 So we are doing, we are doing dying because of this bountenation, we are bouncing from 4pm all the way to 6.45pm, so let's keep it here. Kama huja tumasalamu, tumasalamu, just right, we are on Facebook. Kuputwembo na tuwa chukia, api na komna tuwa ataka, unataka tu tumasalamu, we are going to do that. Lazima salamu zifike. And if you have a request, tu na tizanga request? Baya sana, wana jua, wana jua mizu. There you know, there you know. So let's come through with any request you want, we are going to be sorting that. I love today to go on a live remix battle, we have two songs, Tim Fillion versus Tim Kinkinkli. Tim Fillion, tu na boti ya ojua leba prefix, lea kali graft johns, it's called God's gonna open doors, open doors actually, that's what it's called. So kwa wuna penda sa aja, wuna trastakam through for you, that's the song for you. Naka wuna penda sherehe, wua uta kiku jua, wua pan tamua, wana imi se sherehe, wuna penda kuhapen. Baya sana, so kwa wuna kumpi ya sherehe na mungu. Ziya, mungu wendu kumpi ya na ini te. Siku penda sherehe, kumuna penatungu mafiti, si sherehe ka? So da kusima, open doors si fiti? Goma fiti, ata yoni nga mafiti, lakini si eketi, kupigya sherehe aji, sa asa wei wacha. Si ina icha evo, we be happening. Una tiyana amiku baya, we not going, dekuna jua sa aja, wuna juna nga nuka boti ya. Jitate? Kutu sana, jibandeti. Anyway, hashtag is Bows Nation, keep watching your favorite. We let you know who takes the lead at the end of the show. But right now, kama kawa, we have to have a guest on the show to do one. And we know them in a, you know, in a much better way other than just their music. So today is no different. We have a writing and a songwriter, a performing and recording artist. He's a rapper, he's a singer. He's just a jack of all trades, na kwa mbinga utu, na kwa janga pada, like multi talented. They don't just do one thing. All right. So today we have a rapper in the building and he goes by the name, Brapa. All right. So welcome to the studio. How are you doing? I'm doing fine. Kapiti? Yeah, yeah. Shugem to Nana. Gotusawa Vilenafa. All right. Welcome to the show. So maybe you can just tell us, for the guys at home, our G. Brapa ni nani, just tell us. Give us a brief introduction about yourself. Alafu you're going to use the mic to take you up. Okay, okay, nice. Now it's okay. Brapa, Brapa is an artist from Eldoritz. Ukondia hometown represent Eldoritz because Eldoritz ni hometown. Born Brian Kibet, yondia jina Sericalia ID. But jina Kazi ni Brapa. It dates all the way back to high school when I started doing music. And Brapa right now is an entrepreneur and a music artist, songwriter and a performer. Yeah. Yeah, and a filmmaker. And wow. Told you. Talent. Uko kudziangi watuivi. Tkwangi watuache bro. Mm-mm. Tnakwanga. You know. But you're interested in music yandakitamo. You still listen to your uncle play music. Tell us about that. So, urban music. Uko Eldoritz was kept what one Irobi. Okay, and I was a very young boy. I think I was in class three. I think my uncle used to like radio so much. So when I used to follow him everywhere he goes, because he had the radio and I liked watching him do stuff. So when he puts on the radio, he puts this urban music and I was kind of interested. But you know I was just a village kid. I didn't even know English. But when I listened to music. Yeah, just kicks in. Yeah, just kicks in. So the first song I ever like crammed in my head for like, when it started to the end was a song by Ekon. I don't remember the name. But I sang it and my uncle was like, damn boy you got talent. Ah, nice. Yeah, I was so interested. The other, and I have like three uncles. So the elder uncle came and the other one told him, like yo, this guy can sing. So he asked me, can you sing? I told him, yeah, I can sing. So he gave, he told me, can you go ahead? I sang the song I had done before. And then he said, you're a good boy. Yeah, you're a good boy. But you know that means a lot because you used to look up to your uncle a lot. He used to inspire you. Yeah, a lot. Alapia kikwambiuna weza. That means a lot. Sababu, you know growing up in African homes most times they'll discourage you. We went in Indian music to kwa kitabu usome at China music. So that must have been like really nice. Yeah, it was nice and the fact that he liked it it's because he liked music and he saw me do it. It was amazing and it's, I think he had not seen somebody do it on one on one. One on one. And you went ahead, right after that you went ahead to record your first single while you were in Class 6. I wrote my first. Class 6 was when I went to a Jwangi studio and I was like, most times especially, what when I wrote it was just a privilege. Most cases. Like in Eldoray. Kikwambu, kikwambu, kikwambu, kikwambu, kikwambu kikwambu. Kikwambu kikwambu, kikwambu, kikwambu, kikwambu, kikwambu. I called that in. Kikwambu kikwambu, kikwambu, kikwambu, kikwambu. I know. So how did that happen? How did you manage to record your first single in Class 6? Okay, I heard a friend called Muhammad so I transferred from a local school to a boarding school in Class 6. So when I met this guy I told him I think I have talent and he told me which talent I told him I can sing and then he told me you can sing to me and I told him I have my own song so I did the song and he was like yo bro you got a very good song so he connected me with people because he came from town and the but the dream died in Class 6 after that after recording the dream died. Ya dreami kakupai woka concentrate na vitabu ya because me li kwa na very strict teacher li kwa na ito Mr. Toh shout out to that teacher. Shout out to Mr. Toh bro. Ya so kwa na ito Mr. Toh kwa na ito Mr. Toh kwa na ito Mr. Toh Ya, that guy said yo in this school nobody does secular music if you want to sing enda imba kwa shule he was a no nonsense guy ya and me I was not conversant so much with the gospel music but I just said the dream will come on Ya and it came back when you were in high school when you were telling music shows and everything one festival that's when you got to know Allah ni li kwa na imba kwa ni kwa prima so the person came back for music tell us about that okay when I was in from one there was a movie called let it shine from America so there was a guy who was a pastor's kid and he loved doing hip-hop music he fought for it until he like he was allowed by the father to do music so I was like inspired by him that was on Saturday sato il kwa skwe enda on Sunday I wrote my first song with a friend of mine who inspired me he told me bro I can be like that guy on TV and I told him I think I know how to sing too ya so we sat down afternoon Sunday we wrote our first song and it was the talk of uh talk of town ya kule il nore kwa ni kwa na death ya so that's when the dream came and I started being a musician from that date to date ya and uh that was the in like in 2018 that's when you recorded ya my first thing kula tell us about that how was the experience and everything okay I came to Nairobi because I loved music so the but at home you know your parents are like yo how are you going to do music how is music going to be in your life you want this to be part of your life and I'm like ya so I came to Nairobi actually and um I did not start as a musician I came I started as a DJ ya I went to some academy in town but my interest and I DJed for some time in a club in Mbakasi and then in 2018 my boys started telling me bro you're doing DJing let's know your stuff go to the studio ah but you can do it you can do it all ya I know but they insisted that they wanted me to do music so my one of my guys started and said I will pay for my first recording oh nice ya so that I can go to the studio aren't you lucky ya I said okay I'm going to do it but before I recorded pull up I had a couple of songs so when I hit the studio the producer was like okay you were a first time artist I was like ya show me your work I gave him 10 songs and all of them had bars bars ya it was complete songs you rock yourself ya I wrote them myself but only pull up was a song that was just saying pull up your socks make it pull up your socks boy that was the only thing I had so the producer said work I can't do tashubu liki I want this song right it does not have any bars it doesn't have anything it is just two lines pull up your socks boy pull up your socks mmhmm and then the guy I was like okay you want me to do this he said ya I'm comfortable with this one so I went home he gave me the beats the demo I went home for two weeks I wrote that song for two weeks because I was confused this is my first time now in a real studio wunia diga wunia rarua karatasina nili rarua like a whole notebook by the way and then I arranged I remember I arranged all the papers on the table nika say ma bars easy papers was what I ran to liala ini moza moza to liala ini moza moza and then I'm going to make this song so I did that when the song came up and I went to the studio we recorded and that that's pull up pull up and then right after that you recorded dunda dunda dunda wuka matuwa twa sherehela zima wa kuna and then ya so when I went to the studio again for the second song you know I'm I'm still juggling within music industry learning I was being a lot of learning at this time because you know you just you just came to the block and you you are the new kid in the block you know nobody knows you you know nobody and then you are trying to learn to learn the the game so when I decided to go to the studio again I had a very nice awesome rap ya I've not released that song today to death and it is it is fully recorded but you went to the studio I went with that song in mind and I was like going to record this song when I hit the studio producer told me let's do it we did it because I had all the bars I had practiced on a beat that is not the one we are going to do in the studio but when we recorded after doing that the manager of the studio said can you do another song minus this one because I in my mind I thought maybe you have seen this song is so dope you just gonna do another one first to create momentum for this one to blow ya so I recorded Doonda I struggled again writing Doonda because Doonda I only had you know that last part of Doonda the outro that was the only thing that I we created the beat of Doonda in the studio so that was the only only part I had when we were making the beat before the chorus came the chorus came when we were in the studio with the producer we were jamming and then the guy the guy is like yo ongeza rongai apu ongeza Shweda apu but then we were like rocking rocking and then the song came about I had the verses we recorded that same day but I hear most artists say less minor checking the less the like least amount of time you didn't end up could blow up but even if you think sometimes you might work on it you've given it your all five years it comes out and it's okay I don't I don't know about that but you know songs about songs will never like determine how they are going to blow it's all about the fans a song can take four years there's a song that was recorded four years ago can blow up this year you really don't have control about it especially in the age of tiktoks we don't let one dig and apuza tiktoks so you cannot really gauge and say the song is going to blow up today right and then after the after dunda you took a break a long break yeah I've taken a very long break by the way why was it was it necessary number one I think it was necessary because considering the fact that I have been on a break everything that has happened when I'm on this break let's say reflective I've reflected on a lot I've grown a lot because now that I'm coming back to the industry there's a lot that people are going to feel in the brand proper and the things that I'm going to do it is going to be like a real real show and I really want to represent my town yeah and that's that that's so I'm going to talk about Sijikana Isemasa is such kusachi ga is oh yeah wow tell us tell us the inspiration behind that what does that mean what well do it na jwa washa jwa nino asama filinu na nyangush tuna kwa ga bauznation kilesiku tuna shinaga tumonga how don't you know that what does that mean okay isachi kusachi ga in just simple terms or direct translation it means shake it add yu muagi kenyumba and that is what it means shake yu muagi kenyumba but when the real meaning that I was putting on this isachi kusachi ga is you know when we go to hasul we we are hasulin to make ourselves great and big you know but that hasul the people that should feel what we are hasuling for is our families yeah so we should the the hasul should reach home so I'm just telling people isachi kusachi ga and you make the hasul get home all right and uh Nadium Kami when she was coming out to kutuna skia hail mind entertainment I've heard the same thing from you are you signed and uh hail mind am a new record to you okay like uh hail mind the owner of hail mind of which I don't think hail mind is still there now oh okay but uh the the the owner of hail mind at that time we were working it was just a working relationship that we had I was working with him not under signed terms yeah so it was just a a working relationship like I was going to the studio record and my services are private I was paying for my services right yeah and you let your latest release there's no video yet the latest video yeah there's no video okay I was to do I was to do I was to do a video last year but uh I survived but I survived an accident oh yeah so I didn't manage to the time I was supposed to shoot the video was the end of the year we didn't reach that point because I survived an accident okay yeah because I like yeah that's quite unfortunate but you are here yeah I'm here with you you got the blank you still got the swag you still got the motivation I'm sure there's more ahead so maybe as you wonder you can tell us about them the more ahead the more to come what would you currently working on in everything I have a lot of music I was thinking of compiling them into an EP but I'm just going to go for singles right now singles first a lot of EP that come yeah yeah all right so any shout outs what were elder rights anyone how was tuning them I have a lot of shout outs damn there is a daisy two daisies who are friends and they are really close friends of mine oh nice and then my classmates KIMC they are all watching I think right now and this one watching they will assume me for this if I don't say a shout out to them and then I have friends from Mildorech outspend my hood oh nice shout out to them and there's a guy from Mildorech outspend said I say shout out to Kingsley we bought it Tamasha aah aah yes yes we love elder rights all right so thank you but before you go you have to remind guys your socials what you want to connect Papina where we went Gomao and I wanna stream Muafi and YouTube and everything yeah YouTube my name is Brapa and space K.E. Brapa space K.E. all social media platforms it's underscore Brapa Brapa that is B then Rapa but it's 1-1 Rapa yeah Brapa actually is Brian Rapa oh Brian Rapa the B is for Brian ah nice I was wondering about that I was meant to ask you so yeah go follow him of course and listen to his music stream his music even though I knew who he was so go stream Brapa music and of course we have his song so we're gonna play it right now at Fafomir ah do you know once you come here you have to do that you have to do the thing all right hashtag is bounce nation we still we're still here we still have a lot