On Friday, she was the main attraction at Captain Morgan: Spice Takeover, where the drinks brand debuted a new bottle, among other things.

Curated as a tribute, the event was Joeboy’s second of its kind since earlier this year, and both have one thing in common: Sammy Wetala and his Nduguz brand. These events are experiences rather than concerts, so there is never a live band on stage and there is no clear line-up of singers. What you get is lots of DJs and great MCs or hypemen and women.

There were probably two in this particular; Jokwiz Klean and Etania – one was for transitions and the other was for energy.

Then the DJs, they were really many but it was hard to forget DJ Bryan and Lynda Ddane’s set not for the music but for everything else; theatre, chemistry and Etania.

In the early 2010s, an electronic dance movement began to emerge in Uganda, hosting parties in warehouses, garages and sometimes gardens.

This gave birth to Kampala’s rave culture and later grew into a three-day event on the banks of the Nile River in 2015. We call the event Nyege Nyege.

Over the years, the rave spirit has been growing in Kampala, but there is no real rave music.

For example, even when Nduguz gave partygoers two experiences, neither tribute was centered around electronic music, which is key to a true rave experience.

Regardless, people had fun and danced to the various DJs who took to the decks. Things got really heated when Kranium’s DJ took people to the dance party with an intense reggae catalogue.

This is probably when the event stands out as a dancehall craze.

He had an audience of lovers of ska and mento, rock and ragga, and was even good at surprising his audiences with cultural and musical shifts. For example, who’s cueing 2Baba’s African Queen after Chronnix’s Skankin Sweet?

Of course the energy was different when Kranium took the stage, their managers and DJs have mastered the art of working the crowd. For his part, he knows how to perform in a playback without leaving the audience feeling cheated. Even without a live band on stage it still feels and sounds like a performance.

Unlike a variety of artists who take the stage and sing songs people have never heard before, it’s easy to tell that Kranium has knocked some of the biggest songs off the rails early on, with No Body Has to Know in less than 20 minutes on stage. I Can’t Believe and We Can, the rest was a man who survived by being an entertainer.

Kranium is not one of those Jamaican artists you would expect to give you a revolution with his songs and lyrics, most of them are X-rated in a way and that is something you cannot escape from his performance.

Sometimes it is not he himself but his audience who completes the lines, and it always lands in a certain place.

Like either Levis, the Jamaican artist was bombarded by girls on stage (not that he didn’t want them there, in fact he invited more of them), but his handlers managed to contain the situation by preventing some of them from even coming close to the stage. .