Top 10 Club Songs of 2012
Kenya has a vibrant club culture and so it makes sense for a lot of local artistes to make bumptious songs for the inebriated members of our hardworking population.
Some of the songs are not even meant to be club songs but somehow have become weekend night staples. Countdown the year’s top club anthems and see how Collo managed to be involved in two tracks in the Top 2.
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10. Ino Ni Momo – Wa Kahalf
A song that not only made contribution to the sheng vocabulary but moved dancefloors even in the uptown city clubs, the last place you would expect the track to catch on.
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9. Kitu Kimoja – Avril
In Chokoza, Avril talks about club adventures. It was a hit. Who’d have thought she’d have the same effect with a love song about dating a blind guy?
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8. Vidonge – Size 8
This is the year Size 8 made every corporate trying to reach out to the youth notice her and made us forget how uninspired her stagename actually is. But her Vidonge track was understandably as popular on DJ’s playlists as was her Moto.
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7. My City, My Town – Prezzo and Cannibal
Just before Prezzo went into the Big Brother house, he released a tribute to his town. With a truimphant return three months later, it became a homecoming anthem.
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6. Toklezea – Abbas and Chantelle
Abbas has always been consistent with the club-bangability of his records. From Chapaa to 2050, Toklezea proves that he is not about to slack off.
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5. Sitolia – Willy Paul and Gloria Muliro
If you thought Kitu Kimoja was an unlikely club hit, you haven’t been on the dancefloor lately and seen people get down to a duet between a man who has given up on life and a woman trying to console him.
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4. Make You Dance – Keko featuring Madtraxx
Keko just burst out of nowhere and no dancefloor audience was going to ignore the tomboy’s fast-paced Missy Elliott-style flow.
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3. Maswali Ya Polisi – DNA
When one announces that he is crossing over from gospel music to secular it’s going to take a lot for people get off the “hot” story and pay attention to the music. Unless the music is the monster of a track Maswali Ya Polisi was.
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2. Party Don’t Stop – Camp Mulla featuring Collo
Mulla’s biggest track to date moved slow in the underground scene, racking up countless views online before Clarence Peters gave them a video treatment and the song became the unofficial party anthem across the country. Watch everyone in the club pause when “We blow this…bazooka! POW!” comes on.
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1. You Guy (That Dendai) – P-Unit featuring Collo
P-Unit and Musyoka have been involved in the biggest hits over the past half decade. And when the two come together, it’s always fire. Remember Kare?! With a nostalgic sample from Murder She Wrote all the way from the ’90s, it became the unofficial #TeamMafisi anthem and possible Rohypnol theme song.
