Hakuna Kulala Vinyl & CDs

Review: Yallah Gaudencia Mbidde was born in Kenya and raised in Uganda and has been a mainstay in the East African rap scene since first emerging in 1999. She mixes up rhymes in English with local languages Luganda, Luo and Kiswahili and has a poetic style that incudes experimental deliveries of her conscious lyrics. She has crept into the mainstream in Uganda and after her debut album in collaboration with Yallah and Berlin-based producer Debmaster she now offers the more charged-up Yallah Beibe. It is a prescient soundtrack to a changing era with trap, club, dancehall and club as well as industrial styles all mixed up.