These Songs Were Kenya’s Biggest This Year!

These three songs were 2012’s game changers by any estimates including my humble one.

“You guy (Dat dendai)” by P-Unit and Collo

Why? Well the term you guy has been around for quite a while. Tapeli even did a track called “You guy” a while back but needless to say that it didn’t have quite the impact these lads’ track did.
And i have been calling lasses dendes since late 2010 so i know the term has been around for quite the minute but how these lads made it a mainstay in urban lingo.
These days lasses are officially referred to with the term “dendai”, “you guy” has become a greeting and a term of endearment amongst other uses and “a good one” has become a term used to denote how well something can, has or will be done.
P-Unit and Collo have permeated urban culture with this track.

“Hold It Down” by Camp Mulla
No one this year has changed Kenya’s urban pop culture quite like Camp Mulla has. These guys didn’t just influence urban lingo, they influenced Kenya’s urban pop culture through their sense of fashion and cockiness and partriotism.
These days everyone wants to rep +254 and all teir songs are about representing Nairobi. Everyone is trying to dress like Camp Mulla and talk like them. Younguns who still haven’t developed their own steez are swagger jacking. They dress like, talk like and act like Camp Mulla.
Camp Mulla permeated urban culture the most with the track “Hold It Down” though.

“Toklezea” by Shantelle and Abass
This track introduced Kenyans to a new word “toklezea”. Everything became about “toklezea-ing”. Everyone i’d talk to would use it to describe my clothes, their phones and whatnot. They’d tell me to toklezea and pick them up for a party and other things that didn’t make sense to me.
I just hope Shantelle can follow up on this track because it’s sheer magnitude will be hard to duplicate.

“Maswali Za Polisi” by DNA
This lad DNa dropped a bomb shell of a revelation. He would be quiting the Kenyan gospel scene in favour of secular music. He then unleashed this jam which proved to be one of Kenya’s biggest hits this year! I’m sure you’re wondering why he’s in my list?
Well, :Una maswali mingi kwani we ni polisi?”