THE TRUTH: Stella Mwangi Has Dropped From International Artiste To Local Artiste

If you’ve been following rapper STL for a while, you know that she’s worse off now that she was in the years prior. STL used to be Kenya’s international rap icon. She was the queen. Her songs were way ahead of time. She was sexy and her flow was super admirable. She dripped swag and hotness, a badass woman in a time of male-domination. Now all she does is release Kikuyu songs with the likes of Stella Njeri

With the momentum with which Stella Mwangi was going, she could have been way ahead now. She was celebrated as one of the keepers of rap music, the embodiment of each element of the hip hop culture. She could have gone on to be on BET Cyphers. She could have done collabos with American B-list artistes. But that hasn’t happened. That hasn’t happened because Stella Mwangi slowed down.

There was a time when STL was unavoidable. You couldn’t mention hip hop without mentioning her. Her popularity transcended racial, gender, class, and generational divides. Your grandmother knew who STL was. Backed by Kenyan and Norwegian fans, Stella once had so much power behind her that it seemed nearly impossible for her to fail. It now seems as though STL’s career has crumbled. There are just no good songs to bump to anymore

A would-be rhetorical question like “where did it all go wrong?” lacks multiple or specific answers. Is she being affected by personal issues? Or is her fall just nature’s way of saying that no one can or should stay at the top for a long time