Has the gospel music industry become too materialistic? Let's ask Pitson, the guy who hit us with an amazing song that is Lingala Ya Yesu. So, in the lyrics of this particular song (which indeed catapulted him to become the biggest gospel artiste in Kenya) Pitson said: "Sio lazima utoboe kila pahali ndio msanii usikike... Sio lazima magari ya kifahari ndio video ishike..."

But what do we see when we look at all these so called gospel music videos? Isn't it all flashy and top notch grandiosity? Isn't it that all we see is gospel artistes trying to show how materialistic they've become? What happened to all the modesty Pitson was singing about?

The videos we see nowadays from Kenyan gospel artistes are shot in posh hotels with big and glittering state of the art vehicles and the artiste is all there to show how his/her dress code is on point. Lots of bling-bling and even loads of bank notes flying around. Where is all the modesty? Where is the inspiring, spiritual message in all that.

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Now, Papa Dennis has a new video out. It's called Wonder. He featured a Nigerian singer Korede Bello.

Apart from the amazing videography by Director Moe Musa from Nigeria (I tell you Nigerians are everywhere), what else do you see in this video? I see some Ferraris, light-skins and lots of plushness in it.

Locally, it would cost you both arms and legs, and maybe the kidney and the pancreas, to afford this kind of a video. The video was shot partly in Dubai. But how much did it cost the fast-rising Papa Dennis?

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"The video was fully sponsored by a certain tycoon in Dubai. It cost us just over USD100,000 (about 10 million shillings). We didn't pay Korede Bello a dime, he and Marvin Records likes Papa's music. We are about to spend more on him because he has four more collabo songs with a top US female artiste and big artistes from Africa," says his manager Sadat Muhindi.

There you have it folks. While some of you are operating on a lean budget of strong tea and mandazi, another person is plundering some 10 million shillings on a music video! Know and stick to your lane!

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