KAPA187: How did you come up with the name Rizen Rizon? 

Rizen Rizon : Basically when one listens to my music it has so much more to do with who we are and our identity. One morning, in the early hours, I was meditating on a jeremiah 1:5. In this portion of scripture God tells Jeremiah he knew him even before he was born and he set him apart. God is not unfair that he’d choose to have a plan for him and not others. The conclusion is that God has a plan for us all as purpose for our living a reason if you may. We are alive and sustained too to accomplish that reason. I believe everyone has it. But you can never know your reason or purpose unless you align yourself with the one who created us and has a plan for us. If we don’t know this our purpose is dead or dormant we are living in search of life when we should be living life. I have come to know my purpose, my reason it was dead but now it’s alive and risen. So am living my purpose, hence rizen rizon.

KAPA187: What made you decided to do gospel influenced hip hop as opposed to mainstream hip hop. 

Rizen Rizon: I believe there is something more I can bring to the table as a human being.Like I said earlier am not just living and living and living in search of life. If I gotta rap I need to be talking about something tangible and fruitful something that will stir someone into their God given purpose. Something so huge it has an impact on their life eternal. There is something more to human kind, we are always searching for something. We are always looking for something big out there. I found it. I experience God daily. He is someone everyone needs. I want to usher young people into God’s hands with my talent where they can find the fullness of Joy and that sense of completion.

KAPA187:  Do u listen to “secular” hip-hop, what is your opinion about it.

Rizen Rizon: No I don’t unless am just somewhere like a bus and I can’t do anything about it. Secular Hip Hop was my love once upon a time. I know just how much it messed me up with alot of twisted ideas doctrines that I came to learn about and see clearly when I switched over to the other side. How, women are looked at, the focus on the good life when in actual sense the people involved in itself are struggling with their own self just makes me leave it all completely. I’d rather seek after truth, something real and tangible. I don’t wanna listen to someone talk about drugs, girls, a good time and self identification or exaltation, get caught up in it and when am alone I still struggle with issues and with myself. That’s not helping. My life is a life and not a patched up body, it matters. Therefore I don want to get funny ideas for a mortal who too seeks salvation from himself. Someone who does not understand himself cannot show you how to understand who you are. Such reasons make me stay away from secular music all together not just hip hop. I loved Hip Hop. I did.

KAPA187: Which artists locally and internationally inspire you? 

Rizen Rizon: My biggest inspiration is flame. I have met him twice I have had the blessing of a privilege of being on radio with him twice when he visited Zambia, it was a blessing. Second is Lecrae and the Tedashi. Locally my biggest inspiration is blessington he is an R&B/ hip hop artist. A great worship leader too.

KAPA187: Holy hip hop is not as popular as mainstream, what do you bring to the table that will make people want to listen to your music?

Rizen Rizon: The biggest thing I bring Is Jesus really. I think He is the single biggest thing I can bring. His Love, unlimited, the hope in him, salvation are just so pivotal. From an artistic point of view, I think people will be listening to someone who is diverse in style, anointed with wisdom and someone who is ready to break it down as it is, speaking to the point.

KAPA187:  When will your album, ‘detox’, be out and what can people expect from it.

Rizen Rizon: Detox is out august 2011. What most people expect from it is a straight message that Jesus knows how dirty we all are but he is there to clean us up. Its slogan is that sin is a towing so we get it out. For people who are tired of sin, addicted to drugs, sex ,masturbation, alcohol, porn this album is like a solution. I have been down some crazy roads so I put my heart and mind into this project by the Power of The Holy Spirit.

KAPA187: How do you spend your free time?

Rizen Rizon: Am a TV series freak so i watch them alot. Am mad about soccer too so weekends when am off church it goes down.

KAPA187:  What has been your biggest achievement to date? 

Rizen Rizon: Wow that’s a trick question. It depends on how one measures success. I measure success in terms of how much my life ministers to others. How much people see me represent God and are blessed. So my biggest achievement is being looked at as a positive role model in my society, and having been made ambassador for dance for life international in Zambia. Besides that am blessed to have my music on dasouth.com, and my music having been featured on mix shows on holyculture radio in the states, not to mention everywhere the music went out there. But with my mission in mind I rarely base success on the music but the impact.

KAPA187:  Is there anything that you have done that you immediately regretted?

Rizen Rizon: So much stuff I must say. Sometimes we do stuff not knowing the consequences sometimes we just do stuff to feel accepted and to please others. Such is life. But thank God I know how crazy Jesus loves me regardless of my shortcomings. He took me in in  the most challenging times of my life even when he knew I’d sin against him the next moment. He has so much faith in me and we been walking together from strength to strength. I regret so much but I don’t feel condemned or dwell in the past. Am a new person the past is the past. Romans 8:1

KAPA187: You did a song called tiyende pamozi , what is it about it. 

Rizen Rizon: It is a peace song for Zambia. Talking about so much stuff. First it talks about citizens, youth in particular being mute never so many issues as they spend so much time on irrelevant issues like drinking. It saddens me that a shot of alcohol in zed costs the same as a lolly pop or 5 chewing gums and sold at the same place a kid would go and buy sweets. And our youth just get high without work, without enforcement of legislation that governs this. It talks about leadership, abit of corruption and most importantly unity. It’s a lil dynamic.

KAPA187: Where do you see yourself in the next few years?

Rizen Rizon: Doing a lot of God’s work in zed and running rehabilitation centres.

THE MUSIC

Tiyende Pamodzi

Is a song encouraging  peace and unity

LIGHT CLUB

It has a nice energetic beat , that you can dance to, but not in the night club , in the Light club!!  “A place better than Vegas , better than the theater of dreams . The light Club” . Blessing 10 adds an addictive chorus to this wonderful song.

CHILI CHE

Another stand out track is Chili che

His album Detox will be out on the second week of september. make sure you get a copy.

BY KAPA187