Tough love: Open letter to Kriss Darling

Why are Kenyan artists and celebs captives of the crab-in-a-bucket mentality?

 Recently, Kriss Darling spoke about how Kenya has no real reggae artistes and this drew the ire of Man Wazimu and alot of underground artists have lent their voices to condemn such attitudes.
Rather than eat alone and fighting an idea whose time has come, why not work as team? Admittedly, Kriss Darling hasn’t been given a chance to defend himself against the accusations but thing is, he was on Straight Up so there is very little he can say to defend himself except that he is sorry.
Now that brings us to what Uncle Chim Tuna has to say about all this mess: why would anyone say such rooooobbish on National TV rather than build up Kenyans? And especially since the Tarrus Riley concert would have been just the platform to raise Kenyans.
You came up knee-deep in the struggle and fought tooth and nail to get reggae recognized as more than just hooligan music yet you refuse to empathise with the up and coming artists struggling to have their voices heard?
Why did you bring out Madtraxx -who though is a gifted artist and an energetic stage performer- has nothing to do musically to the genre? How do you even begin to rationalise that?
Bring up folk like Man Wazimu and The Sojourners to perform instead. If you look hard enough, you will find them! And that’s your responsibility as an established celebrity: to uplift.
Sadly alot of Kenyan celebrities abdicate this role yet this is the key to getting Kenyan music respected regionally let alone on the continent. Nigerian music grew thus and we are miles ahead of our closest rivals South Africa.
It’s all about growing as a unit, not tearing down. Build up! Keep the positivity flowing otherwise when the tide breaks it’s banks, you will be forgotten rather than celebrated.
And that is my humble opinion.