No! he is just talking about all these things that people are afraid to talk about and he is putting it out there. And it doesn’t take much listening, you know, he doesn’t try and put you in a place where, you are, like, ‘Ohhh! I feel shattered’. He was fearless but he is…such a creative genius. And you know what Kanye did for me? Kanye did what other artists weren’t doing for me at the time. And the second verse goes, ‘she’s so self conscious/she has no idea what she’s doing in college…the concept of school seems so securrre,’ he speaks about everything that I was going through, you know? ‘That major that she majored in don’t make no money/But she won’t drop out, her parents will look at her funny’ I was there and I was like…’oh my God, he is talking about me!’ I was, like, ‘damn!' I went out and bought the whole album and I listened to it. There was that one song, ‘All Falls Down’ feat Syleena Johnson, it came out when I was in college. You need help.’ He actually says she is bipolar and she needs help…I have these random rants on Twitter where I am like, ‘let’s find Lauryn!’ Because I miss her so much and she is super-talented…She is a great MC. I’ve tried to reach out to her,’ and he starts speaking to the camera, he says, ‘if you are listening to this Lauryn, please pick up your phone and call me. I remember my friend Sizwe, he is a VJ, asking Wyclef, ‘what’s going on?’ And ‘Clef turned to the camera and he said to everyone, ‘Please pray for Lauryn. This was just before she went a little kookoo. And it leads into my second favorite album… And, you know, every time I listen to that album. But she lacked class…She felt like she had to have this whole X-rated to be cool. I love Kim and she also held her own when she was with… Junior M.A.F.I.A. Because she wasn’t afraid to say the things that people didn’t want her to say She was seeing a man who was controversial, she spoke about love, she spoke about war, she spoke about the industry, she spoke about all these things that girls didn’t talk about. And it was an all-rounded, greatly produced album. You could still hear LBougie in her music you could hear the passion, you could hear the growth…you could hear her vulnerability. I was like, ‘this girl is talented.’ This is why. And you were like, ‘damn! Who is she?’ Lbougie! You know? And then she came out with her solo album. You remember Lauryn from the Fugees? She was that girl who held her own with the guys.
Lauryn Hill – The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill And ever since, it’s…become an acquired taste…This acquired taste has turned into my love for Kanye, my love for Jay…and their growth…It’s just that ability to put words together…to have them flow…All rappers are poets! So, therefore, I fell in love with Hip Hop when I first heard it. I was like, ‘damn! That sounds good.’ But, I don’t even know his name…Whoever did that rhyme, he is not necessarily the best rapper in the world, but he is my first introduction to a rhyme. Michael Jackson had a high pitched voice, singing, and then you had this guy come on and rap. He’d have his hat turned back and he would rap to this, ‘Jam Jam/Here comes the man.’ And I was like, ‘what is that, you know?’ It was different. My brother, who is a few years older than me, would rap to it. I was…five years old and I remember, ‘ Jam Jam/Here comes the man/Hot dam/The big boy stands,’ you know what I mean? It was a stupid rhyme…but I still have the video tape. I fell in love with Hip Hop when I first heard Michael Jackson have a guy rhyme on his song. An astute student of music, she promises to transform Tanzania’s airwaves for years to come. Mdee is armed with the confidence of a veteran. Her self-belief and, one might say youthful hubris, inspired her, at 19, to win MTV VJ Search, drop out of law school and become one of the foremost presenters in the region for MTV, being involved in such high profile shows like ‘The Fix with Fix’, the MAMAs and Samba Fever: The Road to the Carnival in Brazil. Mdee brings the Hip Hop panache of a New Yorker, the geeky sophistication of a Parisian and the street-smartness of an Arushan, to her prime time show on 102.6 Choice FM’s The HitList. Every weekday evening, from 7 – 10pm, Ms.
This cosmopolitan sensibility has made her a singular figure in Bongo’s radiosphere. One of the quirkiest personalities to have graced Bongo’s airwaves, Vanessa Mdee was born in Tanzania and grew up in France and the United States.
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