Short Notes on Amapiano

At the risk of sounding pretentious, I started listening to Amapiano in late 2019, just before it blew up in Kenya. I am pleased it has gone mainstream. I still enjoy it today. I’m not one those narcissists who stop listening to an artist or a genre of music because it is no longer obscure. …

It is warm here. The water is warm here. The dry air is clean, even when it feels like sandpaper. When it rains, like it has over the past two days, it becomes cleaner, crisp like a new razor blade. It is still warm when it rains. It is quiet. I can hear myself think. …

The harder part is not the falling in love. And that’s not the part that carries the despair. It’s having to go through the heartache of another hard, severely damaging heartbreak, to have to feel all over again and with someone different, “This time, too, I wasn’t enough.” – MMM