SAVING UNDERGROUND ARTISTS

SAVING UNDERGROUND ARTISTS – S.U.A

This project is originally started back in the days here in ARUSHA ,A moment of real hardcore hip hop,when there were alot of finest Arusha Mcs (underground) back in the days in early 90’s.

The moment where ciphers, pass the mic around was a major excited sport of the youths whom chosen to express themselves through Hip Hop genre.

At that time bros where in different clique like Watengwa, X plastaz, and bunch of the crews which were used the M-I-C to represent themselves through art of Poetry, they used their spoken words, lyrically through the rhythm and poetry (RAP) different rap styles like turn twist, with maniac break dances as well known Ngareroo dances and many more, which genuinely were symbolize the art of Hip Hop, through this kind of transformation they had their majors favorite spots where they used as stages to breakdown lyrically of what they planned to rhyme on the audiences, they used places like Metropole, Mawingu,Lex, Collabus,Lake Duluti ,and many more those places carried on different bonanza, street bash and events which were supporting the movement of Hip Hop back in the days in Arusha. The movements like those ones were used to help upgrading the different local Arusha Mc’s, to be well known worldwide, whom most of them are even in overseas doing music internationally, and one of the major example of the brother who started cipher in Arusha and it led him cross the boarder to U.S and appeared in B.E.T CYPHER with one of the hip hop icon internationally known as KRS ONE (The Teacher),he is the brother from ARUSHA who cant deny the movement of the back in the days in Arusha led him and his crew XPLASTAZ to be well known internationally, he is one and only but GSAN  RUTA.

WHAT’S  S.U.A ??  

The term word SUA is a slang word which has been used by many of the youths in Arusha town,which simply means as a spot to hang out, as the same slang word which used with others brothers and sisters across the world if it means as a zone to hang out,and that were well known with the old skool artists of the Arusha like WATENGWA whom did recorded a joint before which was well known back to the SUA,

How did the S.U.A (saving the underground ) project started? It was an idea of brother Daudi Bakari whom is the chief producer of WATENGWA STUDIO here in Arusha, It was an idea which was bothering him a lot ,due on how he experienced some bottleneck as a music producers towards of the underground artists whom were so thirsty to become music rappers, mc’s but unfortunately they were no idea on where and how to start doing that, “it was alil bit hard to help most of the underground artists to record their joints,while they didn’t  know a lot of the strategies on how to write their lyrics e,g sixteen bars, staying on the key etc, and I always think that one day I will help them out to find their path on where they want to go through the MIC and lyrics they writes,and hopefully we came up with S.U.A which inherit the same movement which has been used by the old skool artists from Arusha, yes indeed,the ciphers ,freestyle etc) those were the words from Daud Bakari whom is the founder of the SUA..I also spoke with Biggie Shrima whom is co-founder of the SUA and Project Coordinator of saving underground Artist,he also said almost the same thing toward the SUA, as not something new to Arusha neck of the hoods,but a thing which used to useful back in the days before with those old skool cats ’’the main reason of coming back with this project of saving underground artists is because we have been thinking that the term and conditions of creating conscious Mc’s like the ones whom used to creat themselves back in the days has been collapsed after new skool cats seen no path to promote themselves toward their hoods,and in the media generally, cause the way things worked out back in the 90’s things were pretty much hard to be a stand steel Mc in the era were there were no pretty much recording studios, stages for their talents to be seen (video and radio stations and sponsors for their album debuts etc) comparing to what’s going down at the moment ,underground Mcs experience a lot of challenges ,yet you find themselves have less knowledge even on how to write their lines, rapping their rhymes and putting their talents to the next level,” Biggie Shirima didn’t stop that he continued to tell me on how this project will help them artists, and S.U.A project organizers are aint seeks the cash flows on their pockets as making the project being the main thing of making themselves be paid in full, likewise he spoke whats on his mind due on how millions of problems they are facing to make the projects goes down like that, it is hard to believe the project till right now it has no committed sponsors whom are willing to work with them head to toe, twenty four seven into three sixty five.

S.U.A as Non Government Organization.

It is the Non Government Organization which currently based in Arusha and has been targeting to provide opportunities to the youths due on how to express their talents through Arts and Music which can help themselves as a major way of self employment, SUA it has been supported with Watengwa Records, Barefoot records, Mystic Vibes, Dab Music ent and Red Films which all of them are corporate as team work, those companies are also located in Arusha town and they are willing on helping the movement tolet the youths hook themselves up from Poverty, negative activities like ruff neck gangs ,threat of getting epidemic diseases like AIDS, prostitution and drug abuse, which will led them path finding of depend on themselves through their talents and their power to speak out what is on their mind and making themselves getting paid. The target is helping mult talented street children, and other young boys and girls who they do have a talents on grabbing and spiting some sense on the mic,even if it will be about spoken words, rhymes etc.

WHY SUA HAS BEEN INFLUENCED BY HIP HOP?

As I discovered in Arusha within 10 folks 7 of them rapping or has been rappers before of having friends who are hip hop rappers, so it simply tells almost 76% of new skool kids are hip hop fans different with the early 90’s where almost everyone were Hip Hop rappers, so that can tell that the numbers of the Mcz  in Arusha town has been dropped from not less than 90% to minimum of 76% which it is not that but honestly if the emergency cant be carried on right on the spot, the flava of Arusha as Hip Hop region will drop it down as fast as disappearing of Kilimanjaro Uhuru Peak Ice land with a global warming excuse same as numbers of the Mcs to be dropping down for an excuse of none is willing to help this culture of Arusha town to be vanished simply cause no good ones to learn from the best .

WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO PREVENT  NEGATIVE PORTRAIT OF HIP HOP??

Hip Hop is a our culture which has been originally came from the motherland,here in Africa as raw and born again in new form of raw material at New York, before getting back to Africa, so this means as an Elder African don’t criticize new skool artists whom are willing to do hip hop music as their main dependant career,so it is about time to get support from every one whom will understand what the meaning of Hip Hop ,we need to awake these fallen talents of our kids to come help themselves creating employment..Its about time to do research about what hip hop Mc has to be ,I mean conscious Mc whom can use his spoken words with a rhythm of the well cooked instrumental and make a rhythm and poetry, combined together with some sense lyrics which will help the communities to learn from them.,it is about time to let the Poets and others mult talent artists to teach through music and their others talents, lets give them a chance to tell us what has to be heard straight from their lines as recognized conscious Mc’s who they can absolutely teach their peer age folks even elders, cause the new worlds has much more differences comparing to the old world, this is the new era let the elders help their kids to be the teachers while they are young so the next generation could be filled with a lot conscious humanbeings, and we may start with this project which aim to support the conscious hip hop music ,where brothers can dress fresh, neat and respected, Afro centric and adorable, inorder to burry down the myth that hip hop is the music of Kleptomaniacs, Lunatics, Drug abusers, Sluts or workless folks,

‘We are full of sins, reason why God gives US thunder storms instead of rains’-Motra The Future

( SUA upcoming artist)








  

S.U.A with AFROCENTRICISM and INTERPERENEURSHIP

S.U.A has been able to organize the workshop towards the artists whom will be on the stage to pass the mic around and lyrically spit battle fight, the workshop was aiming to skool everyone to stay on point when they are on stage ,to help them focus on what consciousness lines should be provided inorder to make a great sense on stage, while they should know that there are term and conditions are strictly has be followed e.g it is strictly prohibited for a participant to cuss on his rhymes or talking non sense while snatched the holly Mic, so this is the one of the main challenge towards the fake rappers who has been influenced by bubble gums lyrics which are being promoted by most of the media world wide, SUA has created it is own stage to promote their Mcs through YOUTUBE which straighten alert the artists that, their sense will be recognized world wide through social networks, and that will help them understand that it wont need them to depend on few group of people inorder them to be recognized as conscious mc’s whom are needed on hell on earth of this day.

S.U.A street bash events will be twice within a month as usually since it started 27^th April. 2012 same place same time at Kijenge Juu area code. Yet SUA will be a major key of influenced the participants of that event to come around dressed up fresh ,neat and Afrocentric, as many of the footages which are being captured into their couple events, it impress a lot see young folks, combed their big Afro, sisters with dreadlocks, brothers with balds, shades, leather so soft, aim is to burry all the myth and negativity of Hip Hop as music of ruffneck crack head boys, thugs and others criminals, we need this to be understood, we truly wants to see conscious people on the counscious scenarios of helping build this statue together..it is alil bit hard to achieve all at once but atleast we can start making it happen, as State Man of our country Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere said it can be done if everyone play their part.

-Kyomushula

(A brother of  - SUA )