Hip-hop community ‘sorry’ for Mwiza Chavura’s derogatory ‘rape’ record
The Hip Hop community has apologized, sent a strong condemnation, and distanced itself from the viral derogatory song ‘Rape’ by former Trap Squad artist, Mwiza Chavura.
The community has united to apologize to women, mothers, daughters and sisters saying he (Chavura) does not represent what they are about.
The song ‘Rape’, released December 21 has received backlash from various institutions and persons for glorying rape.
Malawi Hip Hoppaz representative, Black Mind in a statement says “Hip Hop is built on principles and morals, and thus Peace, Love, Unity and having fun”.
“As custodians, gate keepers and guardians of Malawi Hip Hop we condemn this MWIZA CHAVURA and whatever he represents.” he says.
Black Mind further says some of them have Wives, Girlfriends, Daughters, Cousins, Grand moms, girls and this is so disrespectful and so distasteful to the culture in general.
In an interview, he said “Just so we are clear, and this is said with a heavy heart, WE DO NOT ASSOCIATE with RAPE, VIOLENCE in any form neither do we condone such nuisance”.
“We love our women, our queens, our daughters, our girlfriends. Once again we apologize to all women for the distasteful song done by Mr Chavura”
“As Malawi’s Hip Hop Elite WE SAY NO TO RAPE and ANY VIOLENCE IN ANY FORM”.
Chavura’s arrest
As the pressure bares on Chavura, the leading music platform has pulled the song down.
Former Chief Child Magistrate Esmie Tembenu has called for the arrest of Chavura on grounds of incitement.
Tembenu: “The fact remains that damage has been inflicted. We call upon the Police to act on this issue and assure Malawians that such incitement has legal consequences. As a deterrent, the Police must send a strong message to such artists and Malawians, that no one is above the law and that artists particularly, have a duty to conduct themselves in manner that does not inflict pain and suffering on Malawian girls and women, whose rights are also guaranteed to be protected under Sections 15, 20, 23 and 24 of the Constitution.”
According to state media Women’s Legal Resources Centre (WOLREC) has also joined the wagon of condeming the song saying Chavura insulted the modesty of women, which the organisation said was contrary to Section 137 (3) of the Penal Code.
Online outrage
Online outrage and support for Chavura and his song has divided people.
Some have gone to the lengths of starting campaigns to ban Chavura entire on all media and get him arrested for hate speech if we have the laws.
Malawimusic.com has been criticized for giving the song platform but the site says it screens music before putting it up.
About 99 percent of the music is screened and Chavura fell in the 1 percent of artists. It says some artists get mad when their music does not get uploaded.
Made on Monday show hosted by award winning Joy Nathu has also distanced its platform from giving the song any airplay.
Chavuras response
Chavula said it was unfortunate that people were quick to judge his song which was only part one of two.
He said part two was going to expose the consequences men suffer for acts of rape.
“I regret this scandal. I think we need to be careful in the way we compose and present issues in our songs,” he said.
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Too much for Mr Chavura. We need not to condone this bull shit.
Like seriously, let hip hop not make us divert from our norms and values.
What a disgrace to womanhood. And why using such language? Ifeyo titsegule m’mimba ndi nyimbo zanu zonunkhazi?
Ndipo where we’re you before ngati lyrics yakuvutani why don’t you start some other business? In fact you are a bunch of those musicians that are spoiling the music industry.
MAM tamawathamangitsani anthu osadziwa kuimbawa mbuzi za ma artist akuti hip hop what hip hop, mwayamba lit kuimbawa ngati mkazi wakukanani ndiye mukamunyoze mu nyimbo? Inuyo kudzimva kukhala a Celebrity…,,,,
A hip hop celebrity my foot. Tembenu well done mbuzi zimenezi osamazisekerera ndizomwe zikuononga chikhalidwe chathu. Police deal with this pig of a hip hop artist.
Thanani nayeni, azimayi avutike chifukwa cha nyimbo yophunzirirayi.
Where were you all this time.?
mbuzi zimenezi osamazisekerera ndizomwe zikuononga chikhalidwe chathu.” End of quote.
Can you operationally define what you mean by ‘our culture’…………
Hip hop does not love women! It degrades them by showing them half naked, acting like a bunch of whores. Hypocrites.
Go to Youtube and search “hip hop culture in light of the Bible” on channel “khulupirira” for Malawi.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JmiySlukdfA
Who is Esmie Tembenu? Whom is she speaking for? First time I’ve heard her name, publicity stunt? In fact can she digest a RAP song?!
What’s Malawi Hiphoppaz? Is this group or organization registered? Or you mean its a Whatsapp Group, right? So there is a rapper named Black Mind, sorry, where is he from and which song is he famous for?
Foolish Hypocrites… What wrong has this boy done that warrants him an arrest? Umenewo ndiye uchitsiruwo. Someone called Jesus Christ as a “MR YESU” in his song but you decided to shut up despite that open blasphemy. Why didn’t you bark like how you are doing now? Yet you call Malawi a God fearing nation. Women are a big disgrace. Zoona munthu amangidwe chifukwa waimba nyimbo? Ndende zanu ndi zodzadza koma mukufuna anthu azimangidwabe. Kodi kumakhala kusakudziwa kundendeko kapena chani? Anthu oipa inu kwabasi. Munayamba mwalowapo mu ndende? Let alone for composing a song? HYPOCRITES!!!! SHUT UP!!!!
No wonder he is a member of Malawi Congress Party headed by Mr loud Mouth
Actually he is a Dpp cadet
Chindere chakufikapo. You’re a total disgrace. A fool at man and an idiot.
Afufuzidwe ameneyu. Could be anagwilirapo ndithu atsikana atawamwetsa. Munthu wosokoneza!
Joy Nathu on his program Made on Monday, played the song. He had edited it to a point you would wonder why he was playing it.
Yesterday he made a Statement that he DID NOT play the song (at any point). Come on man, some of us downloaded the song because you played it. Don’t play innocent now.
This song was not released today, I wonder why the sudden rush of blood as if the song was released today.
Mind you, this is hip-hop and he was just expressing his art. AND that hothead woman wanting Chavura to be arrested, why? The song is a narration of a girl who came to his house with provocative dressing and he just couldn’t resist!! Is that hate language? Is that inciting violence? Come on people, yes he’s a fool but I think we’re all overreacting.
In U.S., 27 years ago, 2pac made a song in which he was saying ‘I shot the white cop’ he was condemned and the vice president even said America does not have a place for such songs or behavior. Banning the song is enough, calling for his arrest is being foolish, sorry to say.
If he had said Let’s rape all THE girls, then you would have a case. And some of you speaking, you haven’t even listened to the song…..so just shut up.
We booted out Kamuzu because we wanted to be free. Now we are. Chavura didn’t hurt anybody, don’t becom overnight activists.
#freechavura #freedomofexpression
Your last sentence, “Chavula didn’t hurt anybody”
Are you serious? What research have you done? Who told you that? Why are you speaking on behalf of others? How did you make that judgement?
You are dumb.
So you did a research and found scores of people hurt by the song (just because a few loudmouths are making noise doesn’t mean everyone is hating the song…… in fact I know a number of chicks who are seeing nothing wrong in the song ~ the very same ones you’re claiming to protect. FYI a lady friend even sent me the song once it was released. We joked about it and that was all before all you smartphone judges pounced the song 3 weeks later.)
Anyway,
How did you measure HURT? Psychologically? Emotionally? Or Physically?
PS: Go f@(# yourself
MWIZA CHAVURA is not ‘Lomwe” That other group would have had a field day! Thank heavens he went to a certain University
The guy is “NOT LOMWE” ! The other tribes would have gone to town and over to Washington if the “guy” was Lomwe. If only he was! Thank heavens he is not one
Komatu a Malawi nthawi zina rushing to condemn:
Let me declare right from the start: the song is bad, the message is irresponsible. Morally reprehensible even.
Should he be arrested for it (as has been reported in another article on this website)?
No.
You may deny his song airplay, remove it from internet sites, and so on. Koma much as we may hate what someone proclaims to be a work of art, we must realize that we too have limits with regard to what extent we want to bend the law to our purposes. Our claim for artistic freedom means we must swallow bitter pills such as this one. Otherwise, where do we start and where do we stop?
Malawian urban music, to which this example belongs, is full of songs with denigratory, objectifying depictions of women (the music videos for these songs actually feature young women seemingly accepting and celebrating this objectification; they seem to thrive in the presence of young men who explicitly state what they wish to do with the girls). Do we tolerate them because they never explicitly mention words like ‘rape’? Are they a ‘lesser evil’ that we are able to live with? We can’t have our cake and eat it too: either we condemn the objectification of women on all levels (which some would read as infringement of artistic freedom), or we embrace artistic freedom entirely (which others say promotes irresponsible creativity). Either option will have opponents and proponents.
Don’t misunderstand me. I am not in support of Chavura’s song. It is bad. I only want Malawians to wake up and smell the hypocrisy which makes them selectively critical of various things.
Ndipo palibe nkhani yomangiranapo apa. Ndaseka kwambiri ndikumva achina Chanika akuwauza apolisi kuti mumangeni uyu chifukwa cha lamulo la “hate speech” ndi “incitement”, Section blah-blah, Penal Code mwakuti… If we go down that road, Malawi’s police cells and prisons will not be enough.
Malawi is full of Hypocrites. And Wosova i must say your guess is the same as mine. There are a lot of songs with ladies dancing half naked, i wonder if that is not any incitement. We must revise our culture altogether. Lets not take unnecessary sides for a few individuals benefit. Banning the song is enough.
Cannabiss
Is this the moron who spent a whooping 4 years at some so-called university in Mzuzu learning how to fish???? I’ve said it repeatedly that Malawi has no Hip Hop artist, NOT EVEN ONE, but just a bunch of useless #Wannabes trying to make statements that will make them talked about.
Am told he spent 8 years……find out!!!
Ad hominem!!! Attack the song NOT the person Mr dunderhead
Is this the moron who spent a whooping at some so-called university in Mzuzu learning how to fish???? I’ve said it repeatedly that Malawi has no Hip Hop artist, NOT EVEN ONE, but just a bunch of useless #Wannabes trying to make statements that will make them talked about.
Infact it wasnt four years. He spent about 6 to 7-years to finish his bachelors coz amangolephera. However, I would also like to condemn you for your deaming statement “at some so called university in Mzuzu”. Everyone knowass that there only Mzuzu University in Mzuzu. Why not just mention the university rather than kuyankhula monyoza. Dont associate Chavula’s actions with Mzuni
That’s correct @Machiavelli. Talk of issues at hand, not places and not tribes. Some Malawi people have a flare for tribalizing issues. Mr Mbuya is an example – he has no facts but quickly and unnecessarily slips into tribal verbiage – what is “some tribes”? or “some university”?. Aaaaaah guys!
Iwe nde mbuzi ya munthu. Bulutu ya munthu. Ma jealous. Your thinking is rather in BC. You think university is only poly, chanco, CoM, KCN. Spending 4 to 7 years in college and come with a paper mchamuna even with a pass. Ask those who were withdrawn on academic grounds. Iwe B.I.G ndiwe mbuzi yopanda manu.
No wonder he has a head like a brick .
His brain is as stiff as dough !
Lunatic man
Show us your head also
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That retard is just a disgrace to Mzuni.Mbuli yophunzila,he cant even think about the consequences of this song before he realesed,that is why malawi is not developing,we go to xool but we cant think critically,,antenge apolisi akamenye makofi,,,nyamata opusa kwambili