HOLY TEN’S CAMP DENIES DEGRADING BABY MAMAS
RAPPER Holy Ten has dropped a short controversial single titled Risky Life with lines that overtly say he is not into ‘mvana’ single mothers, raising the ire of fans.
However, his manager Edwards Nyamutsika was quick to defend the chanter’s statements saying they are not negative.
The track, Risky Life, sparked a debate on social media as some felt Holy Ten’s lyrics lacked respect for single mothers or women in general.
Culturally, single mothers have been sidelined or discriminated against in our African society for having a child out of marriage, and they are shunned and viewed as second class women with a lower value than those who are married and still single without a baby.
Hence, the word mvana — though it’s meaning is just a single mother, it has been mostly viewed as a derogatory term because of our patriarchal society which degrades single mothers.
However, there is also the word mumvana which only means a daughter and its not used in negative terms.
In Holy Ten’s song, Risky Life, maybe out of naivety or intentionally, there is a line which says “...Holy mujaya am only 22 please handidi kutevera mvana and when the cougars are calling am ignoring them...”
Nyamutsika denied there is negativity on single mothers in the statement and he refused to comment further.
“The Shona translation, mvana mukadzi ane mwana.
“I see nothing negative here except people trying to create negativity.
“When women say they want dark tall handsome men with beards do you question them?,” asked Nyamutsimba.
Nyamutsimba also refused answering other questions as he said his camp decided not to comment on Risky Life.
“We are not responding to this one any time soon. Let the public create its own discourse.
“...Will forward but the whole team agreed on sitting this one out,” he told H-Metro.