After a brief hiatus, the Unkut Hip Hop Awards are back in 2025. Founded by former Homeboyz Radio presenter, Ruby V. The Unkut Hip Hop awards offers a platform to artists and creatives in the Kenyan hip hop scene, giving them their flowers for a job well done. This year’s edition features some notable names as panelists, including veteran podcaster Ado Veli, who is the founder of The AdoVeli Podcast, […]
Come April 2026, Carnivore Grounds will transform into a living stage for seven nights as Nyashinski, unveils Showman, The Residency — a bold, intimate, and deeply theatrical reimagining of what a live music experience can be in East Africa. This is not just a simple concert series. It is Kenya’s first true music-theatre residency: a seven-show run spread across nine days, where the artist plants roots in one venue, perfects […]
Three days ago, Shakira Wafula, one of the most recognizable younger faces inside David Maraga’s campaign secretariat, announced her resignation. Her statement cited “diverging paths on key values, priorities, and decisions.” It was brief, diplomatic, and carefully worded. But online, the reaction was immediate and intense. Within hours, speculation emerged that the public letter was a stripped-down version of a more detailed one said to reference misconduct allegations against a […]
The selection this week arrives with a strangely cohesive collage of Nairobi soundscapes—tracks that, on the surface, share nothing beyond a release date, yet together map the tensions, experiments and emotional fissures shaping the city’s pop culture today. Unspoken Salaton, long known for his rugged gengetone instincts, surprises with a subversive arbantone production crafted for a gospel legend, bending the genre’s edges without ever betraying its pulse. Iyanii, the ever-consistent […]
Kenyan-American musician Xenia Manasseh has earned her first-ever Grammy nomination. Announced on November 7 as part of the 2026 Grammy contenders, the 29-year-old Nairobi native's nod in the Best R&B Album category marks her as the latest Kenyan artist to crack the Recording Academy's elite circle, following trailblazers like Sauti Sol and Nyashinski. Manasseh's breakthrough comes via her behind-the-scenes contributions to Teyana Taylor's critically lauded visual album Escape Room, a […]
As a child, I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. Long before it was cool to be your own boss, I was inspired by seeing my parents build their business together. Having been a business owner since 2013, the biggest lesson that I have learned in business is to be careful and vet who you choose to go into business with. Even as I say this, I have […]
Most people know Motif the Don as a Kenyan music producer, famous for his producer tag: “Yo Motif Turn Me Up on the Headphones!” popularized by Khaligraph Jones. However, Motif represents more than production—he is building a business model that shows how producers can expand into entrepreneurship. On June 7th, 2023, Motif posted on his Instagram page that he would create structures to make the music industry profitable, and in […]
It’s Halloween, that strange night when masks come off as often as they go on , and fittingly, Kenya’s latest music drops arrive with equal parts revelation and mischief. Breeder's bravado is set to spook naysayers and rappers who disdain adaptation. Savara’s Massage teases moral boundaries with humor and candor, transforming a story of indulgence into a working man’s confessional. Albeezy returns from the shadows with beezy, where u been?, […]
Bien and Nyashinski are arguably the two biggest names in Kenyan music. Every other artist either looks up to them or wants to be them. What many people forget is that the two artists and collaborators had a very long journey to the top before they reached their current position. Bien’s musical career began as a member of Sauti Sol, which he formed with his classmates at Upper Hill Secondary. […]
