HipHop Scandal: Has Bamboo Stolen GidiGidi-MajiMaji’s Flow?

The ever diligent Jeff Omondi beat me to the story about Jubilee using Gidi Gidi Maji Maji’s track or something similar to it.

But you know i just had to weigh in. When i last wrote about an artist biting flow and lyrics, my cousins called me to let me have it! And boy did they! I got calls from relations i’ve only spoken to on Facebook even! All of them told me to stop supporting Kenyan music against “home” music because “I fall am hand!”. That loosely translates to me letting them down. That was tough. But given that this time it’s happened in Kenya’s own backyard, i suspect that the blowback will be explosive.

Bamboo is a rapper of repute. He is also schooled to the tenets of hiphop. Thus, he is fully aware to just how big a cardinal sin it is to either bite someone’s flow or jack their lyrics without acknowledging them. Gidi Gidi and Maji Maji have taken offense. As a purist hiphop head, i’ve taken offense. But most of all, as a Bamboo fan, i am feeling let down. I can understand wanting to cash in on the politics of the day but to do so in what i consider a lazy manner is just wrong! This amounts to swagger jacking for goodness sake!

And i’m pretty peeved because Uncle Chim Tuna was hyped about Bamboo’s return! I was looking forward to that heat! The fire he had in his chest when he held the mic was undeniable. The lyrical prowess he had when he would spit his with such fierce intensity! And now he has swagger jacked “Unbwogable”! Unforgivable!
I am disilusioned! Heart broken, bereft even!

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Come on Bamboo, this is a plea from one of your biggest fans, get back to giving us that heat. Ghafla has nothing to do with this, this is all Uncle Chim Tuna. You gave us a couple of hits immediately after “Mama Africa” and we have enjoyed everyone of them. Keep that fire burning.
And for anyone not in the know, this is the song i’m reffering to (it’s way down there):