HARARE - Not so long ago Wallace “Winky D” Chirumiko was Zimbabwe’s undoubted dancehall king but with a new crop of stars laying siege on his castle, many believe the Ninja President’s end is nigh. Winky D’s precarious position on the ragga throne continues to be a subject of derision of several cocky dancehall upstarts led by Mbare chanter Tawanda ‘Seh Calaz’ Mumanyi who have come up with songs denigrating Winky D. The siege on the Musarove Big Man hit-maker started in earnest when he did the song Mafira Kureva that attacks rampant drug abuse in the ghetto. The song rubbed ghetto youths the wrong way because ever since Winky D burst on the Zimbabwean music scene, the dancehall star had, until then, largely defended everything about the high density suburbs. Coming from dancehall icon who had previously done hits like Ndiri Rasta and Mzii, songs that glorified marijuana smoking, Mafira Kureva really struck a discordant note among ghetto youths and emerging dancehall artistes who had regarded Winky D as a role model. Seh Calaz immediately hit back at the Ninja President for suddenly attacking marijuana use among ghetto youths. He dropped the song Kunyan’anya (Mafira Kureva) which attacked Chirumiko the for alleged hypocrisy. Soon after releasing the song Seh Calaz spiritedly defended his right to attack Winky D. “His first album was Ghetto Defender. Now that he has made his money he starts to disrespect the ghetto youths that made him,” said the Mbare-born chanter. “We are not even sure if that is a song meant to advise us or it is his way of getting another endorsement deal.” Seh Calaz, who is currently ruling the ghetto dance floors with the track Mumota Menyu Murikubvira, a song on marijuana-smoking, added that Winky D had now turned his back on the ghetto for the love of money. “The only time he performs in the ghetto is when big companies are involved. His Mafira Kureva message we have no idea if it rooted from love or out to get another ambassadorial deal with the NGOs funding anti-drug abuse campaigns,” he said at the time. But it would appear that the Ninja President is not apologetic at all. Whenever he plays Mafira Kureva during concerts he always debunks the notion that he has turned back on ghetto youths that made him a super star. “Winky D is still ghetto. I have always been a devotee for ghetto youths but am more mature now and I have to tell ghetho youths about the dangers of substance abuse.” Mafira Kureva aside, there many dancehall fans who believe Winky D is now playing second fiddle to new stars like Killer T, Shinsoman, Guspy Warrior, Prince of fire Dadza D, Freeman,Souljah Love, Kinnah and Seh Calaz. Killer T’s popopopo, Souljah Love’s Hauite Hauite and Seh Calaz’s Check Check have become the new buzzwords on the Zimbabwean dancehall scene. Winky D’s recent fusion of sungura and dancehall in a song called in the Sungura Like has been used by his detractors as proof of his failure to maintain dancehall purity. It remains to be seen though if the new breed of enthusiastic Zimbabwean dancehall stars have the staying power to effectively knock the established Winky D off his perch. Do they have wherewithal to hound out the Ninja President out of his castle?_daily news
Posted on: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:20:47 +0000
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