Remembering E-Sir: The E-Sir – Notorious B.I.G Connection

As the entertainment industry, family, friends and fans prepare to commemorate the tenth anniversary of E-Sir’s death tomorrow, one of his die-hard fans paid a tribute to him in a post likening him to Notorious B.I.G.

It would be bad manners not to call these two LEGENDS the impact they had on the music scene was very massive. Their command of lyrics and musical flow is something to fall in love with. Accepting their abrupt departure from us will always be considered a big blow for the industry. Keeping their spirit alive is very vital for musical growth. Have their tattoos on our hearts. FOREVER YOUNG!!

• Notorious BIG was born on 21/05/1972 while E-SIR was born on 20/05/1981,a difference of their birthdates is 1 day which i will consider in weeks.
• Coincidentally Notorious BIG died on 09/03/1997 and E-SIR on 16/03/2003 making the difference of their memorial exactly 1 week (7 days).
• A look at their names Christopher and Isah, personal thought is that Christopher is derived from Christ the Mesiah. In the same thought, Issah is the Arabic name for Jesus the Mesiah.
• Biggy’s son was born on 29/10/1996,year-wise it was 7 years before E-SIR’s death and memorial-wise considering the month, it was 7 months after E-SIR’s death in March. E-SIR was 15 years old by the time Biggy’s son was being born and died almost clocking 22 which is 7 years later with 2 months to complete his 21st Year,it basically means he lived 10 months of that year (read Biggy’s son’s birth month 10).
• The late E-SIR was born exactly 9 years after Biggy’s birthday of which the number 9 also marks the date when Biggy dies.
• Biggy’s death was a shocker to the whole music world, a lot was expected of him. More sad was the fact that he was on a promotional tour of his album to be released in 3 weeks’ time in California. Same applies to his Kenyan protege, Nakuru was to be be the place where he would last perform, giving fans a taste of what they would expect from his ‘Nimefika’ album that was to be released a few weeks later.

Note that E-Sir’s album had 13 tracks and was featured in only 3 songs by Kyraz, Buccaneers and his good friend Nameless. This makes the total number of tracks 16 which unfortunately is the date of his demise and 3(number of tracks featured) being the month of his death.

On a lighter note,E-SIR had found good friendship and partnership in a guy i think also had some Biggy connection, i  personally want to think the name Slimmy Tall was a Jua Cali coinage from Biggy Smalls. Another name to be noted was Big Pin, a long-time friend whom he closely worked together at Ogopa Deejays.
To Damaris Wangui (E-Sir’s mum, note that the name has 13 letters, same number as the tracks on the son’s album) the fans want to THANK YOU for bringing to the world a GAME CHANGER and a LEGEND to say the least.  ONE LOVE, E-SIR FOREVER.

In their memory we live to wish they stayed longer, in  their music we  find passion and emotion and in their achievements and aspirations we curse their deaths. R.I.P Biggy, R.I.P ISAH WANGUI MMARI. 10 YEARS LATER…PIRATES MPAKA KUFA.

[Edwin ‘e-sir Hopper’ Kiptoo]