Category: EDITORIAL

  • Munch! Sip! And Rhyme! For Mental Health & Arts Inspired Therapy

    Munch! Sip! And Rhyme! For Mental Health & Arts Inspired Therapy

    NuveyLive.org, Sobriety Line and other entities invite the general public and the NuveyLive community to Munch! Sip! And Rhyme! – A snack drinks and rhyme inspired evening. We are inviting you to come create one rhythm for mental health awareness and therapy outreach through arts. We are continuing the conversation of promoting mental health, therapy…

  • Top UG Hip-Independence Playlist 2017

    Top UG Hip-Independence Playlist 2017

    In this year’s edition of the top hip-independence (hip hop inspired Independence Day) playlist; we have interesting entries that we think really deserve to be mentioned. Year to year we do curate this playlist as a way for us to show we can celebrate Uganda’s independence through hip hop. We also aim at limiting the…

  • Clear The Air, Part Three: An all UG Hip Hop Awards – what’s wrong?

    Clear The Air, Part Three: An all UG Hip Hop Awards – what’s wrong?

    I would love to welcome you from last week – a week that was filled with much activity and excitement. Headlines or equivalents read:  Bibala video out! , 2017 UG Hip Hop Awards nominees announced and so much more. Last week the conversation was around millennials and how we need to share knowledge and acquire…

  • Clear The Air – Part one: a Defence for UG Trap music

    Clear The Air – Part one: a Defence for UG Trap music

    I am writing this piece listening to my line up of so-called “Trap songs”. First on the list is Megu by Titi Deewani and shortly Kijanah and his Hakuna Stress will follow. I am a music fan and I listen to anything if it works for me, it should stick right? Even if it doesn’t…

  • Payne Keelah Explains why he will charge you for his Music: Because It is an investment Too

    Payne Keelah Explains why he will charge you for his Music: Because It is an investment Too

    Payne Keelah; some will call underdog, funny, straight with the bars type of rapper and  we can add  knowledge kicker! He on 17 April shared on his Facebook Page a quick economics lesson. He writes: [aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#ffffff” text=”#32102d” align=”center” size=”2″ quote=”"When you tell me to invest in myself it shouldn’t come as a surprise…

  • PRESS: All You need to Know about Therapeutic Purpose of Poetry & Music Event

    PRESS: All You need to Know about Therapeutic Purpose of Poetry & Music Event

    Often times the perspective of what poetry, music and literature can do is limited to aesthetic and entertainment sake. It is is not a bad thing, and in fact you tune in to staff that interest you. We for a while most of you were wondering what Therapeutic Purpose of Poetry and Music Event is…

  • My Story : I used Music to Escape, to travel and dream

    My Story : I used Music to Escape, to travel and dream

    Written by Mickey Solow | Growing up from the humblest of beginnings, we didn’t have a lot. At that time, it didn’t mean much until I started growing up. I saw my shoes, wished they were newer because the kids at school had a lot of those. So I always felt like i wasn’t good…

  • Six With Shirley May- Music calms me down, Speaks to me when no one is

    Six With Shirley May- Music calms me down, Speaks to me when no one is

    Six With Feature, today is centered on Shirley May a budding rapper who is so determined to grow in and with hip hop. She has had her buzz coming and its good.  On this episode we talk about her, hip hop and the big elephant in the room from NuveyLive; Poetry, Music as Therapy. She…

  • Music is True Therapy, It is my open window

    Music is True Therapy, It is my open window

    Music is True Therapy As  NuveyLive we are currently running a campaign on the Therapeutic purposes of Poetry and Music under our sister blog Sobriety Line. We are probing our readership, community and interested individuals to share with us. We invite stories that may include and not limited to how creating or consuming certain art…

  • Hip Hop, Buy Uganda Build Uganda Matters to US

    Hip Hop, Buy Uganda Build Uganda  Matters to US

    Today the Ministry of Trade and other stake holders launch the Buy Uganda Build Uganda campaign which has been trending on Twitter acronym-ed as #BUBU. Well it sounds like what one will call their better half. Seriously though we think this #BUBU agenda is important a force in the Hip Hop world, poetry and beyond.…