Tafuta Sponyo

This is the very first song I wrote for this project. I actually did it while writing Not a Rapper in the middle of 2020 and previewed it on my Instagram in November that year, but decided to leave it off the EP because I had bigger plans for it. I always felt it could be a hit if I took my time with it, since it's a song I felt many Kenyans could relate to and enjoy.

I found the beat in a random ad while browsing drill beats on BeatStars during the writing process for Not a Rapper, and while I'd worked with Black Hole to create new beats for the rest of the songs I wrote, I didn't want to change anything with this one because I loved the beat too much. It also just didn't fit, and I was too broke to buy the beat at the time.

To this day I'll never understand how the premise for the song and its lyrics came to mind; I simply caught a vibe while listening to the beat and this is what came out. It also served as the foundation to build out the entire story for Sippin' and Trippin', so it's a bit crazy to think that a whole six tracks may never have existed had I never wrote this song.

AndyBolo's writing credit may come as a surprise given that he doesn't appear anywhere, but he's the one that had me switch things up in the first and second chorus with the "baby girl" and "buda boss" lines, respectively. He brought it up while we were recording the song and I feel like it added a little extra spice to my flow, so I decided to give him the credit.