Ndoto: where it started, as Miss Rapper TZ

Every catalogue has a first line, and Irene's is Ndoto. Ndoto is Swahili for a dream, and the official audio was uploaded to YouTube on 24 December 2025, Christmas Eve, under the name she used then: Miss Rapper TZ. Before the music of 2026 went out as Miss Nasty, and long before the name Irene, there was this.

The track runs 1:40 and was produced by Moh Dew, credited in her own description. It never went to the streaming platforms; it lives on YouTube only, where by 5 October 2026 it had gathered 12,191 views, the second most-watched upload on her channel. The poster is a neon purple and pink city at night with the words Miss Rapper TZ and Ndoto across it.

Her caption was an invitation that opened with karibu (welcome): welcome to watch my new song called Ndoto, make sure you subscribe and leave a comment, thank you. The tags she chose, among them #wasafitv, #cloudsmedia, #eatv and #bongofleva, show exactly where a new Tanzanian artist hopes to be heard.

A day later, on 25 December, she posted a short, NDOTO by miss rapper tz, and on 3 January 2026 a freestyle over the Leo instrumental, #leoremix. The channel itself had been created on 4 February 2025; these were its first uploads, and the start of everything on this site.

Watch Ndoto on the videos page, then follow the thread of the name, from Miss Rapper TZ to Miss Nasty to Irene, on the about page.