I saw dis article online and decided to share it here.... For the records, this is not my opinion about Victoria Kimani, but the opinion of Ms Uduak a Nigerian-American who specialises in Entertainment Law.... She's actually talking about Victoria Kimani's new single & video BOOTY BOUNCE. I like the song and video cos Victoria is actually a talented singer with a nice voice..... Read her opinion....



I’ve been wondering for quite a while but
was yet to get to the point where I asked
the specific question I pose in this post.
Now I am there. What exactly is Nigeria’s
Chocolate City record label doing with
Kenyan-American singer-songwriter
Victoria Kimani?

Four years ago, Kimani emerged on the
Nigerian music scene and caught our
attention when she wowed us with her
cover rendition of Ice Prince’s ‘Oleku’
featuring Brymo. Her rendition was even
better, some argued, than the original. We
saw pure talent and needless to say,
Chocolate City, an indie label by U.S.
standards but one of the larger labels by
Nigerian & African standards, was smart
to immediately sign her to its label. Since
signing Kimani, Chocolate City has yet to
articulate its vision for Kimani by how it
presents this talented artist to the world.
While there have been a few videos here
and there, a few collaborations and we see
Kimani constantly play dress up,
sometimes to the dismay of Nigeria’s
fashion police aficionados, her music
talent is yet to be maximized to its fullest
potential. I would argue that as it stands,
Kimani is probably one of the most
talented and highly commercial artist, with
great cross over international appeal, on
the Chocolate City roster. Yet, it seems the
label lacks real clarity on what it wants to
do with Kimani.

How do you take a very talented artist like
Kimani and reduce her to a place where
she releases a misogynistic song like ‘Booty
Bounce’ complete with a video of a dwarf
spraying money on the booty of
“beautiful” women. “Ugly” women thank
God you don’t have to be disrespected in
this manner but if you are beautiful, you
are out of luck. In fact, beautiful women,
your value is reduced to your booty and
your ability to make it bounce so some
male dwarf can pull up on you and spray
your booty with money. Worse, according
to the label, the song “portrays the true beauty
of African women,” at least per media reports
citing the label’s statements.

*Sigh.* Perhaps this will be acceptable
from another label but not a label like
Chocolate City, at least per its
representation, for a decade now, that it is
NOT that kind of brand. Chocolate City, if
the brand ethos, vision and positioning
has changed, let us know so we can all
make our adjustments. But please don’t tell
us and purport to represent Nigerian
intellectualism, cultural pride, respect and
gender equality yet push this mess out.
Victoria is very talented but in the grande
scheme of things, Chocolate City seems to
have no idea what to do with such
immensely talented artist like Kimani. She
has just sat on the label’s roster with less
than 25% of her talent exploited, in my
view. I don’t know if this is the result of
Nigerian labels not having as much
experience managing or building female
super stars as they have had with men. By
the way whatever happened to Pryse, the
young female rapper on Chocolate City’s
roster?

In any event, this new music release titled
‘Booty Bounce’ that the label claims
portrays the “true beauty of African
women” gets a “I don’t think so!” from me
and “y’all need to go back to the drawing
board.”

We have real issues as an industry if we
continue in this trajectory. I am also
convinced that Nigerian society is not in a
position now, or even in twenty years, to
handle the serious repercussions of the
kind of misogynistic music and videos it
continues to emulate from the West.
It is disappointing to see such misogyny
associated with an artist like Kimani (a
Pastor’s kid for that matter), and also
coming from a label like Chocolate City
that should know better.

-Ms. Uduak

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I’ve been wondering for quite a while but she's big in east Africa

asvpChuu:
I’ve been wondering for quite a while but she's big in east Africa

yes i heard that...

Kimani killing show immediately..lol wit those 2gay lukin guys! Gay lukin guys?abi dey r gay seff.dancing wit only pants wit their balls dangling. Eeewwww

merry Christmas