WHO IS KING: Rabbit Kaka Sungura Is Not The King Of Hip Hop! No Way! But He’s Still A King…And This Is What Rabbit Is A King Of…
Rabbit too was caught up in the clamor for Kings. And he wasted no time in rushing to Twitter to reiterate his position… And remind us just who he was and on what league he still was in. Cue,Ligi Soo.
Even before this little Twitter frenzy erupted,thanks to Juliani’s cheek,Rabbit had already long copped that title,and even very cleverly incorporated it in his own stage name… Thus,King Kaka. Good luck trying to deny someone their stage name.
So,who is Rabbit and where is he from? Even I don’t know. Neither do you. All I know is that he schooled in Eastleigh High School,alongside born-again DJ Sadiq,got stabbed in school over some dining hall crap and started rapping like 8 billion years ago. And only blew up the other day.
He’s the guy who gave us the witty ‘Niko kwa Jam nakam’, the melancholic ‘Betty’ and all of the others you’ve heard,every week,since 2012.
So is Rabbit the King? As far as his stage name is concerned,definitely YES. But King of Hip hop? Wait… What!??
Let’s not be economical with the truth here. Rabbit,just like Juliani,is hardly the King Of Hip-hop.
Why? Well…
For starters,isn’t he more of a poet than a rapper? Listening to him, you get a feeling that you’ve walked into a poetry night at Alliance Francaise. He’s all smooth and sweet and wise and preachy. Is that still hip hop? Hell naw! He’s more Mutabaruka than LL Cool J.
Two,he’s been doing wayyyy too much party music of late. Even more than Kapuka artists. Hip hoppers do it for the streets, right!? Not for the clubs and dance floors. I don’t know how Hip Hop is ‘Dandia’.
Third,do I even have to go on!?
So,if Rabbit is a King, of what is he King? Most definitely the King Of STORYTELLING.
Hip hop is about stories. And the ability to tell them. The Late Great Notorious B.I.G was an acclaimed story teller. Big L was a master story teller too. So is Nas. And Kurupt, and Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap. Even Eminem is a brilliant story teller.
Hip hop is more about the ability to tell a story,paint a story and evoke emotions than the mere ability to rap and flow and rhyme.
Hip hop started as a story telling technique for black people in the Harlem Ghettos and earlier for royal Africans in West Africa.
So,as far as sticking to the core tenet of Hip Hop is concerned,which is story telling,Rabbit is the King. No one can tell it better than this chap. Lord,he’s undisputed. Hands down.
