In May 2022, another rap ace called Doozy Ngana released an EP titled ‘This Is Me’ on all digital platforms. A mixture of hiphop, afrotrap and rap, the rapper’s aim on the EP was to feed a wide variety of styles for his international audience all over the world.
So, who’s Doozy?
Real names Beingana Victor Kwesiga, the Ugandan rapper, song writer and producer was born on 18th May 1996 at Rubaga Hospital. Born and raised in Kampala, he started off his career as a fashion designer at Black Fashions, a hood apparel that was started by his childhood friend Peter Lugs Redra.
At work, then known as Victor Vikking, he used to mime songs while sawing clothes, a habit he had developed in his high school days which eventually led him to quit his job in 2018 and pursue rap as a full-time career. During the two successive years ahead, the rapper disappeared from the mainstream and focused on honing his personal skills and beefing up his musical knowledge. It was then that he learnt rap, writing and production under the tutelage of his best friend and idol the late Micheal Johansson.
During that period, he taught himself to be a versatile artist with his sounds ranging from hiphop to Afrobeat, Doozy likes to derive his lyrics from personal experiences, culture, love, life and freedom. This year, after signing with Root City Records, he dropped his first project.
About the EP
“This is Me” is the first professional project by the rapper after signing under Root City Records through his old friend and co-founder of Root City. It is a 6-track expressive catalogue of music on which the rapper projects his own perspective of life as influenced by forces around him.
On the first track called Uganda, Doozy does a patriotic stance, a collaboration with instrumentalist Myko Ouma. He expresses love for his motherland and most importantly, his roots. His desire is to relight the spark that lifts his dying culture back to glory.
The second track, Gopesa, was inspired by a hood lingo of the same title whose meaning is ‘to flex’. The rapper’s other intention was to use as a ‘get money’ slogan since the phrase itself, a loose mix of Swahili-English, has a similar meaning. In the song, he relates what goes about in his party life with hard posh rap on an afrotrap beat made by his classmate ‘Nyax’.
On the third track ‘My Dream’, the rapper tells his listeners about the girl of his vision. The rapper recommends light skinned, decent, big booty, good sense of humor, decency while crazy in bed as his ultimate preferences for his ideal type of girl.
‘K.H.Y.U’, short for Keep Your Head Up, is the fifth track on which the rapper injects hope and faith in the faithless and lost. He reminds us that everyone has a role to play and the fact that it’s best to do something with life than blame everybody else
The sixth and last track titled ‘No Stress’ is a hiphop/rap track on which the rapper shows off his lyrical prowess and fast exotic flow. On it, he talks of his desire for freedom from whatever causes stress.
The rapper spells these truths on a trap beat by producer Malcolm Beats.
The whole project was recorded and produced at Portmore Records in Makindye/Luwafu by Doozy himself, Prodakizo among others and mixed and mastered by Andy Music. The cover art was designed by Joram Elje graphics
Stream: https://lnk.to/DoozyNgana
