1 on 1 with Messe

Behind the hit track “Enkooko” in every night club in Kampala, a small bodied man is the composer of the song. His name is Dj Messe. He is not a rat as ‘Messe’ means rat, but he is as swift as one. “I sense the good and bad quickly and react fast” Dj Messe explains. On the contrary he seems to take his time when walking and talking and rarely wears any depressing expressions on his face. When he started rapping at 15, he needed a name to recognize him from others. To him, Messe which mean a rat was catching towards his funs and described him best.

Messe, whose real name is Nicholas Mpiirwe has been playing at the Basement dance club for a decade now, marketing manager at basement and a presenter at Dembe FM. He is also the brain behind Amarula family and writes the scripts, produces the shows and is their marketing manager as well.
As an adolescent, the light skinned Messe took an interest in music and together with Ragga Dee and Iryn Namubiru formed the popular group “The Homies” releasing hits like ‘bamusakata’ and ‘mukawano’ from his small studio on Jinja road. When Karim Hinji opened the then viper room, Messe went there to train at setting up the lighting. He started mcing and learnt how to mix music as well.

When his parents died, a friend of his dad brought the 15year old Messe to Kampala to work as a helper. His boss eventually decided to take him to school and studied up to S.3, when he had to go out of the country, Messe’s former boss left him two important things a 72 inch projector and a video deck. ‘I started the struggle with those two things and this where I am now. No regrets Messe says.
Messe is now back with a hot album entitled “Enkooko”. The truck has many songs like Afande, Omwana and others. Enkooko song is the famous truck on the album and at least every where you can hear someone singing the song. Indeed the song is very good. He is proud of that. 

All the songs on the album were produced by Amarula’s own studio called Ama production at Rashid Khasim road. Although much of the videos contain a lot of comedy, there are at least some good scripts to give out the   necessary information of the song and even some of his funs feel like the Enkooko video is the best video of this year. He saysDj Messe’s songs were written by him and hopes to launch the album in the near future. ‘I will launch may be in November’ Messe says. He also says that he is ready to coup with the stiff competition on the market of music today and he is sure that his songs are hot and compete with the rest of the songs in the country. He is not yet sure of the Pam awards things but promises may be next year he will hotter. 

Planning to release some other good songs, collaborations with the top class musicians in the country is also among his future plans. ‘I am sure my funs will enjoy what ever I will deliver to them’.

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