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Classic Kenyan music albums we will never forget

Kenyan music rap group Kalamashaka. (Courtesy)

Ni Wakati - Kalamashaka 

Kalamashaka filled up a stadium in Nigeria. And that was before the YouTube age, a time when a newly-released song was not easily available at the touch of a button. Not even in the source country. That was how iconic the trio of Kama, Roba, and Vigeti was, heralding a new era of conscious and hard-core rap that was by then, not palatable for Kenyan radios.

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