A lot of people had been pleading and begging the Zim Dancehall King, Winky D, for a track late in 2020. He finally answered on 17 December 2020 with "Ragga Msambo," released as part of a three-track trilogy alongside "David and Goliath" and "Reply", and here's what we think of it.
Fans got exactly the surprise early-morning drop they'd been begging for, and reaction was instant and mostly euphoric, though critics were more split track by track. "Reply", with its Cinderella-story music video of a DM slide gone right, was the clear favourite, praised for being simple, well-shot, and genuinely charming. "David and Goliath" took more heat, mostly over Winky D's patois delivery, while "Ragga Msambo" itself landed as pleasant but unremarkable unless you were already a die-hard fan. None of that dented his standing much; he closed out the year as one of the country's biggest draws, going head-to-head with rival Jah Prayzah on the same Harare bill days later.
That momentum never really stopped. Winky D followed the trilogy with the more overtly political Eureka Eureka album in 2023, marked his 20th year in music with the "Ghettocracy" show at the Harare International Conference Centre that December, dropped the six-track EP Pabho in early 2025, and released Tête à Tête (Hello Africa), a stripped-down, reggae-leaning departure from his usual dancehall sound, on 1 September 2026, an album that's currently topping local streaming charts. Nearly six years on from "Ragga Msambo," he's still Zimbabwe's most consistently talked-about musician, and still willing to take risks with the formula that got him there.
As for Boom Box itself: what started as a same-day reaction to a Winky D release has stuck around as one of Djeuce's regular series, with new instalments landing roughly once a month covering fresh drops from across Zimbabwean and wider African music.
