Tag: Mwalimu Rachel

Alot has been said about the partnership and eventual rift between Mwalimu Rachel and the Gengetone group Sailors. And people are divided on either side; supporting Sailors or Mwalimu Rachel, the NRG radio presenter.

What Mwalimu Rachel told Sailors after crawling back to her in 2021

However you chop it up though, there are valid points on either side of the divide. What we should however not do is try to sanitize Mwalimu Rachel who attacked a man and attempted to castrate him by grabbing onto his testicles and squeezing them as tightly as her marriage isn’t knit.

Now that I have gotten that statement pout of my system, I can say that she is however right, in a legal sense, to have taken away the support and platforms she controlled. Those include the group’s YouTube account which she set up for them. It holds with the letter of the law but not the spirit of it but we aren’t here to debate morality.

“I did not kill their careers” Mwalimu Rachel addresses beef between her and Gengetone artists, sailors

What of Sailor’s situation to date? Well, they signed onto an international record label, Black Market Records and this is a mistake that far too many African artists make. You see, Kenya and Africa at large has a different business model for it’s music and entertainment industry.

In the west, as the singing group realised, music releases have to be timed and done so in a manner in which the record label’s marketing team deems it prudent. Whereas African flood the market with jams then go on tour, a lot of international record labels hold onto their artists material, keeping it on the shelf in fear of brand dilution.

That is why when you look across Africa, you will see that most artists such as D’Banj, Xtatic, Wizkid, Naiboi and the lot of them end up complaining about being frustrated by their record labels. Sailors could really have used a mentor but at the point at which they were signing their record label, they were going hungry and needed to secure the bag.

Ultimately, this situation described above was created by the falling out between Mwalimu Rachel and the group. Could it have been avoided? Sure, with hindsight but you also have to admit that you can see why it would probably have been in everyone’s interest to call it quits on their dalliance. Mwalimu Rachel was abusive. I do not care what you do for a person and his friends, you cannot put your hands on them to hurt them simply because they do something you deem as irresponsible. They aren’t your children, they are your business partners.

Bitter till the end: Mwalimu Rachel not doing herself any favours by ribbing Sailors

As for Sailors, they have no one to blame but themselves for the predicament they find themselves in because in truth, they could have navigated their way out of their separation a little better had they the patience to actually look through the contract they signed. Beyond that, they can rebrand and continue releasing music. Naiboi did it. He went from being Rap Damu to who he currently is. Wizkid did it. While stuck in the mire of his contract, he began releasing music as Starboy. It is a very difficult thing to do indeed but it can be done.

They could go from being Sailors to Pirates and actually continue to release music. Or if they cannot associate themselves to seamen (pause) then they can call themselves any other name and make it cool because they did so with a dumb name like Sailors.

I just hope that other young acts are watching what has unfolded and are learning from this mess. In life, while it is advisable for you to keep good relations with people, no one is irreplaceable but you will have to do more hard work to surmount certain situations you put yourself into. Is that the lesson here? Maybe. Moral of the story however is that Sailors need to stop being lazy and actually start ideating creative solutions for their conundrum. They need to detatch entirely from Mwalimu Rachel (that includes not running back to her for help) and actually seek out other mentors. Then they need to redouble their efforts on their craft and start churning out new music again.

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Mwalimu Rachel is back to talking about Sailors -or rather referencing them in a subliminal message and no one is here for it. It should be remembered that she was at one point their manager and financier before they had a very public and brutal falling out.

Still bitter? Mwalimu Rachel mocks Sailors Gang months after parting ways with the ‘Wamlambez’ hit makers!

When the issues first came to the fore, it was found that Mwalimu Rachel was exercising an inordinate level of control over their YouTube channel and even certain aspects of their careers. This flew in the face of the fact that they were going through some severe financial times.

When the Kenyan public was made aware of this, they were not happy about what Mwalimu Rachel was doing, with many beginning to view her as part of the system that preys on the talents of young, naive and inexperienced artists.

“Sail On” Mwalimu Rachel and Sailors finally part ways in peace

So why she would choose to take a potshot at Sailors is beyond me. She actually did it in a way that was interesting, boasting about her ability to have organized for them a collaboration with Jamaican Dancehall star Konshens.

But this raised the question of “Who asked you?”

The arrogance of Mwalimu Rachel in dispute with Sailors is off-putting

She is seeming more and more like a petty tyrant, someone who is incapable of simply letting bygones be bygones. She seems to derive some perverse pleasure from whipping at the young men rather than moving on to discover the next hot Gengeton group.

You see, Sailors themselves do not reference her anymore. They are focused on whatever it is they are doing but Mwalimu rachel isn’t one of those pursuits. So it smacks of latent anger that she is still talking about them.

Mwalimu Rachel: Sailors have no one to blame but themselves

There is a song I like by Jay Z called “Lost Ones” in which he starts off by referencing his falling out with Damond Dash where he says “I heard some motherfers say that they made Hov/ I’m like, well, Ok, make another Hov”.

Simply put, if Mwalimu Rachel believes she is the person who made Sailors who they are artistically, then let her focus her energies on creating another group rather than telling us things no one has ever asked her about.

Because it beggers the question of whether she was behind the collaboration between Ethic Entertainment and Konshens. But at the end of the day, only Bitter Bettys sit back and continue to pine about past relationships. The smart play here is for her to finally move on once and for all.

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Mwalimu Rachel thinks her response to the queries surrounding her management of Sailors is a smart response from “an independent woman who don’t need no man™” but it is the type of trash manipulative slave drivers spew when they think they are above reproach. Not because they handled their affairs above board but because they are aware their victims can’t do anything to hold them accountable.

Mwalimu Rachel speaks after Sailors Gang drag her into yet another money scandal

You see, she is speaking about a group of artists whose talents, whose artistry is meant to pay their bills. Chances are high that they have no other focus or even skillset outside of their artistry. And they have been embroiled in a war of words with their former management team spearheaded by Mwalimu Rachel whose husband, K-Letta, by the way, is an artist (one has to wonder why she didn’t take advantage of him like she is doing with these boys).

She on the other hand has been in the entertainment industry for quite a while so she knows the ropes. She also knows how to play with the naivete of these lads and she decided to “permit them to use her YouTube account to promote their music”. Thing is, she is the one who benefitted from this “risky” move. It begs the question of why she didn’t teach them how to create their own channel and understand the rules of YouTube including monetization. The more we delve into the topic, the more questions are raised about Mwalimu Rachel.

Mwalimu Rachel: Sailors have no one to blame but themselves

You see, when someone brings an issue to you that touches on how they pay their rent, feed themselves or take care of their loved ones, one of the worst things you can do is for you to come off as callous or to attempt to posture yourself like you’re above discussing certain things. If you’re going to be silent, STFU! If you’re going to speak up on things, you cannot have the nonsense of acting pompous.

To put this into perspective, she decided to manage some kids who no one really knew. She decided to take on that risk of her own volition. Did she help the kids? Yes. but she was a slave driver too and in today’s world, you cannot run a business like a plantation. And Mwalimu Rachel is on the record for having squeezed Miracle baby’s (the frontman of the group) friend’s nutsac and she joked about that too. So now we have a pattern becoming clearer.

Sailors Gang Vs Mwalimu Rachel, a case of exploitation, malice and utter greed

Now that her product has begun to take off, she feels she is owed their success. And that is a problem. That entitlement is off-putting. Let the boys go. if they fail, you were right all along. Go you. If they succeed however…

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Sailors played themselves in their situation with Mwalimu Rachel. The first time we heard about a falling out between this manager and artist duo, it was when she was accused of pulling down their video and holding them hostage aswell as her tirades against the Sailors members friends.

Sailors Gang Vs Mwalimu Rachel, a case of exploitation, malice and utter greed

The reports didn’t bode well for a sustainable professional relationship and even the manner in which damage control was handled showed an aloofness to criticism as well as a superiority complex. That said, sailors had to face whatever issues they were being shown on a constant basis so they should have known to expect it to continue. The one incident that comes to mind that lets me know these young men chose to ignore the red flags is when they had a video shoot after a funeral for a childhood friend.

Sometimes, as these things go, the funeral ran late and they were subsequently late for their video shoot. Mwalimu Rachel is said to have attacked one of the young men she found with the Sailors young men. That is not a normal reaction for a manager to have over her trustees. That is not even normal behaviour for a woman to have with her children. Why Sailors didn’t think they would be affected is beyond me. They should have known that people who are capable of squeezing your friend’s testes are capable of squeezing yours too.

Krg The Don Vs Sailors: Where mentorship fails

Now we find ourselves at the point where they should have handled a long time ago: setting up their own YouTube account. They kicked the can down the road one too many times and they are now at the point where they are essentially re-inventing themselves without necessarily having a plan.

They sunk all their efforts into growing Mwalimu Rachel’s YouTube account because lord knows it was stunted prior to Sailors putting their content on it but there is a silver lining. Depending on who owns the masters to the music, they should report her channel for copyright infringement and have the channel either taken down or their content taken off the channel. This ofcourse is in lieu of her dropping the one point five million shillings she claims Sailors owe for her managerial services.

NRG´s Radio presenter, Mwalimu Rachel´s scathing act that saw her spend a night behind bars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhw7rvASrLI

Yes, things got so bad to the point Mwalimu Rachel is now calling to collect on the monies she claims Sailors owe her for the managerial services she provided and perhaps this is the point at which Sailors should take an L, relinquish their claim to the musical content on her channel in exchange of their freedom. And again, they have no one to blame but themselves. You see, this is where mentorship is important. The reason for that is because a mentor who has been in the game for longer could have seen the pitfalls of the toxic relationship between the artists and their management and warned them to end the dalliance.

Teen socialite Shakilla faces Kenyans’ wrath after siding with KRG the Don and insulting Sailors as streets rats 

KRG da Don could have been that for Sailors. They shafted themselves when they insulted an OG who could have guided them. But the silver lining is that they are still young and they can still rebuild their career.

 

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