GREEZY DUB

                      Greezy Dub is a zambian music producer who is currently based in South Africa. He produces a variety of music from Hip hop to electo-house.

KAPA187:  Welcome to the interview ,first off , who is Greezy Dub , where did you get that name? 

Greezy Dub : My real name is Duke Langa, im a 22 year old multi-talented, creative indivisual. Very laid back, easy to talk to, smart and open minded. I spent a lot of time outside of Zambia, grew up in the USA in a small town called Nashua in the state of New Hamphire from the age of 4 to 15. I finished my high school at roads park in 2005 and in 2007 went to CPUT (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) in Capetown, South Aftica and completed a National Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 2010. The “Greezy Dub” name came about in a funny way there’s no specific meaning but this is the story. Back in my highschool days around 2005 a year after I started producing I met another beat-maker by the name of Sam Aka grizzle, who grew up in the UK. We heard each other’s stuff and he liked my drums and I liked his strings. I used to go by Dubeous Duke so I put grizzle & dubious together to create GreezyDub , cause we had a disticntive sound so the name just stuck with me.

KAPA187:  Interesting story ,so  tell me , How did you get started in music production?

Greezy Dub : Well I have always had a passion for music since I was really young like 5 years old I would dress up like micheal Jackson and dance like him and my dad had alot of old records and CD collections so I was always around music. I started formally making music In 2004 at the age of 16. A friend of mine by the name of Chobela Aka Chobz told me he has this music making software called fruity loops 3.5. I asked him to bring me the CD cause he knew I had a general interest in music cause we would exchange music all the time. I took it home and had no idea how to use it but after hours and weeks of playing around with it I made my first beat. It was the wackest beat ever but I was going crazy calling all my cousins and friends to listen to it.

KAPA187:   So, when producing your music do you use real instruments or software like fruityloops and the like?  Are there any advantages of using real instruments over software.

Greezy Dub : I use software, right now I’m using fruity loops 9. I’ve never made beats from live instruments, though I play all my notes via the key-board. I barely sample anything so most of the time it’s my creation.

KAPA187:   How long have you been producing and who are your inspirations locally and internationally.

Greezy Dub : This is my 7th year producing. Most of the people that inspire me are international seeing that I spent most of my life outside of Africa. In terms of artist I’m inspired by Michael Jackson, Notorious BIG, in terms of producers Dr.Dre, Timabaland, The Neptunes, Swizz beatz, Kanye West, Danja Handz, Polow Da Don, Scott storch, just blaze & the runners just to name a few.

KAPA187:   Who have u produced for so far .

Greezy Dub : I have produced with a lot of people world-wide. Some just did a verse on my songs  others did a chorus, some I’ve done EP’s for, others mixtapes. A good number of them are currently working on some stuff with me. Some of the people ive worked with are :

Zambia – Inferior (rapper), Nick Pro (rapper), Klappa Haze (rapper), Sepo (rnb singer), Kasper (rapper), Kunda (rapper),Marvel Kasa(rapper), young N9ne (female rapper), Crisis (rapper)

Zimbabwe– Kapital K (rapper), Akilli (Rapper), Ray Chee (rnb singer), Larissa (Rnb singer), PS (Rapper).

South Africa- Dazz (rapper), Shonisani (house singer), Cyer (Rnb Singer), Caddy (Rapper), Basiq (rapper), Xola x (rapper), qualize (rapper)

Malawi- Eminent (rapper).
UK- Kemar Young (rapper), Trozion (rapper), Boney Black (rapper), Micheal waddy (rapper), Monique stylez (rnb singer), fuzzie bars (female rapper),

Italy Luca Barbieri (pop singer)

USA- Chronic (rapper), Sullee J (rapper), melo (rapper), J Focus (rapper), Joe n Joe (rnb
singers),

KAPA187:  Wow ,that’s a lot of people , what genre of music do you specialize in.

Greezy Dub :Well I’m mainly hiphop & R&B based but I also produce pop, electo-pop, electro, dance, dubstep & electro-house.

KAPA187:   What is distinctive about your production

Greezy Dub :Well I got a lot of influence seeing that I’ve lived in many countries an that’s potrayed in my sound. I like using weird sounds that people wouldn’t expect to here on a beat. Like alot of electro sounds  and I’m a drum & percussion guy so the majority of mystuff has hard hitting drums.

KAPA187:   Name one local and one international artist you would like to work with in the future , and give a reason.

Greezy Dub : I recently linked up with crisis in the beginning of the year and left him like 40 beats he’s defiantly one the people I would like to work with locally and internationally I would like to work with Lil Wayne I just think he’s one of the most talented and creative musicians out there would love to here him on my sound.

KAPA187:  Working with Lil wayne would be incredible , What has been your biggest achievement so far?

Greezy Dub :My biggest achievement as of yet is making the NO BORDERS track. It’s an idea that I had were I would get different artist from all over the globe to feature on 1 hot beat. So I posted up on facebook to artist that I have linked up with via the net and others which I didnt know to find out if they were interested in making some history. I told all the peeps that were interested to feature to inbox me there email address so I can send them the beat which I called bouncy means. I expected like 5 replies but luckily over 20 pepo replied. At the end of it all I asked for a minimum of an8 bar verse and I picked the best verse which included 14 rappers and 2 singers from about 7 different contries including USA, UK, SA. Zambia, Zimbabwe, Russia, Canada, botswanna.. The song got over 700 downloads up to date. So it was pretty cool achievement

KAPA187:  Do you adjust your production techniques to suit each individual artist? Can you give us a specific example?

Greezy Dub : Yeah most definatly man. I can easily adjust to most genres of music and I love experimenting. A good example is the un-expected color track I did for Shonisani from South Africa. It’s an electro house track that you can check out on my soundcloud I really went out my realm on that one seeing that I’m hiphop/rnb based.

KAPA187:   Its good to be diverse . What can we expect from Greezy Dub in the future?

Greezy Dub :You can expect a whole lot of new music from Greezy Dub. I’m currently under a management company by the name of AMEG (ask media entertainment Group) based in the UK so they are getting me a lot of placement with upcoming artist from there. I am also doing some in-house producing for a label in the USA by the name of ZMG (Zimmerman Music Group) so I got a lot of stuff coming out  with artists under their label. Locally I will be doing stuff with Zone Fam
diamond Chain and So Good.

KAPA187: Where can your fans listen to your music ?

Greezy Dub: facebook.com/GreezyDubmusic ,  my soundcloud ,reverbnation and Youtube pages.

THE MUSIC

ROCK TO IT

Has a nice Hiphop / dance feel to it. It is a definite club banger . I like how the beat changes up towards the end of the track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jevUJAWfWGI

NO BORDERS

This track features 14 rappers and 2 singers from 6 different countries .It has an electronic /futuristic feel to it.  It is a bit long , at 10min , but is definitely enjoyable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cGY8hMRtZo
BY KAPA187

Patriotic Front president Michael Sata has pledged that his first task would be to restore the dignity of the Zambian people within 90 days of the PF coming to power.

The PF leader has since declared that the country’s largest opposition party is ready for the 2011 elections.

Mr. Sata says no matter how long it takes for Republican President Rupiah Banda to announce the date of elections, his party is ready to give the MMD a good run for their money.

He has accused president Banda of trying to catch the opposition political parties unaware.

Mr. Sata says the PF is aware of the tactics the MMD wants to use before the announcement of the election date.

He says his party will bench the MMD this time around so that the Zambian people can witness development under the PF government.

Meanwhile Mr Sata says the MMD has started implementing initiatives aimed at disturbing the holding of free and fair elections.

He has however urged the Zambian people not to allow the MMD hoodwink them into voting for them back into power.

[pullquote]Mr. Sata has dismissed the purported email allegedly written by Kabwata Member of Parliament Given Lubinda to PF secretary general on the $45 million it has allegedly received from Taiwanese and Afghan businessmen.[/pullquote]

He explains that if PF loses this year’s election, it will not be the party that will lose but the suffering Zambian people themselves.

And Mr. Sata has dismissed the purported email allegedly written by Kabwata Member of Parliament Given Lubinda to PF secretary general on the $45 million it has allegedly received from Taiwanese and Afghan businessmen.

He has since challenged those circulating the reports to report the matter to the Drug Enforcement Commission.

Mr Sata says Mr Lubinda does not deal with issues of finances in the party, adding that the authenticity of the said email is also highly questionable.

Mr. Sata was speaking this morning when he featured on Hot Fm’s Hot seat programme.

QFM

THE World Bank has said the launch of Zambia’s new tourism brand name and slogan ‘Let’s Explore’, will increase foreign currency earnings and make the country a preferred tourism destination.

World Bank senior private sector development specialist Marie Sheppard said Zambia’s new brand is a creative innovation that will attract more tourists from across the globe.

Ms Sheppard said the tourism sector will generate more jobs for the locals as more local and foreign tourists sample the unexplored tourism sites.

She described the re-branding initiative as a potential foreign exchange earner, saying many people will visit areas they have never seen before resulting into more viewing of wildlife and waterfalls among other tourist attractions.

The country had been marketed for over 30 years under the brand name and slogan ‘Zambia the Real Africa’, which has since been replaced with ‘Let’s Explore Zambia’ as of last week.

“The re-branding of ‘Zambia the Real Africa’ into ‘Let’s Explore Zambia’ is timely because even before the brand was launched, over 10,000 people across the world participated in the initiative during the pre-launch period,” she said.

She said the World Bank was one of the partners the Zambia Tourism Board (ZTB) engaged in coming up with a new brand for the sector.

She said the sector will flourish under a new brand name but urged Government to ease the cost of doing business, which is still high for most tourism operators.

Ms Sheppard said doing business in the country is still high considering the poor state of the road network and lack of air transport to tourism attraction areas.

She said frequent changing of policies such as taxes, visas and levies in the sector are making it difficult for the tourism operators to price their products favourably.

“The poor state of Zambia’s roads in most tourist attraction areas is negatively affecting tourism operators who are currently struggling to price their products so that they can attract more local and foreign tourists,” she said.

[Zambia Daily Mail]

Supporters of the Opposition Patriotic Front (PF) yesterday harassed a MUVI Television crew which was assigned to cover the party’s general Conference in Kabwe.

Inutu Mwanza and Bruce Mwale were verbally harassed by convicted PF leader, Michael Sata’s body guard, Judge Ngoma in the presence of Post newspapers journalist, George Chellah while covering the proceedings of the conference.

Ngoma, who was last year convicted on two counts of assault in the Lusaka Magistrate’s court further issued death threats to defenceless, Inutu Mwanza.

The Crew was accused of filming for freelance journalist, Chanda Chimba III’s controversial programme “Stand Up for Zambia”.

The duo confirmed the development in Lusaka.

And Muvi Television Management described the action by the cadres as unfortunate. Company Director for Human resource and Administration, Alfred Tembo has since demanded an apology from the opposition party with immediate effect.

A visibly annoyed, Mr Tembo added that journalists should be allowed to operate in an environment which is free from political interference and intolerance.

But the Patriotic Front(PF) has Unreservedly apologized to MUVI Television for the incident. Secretary-General, Wynter Kabimba issued the apology in Lusaka.

[MUVITV]

Patriotic Front Kabwata Member of Parliament Given Lubinda has called on Zambians to be steadfast in the quest to remove the MMD from power.

Mr. Lubinda says it is clear that the MMD government has completely failed the Zambians.

He cited the failure by the local authorities to deliver necessary services to the people as an example that the MMD has failed.

He added that the continued blame by the ruling party on the Patriotic Front run-councils is an indication of failure on the part of the MMD.

Mr. Lubinda says Zambians should wake up and turnout in numbers on the day of elections to remove the failed administration of the MMD from power.

He says the failed developmental policies of the MMD have resulted in the ruling party hoodwinking Zambians with last minute promises of development such as the installation solar geysers.
[ QFM ]

Hope for Human Rights has advised managements at the Zambia Daily Mail, Times of Zambia and ZNBC to take the barring of their Editorial staff at the just-ended PF conference as a wake-up call.

Organization’s executive director smart Chanda said that the PF cannot be blamed for having barred that reporters from the public media because they have in most cases been used to scandalize the PF leader Michael Sata.

He said that what the public media needs to do is to ensure that it upholds high professional standards by giving equal coverage to people with divergent Views saying this will help in restoring public confidence.

And Foundation for democratic process has observed the need for the media bodies such has Media institute for Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia, and the Press Association of Zambia (PAZA) to mediate for reconciliation between the media and political parties in the country.

FODEP executive Director McDonald Chipenzi says that the journalists are committed to their job and that they have nothing to do with the biased editorial content that is published.

Mr. Chipenzi has since called for harmony between the political parties and the media in the country especially at a time when the country is heading to the polls.
[ QFM ]