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Ko-C's Gambit: When a Rapper Curates His Own List

After being excluded from PoiseSocial's ranking of Cameroon's most valuable rappers, Ko-C creates a WhatsApp group and invites a roster of his peers, sparking a chaotic and hilarious conversation that reveals ego, ambition, and the absurdity of ranking art. The thread becomes a live performance in itself—a carnival of linguistic invention, non-sequiturs, and the rappers' own competing claims to worth.

StaffStaff· 10 September 2018
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POISEFUN: Ko-C CREATES A WHATSAPP GROUP AFTER BEING LEFT OUT OF POISESOCIAL’S LIST OF MOST VALUABLE RAPPERS.

Ko-C created a group CAMEROON’s MOST VALUABLE RAPPERS MY NYASH.

Ko-C added Big G Baba, Mic Monsta, Jovi, Maahlox, Ebako, Stanley Enow, Minks, Valsero, Pascal, Young Holiday, Tenor, Skidi Boy, Wan Shey, Amsnazzy Snobber, Adah Akenji, Nkeng Stevens, Martin Enow, Boy TAG

Mic Monster: Fear name for group!

Stanley Enow: Thank you Tony Nobody this is me ah! King Kong, you know wah meeeeean! You know we was in New York getting treated like the UN Secretary General you know wah meeean. I looked at myself in the mirror and said Stanley Enow, you be number one ya!

Jovi is typing...... Jovi is typing...... Jovi is typing.....

Jovi: urghhhhh. Gosh stop!

Ko-C: Did you guys see the particularities of the irregularities and the career meningitis that could be stemming from the PoiseSocial list of most valuable rappers that puts me on bench?

Jovi: Hungry mendem all, all that Mendem over cheap, man use one week for work like 20 Brick.

Stanley Enow: 🤒

-Stanley Enow added Janet Jackson to the group. -Janet Jackson left the group

Stanley Enow: But she be calling me Cassanova

Jovi: 😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧

-Jovi Added Awu to the group

Awu: I go kill person oh, scatter balance person oh. Stanley don teach me lesson.

-Stanley Enow left the group.

Martin Enow: Stanley is too big for this kind of comparisons. He’ll come back when one of you gets a MTV award in 2014. We all know that will never happen!

B G Baba: Ko-C, I hear Sey dey talk Sey, Sey some slay queen dancer be talk sey...I swear Tori dey.

Ko-C: switching of the topic is a veneral disease you should constantly be focusing on rapping really fast that’s why I’m lacking the understanding and the reasoning for you to be appearing on that list.

Big G Baba: The mighty international Ndakwa Junior, kam so - Problem dey!

Amsnazzy Shikenna: How people perceive you won't matter but how you perceive yourself, deal with issues in life etc as it determine your Happiness.Be your own model. Seek to know you, seek to know God. That's all you need in this world. Don't get drawn by the funny, complicated, harsh words you hear around everyday. Where is the like button on here. MASSA WE DO IT BIG! Link to femme ideale in comments section. Skidi Boy you see the list Na how?

Skidi Boy: Tha list commot na Yawande - Ehhhhh P.

Pascal: Blood dey ya man e eye y. Strange thing dem just di happen. They nearly heeb me back for Santa. so any position now so I just get to take am. you see norr.

Ko-C: I’ll be calling all my fans to boycott the platform even ICT ex students have to join to kill any Poise mentality that is hindering my stability. Imagine the impossibility of the probability that Koss is not appearing on a list.

Tenor: Y'a rien de mal on s'amuse. Puttez pas ndjoundjou dans ça. Y'a toujours mauvaises commentaires derrière les bons write up de PoiseSocial. Le mfiang les ways que je yamoo.

-Amsnazzy added OTANG to the group.

OTANG: Hello Uncles, I’m very honored to be among Cameroon’s dying rappers. Magic Money Music has increased the price of my EP to 15,000 FCFA. That’s because I’m the new game change and the don nga for kwata. You can take it or leave it. I'm young and unstoppable.

Mic Monsta: I fit kill in the land of the death, use zero shilling get ngar for my bed. Picture Mandela with Marley e dread. No be PoiseSocial go tell me my worth.

Young Holiday: I just di laugh ( In my Young Holiday Voice)

Mic Monsta: 🙄

(To Be Continued)

- TeamPoise

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