President turns rapper!

Politics they say is a crazy game
and it can push personalities hungry
for power to use all means possible
to get votes.
Ugandan President, Yoweri
Museveni, has ‘released’ a rap song
with the cliché, “You Want Another
Rap?” with a response “Yes, Sevo!”
to help in his bid for re-election in
the upcoming general elections in
February 2011.
The political song has become an
instant hit in Uganda enjoying
rotations on Ugandan radio and
clubs. It has even got a lot of hits on
YouTube.
The ‘rap star’ President opens the
song with the line, "I think I can give
you some rap myself now,"
followed by verses in Runyankore, a
tribal language in Uganda.
The song originated during a rally in
October when Mr. Museveni recited
an old folk song while discussing
the African roots of hip-hop music.
Days later, at another rally, the
president offered a repeat
performance, asking the crowd,
“ You want another rap?”
A local music producer captured
that phrase made by the president
while addressing the massive
crowd in central Kampala.
The producer subsequently added a
backing track and mixed in a reply,
“ Yes, Sevo!” to the question. The
response, “Yes, Sevo!” invokes the
president’s nickname.
The song, many say has brought to
bare the fact that Yoweri Museveni,
66, after two decades at the helm of
affairs of that country is youthful
enough to rule again.
Mr. Museveni has led Uganda since
his rebel group seized power on 26
January 1986.
Watch a YouTube video of the song
below:
Story by Ernest Dela Aglanu/
Myjoyonline.com/Ghana