The Daily Dose x “Grown Up Kid (Live @ DefZee.com Launch)”

Don’t forget you can watch the OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO HERE . . . as in . . . HERE TOO.

Enjoy.

THe Daily Dose x “The 1st Lady Speaks”

I couldn’t think of anything more entertaining to post than this today. I found on my facebook wall (why am I not surprised?) . . . in any case remember them hip-hop awards I got nominated in ? okay well remember how I wasn’t super excited about them cos’ I had a feeling that only fuckery would ensue . . . yea well looks like I Law Of Attractioned that ish right here . . . enjoy. I’ll leave my comments in the comments irem. Y’all do the same. Peace.

Its long, but kinda worth it, depending on who you are I guess.

Ok I kept quite about the Zim Hip-hop Unleashed Awards before but now I gotta say something coz lots of people are questioning the legitimacy of these Awards. Upon reading the comments of people I realized I had to add my voice to the questions people posted on the Zim Hip-Hop Unleashed page. Tafadzwa Shumba aint crazy.. neither is Chuckie Kofi-teye Ayisa. These awards are a fucking hoax and anyone whose got a brain can see thru it… kana Larry Kwirirayi ati Inga…?? That says it all…What most people don’t realize is that this “magazine” doesnt have a single real journalist in its editorial team… And the so called Editor can’t even write an article to save his life… the reason i told them to remove me from their first issue (i was the first artist on the cover) was simple.. its substandard piece of groupie love… Dats ryt.. u heard.. They write about people that they wish they were instead of being real journalists…Some of us who went to school for that shit… so don’t go calling urself a journo when u don’t evn know what syntax and PLAIGARISM is! Anyway You guys should be ashamed of urselves for pretending to be what u are not… you’re not a journalist Mr C so how the hell can u be an editor when u have no idea bout journalistic basics and ethics. You plastered my pictures all over ur pdf magazine (And you put my music video WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!!!) and then instead of writng an article about what i said u COPY AND PASTE my profile as ur article. All this after u wasted my time doing an interview… You probably realized that writing readable articles is a real skill and its graft…. COPYING AND PASTING a profile which is part of my press kit… thats extremely lame man!! Now back to these Awards… I thought that the public needs to know why they aren’t balanced.

A few weeks before this ‘initiative’ of hosting Zim’s first Hip-Hop Awards was launched Mr C, (Not the real Mr See from Phathood, the fake one) the so called Unleashed ‘editor’ was in my house and we had a meeting with my associate George W Gosh where i laid out my plans for Zim’s H2O Hip-hop Awards. This is a project I had invited Mr C and Prometheus to be a part of ages ago… now i had a corporate sponsor on board and we were going into the final phase of preparations. Stupid me for trusting these wanna be rappers. We even went to the ‘graphic designer’ Prometheus’ place and i gave both of them SOFT copies (from flash) of my the proposal, al myl plans, categories etc… Imagine how disapointed i was that they not only stole my ‘initiative’ but they have done it in a a shabby half-ass way.

I worked at Channel O as the website editor for a year and I counted the votes for the Awards. Apart from that I have watched several Awards procedures locally and internationally.

Heres a few things you boys missed to make your awards credible:

1. You cannot nominate people urselves (duh!!!!) and expect people to vote. You have to do a call for nominations. Like I explained to you punks… Legitimate awards begin by putting out categories and THEN inviting nominations.

2. After collating the nominations you put forward the Nominees names AND THEN call for people to vote.

3. You can’t expect people to blindly follow ur unprofessional ways coz some of us really want Zim hip-hop to grow. Follow internationally accepted standards if u want an event worth supporting. Those of us who went to school know Award nominees don’t just get pulled outa someones ass .

4. The standard for any awards ceremony includes a “Lifetime Achievement” or “Post Humus” award. you can’t just give props to some new blood without honoring those who have been grinding at this since we were in nappies..King Pinn, Meta, Mizchif, Mau-Mau deserve an award specifically for their achievements (not just a nomination song like “I Salute You”).

5. Your greatest flaw in selecting YOUR OWN nominees was ur lack of balance. When DJ Deejay Naida posted it on her wall… someone asked “Why are all ur nominees uptown rappers?” Ko wat about the ghetto rappers…?? Let me guess u don’t know them all right… EXACTLY… hence the need for a nominations call!!!!.Oh and Plot Mhako has a point… Sorry Plot Mhako.. the original Awards included categories for all that but this diluted version seems to be for rappers n producers only. They shoulda changed the name to the Rap Awards…Where are the bulawayo rappers , the ghetto rappers (esp Chi town massive!!!!) and even my sista Butterfly who really is doing so much for Zim hip-hop on radio? … 6. Also Naida commented on her shock on being nominated for BEST FEMALE RAPPER coz she said she has never released anything… By leaving BLACK BIRD out of ur nominations have simply shown how skewed ur awards are coz if u wanna know who Zim’s most active female rapper is just google BLACK BIRD and Zim hip-hop then see what comes up…(Come on I dare you…) I’m the First Lady of Zimbabwean hip-hop and I want to see whose track record says otherwise!!! And i don’t mean on POWER FM ka… I mean in all forms of media on mixtapes, newspapers, tv shows, arts websites, live shows, the streets… KWESE… ITS ME running shit you idea-jacking fools!! You should ask HIFA which Zim female hip-hop artist qualifies as an international act?? Black Bird!!!! hence THEY INVITED ME TO PERFORM and no I didn’t apply…they tracked me down! Also ask BBC which Zim female hip-hop artists have they featured on their website and radio programming? Wait let me answer that for you…. Black Bird! I would go on and on, but I think i have made my point.. your biase was probably brought about by embarrassment at stealing my idea but why DISRESPECT the first woman to ever release a hip-hop album in Zim Zim’at first hip-hop Awards? I have actually been told by many that I directly or indirectly inspired all your other female nominees to come out with a product. Since releasing my album last year, more and more girls are dropping their shit and i’m so glad i have managed to have an impact on the sistas. One even went to my producer to make her hit track…the facts show who is leading who….Anyways…

Tehn Diamond made a valid point in saying an initiative like this was needed but i don’t respect it being done like this. Me giving you SOFT copies on how I wanna do this and me inviting you into my home isn’t coz i’m stupid.. I wanted Zim’s first Awards to incorporate everyone who loves hip-hop.. Including those who are at the bottom of the rap heirarchy.. (That means you Mr C). In the past i used to defend ur lame ass when peeps would laugh at how whack u are… (even recently actually)… My boyfriend always used to tell me how nice of me for always defending you in public… But look at what you and your peoples have gone and done.. You have created a fake magazine which has terrible journalistic standards… You were welcomed into my HOME, u sat on my sofas and i shared my vision with you. At least ya’lll should have been man enough to tell me thats what you where doing?? At least just to say… thanks for the idea but we scrathcing you… Simple courage could have made me ignore the disrespect… i got kids to feed ka.. i didn’t spend countless hours preparing documents and strategies.. only for people like you to enact my plans in a shamefully unprofessional way…!!! Thats not what i expect from my fellow brothers but i see u are not my brothers… u are snakes in the grass… sneaky and devious…my strides to contribute to Zimbabwean hip-hop will not be deterred by punks like you… like Jay Z says on the last track on “Watch The throne”>>> “What do u do when the love turns to hate…. you gotta separate from these fuckin fakes!!!!” Just thought I had a duty to tell Zim and the world why these are awards are just an embarassing attempt by one or 2 individuals who want to suck up to uptown rappers and those on the POWER FM charts in one go…. lol… Try be orignal and u myt find even your rapping will improve… Mr C find a new name while ur’e at it.. stealing Mr See’s name won’t give you his skillz…. ORIGINALITY is the key to success… I would know…. i’m on my way to the top.. and I don’t mean the top of the POWER FM charts chete…. I’m a bird nigga… u gonna see me flying very high, very soon and you’ll wish you hadn’t fucked with me!

The Daily Dose x “The L-Word”

This blog post is about love. Fellas, you can either sit there and take notes quietly or just as quietly fuck off. You think I wanna be sitting here typing about this, knowing full well that we’re in the middle of a Global Man-mergency ? No. But it can’t and shan’t be helped, I write what the gods send me. And today they sent thoughts of love n’shit.

I’ll start by saying this much, I don’t believe that as humans we even posses the capacity to deal with emotion. At least not for sustained periods of time. Its just not fathomable. Maybe its just me though and maybe its cos’ I spend a good portion of my day denying my own humanity. In any case, I just think its too hard for us.

Anger, only in doses or we’ll spontaneously combust. Sadness, only in private or the world may cry with us. Happiness, only when we feel worthy and we never do cos’ of our other favourite emotion . . . fear. Everything in easy to manage portions and doses, like them fancy fancy restaurants with the stupid food that’s finished just as you start to enjoy it. Sorta like them emotions, just enough to whet your appetite and then *poof* gone or gone wild.

I for one, I hate emotion. I hate the loss of control. The intensity of being. The fact that people now know what you’re thinking. This shameless display of my very own inner workings, out here for you all to see. Yuck!

But then, I also love it. The blood rushing, the fists clenching, the heart racing, the lungs breathing for their damn lives . . . the emotional high. I just hate that you noticed.

However, there’s no feeling or emotion on this planet more humanizing than LOVE. Its well and truly the worst of the lot, and the best I guess. That shit can bind you to a person, through and through. Then just like that nothing else matters. Work doesn’t get to get done cos’ your silly ass is in love and from now until that passes shit like work doesn’t really matter much anymore. After all you’ve got all you need. All of a sudden, some next being becomes your air . . . your food . . . your life . . . when in all honesty . . . air is still air . . . food is still food . . . and life is still life. What’s happened here ? Oh yea, LOVE.

See, cos’ once love finds you . . . and not the other way around for the teens listening . . . anyway . . . and love will find you . . . and once that thing does find you, she’ll change you. She’ll take your whole world and flip it. In fact I lie, she won’t do any of that . . . YOU’LL do that . . . you’ll do it all willingly . . . enthusiastically even.

Why ?

Cos, love is the law. Love is the law your soul abides by. It runs shit out here. You will bow before her might or wither away. She doesn’t need you, you need her. You and I . . . all of us . . . from day one . . . we’re all love’s bitch.

And you know what ?

That’s just fine.

Bye.

The Daily Dose x “The Flow Captain Freestyle”

The Flow Captain Freestyle (Produced by Zwagga 2.5) by TehNDiamond

For your streaming pleasure, the soundcloud player above. And for your downloading pleasure, the reverbnation player below.

Alt. Download Link: “The Flow Captain Freestyle”

After a marathon 15hr rehearsal/studio session at Zion Recording Studios yesterday/early this morning . . . here’s one of them gems that came to light. The kid who made this beat is only 13yrs old. He’d been there the whole day, and kept wanting to mess around on the computer . . . being the grumpy old man workaholic that I am though, I kept telling him to chill. But on some “grown folks is talking” type shit . . . little did I know this youngster is an all out beast. Some kinda boy genius. It was now like 1am and he just started tinkering . . . I had to co-sign it right away in the only fashion I know best, I freestyled . . . so here that is, raw and uncut . . . just as it came out. All the mistakes all the senseless mess . . . and all the flows.

The kid’s name is Zwagga 2.5 and he’s gonna be amazing . . . more so . . . watch this space.

Enjoy.

The Daily Dose x “The ZWAGGA Mixtape Vol.1 “

FREE DOWNLOAD: The ZWAGGA Mixtape Vol. 1

I’m gonna let the music do the talking.

If you’re in Harare, u can catch all of us at Cafe Numero Uno this Friday (14th) doing what we do best . . . bringing you that true ZWAGGA !!!

Enjoy

The Daily Dose x “Follow The Flow Though”

I haven’t posted up a new verse in a while, so thought I’d let y’all in on something I wrote and recorded last night at Zion. This cut is gonna be on my upcoming mixtape . . . #SOTG3: The Pursuit Of Amazing.

I still have no idea when I wanna drop it, but its watevs . . . long as the music fiyah and it gets to you eventually right ?

The track is called “Fallback” it sounds like an “H-Town Boys Pt. 2″ thing . . . produced by Take5. And its pure heat. If you’re home this #DecemberInZim do believe you’re gonna be bumping this here cut HEAVILY !!!

The “H” is for the hustle, caused by the bustle//
Where, skinny wallets get fitted with muscle//
“A” is for the attitude, present all day//
Wake up in the A.M. and stack that pay//
“R’s” for the raw core, fitted in our hearts//
This ain’t nothing new, we been with it from the start//
The other “A’s” a testament to our accuracy//
You doubt that, please come spit with me//
Second “R’s” for the second car following//
And any damn body thats really really bothering//
“E’s” for the ease with which we please//
Any kinda crowd we feel or see//
Believe or not, whatev, we hot//
Got the whole spot jumpin’, they lead, we nod//
We rock, they roll, they outta control//
And now we tryna be amazing around the globe//

Hook

Asara asara, you better get right or get left
We H-Town Boys to the death
Cos’ thats where the best of the best
Your welcome to test that
I stress that, in fact . . . FALLBACK

Hope you feel where we going with this. Its no secret or lie that I love my city, more so now when I can see all the progress we’re fighting to make. Teh world kinda ruled us out for a second there, but we never once gave up on ourselves. Thats that H-Town spirit . . . we all know the rules of the game out here, gotta problem . . . MAKE A PLAN !! Thats we do.

Peace

Tehn

The Daily Dose x “10.10.10. One Year Today”

Free Download: Student Of The Game: Boys Will Be Boys

Exactly a year ago, I dropped my second mixtape. It took me two years to get that project written and recorded. Before this project dropped I didn’t think I had what it’d take to repeat what I’d done with my first mixtape in 2008.

I was shit scared that I wouldn’t have anything to say, or that I wouldn’t be good enough.

I was shit scared that me trying to drop a hip-hop mixtape in Harare, Zimbabwe would just flop.

I was shit scared that maybe, just maybe, the naysayers were right . . . that I was crazy.

But I was wrong.

Nevertheless, this project was produced in fear. Fear of a reality I knew I’d never be able to live through. Failure.

Thank you to everybody who got me to this point. Cos’ now because of this mixtape, I have my first single “Grown Up Kid” which gave birth to my first official music video . . . a video that I’m so proud of, if this all stopped today I’d be in the sky grinning from ear to ear.

But that was then. #SOTG3 is coming soon, and this time I’m not afraid. I’m ready and I’m excited.

Tehn

The Daily Dose x “You’re Too Scared To Be Great”

Woke up to news that Steve Jobs had passed yesterday. And I cried. I didn’t get it at all at first, I even went so far as to ask my mom why I was crying like MJ or Princess Di or Aaliyah had passed ?

Then it hit me. I was devastated because his death spoke to my mortality. It was a cold hard reminder that even our rockstars, our heroes, our idols our visionaries must greet death some day. No matter how high up the mountain we climb, we all must fall.

And these “rockstars” don’t get to choose when it happens either. Oh no, not at all.

Death becomes us all. AT ANY GIVEN TIME OR DAY . . . you could die. Thats what these kinda moments say to me, loud and clear.

Don’t be the fool sitting around saying “I’ll do it tomorrow” cos’ thats not what The Creator guarantees us when we get here. No.

We get to live, breathe and love right here and right now. If you didn’t get the message yesterday, then it sucks to be you.

Be. Amazing.

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new” – Steve Jobs

Applaud greatness when you see it and don’t ever be ashamed to grieve it when it leaves us. Aspire to aim higher, let no man or woman on Earth set your limits.

While you still can.

R.I.P. vaMabasa . . . u shook up the world.

The Daily Dose x @SimbaTagz “Stronger” (Official Music Video)

This is a call to arms. As so many of you know already my homie and partner in rhyme & reason, currently has his first video on @MTVbaseAfrica. Awesome.

What you don’t know, is that in order to keep it there and give it a shot at more spins and more exposure, WE his fans and fam need to go hard for it. We need to tag @MTVbaseAfrica in all our tweets when we request, we need share it, we need to show that all this shit people say about Zimbos not supporting their own is bullshit . . . this video is currenyly at 239 views . . . do you reckon we can get it to 1000 by the end of the day ?!

Of course we can !!!

This is bigger than you and me or even @SimbaTagz . . . this is about opening a door that hasn’t been open in a while. So tweet it, facebook it, google+ it . . . whatever you gotta do . . . just don’t let up !!!

Rise Up Zimbabwe !!!!!

The Daily Dose x “State Of Man-mergency”

Thats right. I herby declare an international State of Man-mergency !!!!! Whats a “Man-mergency” ?! Don’t be stupid yeah, clearly its an emergency FOR MEN ONLY. So yeah, ladies you can just feel free to leave right now. Its Man-time. Bye.

*looks around carefully*

Aite fellas, we’re alone. I shall now present to you three pieces of evidence. That point to a clear crisis of man-ness going on globally. This is not a drill, this is the real deal. I shan’t comment on these pieces of evidence, instead I’ll leave that up to your own brains. But I shall attach some suggestions for how to better live our collective man-lives from this point on.

Let me say from the jump however that I realise that I am a part of the problem, as a rapper, I don’t use the word bitch nearly enough and I shall from here on strive to remedy this. No.

Without any further hullaballoo <-- the use of this word, is part of the problem too . . . I only just realised though. Oops!

EXHIBIT A. -> Beyonce’s “Run The World”

EXHIBIT B. -> Phillip Zambardo’s TEDtalk x The Demise of Guyness

EXHIBIT. C -> Bruno Mars’ “Grenade”

also see this link for further incriminating Bruno Man-mergency related stats and facts. FACTUAL FACTS THOUGH !!!

EXHIBIT. D –> the tweet I just saw on tweetdeck yo. like 10 seconds ago. Courtesy of @IngaRochelle . . . yes a girl witnessed this last piece of evidence. OH FOR SHAAAAAAME !!!!

TEHN’S SUGGESTIONS

– Disclaimer: Some of these are jokes, all of them are not. *scratches head on ur behalf*

1. Stop beating on our women yo. Like, stop that immediately. All u’re doing is showing that we feel the need to dominate these gorgeous creatures, and all that perpetuates further is that we’re weak. Men ain’t weak damnit !! We are strong. AAAAAAARGH !!! *King Leonidis voice*

2. Say no homo or pause one more time and I’ll personally choke you out. For real. So you said some suspect shit, big deal, you’s a man B. And why you gotta explain yourself ? It should jus be common knowledge that you ain’t a homo, if you ain’t a homo. Simple. Which leads me to my next point.

3. Yo, if you well and truly have to be gay . . . please still be a man doe . . . I mean why you gotta be the gay dude who acts like a girl, all that says is you really wanna be a woman and thats cool, cos’ there’s procedures for that these days. Do you. If you’re a little unsure as to how to be a man AND not-straight see Neil Patrick Harris aka Barney Stinson. A legend of man-ness and all out G. Kinda.

4. Quit wearing them fucken jeans. You know the ones. Just quit it, aite ?!

5. Stop getting into fights at the club doe !!! Aaaaargh !! Again, just perpetuating weakness. Also it pains me to see you get beat down every weekend only to end up wiping snot on your woman’s hundred dollar blouse n’shit. Not a good look G. Reel it in and Curb it, like immediately though.

6. Quit watching all that porn and learn how to make love to your woman. Please. The stats and facts in the TEDtalks video are just appalling. We really gotta jerk it that often ?! REALLY !!!!??? C’mon son.

7. Quit taking shit too serious. Chill. Have a plan. And enjoy your life. The most manly thing you can do, in all honesty, is just love your woman right.

8. Brush up on your Bro Code everyday yo . . . yeah that means every 24hrs. Cos’ a headline in the papers read like this the other day “Man rapes brother’s wife.” <-- WTF !! NOT. A. BRO.

9. STOP RIDING MALE HORSES JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF KIDS BET YOU DAMNIT !!! Yes Drake, we’re looking at you my nig.

Okay bye.

Any suggestions on how we might further re-man the world, leave in the comments section below. Okay man-time over.

Tehn