Kenya’s hiphop first lady Nazizi Hirji topped the hiphopcharts on Reverbnation, an online website that aims to provide a central sitefor musicians, producers, and venues to collaborate and communicate.
Nazizi topped the hiphop charts for Nairobi. The charts arebased on a Band Equity Score. Band Equity Score encompasses hundreds of thingson the site. Stats like the artistes’ number of fans, songs played, visits etcare factored in, including promoter plays, percentage of emails opened by yourfans and shared widgets. These are all things that are not shown on the chartbut factor into your score.
Nazizi told Hot Secrets, “This is great. What I love aboutReverbnation is that they use your stats of plays and views to do the ranking.It is not make up,” adding, “I just checked my page after a long time and I washappy to see that I’m on top. This goes to show hat I still have support of thefans and that people are listening to my music online.”
Nazizi still remains one of the most popular and influentialartists in the East African region. She has topped charts with her hit singles like Kube, Jeshi, Forever,Tension and Kenyan Boy Kenyan Girl featuring Wyre.
Nazizi has also inspired a short film Rastar that is basedon a true story about her and which has been bought and aired by MNET. Thisyear, she will be launching her collaboration album with Jamaican star Gingah.
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