. What made you realise that it was indeed a problem?

I came back to my senses while in Form Two when I first landed in trouble with my mum after she found a p0rn DVD in my wardrobe. She took me to see a counsellor. I attended several sessions but, to be honest, it was difficult getting over the addiction since all my friends were still watching it.

How did you begin to turn yourself around?

I realised I was spending a lot of money buying and downloading p0rn0graphic stuff. I had about 100GBs of p0rn videos on my laptop; my screen saver and wallpaper on my phone were of naked girls. I started by deleting all these.

Probably many people do not understand what is wrong with p0rn0graphy. Would you give them your thoughts on why it is bad?

What many people never realise is that you waste too much time watching it, yet it is useless. See, when you watch p0rn, the next move would be to now try the real thing. That is why in Kenya we have school dropouts due to unplanned pregnancies, and HIV/AIDS inasambazwa sana.

It is the event that hosts the best of the best of roots, Afro Soul, Neo soul, acoustic artistes alongside live bands.

Yesterday saw one of the biggest and most popular bands, Just A Band bring the house down with their unforgettable, soul touching, feel good performance.

Check out how the concert went down.
Photo props: Eric Saganda

Jameri on the Saxophone

Blinky Bill grooving to the music

Miss Karun doing a rendition of Just A Band’s beautiful song, “If I could”

Makmende just before he brought the house down