 Ha, ya ni moujansi ya wakwa. Activity before, heh, tleisteri zegu by the way. Hee, ebu gaya stuji na adem. Eba kwa mbeka mano heza mawezi. Sharon. Sharon alikuwa. Kuliko na kishaarona po fia. Wow, Sharon. Nisa we din slow down, Sharon. Anyway, so from passing notes in class, poetry, up to nine years. What was the next step for you? Nikiwa like 12 years. Kuliko na ezi functionzama kuzo, kuzonga kapuulap. Ha kanchesia some lost boys. Maja na sande fami bremi kamtu. Then from there I fell in love with hip-hop maze. So nikanza kujarebu kulu ito bo beats. I laugh eventually like making a high school up fom 1, fom 2 ebi. Nika. Nikiwa miyami crazy, miyami crazy world. Za uzi miyami crazy world. Rene. Ah, Rene is a sofa. So like Nikiwa like 15 years. Apu vilun makusho high school nili anza kujifunza kweinba nbilanzak train vukulzangu mi monye. And yeah basically, so nimi kwa tunki kitu lafu like si kuwangan na studio ku record. So I started battle rapping after high school. Lafu nika pattern na se kakia vukifu. Skena sharama. Nini, nini, nini. Wakan biga pondeja niki dogu lafu. Yeah, from there I did join three me and 28s. 28s alin piyan opportunity ku record. So nika join three me, then with three me for a while but after a while people just went their separate ways. Na mosa my manager tul kwa nae system. Tul kwa nae primary. So by the time na pattern nae in the music world wakuna do the same thing. So we decided to link up and see what happens. Nihenderi kwa. Yeah, that was around 2014. Aikenda kweisha. So from there nika join edi family officially in 2016. So I've been three years in my professional career. Three years in your professional career. So when you talk professional career kuna say wana say ma amina takwa rapper, mi keshon na inga studio, nidrop video ea 100k na below. When you talk to your professional career ina manisha nini ku imputua like a mixtape guy or a bedroom rapper to a professional rapper. Professional career niku manisha wana nga liya brandyako viluna ka. Keni utenda kusema. Yani appearance. Kitu na representia nina get. And basically paper waki kwa in check. Kuna msi akuhandel. You have a team behind you. You have strategies. The keyword is a team. Team. And you have strategies. And you have a vision basically. Siku fanya vitutuki. Kiholelelele. All right. So nimo na kumugmentia nuna like nini internet rappers. Internet artists. I just say me rappers. Internet artists. Me master e-craft ya ku to me internet sana. You guys have gone adapt to 100,000 views mila media. Niliwa na miyanzakuna media juzi juzi. Uneza tu ibi asiri kiasi? Akuna asiri rili. It's just being yourself. Kusaba boi atas the consumer kicheki to see authentic. Ata i feel it a kubusa. Jutuna tu kituna ita baki tu aputu. But if it's really an authentic you'll feel it. And as long as nini fanya from the heart I don't think anything can go wrong. Regardless of views amani nini, amani nini. Kilamsa kuna jani ake na taini ake. All right. So authenticity nini very important. That's more to relate na kiluna fanya. Uneza siria internet. Authenticity will always work for you. Okay siria internet. You know now I say what I chance to mention names but you know what I'm talking about. The internet is full of fakeness but I think when it comes to music and art and if you truly want to make an impact and use something with your music you have to be completely authentic. Wonderful man. So I'd like to know also kuna kitu nishwa shrap niwa similar represent shrap sana and then from shrap sasa nasi kia kuna shrap so in which I think Shambhala kia kuna shrap ooka Shrap. Wow. So from shrap kudem to bomb sana zimezaliwa. This is the new generation of music. Exactly. Right. So shrap so is this something you're involving yourself in and does Shambhala fall in this category? No first of all Shambhala doesn't fall in that category. Shambhala is I'm still trying to find the name for it but it's just that nice melodic rap I think I'll call it dope or mean flow. That dope or mean flow. But it's shrap of course at the end of the day if you're using sharing arm of course it will be shrap and shrap sol niki to me gusia gusia we have one song in the shrap life EP 2017 with a guy called Kwis apoto gusia shrap sol but it's in your direction. Sorry. So the tree is growing branches. Tree is growing branches. I like this so much. I like the movement. I like the wedding, the branding. Melan po sana from Drake if I'm not wrong. The lingo is really amazing. The way you guys come up with the hashtags which is really pushing the music. Another thing I'd like to know Shambhala is from your previous compilation. Shambhala. I dropped on October 10th 2018 and it was Shambhala. Yeah basically. Shambhala the EP was called Shambhala. Bona ili kwenito Shambhala. Kus Shambhala na kumbuka tukizi wa 10? Eh, me bada ni bada ni uva machimela. What do I represent for the counting? Yeah, so first because Shambhala me upendak dumga ma Shambhala na bona mi uda ma Shambhala is I just like the way they look and see at his style dumga gold. You do it come and you get my real gold. So you're keeping it real? Yeah and also by doing this you're supporting local artisans or crafts. Yeah, crafts exactly and that really helps the racial economics money remaining amongst us people instead of kuspendon dunyan and out of the country. Instead of buying wild sell and guji. Yeah, exactly. To keep it here. Yeah and keep the money. I love when he super style on YouTube you might represent the country through this as well. Exactly. Like craftsmen where to exactly well represented. And also for me Shambhala is a mythical place if you read up on it you'll see it's a place of it's like the concept Christians have of heaven. So yeah that's what Shambhala is a place of peace, a place of no suffering, no hunger, no death. For what religion? So not for any religion just a mythical place. It's a mythical place. It's a mythical place. Alright so all of these are covered in the compilation? No, not really. Shambhala now for me represents of course rocking the Shambhala. We came earlier the cover of the project town Mama like in a place with a caravan and a place like how did you know it's a far off place but I make a Kenyan flag up I don't know what's going on and my Shambhala and my sneakers. So yeah basically for me that's that's what it represents that and also finding my place of peace and finding myself and being at peace with who I am. Peace and happiness are keywords. Peace and happiness are the things that represent you as an artist as a person. Alright So moving on swiftly before we move on to your next project I'd like to know as a group you guys are moving as A.D. family. Alright what are some of the people first thought you were a group but you were a collective? Collective kilamsa kone individual kariya yalafutu kikampamoja ni mashapingine crazy. Mashapingine crazy. Alright moving as a gang Ryan Ryan and Robbie with a gang Inona impacti ake inakusahidiya inakusahidiya kumubunawase dan kumubupekiako kuna bituzinginone zachibutu kumubunawase Zenye Yes of course of course maze ee of course kusababu one inasahidiya na artistriya ko nina peyana kumpeo nonomsana fanyi wana semawawa wala ee I gotta get this I gotta get nina kumpe so ina wachangamisha Allah for another team another thing in motivation okiju you have a team behind you wana jua akuna wanyuone zenda wrong because mitu aki akuna unenda wrong yu wrong yako jaku a group enzima siyako peke because you only as strong as your weakest link so inakusahidiya kusaku blanda like the military you don't like the military yeah yeah yeah so yeah basically just like a team so inakusahidiya too in many aspects also na piya spiritually emotionally wana jo kuna wase wana zakul brothers me pitiya the worst wana zakula fruits wana get witu zina go up and down kutupa moji na create inasahidiya piya going through something so wana supostu kue an individual artist wana pitiya twizi so raza so tiafukabu I get you but and the industry I'm told nina skiatu ikuna lot of fakes so you need some real ones around you of course yeah not just the industry the world also the world also the world that you can learn a lot from hip-hop or the industry because ikua I lighted up ikua ikua kuna spotlight so we can learn a lot from it alright so moving to your next project which is coming sometime soon 20,000 flows yeah 20,000 flows Mr. 20,000 flows I can say 20,000 flows in 20,000 ways so natka choku flexi so skill kido 20,000 flows in 20,000 ways why 20,000 in particular because 20,000 is just a lot like it just represents a lot niki se ma 10,000 you know that's after 9,000 even the first like the first 10 5 whatever 5 ni 5 digit ama ni 4 digit ni 5 digit give me how the zeroes how much you are coming to 10,000 normal size on 10k ni the first nage so that's the smallest version of a 5 digit number so at least kusima 20,000 flows in center ni it's more than the least more than the least yeah plus it just sounds good coming out you come at 70 times 70 yeah I feel that I feel that so 20,000 flows in 20,000 ways 20,000 flows is coming out soon do you have a date for it? not yet not yet who's in the kitchen with you? well production wise neza se ma dede dede is a Kenyan based in Chicago I'm doing some production myself as well there's some production from Buchos also as well and some production from Limajio as per artist ni kuna feature 2 moja Sijongezawim ni haven't thought of more features and that's what I'm actually working on and the only feature ni Omzlo Montana toka cost ulem se na na ima kisao ni represent in kisao ni kisao ni 8100 gain shout out 8100 gain so Omzlo Montana sofa ni kuna e the rest I'm just working on na build to the content you're just building the content sofa we've seen 2 videos of Shambhala Shambhala the song and facts are we looking to see any more visuals as a solo act? yeah yeah yeah of course hella videos as a solo artist and from each of the AD family members from Buchos K. Green kila mse na kumna hella visual content so yeah talking about the visuals who's handling the visuals a very good man called Mr. Mike Loli he shot our first video I mean not our first video but like our first big video hold up gang and from there we just work together he's been real supportive and he sees the vision shout out Mr. Mike Loli he best director best director in the country right now I'm a East East over Africa yeah the best hip hop director the best hip hop director alright so visuals working on up in the videos son don't you think? kila mse easy to see what you're hearing alright so videos work better than the audios or videos are just that push the audios well it depends on really what you're trying to do like if you have things in a project collectively then it helps to have some audios that don't necessarily need to have visuals but like expound on the on the aim of the project or the feel of the project but kuna zile they'll have a certain impact and they do define and they further your definition of who you are as an artist so in abakumetua visuals nyeshwa say more of that side that you're trying to portray alright so as an artist how do you take the videos that you're going to shoot from a compilation like kama Shambhala uli cha gwaje facts na Shambhala those kuna videos the first two videos actually Shambhala Shambhala AP for me Shambhala Experimental Project so it was more of an experimental project niki experiment na sound so ya nili ya muatu kudu facts ya kwanza kwa zi nili kwa home na it was easy to do it from home alafu ni kwa mua Shambhala apili because I want to start a roll out now before the next project comes so this is the first of many to come everything's strategic everything's strategic we're going to be playing his music interview he goes by the name Dopa and Main representing ADFAM representing SHRAP representing Kenyan Hip Hop representing Hip Hop at large we have songs lined up by DJ Raji's Zikoredia ya before we play the music and before we go into some other other questions there's a game I like to play you like games you don't seem like you like games but I'm going to go so it's called Wadded Fastword so I'm going to give you wadded fastword yes I give you a wad and then you give me the first wad that comes in your mind let's do this it's time for the moment of truth wadded fastword with dope I mean so yes Nairobi city no Nairobi music TI Trapper Nastyzy Flex Johannesburg wadded fastword Johannesburg B'lali B'lali Kusvajosi kip oh Johannesburg B'lali kusvajosi kip ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok We have an insight of what you think about our city and what you think about Johannesburg. DJ Rajiz, do we have the music ready? Yeah, it's ready. Alright, we have the music ready. Your social media handles as we line up the music. So my social media handles, you can catch dope I mean at dope underscore EYE underscore mean on all platforms man. Follow, I follow back, talk, I talk back. You had it straight from the horses mount dope I mean representing AD fam to the fullest. So, mufans badona wali za shrap night ya next. Kwanza mazea Santeni shrap night, the previous one il kwa so late, never really happened, deep west. Guys came out for days, I think now it stands that the number of upcoming artists to make on stage since shrap night began is 157 artists. 157 artists? Yeah, I don't think anyone is Nairobi. I don't think anyone else can brag about anything like that but it's not something to brag but support your own mazea. There's a lot of saying we can do but you have to do the work mazea at the end of the day. 157 artists from Nairobi and the previous one you guys did not perform? The previous one we did. The previous one we did, yeah we did. Jovia li kwa paka ni ambe ah this time had to perform when you guys saw the crowd you had to give the crowd company. Kuna matemtul kuna pita pwa na mekuvuta pwa lafu DJa shash tu leo mazengo mehisha e kwa se na bakyume. Everything for the fans. So, shrap is a very good concept to you, shrap night is a very good concept to you guys have. So, what is the future of shrap night? Even big and better things we're looking at festivals, international acts but mainly our focus all day every day is to put on Kenya, for Kenya, buy Kenya. Or maybe international acts na kama na kutusapot. Thank you very much. Another thing from the fans, they keep coming. Machinda is in a drop when ya, any family or dope I mean? Machinda is ya reinots, formality in stona, in a drop very soon. Stas emawen, but in a drop very soon it a kanyu and fresh. And Kenyan, designed of course by a DJ in ma winch. In a drop really soon along with ADF Machinda is as well. As for individual artists, siyambu bado, but towards the end of the year, lasmaku tako na machi. So, Machinda is coming from ADCAM. We look out to check to social media. Taka pata linkia kumunua? Ya, na of course stas ya kakwa website. So asa hote zaku zia kusia, asu ga rei siya apa. Website ko up and ready? Ah, not yet. Website na? Very soon ya, very very soon. So ma winch is a design as well? Ya, is a design as well, ya na stylist. Alright. Tu miwa wa say ma shoutout, wa say wato me fanu kafika, place wami fika adilaw. And wa say bado akuna wei, as you proceed. Hey, shout out mums. I see you, love you. Shout out my people kina, ya, the whole of ADF. Shout out my hood, 1-5 LA. Shout out my fans new. Wote kawusha iskiza, shrap kwa kuna nga maa shrap kwa. Kwa phone nga ma kawusha iskiza, shrap YouTube, maa nga maa shrap SoundCloud. Shout out to you maza. And shout out to all Kenyans maza. Alright. He said it. He goes by the name Dopa. I mean representing ADFAM. Representing shrap. Representing hip-hop. Facts. DJ Raji's kama una shrap kwa paiwani aya kwa sayi by now. But talk to them. I'm a talk to Dopa, I mean. Anything you've wanted to tell these guys representing shrap? Kazisafi. Kazisafi. Kazisafi. Kazisafi. That's all I can say. That's all you can say. Do you spin them at the club? Ya. Una spin kabisa kabisa. Ya, sure. Yes, this guy. Please put me onto some shrap. This guy. This guy. Here's the plug. So DJ Raji's we're ready to go? We're ready. Alright, this is one by Dopa, I mean. Representing ADFAM. Enjoy. So keep your requests coming as well. On Y-254, Tanlon on Twitter, Y-254. Andiskotanlon on Instagram. And Y-254 on Facebook. Representing hashtag hip-hop Thursday. Hashtag why. In the morning, Michelle Ashira is coming up next. With another amazing interview. So don't go nowhere. Don't take that out. Dopa, I mean. Hey.