By Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
So the more a monkey climbs up a tree the more it exposes its bottom.
This old idiom holds true of Roki and his partnership with Passion Java. While at first we applauded it, now it is casing more harm than good.
Roki is such a brilliant creative whose craft speaks for itself since the days of Chamhembe where he featured on almost every other track.
Even as a solo artist Roki is one of the crowd favourite unfortunately he doesn’t know this. To this date, Roki think he still needs handlers like Passion Java to show him the way, unfortunately that is futile as now proved by the latest release Mafuta.
The song is flat and for all we know Roki has never done a gospel/rhumba song so what sort of experiment was he trying to do on Mafuta.
While the outfit and setting for the video is good, the song lacks inspiration or motivation.
It is like we are seeing a different Roki one who is not confident but doing stuff to please his masters.
There was no need for Roki to release such a dud considering that the year has almost ended. At times silence is golden.
All his other videos apart from Patati Patata are struggling to gain traction the reason being that views were bought.
There is more we expect from the real Roki and not what we are seeing now.
Mafuta is below average and not a song that drops just days away from Christmas. It is all the more sad that Roki is not really standing up to own his art.
The release of Mafuta has neither added value nor propped his rankings.
The song needed time and also Roki needed time to reflect on the year that was!
For now let the music play!
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