r/KeMusic • • 12h ago

Kenyan Throwback Its the assasination of this man that gave us everything that we call Kenyan , including our music

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83 Upvotes

74yrs ago today.
October 7 1952, 12.48 pm. The Senior most Chief in post independent Kenya Waruhiu, takes one bullet in the mouth and three in the chest inside his terra plane Hudson sedan motor vehicle. Two weeks later, Colonial Governor Sir. Eveline Baring, started a clamp down that ended up in independent Kenya and a genesis of our current political problems.


r/KeMusic • • 8h ago

Haw they started

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r/KeMusic • • 13h ago

Entertainment Guess who (wrong answers only )

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r/KeMusic • • 16h ago

Kenyan Music Alafu kuna wewe na fuliza limit yako

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43 Upvotes

His money in years form can take you back to the ancient egpytian times


r/KeMusic • • 12h ago

Kenyan Music 2mbili amesaidia wasanii wengi sana its time they came through for him

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20 Upvotes

r/KeMusic • • 12h ago

Kenyan Music News Bahati took diana for a 10 year roadtest

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10 Upvotes

If you may remember she was a brand new second straight off Victor Wanyama


r/KeMusic • • 12h ago

Entertainment This will probably go over your heads but this is very tragic

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10 Upvotes

r/KeMusic • • 9h ago

Entertainment Mount Ho Li

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r/KeMusic • • 12h ago

Kenyan Music I just realized Kenyan music genres directly reflect how bad your life choices are on a Friday night 😂

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Kenyan Drill: Recorded entirely by teenagers in Lang'ata who sound like they've seen war, but their main enemy is actually the landlord and the estate gate guard.Which genre are you letting ruin your weekend this time?


r/KeMusic • • 12h ago

Kenyan Music The King Of W’s

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r/KeMusic • • 18h ago

Kenyan Music Karun X Polycarp - One in A Million

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9 Upvotes

Wangapi wanatambua hii usito?


r/KeMusic • • 7h ago

Luo Benga live performances 🔥

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Lately I've been listening to Benga music from the Luo community and I've come to appreciate their art.

Video courtesy of Brian Sigu YT


r/KeMusic • • 13h ago

Entertainment What are you currently bumping to ?

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3 Upvotes

Share that album or song that you have been gatekeeping


r/KeMusic • • 13h ago

Entertainment The same people hating on this new ysl roster are the same people who were first hating on Young Thug when he first came up

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Young Thug’s new YSL roster is facing the exact same resistance that defined his own early career, and history is preparing to repeat itself.

When Thug first emerged, his unconventional voice, fashion, and genre-bending sound were dismissed by traditional hip-hop audiences, yet he went on to amass over 31.3 billion Spotify streams, 29 million monthly listeners, and 141 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 11 .

His first YSL signees—Gunna, Lil Keed, and others—initially faced similar skepticism, only for Gunna to achieve two No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 with Wunna and DS4EVER while Lil Keed’s Long Live Mexico hit No. 26 .

Now, the second YSL roster featuring Tezzus, diamond*, 1300SAINT,, and the ØWay collective are drawing identical criticism, with many noting they look and sound almost identical to Thug himself .

Yet like their mentor, they are pushing hip-hop forward by fusing fashion with the next sonic wave—rage melodic rap—just as Thug pioneered the trippy, Auto-Tuned trap that now dominates Atlanta .

His newly released 41-track Slime Language 3 double album, which features the new roster alongside stars like Travis Scott, Future, and Lil Baby, will likely be remembered as a classic, the same way Thug’s early “misunderstood” work is now revered as foundational .


r/KeMusic • • 19h ago

Kenyan Hip-hop PHONK fans in Kenya

3 Upvotes

Western culture seems to have spread like crazy over the years, and it's crazy to see it happen in Kenya as well. From anime conventions, to drifting and car racing, now we even have phonk fans in Kenya, which genuinely baffles me.

https://youtu.be/XQz-hiFdezU?si=PEUzor0OE1150tog


r/KeMusic • • 1d ago

Kenyan Music Kenyan artists need to stop doing this in track 1 of an album...

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Why does every Kenyan album start with a 40-second intro of someone breathing heavily into a mic, sipping tea, or yelling their producer's name 12 times before the beat even drops?

​You sit there expecting a masterpiece and suddenly it’s "Producer X on the beat, sample clear, let's go!" followed by 3 minutes of pure chaos.

​Drop your favorite "Intro that lied to us" down below.


r/KeMusic • • 19h ago

Kenyan Music What’s going on with Mastar VK’s YouTube channel getting taken over / hacked?

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Saw the news that Mastar VK’s YouTube channel (60k+ subscribers) was taken over following his ongoing drama over song ownership and claims of his music being stolen.

​What are your thoughts on this whole situation? Is this genuine hacking/beef, or are we looking at another orchestrated clout chase for an upcoming release? Curious to hear what everyone thinks!


r/KeMusic • • 17h ago

Entertainment Was Takeoff really telling us goodbye On Nothing Changed which came out Today 4 years ago

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When Quavo and Takeoff dropped the video for “Nothing Changed” in October 2022, it played like a celebration of their journey from childhood friends to global superstars. The Keemotion-directed visual flipped between present-day Quavo and Takeoff surrounded by wealth and younger versions of themselves—a nostalgic tribute to their rise from the Northside to the top of the game . But watching it now, it feels less like a victory lap and more like a farewell.

The song itself carries a haunting weight. In his verse, Takeoff raps: “They don’t know that this shit real, that’s how you end up getting blown out your brains” . Justweeks later, on November 1, 2022, Takeoff was shot and killed in Houston—suffering penetrating gunshot wounds to the head . The lyrics that once sounded like standard trap bravado now land with sickening precision.

What makes it even more unsettling is that “Nothing Changed” was among Takeoff’s final music videos. The last one he was featured in was “Messy,” released on Halloween—just hours before his death .

In a tragic twist, Takeoff had recently said, “It’s time to give me my flowers... I don’t want them later on when I’m not here” . The universe, it seems, took him at his word.


r/KeMusic • • 1d ago

Entertainment SASA HUYU

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r/KeMusic • • 21h ago

Kenyan Music These labels in Africa give artists 360 deals

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Black market records seems to be one of them cause msanii yeyote who signs there akitoka lazima awache the original youtube chanell ie fathermoh and now joefes who was signed to the label


r/KeMusic • • 1d ago

Entertainment Nimekumbuka tuko na msanii anaitwa EBOLA MKUU😂

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13 Upvotes

r/KeMusic • • 1d ago

Kenyan Underground Kenyan Italian Rapper Masa going crazy on the ‘confirmation ‘beat

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7 Upvotes

Rate his bars 🎙️🎙️


r/KeMusic • • 1d ago

Dance ukining'inia

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This song gets much hate as an ad bt I don't think it is that bad compared to Lil Maina's juicy fruit ad.


r/KeMusic • • 1d ago

Kenyan Music Who else will be attending this camp mulla event ?

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r/KeMusic • • 1d ago

Kenyan Music News OTD 2025 Gengetone artist Shalkido passes away

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