![]() ![]() “ Bam Bam is one of those songs,” he says. Njoroge, who ran the hugely popular DS Club at the Nairobi Showground, says there is music that transcends the artiste. The theme of Bam Bam is about a righteous man, who, if provoked, will not hesitate to defend himself. The Maytals won Jamaica’s National Popular Song Contest in 1966 with Bam Bam. In Africa, Tiwa Savage sampled the hook in her Girlie O remix and even lesser-known Nigerian artistes such as Ketchup who made a splash in the music industry with Pam Pam which included samples of the song. “The owner of the bar would be angry because people are not drinking, everybody would be on their feet,” Njoroge said.
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