 Ashtag don't forget why in the morning the other ashtag and in studio with me apart from DJ Raji is obviously is one of the most prolific female mcs the two five fours but in a very long time she goes by the name monski karibu sada so your camera is number four monski uh i have the tendency to miss vitu zingene kwa intro mse kama title zako zote so neza zipayana zote venyu usha ita mani kwa introduce you your chances now uh so here what's up my name is monski rapper performing artist kutoka nrb yeah from Nairobi yes born and raised in Nairobi yeah all right monski uh ulianza kura pleni uh back in 2014 like i used to do it in high school matalin shonini nini but professionally suatu all right all right then professionally 2014 2014 is when you start i hit the studio the studio all right which is the first studio you walked into well i'm still working the same studio menek same same guy yeah but i buy my beats online most beats zene ni metumia obonapa kenya akuna producer anatocha avzuri kuna akuna so far i'm working on my album so kuna ma producer kada from kenya i'm gonna be working with all right i hope you didn't miss that part where she's working on an album this is the debut album yeah you only get exclusive news on what ends the morning so monski is working on an album do you have a title for us uh not yet but um i'm gonna be having so many people with working with me on it um apart from artists producers as well yeah engineers yeah everybody like atama director um the videos and all that i'm gonna be working on the graphic designer yes promoting kenya and say yeah so far i have like 13 tracks ready on it what is your target ah 24 evie 24 tracks i want to work with a lot of people she's thinking you can't get help of any national all right so monski uh about two weeks ago yeah you hit the stage yeah yeah yes i saw you perform quite a performer thank you so much all right to look up a lot of jacuzzi and friends to the wave all right the reason i ask is because uh yes you are not on the poster but i saw you on stage yeah and uh chale islame brought you on stage yeah so what is the relation between monski and chale and uh and ski music at large well i just work with them and yeah a big shout out to them when i do a big thing out there yes so you just you guys just met through the music yeah we met through them actually alini host first of all for an interview and then that's when we just went to the studio and recorded yes all right so uh i'm wondering who are some of the people at the queens on your album well but i'm gonna i'm not gonna put out everything so you guys just wait those two names for now for now you can share with them your youtube channel so they can stalk you while we have this conversation well you can get my music on youtube monski to five four soundcloud monski that's m o n s k i and dundo also and dundo as well right so killer killer streaming site killer stream repata uh instagram monski underscore to five four facebook saraka monski twitter hell monski yeah all right so people are wondering where is where did this name come from monski uh kwanza big shout out to my high school flasmids and i watch a colloct uh iyan mabwa iyan alini pateo jina i went to a mixed school so i kandika to behind my seat saraka monski and then i asked what does that mean he's like something small and cute and i'm like oh so yeah that's how i came with it they came up and spoke from that magical moment uh uh yeah we're good friends you're a good friend all right yeah he's called yeah he plays for impala he plays for impala rabbi is a rabbi player all right always flying the kenyan flag as well all right so monski is not a monster i thought you're a monster with it i'm a monster with my rhymes you're a monster with rhymes yeah all right your latest track is called um next yes um next is self explanatory if you ask me yeah but maybe there's a hidden meaning to it actually i just picked a different bit kuskilam su se ma monski anapenda bomba bit zimichil so i went for a trap bit anya nizawne shasen kwa flexible in this and also nili flex and flexing yeah flexing every day and nili wak na sinistra will come through with the ad-libs ali patatut kiskise un goma konyumba from the studio fresh and is like wow kona ad-libs i'm like i'm working on them it's like no i'll do the ad-libs i'm fine so feature thanks sinistra yeah man i'm ready to work with whoever to make good music so and then kariwakid and mogul waka kariwakid directed the video mogun mogun mogul ali shoot ali shoot and also edited the video it's like i mean edit all my videos all right and also kariwakid has directed all my videos so i'm next it's just some next i i don't know if you've heard the story of kaniwast uh akilizua niggaz in paris why why why niggaz in paris and then it's like kus niggaz wa in paris there's no deeper meaning to that thing yeah sometimes you don't have deeper meaning so i'm next is basically i'm next yeah i'm next i'm gonna come up who's there right now that you want to check the crown for i don't know maybe oh you're coming for the brother day i'm coming for everybody for everyone i like this most is a studio with us for white in the morning for hip-hop thursday don't forget to leave the hashtag white in the morning and hip-hop thursday when you interact with us on white five four channel on twitter white five four underscore channel on instagram white two five four on facebook so moski is next and she's working on her album you've talked about so many aspects when it when it comes to working on this album from the graphics to the videos to the audios to the collaborations who's financing the album who's the executive producer of the album well i'm financing myself you're financing yourself it's it must be really hard to be an artist it's very hard and financing yourself at the same time very very hard counter counter side job like me personally so i just depend on like family and sometimes i hustle here and then the few shows that pay me yeah i invest in my music so you're already getting paid for shows which is a little show like one two one two or three you're already getting but you're getting the recognition yeah yeah that you deserve right now and i'm so grateful five years in it and reception is really dope all right there's this question i'm always told ask this question but i hate this question i hate it but i'm gonna ask it what are some of the things you're going through as a female rapper that you think uh it's all we're just rappers yeah we're all rappers we're all doing the same thing it's not like i'm rapping in a different way yeah so i'm telling you exactly number two women should be yeah we're all equal i don't think when i say i'm a female makanga no it's just makanga me makanga kani daktari ni daktari akunati female daktari yes wise words from monski right here are you a feminist monski well i support everybody you support everybody all humans are equal not anybody well we need to balance these things so all right so this is that part of the interview where we play a game are you ready for a game monski okay it's a simple game uh uh it's called i don't even have a name for it but tell me the first thing that pops out in your mind when you hear the words that i'm going that i'm about to sell you yeah all right so number one are you ready yeah DJ Raji's boom gunshot gunshot all right thank you for that one anyway so niki minaj well she's amazing she inspired me mm-hmm like we way back i used to call myself sarah kamonski i mean sarah minaj in facebook so did you know what she meant back then well no you didn't know what it meant now what does it mean uh we won't talk about it right now hip hop well hip hop is life hip hop is the truth hip hop is freedom mm-hmm Nairobi my city might sound so beautiful i love it shrap you guys don't know what for it just this just this for shrap all right uh no Nairobi no Nairobi is fire yeah what does no Nairobi mean to you before you can get well it's like a new wave of young youngians wanna come now fire like to go in it to go deep to go diverse and we all flames it's not one sound it's not about what you take let's sound diverse when you are naimba when you are na rap when you are na shrap yeah so no Nairobi is a blend is a cocktail of so many things all right kadi b well kadi b kadi b is really is a hard worker she's a hard worker yeah you appreciate that about her yeah all right uh niki inspired kadi b is a hard worker yeah rig between the lines yeah white purple child on twitter white by four underscore child on instagram and white by four on facebook i'm not misporting you musiki yes don't forget the hashtag why in the morning and don't forget the hashtag hip hop thursday as well dj rajiz i know you don't like to talk so much but monski is here you play your music and i know you have a question for monski atakasi question me compliment i just i love the hairstyle number one thank you and the shade the shades are by the way can i give a shout out to my stylist your stylist yeah my stylist exquisite yendo come through nalux zanguzote kwa videos kwa shows exquisite yeah ex exquisite not exquisite jumpata instagram exquisite facebook exquisite uh twitter exquisite akona online shop anu zanguona na style loatu so check out exquisite for making monski look this good and shout out to rajiz juya kukatiyana kwa shout out anyway rajiz suali kwa wow i love being on the the hard spot to me promoters not coming through like fully creativity is not a problem for me not at all creating and making the art is not a problem promoters too and then people picking the wrong artist kwa kwa kwa kwa the wrong shows that's it that's the only problem i find in this industry so you feel like sometimes your pics and puts on the wrong stage sometimes i feel like they pick the wrong artist they can leave people like me out and then put some other people on the platforms that's like there's this example kuna this is it buzz they came for what is it called they came for event here and waka wukanda south africa for the same event wali pikuwa to wakanda now on the road what is it called uh shows on tour yeah on tour and they didn't do the same in kenya just because wali patua the wrong artists kwa kwa shoryao like kwa open so who was picked to go on tour from i don't i i'm not really familiar with the names but i read about the article so i think this kid from from south africa what is his name uh i don't know i'll remember the name but he's on tour right now with bus yeah because they picked the right openers for bus exactly but when bus came to kenya they just put the alarm but i don't know like okay i get your point i get your point so when we have a hip hop headliner we need to promote the hip hop culture yes when we have a reggae headliner we need to promote the exactly put out the right artists on the right shows so promoters need to do their work yeah so those are some of the challenges you're facing and some of the hardest most of the problems come from that most of the problems come from the promoter yes what about mainstream media well mainstream i feel like they fall the same with the promoter sometimes you are trying but i'm super grateful that like some it's a new wave right now everything is changing everyone is looking to the right direction i'm sitting on tv now yeah and i'm grateful for that and you're grateful yeah all right so uh another aspect of the game that gets a lot of blame are labels you're an independent artist have labels approach to you so far yeah well yeah i've gotten some inbox but i let people know that i have a manager though i'm independent i have someone running my businesses and shit though but i'm still very important to our manager yes all right monski it's about that time that we introduced this song it's how many weeks old uh it's two weeks old three weeks up we've all i'm next from next featuring sinestra monski featuring sinestra all right and uh is it part of the album monski yeah it's gonna be in the album all right before we play it before you perform it to the people your social media handles and then we wrap this well can find me on instagram help help monski that's my fan page and monski underscore two five four that's my main page twitter help monski facebook saraka monski all right that is a boom so i'm next by monski featuring sinestra yeah all right it's coming up next for you on hip hop thursday it's a pleasure to have monski in the building i always feel amazing as much as she's going to hate the next statement i feel amazing hanging around queens will wrap so yes let's listen to the song then we'll be back with more of hip hop thursday and don't forget