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Kwanza Unit or for short KU is an early Tanzanian hip hop group. Its name means "First Unit" and it was formed in 1993 by a merger of several groups such as Villain Gangsters headed by rap veteran Rhymson (alias Ramadhan A. Mponjika), Riders Posse, Tribe X and some solo artists. Rhymeson remembers when rap started in Tanzania in the 1980s: People were just rhyming without radio support, it was hectic back then. You could feel the energy. Sometimes in a picnic or party at the beach MC:s grab the mike and battling. The battle was so hard sometimes that it became physical. We used to rhyme on other peoples beats and many MC:s at that time used to copy other people's songs. We had home made dubs of other peoples beats. Hip hop music is a musical genre invented by African Americans in New York City in the 1970s. ...
In the old days we were just copying. Now we are also doing it our own way. When we first started we used to rap in English. My first Kiswahili rap I heard in Nairobi in 1991. I went to Nairobi to a competition called Revolution Rap Competition. I saw a crew from Mombasa called B.M.W. That's the first time I heard Kiswahili rhyme. Kiswahili is an alternative name for the Swahili language, derived from the expression lugha ya Kiswahili, which is what speakers of Swahili call their language. ...
When we started in Kiswahili it was more like experimental, experimenting if we could rhyme in Kiswahili. More like a fusion. We have listened to English so much that we know what the people talk when they rhyme in English, on their own life in their society. But it is many rappers here that are rhyming without knowing what they should write in their rhymes. They mix it with other ideas. They don't know deep what rap is all about. Kiswahili is well suited to rap. It uses so much vowels. You can write rhymes easily, more easy than in English. If Tanzania was like South Africa, a country that could expose itself to the outside world, I think Kiswahili would be all over Africa.
Today Kwanza Unit consists of Rhymson, KBC (Kiba Cha Singo), D-Rob (Robert Mwingita), Eazy-B (Bernard Luanda), Bugzy Malone (Edward Margat), Papa Sav (Makanga Lugoe), Abbas Maunda, Fresh-G and Y-Tang. There is also a wider circle of affiliated members referred to as Kwanza Unit Foundation or Kwanzanians. KBC may refer to: KBC is a Belgian bank and assurance company Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Kansas Bible Camp Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting Co. ...
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