{"id":6397,"date":"2009-06-11T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T13:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp\/?p=553"},"modified":"2009-06-11T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T13:23:17","slug":"mzungu-kichaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/mzungu-kichaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mzungu Kichaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-557\" title=\"mzungukichaa\" src=\"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mzungukichaa.jpg\" alt=\"mzungukichaa\" width=\"336\" height=\"339\" \/><br \/>\n&#8216;Mzungu kichaa&#8217; (crazy white guy) has been an expression circling in the Tanzanian hip hop scene ever since a Danish rapper called Joker did a collabo with popular artist Mr II (Sugu aka 2Proud) back in 1998. Ever since, every white man involved in Tanzanian hip hop would be referred to as &#8216;mzungu kichaa&#8217;.<br \/>\n<!--more-->Until the real Mzungu Kichaa stood up (real name: Aspen), an artist from Danmark who grew up in Tanzania, came to speak Swahili quite fluently and picked the moniker of Mzungu Kichaa. He was heard on a couple of bongo flava hits doing choruses back in 2001 already and now he has an album ready. The video to the first single is ready, the wonderful &#8216;Jitolee&#8217; featuring Professor Jay. Stay tuned for the long overdue interview which we recorded last year already.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5QnrVJkBKkM[\/youtube] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Mzungu kichaa&#8217; (crazy white guy) has been an expression circling in the Tanzanian hip hop scene ever since a Danish rapper called Joker did a collabo with popular artist Mr II (Sugu aka 2Proud) back in 1998. Ever since, every white man involved in Tanzanian hip hop would be referred to as &#8216;mzungu kichaa&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[92,398,404],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africanhiphop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}