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Diamond Platnumz floors Kenyan musicians as his song tops Kenyan iTunes chart

Diamond Platnumz's latest collabo has hit 4 million views on Youtube in two weeks

At the rate Kenyans are consuming local music, for sure artists will have something to wail about. If it’s not Naija music dominating our airwaves, it is Kwaito or bongo.

And if the charts are anything to go by, Kenyans would rather listen to foreign music than support their own local artists. This factoring in that the quality of music from Kenya has gone way up but why are Kenyans still not buying their own music? That is a story for another day.

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