MC Yallah and Lord Spikeheart raise a terminal medicaldiagnosis of the modern into an anthem of survival for those who battle.
East African rap veteran and force of nature MC Yallah employs the lacerated vocals of Lord Spikeheart, one half of Nairobi’s primary speculative metal eviscerators Duma, for ‘No One Seems To Bother’, a macabre call-to-arms including spooky, doom-laden production from regular MC Yallah partner Debmaster. “This is a tune where by we were revealing ourselves about how unjust life and individuals can be,” describes MC Yallah. “A lot of envious individuals, so complete of dislike, killing one another, slaughtering their brethren like they are butchering chicken. One can offer the other for simply 50 dollars, individuals wear’t care at all, killing the innocent. Seeing all these things made me come up with this tune.”
Excavating spacious area with brick tonne bass, ticking drums and threatening synthesis, Debmaster keeps Yallah’s immediate shipment front and centre, as the MC changes inbetween Luganda, Luo, Kiswahili and English. “Where is the love?” she concerns. “I think if we had real love for ourselves and each other this world would be in a muchbetter location.” Trading bars with Lord Spikeheart’s swollen grumbles and blood coagulation screams, it’s clear that, inspiteof her optimism, No One Seems To Bother is an uncompromising transmission direct from the heart of the strife that MC Yallah draws into her unflinching picture of a broken world.
“The video was shot in Uganda,” Yallah states of the track’s blackandwhite visual. “Of course, in the video you will see individuals drinking and cigarettesmoking. Some times individuals smoke or beverage so that they can forget about their issues for a minute, or an hour.” What we are provided with is a celebration at the end of the world, a bold and dark ecstasy in which visceral pleasure can be siphoned from tough