Kaggwa Andrew
It’s going to be so hard for Ugandan hip hop to go anywhere when the arguably biggest vernacular rap artist Uganda has produced lives in a bubble of other big rappers and their narrative.
Let’s say this, GNL will tell you he decided to venture into the film industry because Ice Cube this, 50 Cent that…. Now, it’s not a bad thing but let’s face it, does he know how the East African film scene operates? Ok they might tell us he meant joining Hollywood, but again…..
But that’s not the reason for this. GNL spends a lot of time talking about American rappers who have made it in different fields. While talking about Ugandan hip hop, he objectifies himself as the genre.
Most of the time, in the effort to make himself look like the entire genre, he comes off a copycat and wannabe.
Seriously look at him xeroxing Nas’ 2006 Hip Hop is Dead album cover in 2025. As a person presenting himself as the best thing that has happened to Ugandan hip hop, he comes more as a copycat and cosplay artist in a genre where the biggest fued was fuelled by one artist’s lack of originality and borrowing accents.
Where’s GNL’s voice if he can’t address Uganda’s hip hop situation using an original concept.
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