Notable Artists
There are plenty of artists who are well known in Kenya for their style and methods of Hip Hop. Bamboo, born Simon Kimani grew up in Inglewood, California where he was running with the wrong crowd. As a result of his “naughtiness”, he was sent back to his homeland, Kenya to get his life sorted out. There he continued with hip hop music and realized that he could actually use this music to report the angst and insecurity that many Kenyan youths were going through. Kalamashaka who are hailed as the pioneers of Kenyan hip hop, they are also a part of the founders of the Mau Mau Ukoo Flani collective of musicians, Abbas aka Doobiez, Muki Garang, Walanguzi, Smoggies just to name a few.
Camp Mulla were nominated for Best International Act (Africa) at the 2012 BET Awards. Rapper Mwafrika, who now tours worldwide, partnered with K'naan on the song "The African Way" on K'naan's The Dusty Foot Philosopher album.
Read more about this topic: Kenyan Hip Hop
Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or artists:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“The past is interesting not only for the beauty which the artists for whom it was the present were able to extract from it, but also as past, for its historical value. The same goes for the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty in which it may be clothed, but also from its essential quality of being present.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)