User:Adams Familia

Adams Familia (Kenya)

Welcome to the Adams Familia wikipedia page you are most kind and this gesture is hailed - don’t forget this page also belongs to you, you own it; “Ismarwa”

Adams Familia is mostly a hip hop group based in Nairobi but has strong links in Mombasa, Tanzania and Kisumu. We also have a relatively strong on line presence with groups in facebook, twitter, myspace, ilike and others.

The group consists of members who actually lived and/or are living in Adams Ngong road Nairobi. The group consists of Meyah aka Kenneth Muguna (main producer, but not taking credits from Mzeya, Tahzoo or Dupa who are promising beat makers,)Mzeya aka Farid Swaleh, Tahzoo aka Taze aka Andrew Kapelele (He is Tanzanian and the aka never end), Batushizzle aka Michael Omondi Dupa aka Kevin Aol and Farah aka Farhana Abbas

So please walk with me through history for a while or two and let it be known how the group was founded.

It was around August 2008 when I got my first complete Digital Audio Workshop - Fruity Loops 6, which I used to make beats to satisfy my child hood dream of making music and it ended at that, just making beats. Some weeks on and along came this dude (who I only just met for the first time at a party in Mzeya’s crib), so this guy comes up to me, full of confidence and with “magi blue” accent introduced himself as “Tahzoo”, then immediately said “Naskia we humake mabeats, naweza ziskiza”. I was like cool (but the truth was I not ready for any criticism), but needed a second ear to check if I was going anywhere with my childhood music dream. After sampling several of them (mostly hardcore hip hop beats - Cannibusish), he was full of praised my style, and wanted one of my beats to record “Mapema”, a song promised him by Alkawaida Studios. It was okay with me, I mean, I was still an embryo (and still am) in music production and someone wants to use my beat. So Tahzoo practiced the song with the beat he had selected till he mastered the lyrics Two weeks later came the awaited recording day, Tahzoo and I with our beat bounced to Alkwaida Studios (which is located on the opposite end of our floor). The atmosphere to me was tense and was all stiff, but “Blinky” used his “mchongoano” skiils to diffuse it. Chapter one the story continues and ends with “Blinky” not using my beat but Tahzoo records a very promising song all produced by Alkawaida Studios Later that year (around October) Tahzoo and I stuck around Alkwaida Studios while Mzeya was trying to record a funky song titled “Hewani” (with no tension this time). Now the song was proving a mouthful, because you see Blinky is a perfectionist and demands the best and Mzeya at that moment had not fully mastered his lyrics and it was not free flowing so it was insisted more practice was needed. Believe it or not that recording session was the most stimulating music moments I have ever had (even though it was short and no verses were recorded only the chorus) and soon after that I wanted this more than any woman you see, so I set out to start out my own music studio, which I later did (by selling my Blackberry 8100 then bought two more Blackberry 8100 phones then sold them both to get enough cash to by studio equipment-more than a woman you see) We started recording sessions at “BT’s” crib who we thank a lot for enabling use to use his house to further our music. Our first song was “Yule Chicks” which was inspired by real life occurrences and after that as the cliché say that’s history. As time passes and the group was still nameless and more than willing to absorb more members we first let in Farah then Dupa and finally Batushizzle who all proved to be worthy additions to the group by spicing up the flavor unpredictably So this story sums up with the establishment of A.F studio (aka Am Familia studio) and hence the creation of Adams Familia hip hop group which am proud of and think is more than just a music group but a reunion and union of Adams residents

Story by Kenneth "Meyah" Muguna