DOWN WITH THIS!!!
TOA HII!

Indeed we all love a bit of music now and then but our lovely and numerous radio stations subject us to what can best be described as a cacophony of monotony. This is a feverish appeal to the radio stations to consider BANNING form the airwaves the following tunes that stopped being musical quite some time back. We are tired of them. Tumechoka nazo. They no longer make our hearts want to sing. They fail to make us hum their tunes.

Always On Time: Ja Rule & Ashanti :: We appreciate the fact that you are always of time. We did so last week, the week before and the week before that. We did so too a month ago and I think the one before that too!
You deserve to be employed by Swatch and Seiko because of your timely message. In short, we get the point. You have driven it so deep that we no longer have the urge to be late. REMOVE YOURSELVES FROM THE AIRWAVES PLEASE!
Ain't It Funny: Ja Rule & J Lo :: The only thing funny here is that this monstrosity can masquerading as music has actually been permanently cut on CDs somewhere. It is funny that a wannabe gangster and a wannabe musician with the musical talent of a tea kettles can actually make it to the charts. I bet if J Lo looked like Ru Paul she'd be a quickly forgotten memory! Yep, it sure is funny! Even the stray cats in my neighbourhood flee precipitately upon hearing that duo hard at their 'singing!' We were tired of it the day it came out and we are still tired of it now! TOA HII!!!
Must Be Nyambane: Nyambane :: As a comedian this man has no equal. As a musician this man can be equaled by a cat drawing its nails across a blackboard. Any song with the words Kuja and Kwenda following each other in quick succession should never have been recorded in the first place. Whoever decided that Must Be Nyambane must be a hit must be joking! And that chorus sounds remarkably like that of Nelly's Ride Wit' Me. It is big because of the name, not the musical content. Of that there is none. ISHINDWE KABISA!
I'm Real: J Lo :: MAMBO BADO madam! You're real? I do beg to differ. On second thoughts no, you are real. Real corny, that is! SHIKA MASAA!
Love Don't Cost A Thing: J Lo :: Not through with you yet auntie! Are you not the lass who bought a Porsche or something or the other for hubby? Kinda like preaching water and drinking wine, ain't it? And by the way Puffy Bashing is becoming boring. It kept us in stitches earlier but we are tired of it now. EXIT!!
Amazed: Lonestar :: I don't mind listening to some oldies but when you play the oldies every hour they tend to become even older even faster! Stuff like this should be savored like wine and not distributed wantonly like soda! I'll be happy to lend any radio station that is bereft of variety my MP3 collection
Then there's some song by Shaggy and Rayvvon. I don't know the title, nor do I particularly care. What I do know is that I have no desire to listen to it ever again! AWAY WITH IT!
MORE OF THIS!!!
WEKA HII

And seeing as it is only politicians and babies that complain without offering viable solutions I shall proceed to moot what I would like to hear more often. For those of us who may have forgotten, this is MY site and I can do with it as I please, and say whatever it is that I please.

DISCLAIMER:: Due to the fertile nature of the Kenyan mind I almost certainly have got the spellings wrong. I may even have go the names wrong. It is not intentional. The point is you should also agitate for this kind of thing otherwise Kenyan music will forever be scorned.
There was a collaboration between Zulu Kru and Jawabu whose name escapes me entirely. The lyrics mentioned something to do with Kucheza Rumba.This is a very catchy tune with a nice hook, but with some people insisting on playing J Lo they don't have much of a chance do they?
Then there is the Maniac's Anthem I think by some dudes called the Klepto Maniacs. Never heard such rhyming since the demise of Notorious B.I.G. I am led to believe the lads are still in school, and whatever it is they are being taught there may they pay even more attention!
Deux Vultures' Mona Lisa seems to have become Nairobi's Anthem but some stations have to be asked nicely to play it! SHAME!
Kalamashaka's Fanya Mambo also needs some more airtime!
A very easygoing yet catchy tune by K-South (the 'Flava' was dropped) rejoicing under the title Nairobbery.
Mannerless, Majitu and Ninanoki by an artiste and a half, dude named Nameless!
Bebe Cool may have left the country but I have my doubts that he took all his music with him. Somewhere there must be King Of The Jungle, The Hi-Ho Song and Tala Sebu. Mikono Juu should be around somewhere too!
Gidi Gidi & Maji Maji are conspicuous by their absence! Whatever happened to Atoti and Ting Badi Malo?
Then there are artistes like TKzee, Salif Keita and Yossou N'Dour that we never hear of during regular programming! Compartmentalizing African music into a 3 hour weekly program is but a start!
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