Influxx Swagga Takes Shots at Kisima for Nominating Daddy Owen Instead of Him

Influxx Swagga has worked hard over the past year. Part of that hard work was put in so that he could get his shine at the Kisima Awards. When the nominees were announced, his name did not appear in any of the categories.

Now the rapper is mad at the organizers for not only refusing to give him a chance but for also telling him that it was not his time yet when he inquired about why his name was left out.

The rapper has now written a letter expressing his disappointment over the whole issue. Check out the full letter he hopes members of Kisima Awards committee will see below.

“Kenyan music awards have been very unfair to new artistes in the mainstream music industry. What the organizers don’t understand is that this is dangerous to the awarding industry because more record stables and artistes will come up with their own award system because the awards have failed to represent the Music Industry equitably hence crowd the market and in end lose its profitability.

I was the only Kenyan artiste who released a double album within their nominating bracket of 1st April 2011 – 1st April 2012. In addition, I was featured in a New York music magazine still within the period triggering big New York artistes like Kannal to request for a collaboration with me which is featured in my forth coming album.

I was the only Kenyan artiste as well who featured an album on iTunes and just to mention one of the Kenyan new artistes voted to fame by music fans though the Zuqka weekly charts.

Despite submitting my music early enough, KISIMA AWARDS did not nominate me for any category. They nominated the same artistes they have been nominating and even went ahead to nominate other artistes who did not submit their music like Daddy Owen.

When contacted to explain why I did not clinch any nomination, they issued a statement in a tweet that ‘my time will come’. I want to positively disagree with them. I think that my time is now, that is why I submitted my music to them and began to strategize a perfect voting network even before they released their nominees list.

I had even finished branding my fourth album “WAZITO” which I was scheduled to released during the KISIMA voting period because I was sure of at least a nomination in either the hip-hop artiste or the boomba artiste categories.

The truth is, if I had been nominated for the artiste of the year, I would have pocketed the two million shilling price comfortably if the voting process would not be manipulated.”