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1. When we still had to do interviews
inside a Hiace Van in the parking lot because it would have been way too
expensive for a crew to sit at a Kisementi restaurant and 30 minute chat.
2. When GNL Zamba, recently split from Shadrack
Kutesa’s Platinum Entertainment was trying to sell to sceptics the Baboon
Forest Entertainment group and kept throwing Genghis Khan references in his
conversation.
3. When Mun’G and Big Tril still had to
explain who they are, new Baboon Forest entrants, but did they have to be there
for every GNL Zamba interview. Yes, GNL would roar, they’re my boys.
4. When Mun’G was still a High School
act, talking about songs he claimed were burning up the chats but most
journalists, 10 or more years out of the high school scene, had never heard of,
privately wondered if he and Big Tril were not GNL Zamba hangers-on.
5. Mun’G before Gira Tugire...more
popularly known as Kyaba Too Much, adulterated in Airtel Uganda adverts as
Kyaba too good...
6. Before some Ugandan music industry
watchers began to ask aloud, “But isn’t Mun’G better than GNL Zamba? Me I like
Mun’G. He is so funny.” Like GNL Zamba was not funny to begin with, or had
suddenly lost his humour, in becoming a CEO of Baboon Forest Entertainment. GNL
shrugging them off, “Everybody takes shots at the boss.”
7. In the aftermath of Koyi
Koyi: The Legend of Zamba, GNL still lost, his Speaking Vernacular album
on the burner, unsure what to follow it up with, with 99 problems on his mind
from allegations of beating up his girlfriend to club altercations with a girl
who claimed she had been his lover, sponsor-what a year!
8. A blogger rediscovering his love of
blogging, from of all people, his interview subjects, quoting lines from blog
posts of the past they had read and liked, were wondering, “What’s up? Why you
not blogging?” September 2010, what a year, seriously considering a shop
keeper’s career, it was surely much better than having only M&C, GNL
shocked, “How can you even think of giving up?” Ugandan success stories come
from far!
