With Quarantine,comes much time with ourselves; time to re energize, re strategize and restart. On the contrary, a big number of us chose to spend time on unnecessary hate, subjective criticism and bad mind energy. Reason being?ENTITLEMENT!!
The new wave of creatives going live, a quarantine induced sub culture, You and I have witnessed so much bile, hate and spite on the least to mention in these live platforms. Why though? While we have options? Can you flip over your live stream without having to drag anyone in mud can you? Ni posbo?
ION, we’ve over 1000 mcees country wide. All inclusive. Wedding mcs, funeral mcs, harambee mcs, Reggae/dance hall mcs, Party mcs : so on and so forth.
For y’all who are not familiar with that jargon mcee, In layman’s, this is a person who interrupts music most of the time, if not always:Purpose being to inform, educate & entertain. I’m tempted to believe we are on the same page now.
We are all in different styles & levels of our careers. That’s beyond any reasonable doubt. Some at new entries, intermediates & experts. That only means that the output will be different. Let’s learn to give it time. It doesn’t blossom overnight.Y'all know that. Not even Rome was built in a day.
Acknowledging that we all do it differently, is acknowledging beauty. There is much beauty in diversity. Take for instance if I mceed like Kadamawe, Kadamawe mceed like Freddie Runks , Freddie Runks like Kaboom? Your favorite mc, mceed like your latter in preference. What’s that? Monotony and boredom in the scene. For crying out loud, we are not gazelles in the park. WE ARE NOT!
Now! Just the same way it’s unfair for me to force you to be my fan, it’s also unfair on an equal scale for you to force me to be your mc. Agreed? I’m talking to you and your other friend who supports the culture in utmost good faith. I say this in the most kind & polite manner that there is.
The pro was once an armature; built by resilience and character. As we strive to be better, bold and different; to be experts and masters of our crafts on a daily basis, kindly note;
It’s in bad taste to compare & contrast the acts. I will talk in the shoes of an Mcee because basically that’s who I am. Support who you support and with your own reasons. If the reason serves not matters of public interest, please,...
Probably it’s because whenever your faVORITE is on mic your name doesn’t go on a break. “Big shout out to Mista Onslow in the building, Showdown Bwana Onslow in the house, just arrived”...That’s just but a rough vague reason I would want to think. Contrary to my prior sentiments, we all have valid and variant reasons as to why we support who we support. We owe no one an explanation as to why whatsoever. It’s not a battle: it’s not war.
Look at it this way: if we combined all these different acts and came up with a mega concert for the culture, main purpose being ; For uniting the clan? For improving the scene and making it better instead of bashing out each other? Biased comparisons ? This is a collective responsibility call to the family/fans fraternity, stakeholders and the entertainers to make the scene better than we found it.
Just but a general concern that cuts across all the creatives. Maybe you won’t like it because it’s not from your favorite. Same old.
Otherwise it’s a good morning from the streets of Bangkok.