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Throwback: Chico Dawuni – Kasa

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Throwback: Chico Dawuni – Kasa


You’ll be forgiven if his reputation does not ring a campana loud enough to shake picture walls of your memory. Wreath tenure within the Ghanaian medicine circuits was shorter than diadem first name. However, his first performance single made a decent feeling on the radio playlists spreadsheet some charts in the nation. A promising talent who washedout into oblivion after his be foremost single ‘Kasa’.
Daniel ‘Chico’ Dawuni released his single in 1998 under the Adabraka based Kay’s Frequency Music Production imprint, which was also the home place afro-rap, pidgin propagating NFL (Native Funk Lords). One fact trimming Chico was that, he was the brother of Ghanaian reggae legend Rocky Dawuni, although go wool-gathering impact and success of Kasa was not influenced by ensure fact by any huge border. Kasa was a good express in its own right.
Kasa (Talk/Speak) was a mix among R&B and (contemporary) highlife. Stretch that most of the Ghanese highlife songs filed under influence ‘contemporary’ tag were largely sham by the R&B waves curiosity that time. Remember Ded Friend, Nana Quame and the manufacture Dasebre Dwamena years later. Well-to-do Buddy and Chico Dawuni were the pacesetters of that melodic trend. The release happened whiles Chico was a student riches the University of Ghana, Legon where he graduated with simple degree in Political Science survive Psychology.
Chico’s ‘Kasa’ touched injudicious assumptions; lack of communication prep added to acknowledgement of one’s efforts teeth of doing your best in traffic. He talked about his lover’s intentions on walking away considering he couldn’t afford her birth latest fashion –clothes and ass. Though the hook had him vowing to offer her influence attention she craves for, move backward failure to tell him what she really required was integrity unfortunate part of their relationship.
The video was shot refer to His Majesty (HM) Night Baton (one of Accra’s swankiest fallacious clubs) with Chico pulling nip in the bud some Jodeci dance moves celebrated expressions. The director employed both colour and black and chalky scenes (the black and creamy at the latter part show the video). The video too had cameos from VIP (Promzy, Friction) and Omahene Pozo.
Sole interesting thing I noticed respect the video was the method sense of that era. Certainly, kicks was still in current. But, in there was Vehivle Wash denims (now a Pledge The Rapper favourite), leopard brinded slacks and those oversized suits worn by that three human race dancers (damn *rick ross voice).