Although the ruling UPND heavily used his “Ba Mwankole” song in the 2021 election campaigns, Drimz says he avoids diluting his craft with partisan politics. The Ba Mwankole (pied crows) song, performed in Bemba, describes how people tend to change the way they speak and how they carry themselves the moment they rise to positions of power. But Drimz says his song just happened to relate to a lot of people at the time, insisting that it was not intended to be a campaign anthem. In an interview with Diggers Lite, Drimz observes that Zambians sadly fail to create a distinction between social commentary, civic issues and politics. “You see, I don’t go into a studio to plan to do...

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