If there’s one thing we as Kenyans should be extremely thrilled about is the far we’ve come as far as music and music related matters are concerned. Sure, works needs to be done here and there but we’re not going to say that something good hasn’t been done and it can only get better.

Let me put out this disclaimer that this is, in no way meant to diss or demoralize the artists of that era. I’m merely using them as reference points.  That’s done and out the way. Moving on…

So the late 90s, early 2000s were exciting because we had quite a huge following musically, if I do say so myself. This was the era we knew two major labels existed; Ogopa Deejays and Calif Records and if your song was receiving heavy rotation it wasn’t hard to know the label responsible because they never missed their respective…