Rapper Da Agent has weighed in on the continued debate about why Ugandan musicians have struggled to interrupt into the worldwide music market, arguing that the difficulty lies extra with artists’ ambitions than the standard of their music.
Speaking whereas reacting to current remarks by Kenyan singer Bien, Da Agent stated many Ugandan musicians are content material with constructing profitable careers at residence and have little curiosity in pursuing international audiences.
According to him, there may be nothing improper with specializing in the native market, particularly for artists who’ve mastered entertaining Ugandan followers and proceed to thrive from it.
“Some of them are okay entertaining their native audiences and are excellent at it. Some folks can’t even do it like they do,” Da Agent stated. He defined that each artist has completely different profession objectives, and never everyone seems to be pushed by the need to turn into a global star.
However, the rapper acknowledged that music manufacturing stays one other main impediment. He famous that whereas Ugandan producers proceed to enhance, the nation’s opponents embraced trendy manufacturing strategies a few years in the past, leaving Uganda taking part in catch-up.
“Our manufacturing, our persons are nonetheless studying the brand new issues but our opponents learnt them 10 years in the past,” he stated.
Da Agent’s feedback got here after Bien just lately said on a podcast that many Ugandan musicians primarily create music for the native market as an alternative of deliberately positioning themselves for worldwide success.
While agreeing with components of Bien’s evaluation, Da Agent maintained that the choice to remain native is usually a private profession selection relatively than a mirrored image of a scarcity of expertise.
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