The state capital Yenagoa and it's alias "YENTOWN"

By Yawng Boss

That's a very long story, but I will try to make it short. I actually haven't shared this story with anyone before now. After I met B-Raiz (co-founder of KashKamp) of the present KKTBM fame years ago in Yentown Bayelsa state, we became pretty close as he was a really cool dude and rapper who introduced me to J. Cole at the time. I was also deep into the rap game and he loved my works at the time, we collaborated on a song and he took me to Warri, Delta state where he introduced me to other members of KashKamp - Tizz Blaq, Obus, Sailors Bell, etc... Yung6ix already moved to Lagos then so he told him about me on phone.

He also hooked me up with the Magic City Gang, the likes of Franky Free, DJ Toxic A, and some other cats... B-Raiz wanted me to rep KashKamp and was making moves. However, when I got back to my city, I thought deeply about me reppin KashKamp, I came to a resolution that everybody on the KaskKamp train had something in common, they were either from Delta state, or grew up somewhere in Delta state (mostly Warri), another strong factor was that some of them grew up together and their friendship circle was strong.  I felt like a stranger and KashKamp was strongly holding it down for Warri.

At that point I hooked up with my brother from another mother, now known as Ecclesiastes formally called Pakiss10. I told him about my experience and how I wanted us to create a rap gang that would hold it down for Yentown & Bayelsa state in general anytime, any day. He loved the idea and after a week, we came up with the music gang Musik Monsterz Inc and made Pakiss10 the head because of his level of experience.

Quickly we integrated our brothers who were extremely talented too into the gang, am talking about Bayelsa state music production living legend then known as TDG or T-Dog G, but now known as Chiff Tims TDG, and our then manager Ken Walez (now Ken Whalez Ade). Together the four of us played a huge role in shaping Bayelsa state musical scene. I vividly remember how we sat down one of those nights and discussed on how to rebrand Yenagoa. Bayelsa state was fundly reffered to as "B.Y" at the time and I hated that. It reminded me of the BYC t-shirts LOL.

After many options we came up with the term "YEN TOWN" basically because the first three letters in spelling Yenagoa is Y.E.N. Our decision was influenced by the nicknames given to other cities, Warri is nicknamed Waff Town, Benin city is B-Side, Calabar is Cali, Jos is J-Town, etc. To sell the nickname YenTown to our people, our business minded homie Chiff Tims actually brought up the idea of a clothe line popularly known as YenTown clothings. With that we started selling YenTown on t-shirts and promoting the term on our songs. That's the real story about Musik Monsterz Inc and the term or nickname YenTown.

Right now, I am the head and only person holding it down for MMINC. As Pakiss10 is now born again and he is into Gospel music with his own imprint Heavenly Music. As for Chiff Tims we all know his story LOL, he ventured into politics and he quitted music. But he's back anyway, rebranded and now owns his own imprint Tims Urban Music. And as for Ken Whalez, he relocated to Lagos state and holds it down for House of Lamac.
But we all are still pretty cool anyway, no beef, we just grew bigger and that's what we always strived for.

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