The singer known for his afrocentric tunes has gone ham of his fellow celebrities who have a ‘God complex’ . He claims that their “problem is insecurity”.
“Wait! What is the celebs problem? Is it fear, or hate or madharau,” Makadem asks his fans.
His rant emanates from the fact that Kenyan celebs have Whatsapp groups where they demean upcoming talent.
“Insecurity breeds fear, hate, the mentality that if you support someone you’ll lose, the mentality that there is no enough market for everyone to flourish, the mentality that I have to know so and so to succeed, the mentality that if we don’t vote Makadem, he’ll fail and that will give us mileage, the mentality that if someone is not kissing ass or sleeping around she’s snobbish, etc etc” Makadem ranted.
Adding;
“The upcomers they’ll choose to help are those that are affiliated to their cliques, or those that have been upcoming for a really long time and are gaining lots if momentum and buzz underground so to be associated with possible success they wanna come in just before their dawn.”
Here is top ten outline of how Kenyan celebrities treat other upcoming artistes in Whatsapp groups
1. If an upcomer is in trouble and needs help from the established (as case of Swiga’s friend rape case at an event and cases of many upcomers seeking feedback or reposts of their new music) the rule that applies in this case is *No one owes you anything*
2. If an established artist is in need of similar help as above in form of votes, shares, event attendance, Na hata mchango the rules that applies here is *We should support our own, Its a win for all of u* as if upcomers are not our own.
3. When an upcomers complains that they are not getting the support, their celeb mentality automatically thinks everyone is in need of financial aid or such investment so the rule that applies is *Even if we sign upcoming artists it will not solve their problems* as if support=Signage
4. When an established artist they don’t like gets underpaid at events, as case with county funds set aside for entertainment the rule that applies is *Build your brand to earn what you deserve and stop complaining*
5. When an artist they like gets underpaid, the rule that applies is *We need to fight this corporations and these bills zinanyanyasa wasanii*
6. When they don’t support you and somehow you make it on your own, they get scared, coz they know they can’t expect support back, you don’t owe them anything, so when you have events, or need votes or stuff like that they go quiet. This is coz *No one really wants you to win and have that much power, but they are scared of your abilities so they shut up in case you win they are not on your bad side, its called Half Support, that’s the rule that applies here*
7. When someone they’ve always supported gets such an event, or needs votes everyone wants to look like they are supporting, and they’ll support nomatter what. And will bash anyone who won’t support. As is case of Nyashinski’s vote. They treated everyone who didn’t want to support as an enemy, The case of the lady who posted that she’ll support talent and not feel obligated to vote Nyash just coz he’s Kenyan came with a lot of sexist comments, celebrating rape culture and the rest applauding as if they don’t have females in their lives. So the rule here is *support no matter what, support blindly, you’ll be associated with success*
8. When an artist they don’t like posts something the rule generally is *let’s ignore, we’re all busy, this group is just for notifications or, depending on how much wanakudharau, let’s make fun of him/her make him/her feel small and everyone join in*
9. If an artist they feel they wanna associate with posts something, everyone wants to join in, and anyone who doesn’t is seen as not one of us so the rule that applies here is *wasanii wakenya mnapenda kucomplaign but you don’t support each other, hebu angalia wangapi wanaignore hii post, we can see those who’ve read it but not responding*
10. If someone they don’t like complains that their stuff is being ignored the rule that comes with long lectures is *network, network, network*