L-ness

MACHAMPEZ WA WAKS

Idioma: swahili

Traducciones: inglés (CHAMPIONS OF WORK), alemán (Helden der Maloche)

MACHAMPEZ WA WAKS

Kazi kurripen wasanii
Design ya ethylene kwa matunda,
Naadsia rangi ndani ya fani,
Niite beta-carotene,
Kazi ya rebel
kushika kalamu,
Dunia saa hii ni thots
na wasia,
Coast hadi wajia chapa waks,
Kazi ni kuadsia spice kwa rap,
Design ya cinnamon,
Kilingoti kusimama,
kama cedar za Lebanon,
na cypress za Mt. Hermon,
kazi nakutafuta wisdom,
in any form legal,
kusaka legal tender,
kwa Christ nimesurrender,
kazi ni messenger ndani ya manger,
usinione nakula nyasi,
ukadhani ni bull,
ukikaribia utakuta,
ni minotaur, nusu nyati,
nusu mtu jitu,
champez ana zana za mziki
kazi mistari,
kazi mizani,
vina visivyo vinakam
na longterm effects
za gulf war,
kuangusha recital,
kazi ya verbal vocabulary
videtrimental.

Traducciones:

Idioma: inglés

CHAMPIONS OF WORK

Work is ripening rappers,
like ethylene on fruits,
I add color to the game,
call me beta-carotene,
the work of a rebel is
to hold the pen,
the world right now is about thoughts
and wise words,
from the coast to wajia I have worked,
work is adding spice to rap,
like cinnamon,
standing tall,
like cedars of Lebanon,
and the cypress of Mt. Hermon,
work is me looking for you wisdom,
in any form legal,
searching for the legal tender,
to Christ I have surrendered,
work is a messenger in a manger,
so don’t see me eating greens,
and you think it is a bull,
when you come closer you find,
it is a minotaur, half buffalo,
half man giant,
the champion has got tools of music,
work is to rhyme lyrics,
work is to spit metaphors,
lyrics you never thought of are coming
with long term effects
of the gulf war,
to drop recitals,
the works of detrimental verbal vocabulary.

Idioma: alemán

Helden der Maloche

Maloche lässt die Rapper reifen
wie auf Meyve Äthylen,
ich bring Colour in das Spiel,
call me Betakarotin,
die Maloche von Rebelln
ists den Stift zu führn,
in der Dünya geht es tawa um Gedanken
und weise Worte,
malocht hab ich von der Costa bis Wajia,
Maloche bringt das Scharf inn’ Rap,
wie Canela,
steh aufrecht,
wie die Zedern Lubnāns,
die Cempresi na Hermon,
Maloche heißt ick wache über deine Weisheit,
in jedweder Form rechtlich,
auf der Recherche nach dem Zahlungsmittel, gesetzlich
hab mich Christus ergeben, letztlich
is Maloche ein Bote innem Trog,
also glotz mich nich beim Grasen an
und denk Das is n Stier,
kommste näher merkste schnell
es is n Minotor, halb Büffel
halb Riese,
der Held hat das Werkzeug für Musike,
und Maloche is Lyrics zu rhymen,
Maloche is Metaphern zu speien,
Lyrics die du nunca hast ’sehen gedeihen,
die Wirkung is long-term
wie der Golfkrieg,
um Konzerte zu schmeißen,
die Maloche der Wörter, mündlich toxisch.

L-ness

Foto © Mike Schmidt

* 10.07.1979, Nakuru, Kenia
Vive en: Nairobi, Kenia

L-ness, born in 1979 in Nakuru, Kenya, is the pseudonym of Lydia Owano Akwabi, also known as “Lioness” or “Madadadigital”, and is one of the most charismatic femcees of African Hip-Hop. She does not rap in Swahili or English, the two official languages of Kenya, but in Sheng, a hybrid language which developed in the slums of Nairobi and gradually became the lingua franca of the Underground there. The art of L-ness, well summed up as ‘Gal Power’, impresses with the directness and sheer energy and force of her delivery. For her, Hip Hop is an “international culture of consciousness” which possesses the unique power to bring together people of very different origins and education.
L-ness woerks as a radio presenter with VotuRadio Africa and together with the NGO Elimu Sanifu, organises Hip Hop workshops for disadvantaded schoolchiildren.

Foto © Mike Schmidt

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