Raila Junior has been very supportive of the Gengetone Ethic for their exquisite job in the music industry. He has earlier praised them and helped them grow their talents.
However the group's new song Tarimbo has been under scrutiny from many people and Raila Junior is one of them. He claimed the song promotes rape especially the part where it says "me umwaga bila hata permission."
Despite all the criticism he has made over song,Raila Junior says he will counsel and guide the group to learn to release musics that are uplifting.
“Ethic have dropped a new song on their YouTube channel. The song called #tarimbo is at the very least controversial, with suggestive lyrics and visuals that may whether purposely or coincidentally be construed to show an intruder in a domicile has drawn sharp criticism online for what of a better word may be not “ethically correct”.
“In the song the most controversial lyrics are those off the hook sang by reckless “me humwaga bila ata permission” suggestive of ejaculating inside a female without consent has a heavy connotation of rape, this also paired with the groups artist SWAT being shown seated in a lounge with a balaclava may or may not also been seen to construe a burglar in someone’s premises with ladies dancing all around,” explained Junior.
Speaking as a record producer, Raila Junior wondered how the song went through production with no query from the production team.
“After listening to the song a couple of times myself as a producer, it’s hard to see how the controversial lyrics passed through all the artists and developers working on the project without being checked.
“For those unaware, in the past I have praised Ethic for their creativity and unique sound that’s original and fresh, however, I feel in trying to outdo themselves while chasing ratings they may have overstepped the bold line of what is ethically correct, I won’t be dancing to this song nor will I play it and that’s my personal choice,” said Raila Junior.
“Having personally known the band and their manager I shall be reaching out to them on a personal level to help guide and counsel the impressionable young men. I will seek to guide rather than condemn them as I feel they hold the key to reaching what may be an already marginalized and isolated part of society of young urban inner city youth.
“Being new to the limelight they need to be made aware of their spear of influence on impressionable young Kenyans.”
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