Dear Rabbit, Your Music Has Become More Horrible Than Ever,…Whenever I Listen To It, I Feel Sick…. And Here’s Why

This article is all about raising the middle finger to you Rabbit. I won’t sugarcoat anything. You used to be a great rapper but now whenever I listen to your music, I want to die. Trust me, it’s that horrible. Your music is abominable in a way nothing else is, and it’ll take a keen hip hop head only 30 seconds of listening to find that out.

You no longer rap. You just sing and talk in songs. Your delivery no longer sounds fun and powerful, just sealed-up and airless. Are you tired or something? Eat ugali, it helps. You’ve simply sold your soul to the commercial devil. Not to say that going all commercial is a bad thing. Octopizzo has done the same thing while still maintaining his real hip hop mcee image. He doesn’t try to sing like Ali Kiba in order to touch a different market. Money is a good thing but when money dilutes content, objection cannot be submerged.  

The more you’ve become famous, the more you’ve changed. Your ego manages to ruin other people’s songs as well. To tell you the truth, you really spoilt that ‘Baadaye’ song by Amos and Josh. It could have been one of the duo’s best songs. Amos’ verse is poignant, while Josh’s verse is a revelation. The song should have ended there, but then when it was your turn to spit something noteworthy, you just ended up talking like a guy chewing mogoka at some corner in Pangani while listening to Mbusii and Lion.

I haven’t even started. Today I’ll be the judge, jury and executioner in the case of Hip Hop fans versus Kaka Sungura.

Rabbit, your last good song was Kichinjio. After some upcoming rappers talked trash about you, you read all that as an invitation to go all out.” We are going all out bishes, ALL OUT”. That was your mantra. You put a couple of ninjas in their place and I was amazed. All hip hop heads were amazed. The unanimous decision was that no one could recover from that. But then you made a mistake. You attacked Johnny Vigeti. A lot of people don’t know much about Vigeti but if it wasn’t for guys like him, there would be no hip hop in this country. He thrived in Ukoo Fulani Mau Mau. Then you diss him. Who disses a legend. It’s like Meek Mill dissing Nas. N***gga please.

Kichinjio was one hell of a track but then immediately after that you went on to release a track that went something like, “nyama leta…..change leta….mdodo mdogo.” Dude….WTF? You are trying to dip your foot in everything and that’s where you’ll lose. You were instrumental to the growth of hip hop and now you are killing it? We won’t allow you. I won’t allow you. I remember your breakout track ‘Betty’ where you featured the talented Harry Kimani. It was a masterpiece. It was pure gold. Then there were tracks like ‘Niko kwa jam nakam’, ‘Mtu Hivi Hivi’ and Sitaki Kukuona’. Dope tingz. Nowadays all we get is Rabbit featuring Mavoko, Rabbit featuring Sudi or even Rabbit featuring Helicopter church choir. You complain so much about presenters not playing enough Kenyan music yet you are the same person who tries so hard to release radio friendly songs.

You call yourself King Kaka, who appointed you king? What are you King of? You even managed to copy the whole concept of your song ‘Twende’ from Diamond’s ‘Kesho’. Utter nonsense at its best. Where did your creativity go to? Frankly, you need a whupping.

I heard you don’t do cyphers. You were approached for a game-changing cypher and you refused. Which rapper doesn’t do cyphers? There’s an old maxim that says. arrogance is the sister of shenanigans. Eminem does cyphers, Kanye does cyphers, Kendrick does cyphers, J.Cole does cyphers, even Africa’s finest rapper Sarkodie does cyphers. Who are you? Are you afraid of being outdone? Oh I get it. You want to preserve your image as a singer. You can as well join Sauti Sol. I doubt they’ll take you though. They value quality

Rudi kuvaa ile kofia ya white ulikua unavaa kitambo buda. You were better off with it. Perhaps it was your good luck charm. Back in the day when you were a minor and often despised fringe player in the industry, you were humble. I met you several times. Nowadays you don’t even look at fans when you talk to them.

What you don’t realize and what your acolytes don’t have the heart to tell you is that you have arrived into this sad space largely through your own design. You’ve turned yourself into a villain. You might be bigger right now than you’ve ever been but you’re also more mediocre than you’ve ever been.

You even destroyed Sage’s career. Ever since you broke her heart, she’s been unable to produce good music anymore. How sad. Woiyee. But this isn’t about Sage. This is about your music. Yes your music reeks of a lack of progression and an air of complacency. Whenever I hear that Rabbit has released a new song, my heart dips further into melancholy

Rap fanatics fear that the guy they’ve loved for so long has fallen off, but it’s time to face facts. You were never really on Rabbit. Your recent album went from conception to shelves in about two weeks, illustrating your career-long tendency to rush out songs that aren’t art. No one even remembers that you released an album.

It’s great to hype things up but it’s a crime to hype ‘nothings’ up. Your album was nothing. Remove the pre-release bells and decorated star-studded launches, take the music in a vacuum and you’ll discover the following – despite a promising start, your album may just be the most uninspiring, plodding piece of work in Kenyan history

Listen kaka Sungura, stop producing shitty music for the sake of reaching larger markets. Either step up or step out. I can decide to fill this page with p0rn pictures instead of writing this article. It’ll get more views. Even an Al Qaeeda operative somewhere in a cave in Afghanistan might view the page. Will that make me a better writer? Hell no. Catch my drift? .Quality always outweighs quantity. Take your time and release good music. Be true to yourself . Don’t serve us with constant breadcrumbs.. Serve us with slices full of butter.

Arrivederci!!!