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Stunner

Bruce Ndlovu, Showbiz Correspondent
WITH the attention firmly on the seemingly escalating feud between Cal_Vin and fellow rapper Jnr Brown, a recording of rapper Stunner dissing his compatriots in hip-hop has surfaced on social media networks.

In a minute long audio clip now available on audio platform – SoundCloud – the rapper dismisses the efforts of Jnr Brown, Cal_Vin, Maskiri and Tehn Diamond saying all their achievements combined do not match his.

Zimbabwean hip-hop artistes have over the past few months been embroiled in bitter feuds as the battle for supremacy in the genre intensifies.

The “beef” started in December last year when Harare rapper Briss Mbada charged at Cal_Vin after he received the Best Male Hip Hop award, a category in which Mbada was nominated at the Zimbabwe Hip Hop awards. Mbada went to town claiming that he deserved the award over Cal_Vin.

While at the time, the “beef” seemed to be between Mbada and Cal_Vin, in the next few months, the simmering tensions between the two rappers have turned into a full on back and forth struggle between Bulawayo and Harare rappers, with many jumping on the bandwagon to defend their respective cities.

The heat seems to have turned up a notch in the last few weeks with Jnr Brown releasing a song, We Run It, which many thought had hostile lyrics targeted at Bulawayo and Cal_Vin in particular. In response, Cal_Vin – the Luveve-born rapper – released a song titled Used to Run it, which did not go down well with Brown who allegedly assaulted the rapper at the rehearsals for last Saturday’s National Arts Merit Awards.
Stunner seems to have taken offence at the recent publicity surrounding the lyrical brawl between some of the country’s premier wordsmiths. Known for his boastful nature on and off the mic, Stunner was not shy to point out that his rivals did not have as much money as he had amassed through his music.

“Tehn, Jnr Brown, Maskiri . . . all of these cats put together will never enter the nations I entered with my songs. They don’t have the money that I’ve made from my own records, or even the clothes that I possess.

“That’s why I’m known as the most flamboyant rapper,” raps Stunner.

The rapper further said he was still the most respectable voice in the genre.

“If I tweet now that songs like We Run it and Used to Run it are bad, it’ll be out on H-Metro tomorrow.

Yet those songs on their own haven’t been on H-Metro,” dissed Stunner.

The artiste, who recently got engaged, threw down the gauntlet on his rivals, saying he was ready to face all challenges on his own.

“Tell them Stunner said I’m hip-hop and they can all come and look for me. The whole industry can come and I will face them on my own. Fifteen years I’ve been running this so don’t act like you don’t know.”