Controversial Artiste Appeals To A ‘Higher Power’ For Airplay

Upcoming artiste Blaqy Blaq has recently been in the news pleading for the rights of his song,”Show Me”. He has taken shots at musical bigwigs accusing them of exchanging money and sex in return for airplay and recently wrote to the Kenya Film Classification Board, KFCB asking them to overrule their decision of banning TV stations from playing the song ‘show me’

Apparently there has been no reply from the Film Classification Board so he decided to take the matter to a higher power,the Information and Communication, Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Fred Matiang’i

This is the letter the artiste sent to us:

Earlier this week i submitted a letter to the Kenya Film Classification Board, KFCB challenging their decision to totally restrict my song ‘show me’ on grounds that the content was rather too graphic for family broadcast.

Days on am still waiting on the reply from officials at KFCB having asked them a few questions:
Why have they not restricted, Fundamentals, bend-over, bedroom bully and many
others yet these songs are still doing rounds in the local industry?
And when will the feedback from KFCB be available or are my argument points null and void? Or is this whole issue contempt?

Having done that, I decided to push bars further on the latter, to the Information and Communication, Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Fred Matiang’i and the Permanent Secretary to look in to the matter as well.
All this is to make sure that local talent and people of this country a fair share of this cake in terms of business opportunities. Foreign commodities have for a long time flooded our market leaving our very own out of business and i believe it’s time the government did something.
I hope they treat this case as an emergency as the entertainment industry needs a complete shake down. The content needs to be well distributed with at least the high band percentage given to the advantage of local creatives.
I cannot sit and watch Kenyans miss on opportunities already available in this industry with income estimates worth millions of Kenyan shillings.
Local content needs support which in turn will create jobs and hence a reduction in unemployment rate that is currently very high.
 I feel this will have great impact on this country’s journey towards achieving vision 2030.
The Cabinet Secretary has promised to look into the issue so all we can do is patiently wait