Also frequently collaborates with other artists such as Ruyonga, Maurice Kirya[1] and Lyrical G.[2] As an entrepreneur, Enygma conducts private business, mostly outside of the entertainment industry.
He teamed up with his cousin, producer Vince Vaider, to put together an album in 2001, but technical difficulties got in the way and Enygma promptly retired from rapping to focus on University education.
[3] This resulted in Enygma receiving two Buzz Teeniez Awards Nominations (Top Hood Rapper and Breakthrough Artist) in 2012.
As soon as he started school, he became a champion at spelling bees and had excellent relationships with his English teachers who recognised his natural affinity for the written word.
Enygma memorised all the lyrics and did the same for MC Hammer's U Can't Touch This and Will Smith's theme song to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Over the next decade, he collected music by 2pac, Notorious BIG, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Xzibit, DMX, Busta Rhymes, Naughty By Nature, Warren G, Will Smith, Lil Kim, Missy Elliot and Rakim.
In 1997, Mase released 24 Hours To Live featuring the Lox, Black Rob and DMX in one of the most explosive posse cuts at that time.
This led Enygma to abandon rapping as he was beginning University life and aside from performing at one campus show a year, did not have time to pursue it as a craft.
After University, Enygma only remained involved in hip-hop as an observer and began a career in the corporate world, completely uninvolved in the music industry.
When Da Posse were not recording songs on computers with Skype mics, they were having freestyle cyphers or battling each other, with the aim of sharpening their lyrical prowess.
He decided that he would hold off retirement until he had seen how much more he could grow as an artist and reclassified Enygma of the State from an album to a mixtape and released it in June 2011.
[5] The lead single off the mixtape was Hustler's Night featuring The Mith, Keko and Navio which went down as one of Ugandan hip-hop's all-time classic tracks.
His hip-hop education taught him that mixtapes were always full of cover beats, instrumentals from popular hits that the artist in question wanted to tackle and give a new interpretation.
With everybody working full-time in their corporate careers, gathering all members together consistently enough to record enough songs for a mixtape was a difficult challenge but not impossible.
Fortunately though, his relentless work ethic meant that there was another mixtape in the vault and so there was a project available for release to tide over his audience until the album is ready.
[14] Enygma has demonstrated on social media as well as discussed on various radio interviews that he is a Muslim, and that Islam is an important part of his life.