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MEX CORTEZ
About Me
Mex Cortez was inspired early on by the legendary hip hop artist Eminem to rap while the local sensation, One the incredible inspired him to rap in Swahili.
As a teenager he was so obsessed with rhyming that by the time he was in high school he recorded tracks on FL studio on his laptop and shared the tracks with his schoolmates. After high school, Mex Cortez and his friends formed the rap group Brimeg and released their first mixtape that they named Brimeg Reloaded. In 2016 while performing at the lyricist Lounge in Dar’s party area Masaki, he was discovered by Lufu, his mentor and one of the founding members of the notorious hip hop crew Kikosi cha mizinga who provided him with access to a recording studio.
And so by 2017, Mex Cortez was officially introduced into the music industry with the release of his first solo mixtape named Badnews which in spite of its novice status, featured Tanzanian legends such as Fid Q
and Wakazi. He finally released his first studio album, Monsoon winds in 2021 that was well received by the fans and which aside from featuring prominent Tanzanian artists like his childhood hero One the incredible, AY Masta, Fid Q, Nikki Mbishi, G Nako, Hashim Dogo, and Zimbabwe’s own Gemma Griffith, it was the first of its kind to be sold and distributed through
As a teenager he was so obsessed with rhyming that by the time he was in high school he recorded tracks on FL studio on his laptop and shared the tracks with his schoolmates. After high school, Mex Cortez and his friends formed the rap group Brimeg and released their first mixtape that they named Brimeg Reloaded. In 2016 while performing at the lyricist Lounge in Dar’s party area Masaki, he was discovered by Lufu, his mentor and one of the founding members of the notorious hip hop crew Kikosi cha mizinga who provided him with access to a recording studio.
And so by 2017, Mex Cortez was officially introduced into the music industry with the release of his first solo mixtape named Badnews which in spite of its novice status, featured Tanzanian legends such as Fid Q
and Wakazi. He finally released his first studio album, Monsoon winds in 2021 that was well received by the fans and which aside from featuring prominent Tanzanian artists like his childhood hero One the incredible, AY Masta, Fid Q, Nikki Mbishi, G Nako, Hashim Dogo, and Zimbabwe’s own Gemma Griffith, it was the first of its kind to be sold and distributed through