Edgar R. Batte
28 December 2007
Kampala — He was introduced to the local crowd thanks to hits like Best Man and Farm. It was particularly the latter that bred social controversy.
In the title album track, the local Kadongo Kamu artiste unleashed plans on how he was going to seal off a farm of beautiful women to tame his two-timing ways.
However in his latest track, Nzigadde Farm, the star announces his change of plan. He has called it quits with 'the farm' business.
"I have thrown in the towel. I thought I could make it but not anymore. I just realised that women are too expensive. They are so materialistic. I could take it no more," he explains his reasons for the split-up.
He says it was a plan he was yet to live but the trial turned out to be scandalous. "People actually took me seriously and many female fans would walk up to me to express readiness to join my 'farm'," he adds.
In the song, the Kadongo Kamu singer goes on to equate the materialism that has degraded the women, with making demands of servicing a phone with airtime where if you don't load it with enough credit, then you won't be able to make calls.
The Pearl of Africa Music (Pam) award winner, who confesses being officially married to one wife, talks about the reasons many young people today won't walk down the aisle - love has more or less become a commercial bid.
Nzigadde Farm is the title track on Abdu Mulaasi's latest nine-track album that has among other songs Abaana bo Bakunganye (gather and keep count of your children) in which he calls on adulterous men to look out for children lest they end up being brought up by more wealthy families which their mothers deem more fit.
He talks about love gone sour, telling on one of his 'former lovers' in Nali Nkukyaye (I had called quits with you) in which he typifies beautiful women who won't easily take no for an answer.
He expresses gratitude in Abawagizi Bange for fans' support whom he describes as his ticket to a successful career, that has taken him places in the west to big cities like Chicago, Boston, London, Denmark, Washington, in Sweden et cetera.
On these musical tours, he has also met and made friends (doing kyeyo) whom he calls on to make investments back home and also give back to parents and families whose role in seeing them through cannot be overshadowed.
Mulaasi samples his ragga abilities in Tukoola Na-roh in which he uses mostly street lingua to express determination to tame heights in music circles despite counter acts by adversaries.
In a rather serious packaging, he cautions on the marriage institution in Kanve ku Mbaga in which he advises that before one thinks of saying "I do", one needs to learn and understand the person they're going to make the life decision with. He takes a swipe at beautiful, easy-going women who he says never make marriage material.
He features a track Ondabye Bukulu by Kazibwe Capo, one of the luminaries in his Light Production music group. In the song, Kazibwe hits at cynics. He deduces that it is hard to find true friends as most times, many are hypocrites. Other songs on the album are Ompadde Love Yo and Otulesse mu Milanga (your departure has left us broken, in tears) his tribute to fallen Kadongo Kamu ace, Paul Job Kafeero.
For now, Abdu Mulaasi is uncertain on exactly when he will be officially launching his album but expects it will be sometime mid next year.
From a family of 30 or so children, Mulaasi never had sufficient education so he has tried his hands on a number of trades. He draws his inspiration from artistes like Gerald Kiweewa and Herman Basudde (RIP) who, as he sings, opened doors for him in the music world.
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