King Kaka becomes the first mainstream rapper to have worked with the Kamba legendary musician, Maima. The 'Mbesa' record is off King Kaka's phenomenal studio album 'Eastlando Royalty' that was released in 2018. Photo credit: Instagram/kithungo_raha_maima/
King Kaka becomes the first mainstream rapper to have worked with the Kamba legendary musician, Maima. The 'Mbesa' record is off King Kaka's phenomenal studio album 'Eastlando Royalty' that was released in 2018. Photo credit: Instagram/kithungo_raha_maima/

King Kaka drops his song ‘Mbesa’ with Kamba music maestro

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King Kaka has made headlines over the years through his music and his personality and his prolificness in the music industry is the second Kenyan artiste after Eric Wainaina to call out politicians on the shoddy work they are doing to the community and the first one to call out politicians out by name in the Kenyan music industry.

The rapper who is currently gearing up to release his highly anticipated mixtape dubbed ‘The Servant & The King’ just dropped the visuals of his latest record together with arguably the king of Kamba music in the country, Maima.

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King Kaka has released the visuals for his record ‘Mbesa’ as produced by Magix Enga featuring Maima off of his project ‘Eastlando Royalty’ that set precedence in the Kenyan hip hop history being the first project which had so many international collaborations, there hasn’t been an album like King Kaka’s ‘Eastlando Royalty’ which had well over 20 tracks.

From Left to Right: Maima and King Kaka on the set of the music video for 'Mbesa' that was shot and directed by Trey Juelz. Photo credit: Instagram/kithungo_raha_maima
From Left to Right: Maima and King Kaka on the set of the music video for ‘Mbesa’ that was shot and directed by Trey Juelz. Photo credit: Instagram/kithungo_raha_maima

The project was released back in 2018 and it featured international artistes like Romain Virgo, Tracy Morgan, Talib Kweli, and Butera Knowless among other established Kenyan artistes like H_art The Band, Kristoff, Bridget Blue, Brian Nadra, Steph Kapella, Arrow Bwoy, Tokodi, Likoni School For The Blind, Carol Atemi, Magix Enga and Maima.

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Watch the music video for ‘Mbesa’ as written and performed by King Kaka and Maima below. Stream it underneath the video