Pilipli says it's okay to smoke a little MaryJane

What?
Good old genge artist Pilipili had few trips in and out of the country and decided that because of that, he could say anything and people would take it lying down. What?

On Thursday May 1 2008, Pili appeared on Str8 Up talking about what he's been doing while not appearing on TV, blah, blah, blah. So very casually Lina the host of the show, asks him whether he feels that he is indirectly supporting the activities of crime, seeing as he does a genre of music that means Gang, (gang music)

Pili very quickly and thoughtlessly replies:

"Ah, No! I don't do Genge, my style is very different. What I do, I would have to call G&B, yaani Genge and Blues"

Lina: But isn't that still Genge? It has genge in it, doesn't it?

Duh!

Pili: Ah no! Enyewe, I don't think Genge is a bad genre of music, genge ni poa, haileti maviolence

.....or something like that is what he said.

Well, if i'm not wrong, and I know that I'm not G&B has G in it which stands for, oh I don't know, Genge maybe?!

Woi! Pili please stick to one thing and defend it to the end even though it is wrong ama get stronger arguements. And Gosh Pili, not to make you sound shallow lakini, do you really think critically before you speak? BEcause, you know, we won't think you are slow if you just take a little time before you open your mouth. it is wise for anyone, especially a celebrity to choose words very wisely.

The next set of questions really gave Pili away as a likely ganja smoker. I said likely.
Anyway, now comes the scariest words that this man uttered during the very same show. We'll y'all know that there's a Turbulence concert going on as we speak, right? Today, May 2, 2008? So Pili goes ahead to praise turbulence, says that he's a great performer, has great energy on stage and psyches people up, right?

Then Lina asks: But don't you think that the kind of music that Turbulence and other reggae artists do promotes violence and smoking weed?

Pili: Which weed are you talking about? you know there's the weed that grows in the shamb.....

Linah: No, no,no you know which weed I'm talking about. The one and only weed (she indicates with her fingers and her mouth that she's holding a smoke)

Pili: Oooooh. Ok (in swahili). Yes, I know that people really abuse weed sometimes, they abuse it, but I don't see any harm in smoking a little bit of it.

Did you mom or dad, watching with your kids feel your heart stop just as he said that? Of course not, because you are never home with your kids are you? Even when you get a day off like Labour Day, you sleep right through it and let your kids watch people telling them that smoking weed "ain't such a bad thing if you smoke a little. And who are the audience, little boys and girls just in the baby steps of puberty, curious about everything. Gosh! Pili. Someone ought to make good use of duck tape around your mouth and fingers. That way, you wouldn't say or write something as preposterous as that. Oh Lord help our youth because people like Pili who utter careless statements are the actual people that the youth look up to and want to emulate.

Heaven forbid if that be so because we shall be raising a nation of weed smokers.

This goes out to all celebrities, made and in the making. Protect your youth by thinking about the effects your words will have and not uttering such careless statements like "smoking a little weed is good"

What?

You'd rather lie and save a few young guys, than tell the truth and take them all down with you. Sometimes, a lie is not always with ill intent.