The Lyricist

The Lyricist is a hip-hop artist from Lusaka, Zambia. He is one of the most inspirational and influential hip-hop artists to emerge out of Zambia. As of June 2016, he had two albums to his name, 'Soul-Lid' (16 tracks) and 'Word of Liberty' (13 tracks). Some of his songs are 'Namayo', 'Latest O Greatest' and 'Director'. He featured on Zambia’s all stars track called 'Bana Bakwa Lesa'. He did a track with Malawian rapper called the Gospel.

In 2009, he was nominated for best hip-hop video award during the national Born ‘n’ Bred awards. That same year, his music earned him the leading role in a short soundtrack movie called Zedcrew. The movie received international recognition as it was selected to premier at the Directors fortnight during the Cannes movie festival in May 2010 and at the international movie festival of Rotterdam between January and February 2011. He was also nominated in the Best Hip-Hop artist category at the 2010 Chapro Awards.

In 2010 he performed at the Cannes. He was also invited to perform in Malawi and has done a lot of appearances, performances at concerts, schools, universities, churches, clubs, shopping malls, hotels, malls, neighbor hoods within Zambia.

He has shared the stage with Grammy nominee artist called Flame from the U.S. and also performed twice alone side U.S. rapper Pettidee.

Besides music, he has contributed to the local society by collaborating with YEN (youth environmental network) Zambia on several activities which include tree planting, having talks which schools on environmental issues that affect use and how to manage our environment.