Riddims from my time.....

When instruments were actually used to make music.
Before music videos …

RIP Dirtsman…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQajQrky08o

Cutty Ranks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPeCHvAJCEQ

TOK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3OD3n4-Cvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNGYGekdoZc

TOK Chichiman…imenikumbusha mbali tena saana…
When Talia Oyando was a radio presenter at Easy fm, singekosa kuskiza reggae izo Za usiku.

TOK could not have been singing in your time

wewe na kush mnelewana na izi za kitambo

Were Jeff Mwangemi and John Karani names familiar to you then?

Oh yes they were!
Kwanini?..

Rrrrregggggaeeee time!!!
Thursday morning between 8 and 9. Was in boarding school highschool and the first lesson was Pastoralism (ilikuwa inaitwa?) … kazi ni kujifunika kichwa na sweater na kuskia reggae time via earphones.

lexxus full hundred iyo beat waaaah keja ya sparta ikiwa na tyre za lorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMWjh8wxlhw

:D:Dkumbe tulikuwa wengi shida ni ngoma ilikuwa inabamba una sing along mwalimu anakutuma kwa principal

Unapataje hiyo uzito ya beats?
You can’t get that bila the real instruments.

Juuuzi tu we were winding our waists to their songs (some 10 years ago) in the school hall

@Ka-Buda unakumbuka red rat na general degree

na uyu general degree hazeeki bado ako na hits hadi saa hii

my all favorite yake saa hii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjIFg30aE2U

redrat favorite

kwanza hii line husema

u make my head swell till my blood vessel burst (kawasaki lazima):smiley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRkE42T4Vr8

Kuna ile ya Sean Paul ya Lightning Riddim. Mambo mbaya

Okay,… maybe I extended my youth and party days abit too long!
I still think that song is atleast 15 years old. I remember dressing up like that!.. Kikikikkkk

kuna Sean Paul hot sexy puncky was maad

halafu colabo ile walifanya na mr vegas before wakosane

mr vegas na yeye she is a hoe

then years later akatoa she is a Tamaree she wanna party after the party

Njaro ilikiwa toja pipe chini yake sahunya…belt buckle kubwa, kuingia dance floor in slow motion

I remember Jeff Mwangemi and Dj Stanno when metro fm was changed to a full time reggae radio station.
Tukiwa gym pale Juja izo riddims zinakuchocha unachapa 120kgs squats!!

Umesahau Hawaiian Shirt with extra large collars? Dance floor kila mtu ni Kuku dance!!

Mwangemi started in Radio taifa then Metro FM immidiately iliacha kucheza Lingala to House Of Reggae…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_LWp7z_Grk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI-g_0mUUmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ad8hFtZfHw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS6bVTYRh-w

Supercat was ahead of his time. Seems Sean Paul copied his style.