By Ortega Ian
Then there is Bobi Wine, there is a philosophical side to his music that gets me thinking. It’s funny that I can be a fan of two divergent camps. Perhaps because music knows no boundaries.
I don’t know how he does it but you listen to Bobi Wine’s music and it’s a sage giving you life advice, telling you which path to take and which to avoid.
You gonna be procrastinating, wanting to give up on the hardwork and the Bobi Wine song of Akalimu is going to ask you to put stop resting on your laurels. In simple terms it says, everyone wants a good life but few deserve a good life because few are willing to do what it takes to have the good life.
Of course someone else will say, drugs, he does Marijuana. Another stereotype, not everyone who does drugs is bad. You know, I lived in the slums of Bwaise (Kimombasa) for a week and my friends there were all doing drugs. It’s the norm. But they helped me clear that stereotype. And you are not gonna judge someone just because they sin differently than you do.
Back to the Bobi Wine music. You want to break through some writer’s block? Just pick up a Bobi Wine song. Do some of his classics. Do the “kikomando” song. And when you follow Bobi Wine the man, you can see the journey from zero to hero. You can see a humble fighter. A revolutionary in his right. An army general leading his troops from the front.
Though he always disappoints me on the music videos, as Bebe Cool used to. I can’t ignore the fact that his music is carrying on a silent revolution in the minds of many, asking them to do something to get something. His music is a lecture delivered with beats, beats and rhythms. Again what more can you ask of a man?
