Like many others, Trizzie Ninety Six is working on making Rwandan music great with his rhymes and flow that many find unique. It is a journey the 25-year-old rapper started in primary school during lunch where kids would gather and battle in rap.

Trizzie Ninety Six aka ‘96’, real name Maurice Nyangabo, started his music journey back when climax visuals introduced him to Dizo Last, one of the best beat makers and producers in Rwanda, who put him on hits released in 2019 like ‘No room’, ‘Niza so’, ‘Igitabo Cya Channel’ and many others.

Talking to Weekender, the fast-rising artiste traced his love for music from the day he added the likes of Kanye West (Ye), Bryson Tiller and Drake to his playlist.

This, he says, opened his eyes and inspired him to start working on his vocals, rapping and writing skills, as well as his flow. 

"After recording my first verse, I realised that life was never going to be the same anymore, I had already decided to start music as a career,” the artiste recalls, saying his first days in making music were when he featured Dizo on a track dubbed ‘No Room’.

The making of ‘No Room’ was followed by releases like ‘Niza So’ and ‘Nihe’ which introduced him to the streets and made him gain attention and admiration of fans of trap music which was new to Rwandans.

"Almost everyone was singing my hook on ‘Nihe’, something I never thought could happen. It was B-Threy’s song but all the young ones were asking about the new boy singing on the hook,” says Nyangabo. 

Today, the rapper is topping charts in Rwanda and collaborating with some of the best musicians like Nillan, Logan Joe, Bushali, B Threy and many others.

Mixtape

Dubbed ‘Ibyawe’, the new mixtape which is scheduled to début later this month features only young musicians such as Logan Joe, B-Threy, Nillan, and Kenny k-shot, most of them signed under Loud Sound Music Movement.

Nyangabo says that the whole mixtape was inspired by the feedback he received from his recently released track dubbed ‘Fancy’.

"Fancy was a banger and it left many asking for more. That’s when I decided to hit the studio and record a 10-track mixtape,” he says.

According to Nyangabo, ‘Ibyawe’ holds more than three afro-beat tracks, two drill songs including ‘Isiri’, as well as trap tracks all produced by Ehlers, Kushbeat, Pro zed, Dizo, Kinabeat and Kraft Cartel.