Fimbo: the first EBL MUSIC record, credited as Nasty

Before Nafasi there was Fimbo. Released on 26 June 2026 through EBL MUSIC, it was Irene's first record with the Dar es Salaam camp that would carry her breakout single 54 days later. It went out under the shortest version of her then-name: the credit line reads simply Nasty, alongside Maarifa, P Mawenge, Zaiid and Kategory, on a track led by EBL Drucula and billed on the video as 20 Percent and EBL Drucula together. All of it was released as Miss Nasty, or here just Nasty; she became Irene in October 2026.

Fimbo is Kiswahili for a stick or a cane, and the video's hashtags frame the song as a hustler's anthem. It is a posse cut in the classic sense, six and a half minutes long (6:30 on streaming, 6:33 as a video), with room for every voice. P Mawenge, from Kiwalani in Dar es Salaam, has been recording since 2010 and made his name with Mwingi wa Habari in 2012; Irene, the only female rapper on the 2026 EBL MUSIC roster, holds her own in that company.

Confirmed by her own posts

Because the credit is one word, the song's place in her catalogue rests on her own Instagram. On 27 June she posted that Fimbo was out on YouTube and asked people to subscribe; on 28 June she put a clip on the Fimbo audio with a one-word caption calling herself a good bad girl; on 5 July a reel titled simply Fimbo reached 11,700 views; and on 16 July a reel carrying the full credit, down to her own name, reached 12,900.

The official video, published on 20 Percent's channel 20 Power, had been watched 80,196 times by 5 October 2026 with 1,600 likes, which makes Fimbo her second most-watched appearance on YouTube, behind only Na Enjoy.

Watch the Fimbo video here, then open the release page to stream it, and meet the EBL MUSIC camp on the people page.