{"id":3642,"date":"2010-06-25T07:56:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T06:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2012-03-08T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:03:47","slug":"2005-ugandan-dancehall-video-of-the-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/2005-ugandan-dancehall-video-of-the-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"2005 Ugandan Dancehall Video of the week #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s selection from the man like <strong>Bobi Wine<\/strong>, the self-styled &#8220;President of Uganja&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bhxeGfHiGN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A tune called &#8220;Bam Bam&#8221; which isn&#8217;t the Toots or Pliers or Sister Nancy ones. Echoes of TOK or Ward 21 with the low backing vocals. Echoes of many JA videos with the visuals. Still a nice track, though &#8211; kind of thing you might hear Heatwave playing, maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, he has a barely working <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bobiwine\" target=\"_blank\">Myspace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like he is up there for ragga swagger also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvision.co.ug\/D\/8\/12\/709720\" target=\"_blank\">check this recent news story<\/a> which features disrespect to dignitaries and also getting into trouble over weed smoking!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugpulse.com\/articles\/daily\/entertainment.asp?ID=536\" target=\"_blank\">This interview gives the lowdown on his upbringing and career so far<\/a> including forming the Fire Base Camp which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/2005-ugandan-dancehall-video-of-the-week-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Master Parrott<\/a> was also a member of. He also has a pragamatic view of HIV\/AIDS and its prevention.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s obviously something of a (ahem) complex figure. <a href=\"http:\/\/ugandabeat.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/05\/the-president-of-the-ugandan-ghetto\/\" target=\"_blank\">In this interview<\/a> he comes across as a bit of a mental primadonna, bigging up Idi Amin and saying he had to build a stupidly massive house because of some beef with another artist.<\/p>\n<p>But then you get some raw stuff like this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cI don\u2019t hate poverty,\u201d <\/em>Wine said, as if the word hate was not strong  enough.\u00a0 <em>\u201cI.\u00a0 Fear.\u00a0 It.\u201d<\/em> The words seemed to tremble in his mouth.\u00a0 [&#8230;]\u00a0 <em>\u201cI was reading Milton Obote\u2019s writing,  and he said it\u2019s good to die a bit,\u201d<\/em> he said softly.\u00a0 <em>\u201cSo you live  longer.\u00a0 There was a time\u2026when I never existed.\u00a0 I died\u2014in poverty.\u00a0 I  didn\u2019t have slippers, breakfast or lunch.\u00a0 I had no hope.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other online sources go into his early days in music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;Underground shows with a Walkman<strong><\/strong>, a borrowed amplifier                      and a speaker was how I used to make ends meet. I would spread                      the word and after school charge students fifty shillings  (less                     than half dollar) per head and we would jam! I  got into trouble                     with the school administration but  that was the way I made my                     pocket money.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So he&#8217;s a mixed bag. Top tunes though, which I guess should be the main thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s selection from the man like Bobi Wine, the self-styled &#8220;President of Uganja&#8221;! A tune called &#8220;Bam Bam&#8221; which isn&#8217;t the Toots or Pliers or Sister Nancy ones. Echoes of TOK or Ward 21 with the low backing vocals. Echoes of many JA videos with the visuals. Still a nice track, though &#8211; kind &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/2005-ugandan-dancehall-video-of-the-week-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;2005 Ugandan Dancehall Video of the week #4&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5043,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}