“What goes up must come down” is and old English saying or rather those arguments forwarded by Sir Isaac Newton but later found to be true.
To prove its meaning, one may point at all the world’s greatest men/conquerors that shot up through years but came down within just minutes. Julius Ceaser, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, Muammar Gaddafi; they all had their times and left the scene.
Flash forward to Uganda’s’ music scenery where he came and assumed the name of Greatness With No Limit, loosely shortened as GNL or better known as GNL Zamba.
Born Ernest Nsimbi; he came, paralyzed the scene and even quickly assumed the subtitle-King of Luga flow. Not that he was too good at it, but rather he popularized a genre-vernacular rap known elsewhere as Hip-hop to even the less interested audience.
Wherever he started, we are less interested but rather ask; what is left of him? Not so long ago, there were people such as Rocky Giant, Sylvester and Abraham, Babaluku, Krazy Native, Klear Kut, and a few others who were in the hip-hop game and as a matter of fact, he tried to prove them wrong and even went on to diss them.
This country was watching and nevertheless he gave us hits like; Koi Koi, Kikankane, Luka, Soda and Wuuba among others, not to mention the duets with a number of artistes from 2007 to 2010.
For only 3 years, the greatness had reached a limit and his delivery was falling back to the line of an upcoming artiste. While he regards himself as the President of the crew whose major work is to coordinate activities, he can today be best summed up in the ‘league of music mediocres’.
Remember those arguments; who is who between GNL and Navio? The answer is now clear!
Latest from the Baboon Forest camp is that newcomer Keko, who recently quite Shadrack’s Platinum Entertainment has left the group on the fact that the group has nothing to offer anymore especially to her bigger ambitions.
This leaves only Mun G and Big Trill as the only bull in the kraal, but will they stand to long with a leader who has nothing to offer. Apparently words from the corner have it that, the leader even failed to coordinate Mun G’s album launch which was scheduled for somewhere in the year.
Whether he is or not, upcoming artistes have lessons to draw from GNL’s tale; who came, rubbished everybody, thinking he had come to stay. That poses a question; what is left for the Baboon Forest? If answered well, the conclusion may be the rise and fall of the Luga-flow maestro.
The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of Andrea The Don.