Beyoncé has apparently offended several Kenyan musicians after they were omitted from the Lion King: The Gift album.
According to an interview with TMZ, John Katana — the frontman of Chakacha Kenyan band Them Mushrooms — noticed the multi-platinum selling superstar didn’t include any local artists on the project, which has been dubbed a “love letter” to Africa.
“No one called us,” Katana says in a video call. “We just read about it in the media just like everyone else. There’s been a big debate on social media about that; Kenya missing out on the Lion King.
“The creatives in the country are complaining that Kenyan acts, if not Them Mushrooms, should have been on Beyoncé’s recording because the phrase was made popular from Kenya. So everybody feels that Kenya should have had a piece of the pie. But, that’s not case. So yes, we should have been on the album.”
Disney reportedly tapped Nigerian pop star WizKid, Ghanaian producer Shatta Wale, Nigerian singer Burna Boy, South African artists Busiswa and Moonchild Sanelly, Nigerian stars Tekno, Yemi Alade and Mr Eazi for the album, but still excluded Keynans.
Last year, a petition began to circulate calling for Disney to drop its trademark over “Hakuna Matata,” a common Swahili phrase Katana says they popularized in their ’80s platinum hit, “Jambo Bwana.”
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She’s obviously racist.
Lol. Fuck off. She featured African artist.
Your right. She isn’t racist. She just purely cares about money, and doesn’t give a rats ass about the majority of humanity. Her and Jay are both scumbags who are complete phonies. They are actual Satanists, who partake in SPIRIT COOKING. That’s fact, not conspiracy. Real shit.
Spirit cooking? LOL. Is that a Martha Stewart recipe? LOL.
Black people can’t be racist you dipshit.
I still think Triple Phi OG is a little bitch though.
they left me off too
Of course she didn’t her and Jay are textbook narcissists.
How can you trademark a phrase from another language and culture? These corporations man!No respect at all. Artiste steal from African artist all the time. Shakira does it a lot.
Fatoncey ruined the Lion King soundtrack.
That was a bitch move from disney, they use more than one swahili phrase: “Hakuna Matata” and “simba”, which is swahili for lion, and they do not include any artist from a swahili speaking nation like kenya or Tanzania….instead they use artist from other parts of africa who dont even understand swahili..smh
Remember that time he went platinum for Magna Carta, Holy Grail because he sold copies of his album to a phone company who would later give it away for free to all their new subscribers and customers who never asked for it ? Money takes care of money.
Uh, to those of us in America there is no difference between Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, or any other place in Africa so we really don’t care about this bitching
This reminds me of Kim K when she tried to Trademark ” KIMONO” as new clothing line. Japanese almost sent Yakuza’s to fuck her up.