Tanzania's most prominent Bongo Flava producer. And is credited as one of the founders of the genre P.Funk. Swah rap Swahili rap, known as Swah Rap, began to develop in the early 1990s. Led by the Kwanza Unit, a group composed of many of the major artists, Swah rap sought to bring Tanzanian themes to their rap. Kwanza Unit modeled a Kwanzian Nation after Afrika Bambaataa's Zulu Nation. Kwanzian Nation tried to bring positive messages to the music. These artists combined their traditional word play, evocative puns, and rhyming with Tanzanian topics to fight working class oppression and develop authentic Tanzanian culture. However, in reality, many Swah Rap tracks have been infiltrated by words and themes from American "gangsta rap." Famous Swah Rap Artists include Villain Gangsters, Tribe X, Riders Posse, K singo and Abbas Maunda. Tanzanians' view of American rap music Rappers such as Sam Stigillydaa has said, "American rappers talk about crazy things- drinking, drugs, violence against women, American blacks kill blacks. I hope African rap stays African and doesn't turn crazy." Tanzanians view the United States as an aggressive country that romanticizes both violence and crime whereas Tanzania dispels such a romanticization of violence and crime. Tanzanians view crime as caused by economic need, not greed, and those who become criminals risk having people brand them social outcasts. Tanzanians also view cultural imperialism as a form of symbolic violence that relies on a relationship of constrained communication to extort submission. Bongo Flava artists Mr. II (aka Sugu) Fid Q Bill Nass Professor Jay Balozi Dola X-Plastaz Saleh J AY Dully Sykes TID Nandy Lady Jaydee Diamond Platnumz Juma Nature Ali Kiba Dizasta Vina Panishee Mdudu Jay Moe BJB References External links Extra Listening for Tanzanian Hip Hop and AIDS awareness. Three African musical responses to AIDS, Recordings from Africa show the range of musical responses to the pandemic.