Released in March 2017, and directed by Rahul Kumar Singh, Pepeta launches with what a dramatic beat! Chin Bees sustain it to the end, in this 3:00-minute spectacle. These youthful Tanzanian artistes, suddenly sprung upon the continental stage literally by storm, are a Tsunami dressed up in full hip-hop regalia. They are here plainly to assert their unbridled artistic presence. Is all.
They might as well be from LA, if that's a useful allusion in any way. They have a "foreign accent" -- but what's "foreign" to world-beating post-Millennials? And English isn't someone else's language. It's theirs, just as Swahili is. And they love themselves -- just as they are!
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One word runs throughout the song, by design. Its Pepeta. You guessed right, it is the song's title. No one will tire of it -- looks like. Pepeta really means to dribble (or bounce). It subliminally alludes to a precious thing, such as a "diamond" -- or a "pearl". Pepeta is a pearl of a song, looked at one way. Now, dance to it! There should be a conquest of hearts at the end of this supernova of a song -- whenever, wherever, it ends.
