Comments on: What Ugandan urban artists can learn from kidandali

By: Katushabe Peace

Katushabe Peace — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:24:35 +0000

Kidandali is what the media think that society likes. Before Kidandali there was South African music like Kwaito & Lingala taking over and the media made people believe that thats da music to listen to until our own local started developing gradually. Then Bongo Flava came, dis also was enforced by da media as if we dont have our Rap Music. Media controls society, wat it portrays is wat people consume. Now that they have forcefully appreciated UG rap music that its a genre worth listening to, the public is loving it.

By: johnie boy

johnie boy — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 07:12:37 +0000

roki, you lost me at tracoma.

By: DJ ROKI

DJ ROKI — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:09:49 +0000

kidandali is kidandali. Just like rnb. When u r listening to rnb session does it sound like the same song? No! Theres kidandali all over the music world. Listen to Akons remix of NO BODY thats kidandali. I relate what we are talking about to an optician trying to explain tracoma and blindness to a child learning how to talk/speak.

By: enygma

enygma — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:15:43 +0000

My primary beef with kidandali is that it’s pretty much the same beat on every song. I’m very much for Ugandans making music that is in the local dialect and appeals to any level of society. But hearing the same beat over and over just kills me. The issue about faking American and Jamaican accents irritates a little as well but I can forgive that one if double standards didn’t exist. Pretty much nobody gets called out for trying to be Jamaican but urban artists are always being called wannabes. We can’t have it both ways.

By: Liv

Liv — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:29:24 +0000

I love my country and support the music industry where I can, but kidandali is the most un-inventive genre on the face of the earth. We can and we are doing so much better than that ‘doom chacka doom chacka doom chack ZZzzzzz’ crap

By: nedda mukwano

nedda mukwano — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:15:11 +0000

people like ‘anonymous’ who dont like music ‘unless there is accent’ are what’s wrong with uganda today….

By: bk

bk — Mon, 28 May 2012 10:38:36 +0000

The thing about kidandali is that it sounds like a different person singing to the same song. Maybe that’s why people like it. Its familiar.

By: bobi

bobi — Mon, 28 May 2012 10:07:16 +0000

maybe people are embarrassed to be themselves. sss. they are scared to be ''local'' when local is who we are no manters what car you have and music you ''pretend'' to understand

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 May 2012 09:41:04 +0000

i don like local music, unless there is-accent im not for it.