Every day on Instagram: the reels of September and October

Instagram is Irene's second stage. The account, @missnasty_tz, still carries the name she released her 2026 music under, Miss Nasty, and on 5 October 2026 it had 22,700 followers, 387 following and 38 posts. Its header reads like her TikTok bio, rapper and songwriter from Tanzania working in Kiswahili, English and French, and it points to the Nafasi video on YouTube. The grid is reels, almost nothing else.

A reel a day

The rhythm picked up right after Tu party. The single came out on 19 September 2026; on 20 September a reel went up, another on 21 September, and from 30 September to 5 October she posted every day, twice on 4 October. It is a diary format: a selfie to camera, braids or a headscarf, sometimes a robe, sometimes a face mask, people smiling, text over the frame. Nothing is staged like a music video. It is the artist talking, in the weeks her own single was new.

At the top of the grid sits the pinned reel from 31 July 2026, a dancing clip in shorts that has anchored the profile since the summer. Between the daily posts are two reels she is tagged in rather than posted herself: one from the creator Chioma (@chioma_the_1st) on 25 September, with a skateboard and a bandanna, and one from Nollykid (@noll_ykid) on 24 September. Chioma also shows up on her TikTok, in a post tagged with her handle.

Why it matters

Her TikTok audience, 422,300 strong, dwarfs Instagram at 22,700. But Instagram is where the daily face of the brand lives, and the reels of late September and early October 2026 are the last chapter posted as Miss Nasty before the name became Irene. Watching them in order is watching the handover happen in real time.

Scroll the full reel grid on the Instagram page, then play Tu party, the single released the day before the diary began, on the music page.