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I wanna give a big shoutout to my man Winky D for doing the new urban music movement proud by dominating at the National Arts Music Awards past week.
Winky D showed that urban music is now the in-thing for the youths and sundry, slowly but surely showed “he is taking over the building”.
He is proving to all and sundry that despite all the negative Press that has been coming his way, he is still the people’s choice and will always remain the ghetto boy that he has always been.
However, despite his good pickings during the year and at Nama, Winky is in the eye of another storm. All is not well in the Kambuzuma musical community with the Bigiman being accused of stealing another musician’s work.
Winky D is being accused by underground rapper and fellow Kambuzuma Rastafarian African Shumba of stealing his song, “Pone Them” which he later changed to “Bhutsu Iri Kunhuwa” which was on the hugely popular “Vanhu Vakuru” album.
The song, alleges African Shumba, was recorded in 1994 when he and Winky were the best of buddies and did most of their emceeing together.
African Shumba also alleges that Winky D stole his monster love tune Mhotsi and changed it to the dancehall filler Chatsva, one of Winky’s best call songs.
African Shumba, real name Tafadzwa Mano, says he has no quarrel with Winky D, but regards him as a greedy brother who wants to have the whole cake at the expense of his siblings ad brothers.
In fact, Shumba reckons Winky is not doing much to dancehall music but just buttressing his peers from the grand stage which he got from others.
Shumba says when they worked with Winky all seemed rosy until he realised that his mentor was up to no good music wise and wanted to use him for his own good.
“I used to record and do rehearsals at the Blacklab Studios, which happens to be Winky’s studio as well, and all things seemed to be all right for us.
“However, I was surprised to hear my tune ‘Pone Them’ being played on the radio as ‘Bhutsu Iri Kunhuwa’ and when I asked the Bigiman about the issue he was very evasive.
“However, I was really disappointed when I learnt that Winky had used my other song, which was part of the riddims “Bus de Shot” as his song ‘Chatsva’ from his album ‘Chatsva’.
Shumba alleges that although they had plans to release the Bus de Shot as an album they had to shelve it after Winky D released it as his own.
African Shumba accuses his mentor of being a selfish man not bent on helping ghetto youths as he claims but more of a gangster and vampire-like figure.
“Contrary to what you always write about Winky being a ghetto youth bent on helping others, the man is really killing talent in the ghettoes.
African Shumba says though he is very disappointed with the ways of Winky he still has a lot of love and respect for him as he has helped dancehall scale even greater heights.
He says he has just finished releasing his debut album “Shumba Inokunda” that is directed against his detractors and enemies and will help clear the air.
African Shumba said the track “Kana Adhakwa” is a direct dig at Winky D and urged him to reply to the diss track if he has the guts to do so.
However Jonathan Banda, Winky D’s manager, dismissed all the allegations as mere hogwash and said Team Winky D will never bat an eyelid against such accusations.
Banda, who is also known as the Major, said they have better fish to fry and will never be distracted by any negative publicity though they are more than willing to work with their ghetto peers.
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