Straight Bars

The first track on the album is a short clip from my 9th birthday party. It was during a point where we all decided to perform for each other, and one of the things I did was a rap that many kids in Kenya (or Nairobi, at least) liked to do to feel like lyrical geniuses when I was growing up. The playful energy on this track is a preview of the energy I'm coming to this album with: I have things that I want to say, but I don't take myself too seriously as a rapper.

I decided against calling the track "Intro" or including that word in the title because I felt that would be generic; that dead horse has been flogged excessively throughout the music industry at this point, even just within Kenya.

The girl introducing me in the beginning is my half-aunt Ariane, and the other kids rapping and yelling alongside me are my brother Sidney and our old neighbours Eric and Jerry. Sido also makes a point to refer to me as "Eclipse" because he liked making fun of my big forehead, even though he's always had a fairly substantial one himself.