OCT8 LAUNCHES WEBSITE

One of the most common faces at WAPI Kenya and a major hip-hop rising start in Kenya Oct8pizzo last week launched his won website www.octopizzo.com. In a country where many rappers are always complaining about not getting enough airplay and street buzz, Oct8pizzo is taking the industry by its horns and letting you listen to his music for free on his website as you leave him your comments. This is a futuristic first for a Kenyan artist as not even mainstream artists have websites. So far only Nonini has an appealing website. On Oct8’s website you can holla at him see his picture gallery, his events and listen to him spit.

Oct8pizzo represents Kibera slums and the number 8 is the number of matatu and buses that go to the sprawling slums. He is widely known in Kibera as one of the biggest talent to come from there. Oct8 is a major trendsetter amongst his peers and has come along way since the first days that he ever stood on stage at WAPI Kenya. He is a youth community leader in Kibera and is the Youth Ambassador for International NGO UMAY - Uplifting Men and Youth in Africa www.umayafrica.org.  He is always uplifting his community he rolls with a Kibera crew of over 50 heads called YGB (Young Gifted and Black) who own their own t-shirt and fashion business.

Oct8 knows very well that in order to make it in this rap game you have to come fresh all the time. So far Oct8 has been one of the most consistent hip-hop artists in Kenya. He is also an entrepreneur who owns a Kibera Touring Company Chocolate City Tours. He has produced a street mixtape that is out on the streets keep on the look out. His launch of a website comes at a time when the whole world doesn’t need to be close to you to know who you are. This strategy will makes him the most innovative hip-hop artist in Kenya at the moment as no one else has a website with music on it. This shows that Oct8 is not only a bad ass lyricist but tech savvy one.

When WAPI Underground spoke to Oct8 about the launch of his website, Oct8 said “Hip-hop is more than music its about education. You know I have no time for complaining, I’m a leader where I am from so I have to keep leading from the front. If my songs don’t get airplay, I have built my website. I will get to my fans worldwide through my own means regardless. Who knows I may even build Oct8 Radio in the near future. If the radio blocks my music it just means they are way backward for me to even deal with them, they’ll never understand.” From an underground rapper at WAPI Kenya fighting for the mic at open mics Oct8 is now an ambassador, a website owner and a tour company owner. Visit his site for more insight. Keep it here for more. 

By Buddha Blaze