DNG Humiliates Hot Dancehall Artist On National Radio
Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively dominate others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets.
In today’s world bullying however takes on many forms such as mockery. Here’s an interesting instance:
I have always believed that before you talk about a man, you should give him right of reply. It’s just the honourable thing to do. But today in the morning as I was listening in to 1FM, I managed to overhear DNG and Lulu Said as they mocked a fellow Kenyan artist called Blaqy.
Now, because I believe in giving everyone the benefit of a doubt, let me create a hypothetical scenario in which the pair were trying to help Blaqy with what they felt was constructive criticism… And even though that is a bit of a stretch, allow me to assume that it was the case. In which case what I would say is that it is a horrible way to either correct someone or give them advice.
This is what happened for those of you who need me to spell things out, DNG played excerpts of Blaqy’s latest track which features a cameo by Risper Faith:
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And he kept railing at it. First for Blaqy’s accent, next for the way he sings the track and finally for Risper Faith’s performance in the video. Anyway, whatever the case may be, this is how it seemed like to me:
We have DNG, mocking and humiliating two young gifted (most would argue that this debatable but whatever) Kenyans. To me it was disgusting. For two reasons, the first of which is the fact that I thought all the high school bullies had outgrown the need to attack and humiliate their victims but clearly I was wrong.
Secondly, the attacks on Blaqy were ill advised because DNG being an artist himself knows just how hard it is to get support from the local media -afterall, his songs have only been playing on his show at 1 FM. So what I do not get is why he is trying not just discourage Blaqy but to humiliate him aswell?
What is the endgame? To sap out the life from Kenya’s entertainment scene? Or was he simply being CRUEL to Blaqy for kicks? And what better way to humiliate someone than on a platform that affords you complete control and comfort and an audience? This move stank of cruelty I haven’t seen since clearing high school!
But at the end of the day, another day is gone and Blaqy got the free publicity. Checkmate!
