 Good morning and how are you doing? My name is Karen Jusser and this right here is Hape Hop Thursday. Now, Barry was here with a previous interview and yes, young people are doing great things and especially for the gospel industry. I hope he doesn't suave out of it. Okay, okay, I'm coming in with a new interview. Okay, I have a new guy, call him new, but he's not so new in the music industry, but he is upcoming poli poli too and I'll come through Raj's Gotshu on that music deck, and speaking of the social media pages, maze leo on to sample your comments. Of course, we've asked you who is your favorite Kenyan rapper. I'll tell you of mine in just a few minutes. Now, let me sample your comments. Right Mady Wo Wo, okay. Anasama, King Junior representing Kali Sana Freestyle apo moja wa zemo big shout to KJ. Shout out to you KJ. I'm a James and I'm a Yulize. Yule eh, lapam kali alien dawa api hez jasama rapa nimlapa the lady who did a song with Oji. Yo! I think we all know what you're talking about, but chiza chini, I'm a James because hachitaki kukujiwa. Yes, yes. Anongilakusum, Supaes, baka na ambiwa um Supaes. Supaes, badu uko. Of course, pala twitayake na kuangalit, so you know where to find her, pala twitay. Rico's Lei, anasama Petra, mwoto wa kuote ambale. And then, rate madiwa anasama Monski, Sylvia Saru. Okay, she's coming in a bit. And then, Craig Gadi, anasama Uyokijana, Wai Choka Anatesa. Okay, all right. Trim P. Steve, anasama STL, alafu kuna Gemini. Gemini anasama Saru, the queen, then I can get Rico's contact on 808Cypher. You have to check out his Instagram page mtu miye DM pale. Of course, anasama umpitei kwa DM, atengia kwa DM na atasampole. And I hope to see you soon at the 808 Studios. Then we have Keith Arian. Anasama hello, I'm Arian from Embu nama Panda Fena. Alafu, why in the morning? Good day. Good day to you, Keith. Alafu, selfie boy. Anasama play for me moja ya K. Jones. Siji kama rajizana skiza pia. K. Jones moji na takikana apoyo yote tu. Pita Adi Spea anasama, my female rapper is Kani Kish, wame toa audio and Breake Onesma's Kiki Staff Mikali. Kiki, Kiki, is it the Kiki Konga we had last time? Let us know Pita Adi toambia kama ni Kiki Kong. Basil Kelvin Saru na upcoming fulani anaito na Shish baby sorry, from Mombasa. It's Basil Kelvin from V01. Okay, voy niko lokt. Thank you so much for tuning in. Kama na joa kaweida, kama kawa kama dawa. Facebook comments ni ye nyo. It's all about you guys and you want to know what do you think? What's on your mind? What are you feeling? This is Pop Thursday 1 in the morning. My name is Karen Justin. You can find me on all social media platforms as Karen Kan. Now, let me get right into the interview. What's up, what's good? Hey, guys. I'm good, I'm good. What's up? Is this your second media tour? I've done a couple of shows. This is like my fifth. Your fifth? And how is it like the music industry so far? It's good. The hip-hop industry in Kenya is really growing and I'm glad to be part of the growth. We're just wrapping the 254 hip-hop to the world. Are there things that you expected during your upcoming that have not yet figured or some of them have been accomplished and you're so happy about it? It's quite hard. You expect you're going to make a dope song and it becomes a hit song but you realize the process is pretty hard. You really have to push your craft each and every day. Every opportunity you get like this one. You just have to push your craft. So in case nobody knows you, nobody by this guy is watching you from Y2F4, they're wondering who is Drew Weezy. Drew Weezy is a young upcoming artist. Tell us more about yourself. My name is Drew Weezy. I've been doing this thing since way, way back in 2012. Right now I'm just trying to really go hard in this industry. By go hard what exactly do you mean? Projects after projects. In the past I've been doing projects and relaxed for a while but right now I'm just trying to back to back. Consistency everything. Every single day man say I can relax. So you represent NUX? NUX practice in the building. But you're not staying there right now. You're staying in the 237. How is it like for you creating your content or creating your music? Do you have challenges moving from one studio to the other or you have one specific guy who you can just go to and magic happens? Yeah, I used to do tracks back in NUX Vegas studios but right now at least I got someone who understands my thing, my style. Mr. Hito Hrikobit working with him. He's pretty dope man. Love the extra cipher coming. You wrap us up out there and submit your projects to him. Kupiwata wu me kwa kwa yaw studio era waita kwa kwa kona pwa maili kwa kona. I've been in there too man and Shara Tusa Rupia she's dope and I respect her a lot. So before I come to your track Bodid and your other one I want to know Riko as a producer and other producer. Of course you told me you picked one guy to work with him. So far so good. Play Kenyan music has been doing well. We've gotten so many requests especially from Kenyan audience suggesting for Kenyan artists do you think that producers are doing a good job when it comes to flying the Kenyan music industry? Producers are doing a good job every single day you see them laying the instrumentos on internet. It's up to the artists to really if you really want to do this thing and they just have to chase it Producers haven't been sleeping so the artists will also just go hard opportunities are out there sometimes it's as the artists will sleep a lot but producers are really working hard daily. Okay so Dhruvizi Ume Sema there are things you expected when you began this musical journey but then again you expected to put up a song but it didn't work well or it didn't reach out to a massive audience that you targeted I'm thinking the song that you're talking about is Kirikat maybe you say that has so many views it was your first jam on YouTube right? Ya ya that was my first jam. I was just an upcoming I was trying to do anything to put my name out there and you know at that age you do anything I think I'm the pioneer of this you see what gangiton rappers mostly rap about but I did it kind of and classy in hip-hop so it wasn't really about me making it I was just doing what I love at that time I was feeling that vibe I just do what I had to do unfortunately it kind of blew up it did because you have so many views it blew up and it was crazy man their attention was just dope so why are you happy about the results that you got or did it leave you with something like a void that you have to keep fulfilling that void or keep doing more work Ya I didn't really want to take that part change strategy Ya when I was doing that track I didn't really want to take that part because I didn't want people to specify me as a rapper doing that kind of music You want to be that classy Ya ya you know Rapper Classiest rapper Okay I like that so let's talk about Classi Bodeed It's a nice jam I love the beats Bodeed Bodeed What about Bodeed do you like about this song What do you like about Bodeed Ya know Bodeed it's all about me I'm putting my life story out there I'm trying to tell people I can do this man if people give me the support I can represent you like we can be doing these things with people like Kate Jones Nastisi out there Druiz is a rapper you should watch out Bodeed it's all about Ya this is where I've come from and this is where I'm going people should pay more attention So Bodeed are you trying to tell us that I'm Bodeed like I am the full man I am what you need to get this industry going Ya it's like Bodeed it's all about I'm the dopest up and coming rapper The rest of ya you can just queue right after me behind me like I hope Jones is watching Jones is my boy man He is my boy Well okay need to introduce me after this probably I can launch dates I don't mind and then interview after that Calligraph Jones we've been looking for you kindly kindly kindly people are always here on our social media comments saying calligraph calligraph calligraph but we are yet to find a specific content to bring him in So I want to know from you because today our discussion is all about female rappers and you've seen so many female rappers in the Kenyan music industry but you always remember a few people especially from 2000 from 90 no 2000 I think that's when I started singing STL if my memory serves me right STL and Modoni the Drama Queen So who is currently not because she is in the studio or anything but Saru I respect her so much she goes out I want you to say this don't mention Saru Kenyan rapper the one I feel like is the goat that has to be ecstatic ecstatic is dope man she is so dope man of course Petra too when it comes to women in the rap game there's so many things that affect them for you they always try to compare men and women in rap so you'll find that the man or the gent in the rap game has his own hassle going so easy that is you don't have kids to take care of you don't have clothes to wash you don't have to think about so many things in the household but for the woman as soon as she gives birth you sort of come crumbling down and you don't see her in the game anymore no time for excuses can we just give birth the other day and she's still doing her thing I think a lot of people just give too many excuses a lot of female rappers when they see the game really going their way there's no time for excuses you can give birth and still deliver deliver some birth the next day after you just give birth it's all about how you manage your time manzai no time for excuses give birth give a lot of hits too so this month is the month for women and we mark international women's day during this month of March so it means March 4th so what do you think is the future of female Kenyan rappers it's bright it's really bright man I've been seeing a lot of projects lately on YouTube upcoming Kenyan female rappers the future is really bright for women and with people like Saaru Silverstone bars I think this industry is really going places it's gonna be dope I'm glad you mentioned that there's a female artist who came over sometime back last year and she talked of how producers or whoever it is an influencer could use her in terms of trying to put her somewhere in the game what advice would you give to young upcoming female rappers who are not willing to show their bodies and not willing to go all out and turn to be immoral instead of moral for them to portray how do they go ahead and portray their moral, culture beliefs in the rap industry in Kenya Ya at the end of the day man just stick to it when your time comes probably God will open the door just keep just keep believing in yourself you don't really have to show your body you just kutu God at the same time you don't have to show anything you don't have to show nothing your talent will take you there just maintain your values just respect yourself and people will always buy and support if your staff is dope it will just push a lot of people just showing their body and their staff in dope and they make you moves they make you moves Miss Elliott is still here making a lot of money after even her not showing her titties or anything anyway that's up to you to judge do you feel like going all out or maintain some morality going on so how many tracks do you have so far or rather let me ask you this one which song do you want to perform for us today or which song do you want the audience to listen to today my latest track bodied right now on YouTube bodied Rajuza you got bodied with you you also bodied okay so before you play bodied I want to give you a chance and you get to talk to your fans and your new fans who sort of like you or may like you after you perform for us your bodied song yeah how are you going to reach you can we get to your DM yeah you can get on my DM anytime please man yo on social media it's Druiz D-R-E-W-W-I-W-Z-Y F-B-T-T-I-G YouTube man say and subscribe to my YouTube channel some dope stuff are coming every single day man to everybody who has been supporting me thank you I'm going to be dropping some dope tracks Max Vegas farm my Kika farm my beautiful lady oh you have a big yeah of course every gig got a beautiful wow guy so yo Druiz everywhere future plans any more music please collaborations sorrow calligraph aha ok ok I look forward to seeing your work and hopefully I'll convince 808 Mr 808 to play me your previous works the ones that you've not brought on YouTube or you've been here on Y-2-5-4 and then guys I'll let you know what it's all about anyway for now let's listen into bodied keep tuning into Y-2-5-4 I'm coming in