Wakazi**i a.k.a Swagga Bovu - unstoppable & fierce hip hop artist is out !
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Chicago, Illinois*Wakazi**i a.k.a Swagga Bovu was born Webiro Noel Wassira in December 27, 1982. He became a fan of Hip Hop music at a very young age influenced by his older brothers who used to play records in his presence as he recalls. He started to...READ MORE !
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*Wakazi**i a.k.a Swagga Bovu was born Webiro Noel Wassira in December 27, 1982. He became a fan of Hip Hop music at a very young age influenced by his older brothers who used to play records in his presence as he recalls. He started to imitate and recite the raps of some of the artists and eventually it became a habit. Although artist like Big Daddy Kane, Tupac Shakur, LL
Cool J, Heavy D were the first ones he heard and grew to like, his real challenge as a rapper came when he heard all of his friends rapping to Saleh Jabbir ‘s recital of “ice ice baby” originally sung by vanilla ice.
Things got worse when he went home and his younger brother who shouldn’t know anything about rap, was actually rapping the whole song by 2 Proud (Mr. II a.k.a Sugu) called “siku hii ni siku ya”. He was forced to know both songs as soon as possible if he had to stay cool among his peers. In order to remain cool in his school days, he would listen to tapes (before the CD era)
and write the lyrics down and cram them.
Fast forward to his high school days, the love of Music didn’t stop especially after meeting and making new friends with whom he shared the affection for hip hop and there came the Wu
Tang era. He and his friends became addicted to Wu Tang so much that even their nicknames were imitating the Clan’s names. Wakazi used to be known as TLG (Thug Living Genius) a.k.a Chza as in GZA. There was also B-God, Bza, G-Nice and others. He became very popular in school with his performances during concerts.
Back to the neighborhood he grew up in, Stakishari Ukonga, things were not so different. He befriended other youngsters who had a rap crew called ‘The Red Scouts” with members like Black Messenger, Black Moran and Tariq the Rebel. With his neighborhood pride and support of his crew he started writing his own lyrics. It was a big challenge to him since he would
subconsciously bite other rappers materials but the biggest challenge was to write in Swahili since he was so used to rhyming in English.
An inspiration came when he heard according to him, the best MC East Africa has ever had,
Hashim Dogo (Mwendawazimu) who was superior in both English and Swahili. One time after meeting and impressing DJ Steve B (Skillz) of clouds FM, he arranged for him together with other aspiring rappers, LANGA and Sage whom Wakazi already knew and went to school with coincidentally, to go to Bongo records studios and meet with P Funk a.k.a Majani. The encounter was not as productive as he would have liked but it was definitely what he calls the beginning of the endless.
After departing Dar es Salaam for the United States, as soon as he landed in the so called the land of opportunity, Wakazi knew he had an unfinished business and no matter how long it takes,
he has to get it done. That being said, I am glad to present to you, Wakazi a.k.a Swagga Bovu. With appearance in the Babypowder Soundtrack, his new Mixtape (Miksitepu Ya Ukweli Vol.1), a duet album with Gwaii Thyword, and the most anticipated and long overdue album of his own, Wakazi has a statement to make, which is simply that, he is, “TAKING OVER THE GAME”.***
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Chicago
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