This Is How, Why, Where And WHen Ugandans Beat Us In This Game! Will We Catch Up? (Part 1)

When Eddy Kenzo released his hit song Sytia Loss a few months ago, little did he know that it would turn out to be the most liked song in East Africa and beyond. Little did Eddy know that Sytia Loss, sang in his native Ugandan language, could get the recognition of the international scene.

Well it did. In fact, Sytia Loss, to date, has over 6,700,000 views on you tube. This is not a mere feat to achieve in Africa and East Africa in particular. The views were even further boosted when US rapper P Diddy shared the Sytia Loss video on his social media page. This shows the sweetness Ugandan music contains. Despite Sytia Loss being sang in Luganda, it could get the attention of P Diddy. That explains a lot.

Uganda has seen great musicians make a name for themselves in the international scene. There is veteran Jose Chameleone who is without doubt Uganda’s top singer. Then there are the likes of Juliana Kanyomozi, Radio and Weasel, Bebe Cool, Pallaso, Sheebah, among many more.

Their songs have always entertained and captivated.

This perhaps explains why Kenya’s Nameless went all the way to learn Luganda and of course do a song on the same, a song which instantly became a hit. I heard some radio queen criticize Nameless for doing the song with a Ugandan. Well, I understood why. The radio queen herself is a musician so she probably was jealous that Nameless had overlooked her and her type to do a song in Luganda with Ugandans. This to me, again, explains why Ugandans are better than us.

Other artists from across Africa have been flocking Uganda to do collabos with Ugandan Artists. Remember, these very same artists have been to Kenya but never proposed for a collabo with Kenyan singers. In fact it is the Kenyan singers who request them to do remix of their songs to help catapult them to the international scene. You know the artists who have done remix with Nigerian artists and others for their songs.

Nigeria’s Wizkid has already done a collabo with Radio and Weasel and it won’t take long before we see the song in the shelves as Wizkid himself promised in his instagram account. The international singer said that the audio and visual were both ready and it won’t take long before they are out. What else do you expect from this combination except pure entertainment?

Remember Wizkid was in the country a few months ago but did you hear any rumour of a collabo with anyone? No. Never. This leaves so many questions amongst us. He crosses the border, strikes a deal with Radio and Weasel and asks us to wait. How shameful is that?

Continued here: Part 2