TUMI – WHOLE WORLDS

1st let me say I respect this nigga, Tumi from the V, is a rapper, he’s not taking chances. The boy is a lyricist, the dude has been rocking the MIC since his days as a spoken word poet, he brazes our stage nd gave us a beautiful album with the rock band the Volume then he took the world on his shoulders as a solo artist. He got me on board, even his critics were silenced. He now collaborates with artist like Shakira n he travels the world showcasing his art. I respect this joint Whole Worlds, it is brewed with consciousness but it came out as commercial project; perfect. It is like brown bread with peanut butter, its not brown bread anymore its peanut butter sandwich. I neva write abt this but ja I guess 2day I will, the cats who did the cover page 2 page u niggas r gud, I give u a round of applause, dat graphic design shit is too dope. 2gether with the contents on the CD it makes the album one of my favourite 2 cum out of Mzansi. Tumi has featured music heavyweights on this one the likes of Brigado, MXO, Tracy Lee, the soulful Sibongile Khumalo and Pebbles. I was disappointed dat the album came with only ten songs 2 listen to excluding the intro but on second thoughts I understood dat it is futile 2 fill a joint with empty tracks nd only have one hit, so Tumi well done buti.

Like I said the album has only ten banging tracks, tumi’s music is futuristic, its consciousness, poetic, commercial and educative. Wat I lyk abt him is he touches almost every element of social responsibilities nd social ills, in his own words he says “we have a responsibility, a social responsibility”. The two first singles that r already enjoying a major airplay r Bambezala Ft Bricks nd Family Plan Ft MXO, these r killer joints, especially Brigado, he really makes his voice 2 felt on Bambezela. Then cuns Let it Burn nd Stage Lights Ft Masauko nd Sibongile Khumalo which is one of my favourite tracks, the lyrics cum from the heart and Tumi rhymes beautifully with his high pitched tone and the harmonising of the legendary Sibongile, u gotcha luv it. There are five traxx be4 Whole World, which can take u form one mood 2 another depending on how, where, what is yr game @ the time n moment but b’live me the songs r gud. The title traxk ‘Whole Worlds’ is a favourite of mine on the whole of the album, im not ganna say anything more but get this album nd realise how far we came 2 b as country, as artist, as a Hip Hop nation, as people.

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We are ALIVE with possibilities

It has been concurred, after 31 dayz of thrilling football tournament, by the Pres. of FIFA Sepp Blatter and his associates, by Pres. Zuma and his cabinent and by the organising committee who marvelled @ da beauty of their dreams dat Mzansi is alive with possibilities. With hosting such a magnitude of an event, silenced ur critics, it changed da mind set of fellow Africans, it gave hope 2 people like us but of course we knw from the moment Madiba walked out from that cave, Robben Island, dat our history is abt 2 b written. The xtement and the atmosphere of the tournament reminded us where we cuming frm as a nation, beside the early exit of our national squad, it ignited the fire in us. Like the Japanese said after the attack on Pearl Harbour, “we have just awakened the sleeping giant”. That’s it homeboy, we r da giants nd its abt time the world realize how mighty, strong, intelligent, fierce and educated we are. It is still sixteen yrs of ur rainbow nation nd we r making it rain, well, not really rain but we do make the rain clouds gather. We’ve seen real transformaxion in its might, abo-guluva ba se kasi becoming designer’s nd business men, the story of Loxion Kulca (Wandi and Sechaba collabo). The story has life nd possibilities written al over it

Mzansi, has thousand of these encouraging tales nd they r al translated in our works, in our values like Ubuntu, in our music, in our magazines, in our smiles nd enthusiasm. The stories of the ordinary Vuvuzela, becoming a sensational accessory out of the Fifa World Cup. These r our stories we own them, we tell them in Hip Hop, we translate them in rhymes, we r the generation dat is making the circle bigger. We r da Ama kip-kip generation nd we are pimpin’ up yr shoes. Proverb prophesised on the action like these in his 2006 album, wen he raped “together we stand/ divided we fall/da better we can/ provided we ball/ we played the background long enuf / we neva back down rap’s now strong enuf /…nd we r free @ last.” He had a dream, which we r almost living now. The pimping of tattered All-Star tekkie 2 an ice-cream-fashionable shoe is the examples of possibilities of wat we have as a nation(Pimp my shoes enterprise by Katsuko). The truth is me, u nd the rest of Hip Hop nation r the future after we were given 9/10 ratio for a successful World Cup. Danny Jordan nd them niggas gave us the dream just like Madiba did, but we made it possible. Together with headz, producers, emcees, beat-makers, graffiti artist, b-boyz, break-dancers, poets, bo-mrapper, honeys, hustlers and gang-stars, theplatform2 is holding the flag quite high 4 the possibilities of hustling 2 b possible. We r the platform 2 this thrilling era of Pisces, our vision r aligned with yours, we want 2 make the world stand nd listen without the Vuvuzela. We want the world 2 listen without bombs and Xenophobia 2 ur colourfull stories, nd we have planted in us to do that!

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