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Yung Koded slams Kenyan artistes abandoning industry for politics

America-based Kenyan rapper Yung Koded. (Courtesy/Instagram)

America-based Kenyan rapper Eric Mobegi, popularly known as Yung Koded, has broken his silence on why he has not been releasing new music. The 24-year-old songwriter-cum-producer has failure to keep up with global trends as the reason the music industry is lagging.

"I think the industry is in a cocoon phase. Too many changes happening at once. Since I started to associate certain artistes' ways of doing art with mine, it got to a point where it was exhausting so I took a break. You can always tell when someone is inspired, and when it is copy-pasted," he says.

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