Kaggwa Andrew
Yenze Hip Hop was such an amazing initiative when it was launched. It was about celebrating hip hop. Somewhere along the way, it morphed into a campaign by someone to discredit another person. But that’s not the reason it failed; it’s a series of reasons. Hip Hop world over is not a stadium genre, it’s an arena kind of music and smaller spaces. And better, community spaces, I don’t know if Sharing Nsambya still exists, but that kind of community space.
But above all, there’s no hip hop without the community. Be it Kawempe, Kasubi, Nankulabye, Makindye, Nsambya, Ntinda or Naguru, Hip hop is basically about representing a community.
It’s not a mistake that some of the biggest hip hop songs world over, are representing a community, Dre’s California Love, Jay-Z’ Empire State of Mind, Welcome to Atlanta, Kanye’s Homecoming…… You get the point.?
Maybe I missed it, but this is one of the few hip hop events on a large scale which didn’t tap into the community, yet hip hop is a very big part of youth organisations doing different things in Kampala.
Plus, there’s more to hip hop, there’s fashion, graffiti, breakdance and spoken word… I don’t feel like the presence of these communities was there in the lead-up to yesterday.
But it’s a good thing the festival has been rolled, hope it happens again and bigger.
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