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Post by Onyango Oloo on Feb 12, 2012 8:16:42 GMT 3
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Post by mank on Feb 12, 2012 9:04:00 GMT 3
I got to say, for too long Rapp music has been noise to me. to a good extent it still is.
But when a singer like him decides to go spend a day of his life if Kebera, I say, there must be something to that thing they sing.
Recently I posted something on some thread here, that was a rap number on khat ... it was taking me down memory lane, places I have been, things I have done, and Irieness I know and revisit at every opportunity. Yes, what they sing is MUSIC ... much respect!
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Post by b6k on Feb 12, 2012 9:16:03 GMT 3
OO his name is 50 Cent.  |
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Post by danieldotwaweru on Feb 12, 2012 10:44:29 GMT 3
Oloo, your age is showing.
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Post by tnk on Feb 12, 2012 10:50:55 GMT 3
Oloo, your age is showing. ;D ebu 'acheni uchokozi |
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Post by hannali on Feb 12, 2012 11:44:14 GMT 3
OO, His Name is 50 cent, not 50 cents and true he was in Kibera before leaving for Somalia. I think he has seen the light,hes promoting a drink called street king
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 12, 2012 12:33:52 GMT 3
OO, His Name is 50 cent, not 50 cents and true he was in Kibera before leaving for Somalia. I think he has seen the light,hes promoting a drink called street king I am like Oloo, I have never refered to this man as 50 cent! He is always fifty-cents to me! I have seen some of you yelling for censorship of explicit sexual material on radio talk-shows. Are you going to take 50 Cent's money for charity, but refuse to play his 'charged' lyrics on the radio? Wonderful world when beggars can choose! |
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Post by tnk on Feb 12, 2012 13:05:13 GMT 3
his bio tells quite a bit, dont know how many can see this
there are four parts here is the first part
and yes this is definitely not in my league, way way way too old for this
these guys have lived some tough lives
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Post by nowayhaha on Feb 12, 2012 13:10:21 GMT 3
OO his name is 50 Cent. Reminds me back then when we would call out on people who would refer JAY-Z as JAY -ZED instead of JAY-ZEE . |
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Post by 50cents on Feb 12, 2012 13:14:49 GMT 3
My name is 50 Cent, most of my friends refer to me as 50 Cents. Call me whatever you feel like, do I look offended? Hell no!!
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Post by amadain on Feb 12, 2012 14:35:51 GMT 3
Are you sure it's not 50 Pence?
He took a huge risk walking around Kibera I must say, if word got out that "50cent is just down there now!" there could have been quite a ruckus with hundreds scrambling for his autograph! He kept it all very QT.
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Post by joblesscorner on Feb 12, 2012 19:53:52 GMT 3
I actually call him Fiddy, got that from Sharon Osborne, when celebrities come to African, for a day or two, they always either a movie coming out, a show, a book, et cetera, just a Media day like how NFL has one before Super Bowl.
Fiddy is just promoting his drink and by the way, Fiddy sells full house concert and widely known than most so called Rappers in Abroad.
There a quite a no of celebrities who have individual projects in quite some parts of the world, and they do it chini ya Maji.
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Post by akinyi2005 on Feb 12, 2012 20:31:05 GMT 3
his bio tells quite a bit, dont know how many can see this there are four parts here is the first part and yes this is definitely not in my league, way way way too old for this these guys have lived some tough lives now i get it. the up and down movement of one hand(like s'one flagging down a matatu)with the other hand holding other places must be what jakaswanga once made reference to ;D elsewhere. btw, what i often hear is 'fity cent' ie second f in fifty is silent. |
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Feb 12, 2012 20:53:13 GMT 3
Oloo, your age is showing. ( chuckle) Indeed.I was born on Friday, August 19, 1960 at 9:30 am in Nakuru. Curtis Jackson was born on July 6, 1975 when I was already a secondary school student at Mombasa Baptist High School down at the Coast. It was my son Sankara who introduced me to 50 Cent's music around ten years ago. But even a geezer like me knows that he was allegedly shot nine times and was supposedly a snitch in the coolers. I grew up with the music of the Commodores, the Temptations, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack (yes it was her, NOT Lauryn Hill who first had a hit with Killing Me Softly), Cameo, Earth, Wind and Fire, Billy Joel, Smokie, Siouxie and the Banshees, Johnny Nash,Teddy Pendergrass, Bellamy Brothers, The Police, The Gibson Brothers, The Clash, Steel Pulse, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Hot Chocolate, Franco, Tabu Ley, Mpongo Love, Leta Mbulu, Musi-O- Tunya, Somajeko, Les Kinois, Les Noirs, Mangelepa, Collela Mazee, Awino Lawi, Bahari Boys, Them Mushrooms, Slim Ali and the Hodi Boys, Kelly Brown, Juma Bhalo, Black Star Musical Club, Lucky Star Musical Club, Simba Wanyika, Les Wanyika, Western Jazz, Tabora Jazz, Super Volcano, Lata Mangeshkar, Gil Scott Heron, Christopher Cross, Osibisa, Mahlathini and Mahotella Queens, Gladys Knight (with and without the Pips), Barry White, Isaac Hayes, the Manhattans you get the drift... The other day, I walked into Zeep, a restaurant/pub at the intersection of Kimathi and Mama Ngina streets in downtown Nairobi and asked the twentysomething DJ if he could make me an Old Skool mix tape. Out of curiosity I asked him to name at random five artistes that he would include in the compilation. Brightening up, he listed Aaliyah, TLC, the Fugees, R Kelly, Deborah Cox and 112. I gave him a wry and rueful grin as I walked out.
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Post by adongo23456 on Feb 12, 2012 21:43:34 GMT 3
Oloo,
You are my generation but in Kenyan politics you are a youth or "yut" as Joe pesci calls them. I am sure some of the young guns here in Jukwaa don't know who Joe pesci is. That is another discussion, but check the movie "Cousin Vinnie" if you want to know who Joe Pesci is. He also features in "The Super".
In Kenya in seems it is the 50 + year olds who claim to lead the youth. Reminds me of Moi days when the youth league of the party was led by some 70 + year old chaps.
But in an era where Uhuru Kenyatta, Kalonzo Musyoka, Ruto and Tuju are the young guns charting a path for the youth of the nation, Onyango Oloo could very well launch the Kenya Youth Alliance and be applauded as the hope for the youth.
But fifty is good people as my son would say. To come from where he did and still be standing is good enough for me. There is the other kid (Lil Wayne) who shot himself through the heart (as a 5 year old) with his mom's gun which she was hiding to protect herself in case her abusive husband showed up.
The guts of these young people to face so much adversity and make it in life is what attracts so many people to them. Personally that is why I respect them. They are soldiers with no fear whatsoever. Great. That is the same thing I see in political war horses and risk takers. Guts, guts and more guts. I can't stand cowards and I don't care how old they are. In fact young cowards irritate me the most.
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Post by paulhomy on Feb 13, 2012 8:46:20 GMT 3
Oloo,You are my generation but in Kenyan politics you are a youth or "yut" as Joe pesci calls them. I am sure some of the young guns here in Jukwaa don't know who Joe pesci is. That is another discussion, but check the movie "Cousin Vinnie" if you want to know who Joe Pesci is. He also features in "The Super". In Kenya in seems it is the 50 + year olds who claim to lead the youth. Reminds me of Moi days when the youth league of the party was led by some 70 + year old chaps. But in an era where Uhuru Kenyatta, Kalonzo Musyoka, Ruto and Tuju are the young guns charting a path for the youth of the nation, Onyango Oloo could very well launch the Kenya Youth Alliance and be applauded as the hope for the youth. But fifty is good people as my son would say. To come from where he did and still be standing is good enough for me. There is the other kid (Lil Wayne) who shot himself through the heart (as a 5 year old) with his mom's gun which she was hiding to protect herself in case her abusive husband showed up. The guts of these young people to face so much adversity and make it in life is what attracts so many people to them. Personally that is why I respect them. They are soldiers with no fear whatsoever. Great. That is the same thing I see in political war horses and risk takers. Guts, guts and more guts. I can't stand cowards and I don't care how old they are. In fact young cowards irritate me the most. That was good but any mobster/mafioso movie buff knows Pesci. He's character was great Goodfellas and a hoot in Home Alone. Its nice to see oldheads reminisce over gone days. Nice to see OO likes The clash, the police and steel pulse. Its nice to see fiddy see the face of poverty first hand. |
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Post by kamalet on Feb 13, 2012 9:11:31 GMT 3
Mmmmmmmm....another slum tourist goes to Kibera...mourns about the state ofthe slum and flies back home to feel sorry for us Africans.
In the meantime, the NGOs that run this slum tourism, take the money, buy a 4x4 and the accuracy of the flying toilets gets better!
Oloo,
I have some classics of your time....just how did you miss Black Blood (Kirie Kirio & Marie Therese) or Kelly Brown's Higher? You surely can remember Taso Stephanou who with Sammy Kasule led Makonde o such hits as Mola.....jeez now I feel very old!
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Post by joblesscorner on Feb 15, 2012 3:54:09 GMT 3
Can Fiddy, teach us a lesson, when he became famours a few years ago, he had a formed a group named G UNIT (ODM) with other members, but they left him, claiming he was very selfish, he only release his own Albums every year ya da ya da.
It's been almost a decade and their careers are all done.... only 50 CENT is still standing strong.... ODMers!!!!!!
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