Uhakika: from a freestyle to a remix in six days

The week that made Irene a story in Tanzania took six days and started with somebody else's song. On 22 July 2026 she posted a reel of herself rapping over Uhakika, the Ibraah record that was then the sound of the country, with a caption saying she was enjoying the great song from Zuchu and Ibraah and tagging it #Uhakikaremix. She was posting as Miss Nasty, the name on all her 2026 releases before she became Irene in October. The reel reached 30,500 views and 1,950 likes.

Two days later she cut the verse again for a YouTube short, and on the same day, 24 July, Ibraah's own Uhakika Remix with Jay Melody came out through Konde Music Worldwide, keeping the beat in everyone's feed.

Day three: the pages pick it up

On 25 July the Instagram news page Mnyalu TV reposted her freestyle and asked followers what percentage they would give her for the way she rode the Uhakika beat; the repost drew 40,700 views, 2,043 likes and 111 comments. The same day Remnakv Media ran a write-up under a headline calling her the female rapper shaking the internet, praising her sharp flows and confident delivery over trending beats and asking whether she could become one of the big names of Tanzania's new generation of female rappers.

Day five: the thank-you

On 27 July she posted the reel that became the most-liked captioned post on her Instagram: 355,000 views, 14,300 likes and 574 comments. In the caption she thanked Ibraah, calling him her brother, for a comment she said meant a lot to her, then spoke plainly to her audience. She wrote, in Kiswahili, that she still badly needed the support of Tanzanian fans and music people to grow her talent, that she was still a young woman who needed a hand to hold, and that the music journey is not easy at all. The same day a production page posted that the sister had killed it, tagging her and Ibraah, and a TikTok she posted without any caption went on to 963,300 plays.

Day six: the record

On 28 July the freestyle became a release. Toxic Fuvu, the self-styled King of Freestyle with 98,000 YouTube subscribers, put her on an Uhakika Remix with Yuzzo Mwamba, published as a video on the DIZZO channel, which had 16,995 views by 5 October 2026. A reel she posted on 5 August, as the remix circulated, reached 42,100 views.

Uhakika is Kiswahili for certainty, and the week delivered some: in six days a freestyle on her phone became press coverage, a 355,000-view thank-you and a record with two established rappers. Ibraah's Uhakika Remix was still at number seven on Apple Music Tanzania in the week of 5 October 2026.

Watch the freestyle and the thank-you reel here, then read the Toxic Fuvu remix story and open the Uhakika Remix release page.