By Alfred Tembo
CONTEMPORARY music provides a youth perspective to the narrative on urban culture and benefits researchers and development agents at home and abroad, says Persist Zinambwa (19), a Gweru-based hip-hop musician.
Inspired by Winky D, Rule Boi is an experimental artiste who has recorded at different studios among them Hold On entertainment, Divergence Records and Ghetto Studios.
His music focuses on the youths and the contemporary rhythm of issues in their current state.
Speaking in an interview following the release of Tsom Tsom, a single hit, the teen hip star in the making, said his music represents what the young people face and experience.
“Music narrates views and opinions from different view points, but what l makes seeks to share what l experience as the journey.
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“As young people we share our stories through music and various forms of art with the hope of connecting with the outside world and getting to be understood,” said Zinambwa.
He said music provides to the world, a poetic and dramatic narrative on how the young people persevere .
“I hardly consider this to be an attempt to add my voice to the discourse but rather as a intelligent mode of entertaining the people who may find value in to my stories,” saaid the young musician
“And at the same development partners use such notes to reach out and understand the young people.”