He says first they suffer from lack of public rehearsals so people do not have time to discover them,see who did something impressive this or that day because jb prefers "vip rehearsals" while in maison mere rehearsals even people of the lowest social level can be around and the second factor is the marketing aspect as in the videos shown on tv roger ngandu who does the editing picks only jb's entrances one or two songs and then sebene which is why most bcbg members want to be on stage so people can at least see their faces
I will translate on memory since i watched it live and did not watch again since
he said he had decided not to do interviews with congolese press for a while because he did not feel respected enough and overall did not appreciate how monotonous the interviews had become with plenty of polemic very little of pure art and naty asks if it is because he now got access to most big french channels that he dumped congolese tv and he said no he decided way earlier proof is even his friend naty was denied interview for two years now he says tokooos is a good experience for him because he needed to challenge himself and promote congolese music abroad while still adapting a bit to urban music so there is some songs who still have a strong congolese vibe,and he is happy about how album is doing at the moment and warner music are happy aswell because he has sold over 30000 cds which he finds great for a such a new experiment both from congolese and urban music he said unfortunately in DRC a lot of people would rather something bad continues to happen than accepting criticism and improving so it seems a lot of person were hurt by him just basically wanting press to be more professional for the good of our music he is sorry for some but he is sorry aswell for those who were hurt because if they know they do nothing wrong they would not be hurt by him press had been for way too long untouchable and has contributed heavily to promoting some things which were once nice but which on long term contributed to our downfall and if they can sit down and make a honest assessment he believes much more of them will agree he was asked whether its true that he did f victeam just to help musicians who would never be a potential threat to him as he produces lambio lambio and he says no and people should respect lambio who despite being old has something to offer and except lambio he has all the young guys featured on to dondwa and an album coming soon and helping people does not necessarily have to go through f victeam as he gives example of robinio mundibu who does outside tokooos the same music with sebene and rumba and is on the rise who he supports as much as he can and adds that he will not produce people just for the sake of it those people have to be guys who are respectful and down to earth because he accepts no "grey" ,with him its always black or white,either they are getting along very well either they do not talk to each other anymore none of those fake friendships for any interest and if something he falled out with in public approaches him to apologize in private(possibly talking about fabregas) he does not consider it until the person has honesty of also apologizing on tv where he did wrong and anyways even if he forgives its not always that you'll find somebody who proves you that becoming friends again is worth it he talked about his nicknames like "genius" "the greatest" and so on and gives example of jb,koffi,papa wemba who also had huge superlative nicknames and it did not bother anybody people accepted them like that and says he works hard to back it up with his music he talked about his relationship with koffi saying koffi is like a father for him and he has massive respect and when he left he wanted to prove that you can be succesful when leaving a band without having a long term public beef its true that he cant lie that he appreciated some things koffi did towards him but its obvious that the great things koffi did for him are much much bigger than the bad ones so he is forever grateful and also have massive respect for the likes of jb werra and co and even some guys who are just older brothers regardless of whether they are very active and succesful and he goes back talking about journalists and respect saying one of the reasons he decided to stop for a while is also that lack of respect he sensed from journalists who were treating musicians depending of their current success and says in the current state of affairs you'll see some journalists act very arrogant towards of legends like titina alcapone,willy bula and co just because they are not dropping hits these days so they forget all they had done and he disagrees with that he says to people saying he has done tokooos because he cant do rumbas anymore he says he has over 30 solid rumbas recorded already and he has proved times and times again that he is one of those who are very good on rumbas and he is one the rare artists who can play several rumbas abroad with fans singing along he is asked about why he does not "create stars" like some other artists and he reminds people that not too long ago he had in his group the likes of kanza and equaliseur who became resident card owners in europe thanks to him touring a lot with them and who were given a warm welcome in quartier latin because they were already known
He said the concept they went for with the president of the group abraham is that everybody is free to do solo project as long as its agreed between themselves so he will release an album in which so far he wrote all the songs,not needing yet help of songwriters
I reported earlier that sunda had left due to very bad relationship with the bullying camp and prior to that had resigned in any of his chef roles but another event confirmed departure of sunda has genta who had made peace recently with seguin convinced him to come back and he'll find a way so that he can sort out his issues with them for the good of the group as he is an experienced bassist and a good writer so he is valuable and he accepted to come back and go to brazza with bcbg he suffered electrical shock on stage and was falling on stage and shouting " jesus jesus jesus" only to be held by zoulou mbonda while most of the rest of the group were not seeing the scene and since bcbg went with two bassists the second one took over while sunda was struggleing but musicians belittled it as it happened several times that some musicians did not feel comfortable at all on stage and falled and did not continue concert and then as concert was over some of the musicians went to see him and ask whether he is fine and he explained that he felt weak as he had pain throughout his body and some of the musicians(genta zoulou atshuda) reported to him that seguin was not too happy to hear he is still alive while they were relieved that the worst was avoided and when he called secretary of the group who is one of the members of the bullying team to get some money he refused as they had decided to strip him of his last salary like explained earlier so he got pissed and decided he had to leave as it seems they wanted him dead because he is one of the most vocal in the group against them
This guy could be the next big thing like some great atalakus he got something rare which is some particular flow they have which make them "dominate" sebene rather than follow it
Like title says after a moment without them it seems primus has decided to get back in the game and their two main artists ferre and jb mpiana are currently in studio recording generiques
From 29 40 he is saying the polemic which had restarted between mosaka and the whole spokesman section of maison mere is pointless because people in DRC are going through a tough time with a lot of issues,musicians are receiving zero support from authorities while combattants hate them for being close to authorities so there are enough serious issues to think about rather than adding pointless polemic and he says he has utmost respect for werra but werra should think twice before getting closer again to koffi after that much conflicts and at expense of his lifelong friend and not fall into koffi's trap, and he swears this time on the memory of his father(who died before he joined 4X4) that if werra does not know koffi once called him on a saturday morning to ask him whether he knows that jb should be careful because werra does not love him and he did not know who called but the person called him president and he asked who it was and koffi replied come on who calls your president( because at that time jb and koffi were very very good friends and koffi said several times on tv,some can be found i think on youtube around 2011,that jb is such a nice person which is unusual among congolese musicians that he considers himself a spokesman of jb and roger who was then the president of spokesmen association and mosaka should be aware that they have competition now) and that koffi went to say he gave clothes to werra which werra did clips with and he supported him at beginning of maison mere as werra came to beg for his help and that same werra came to him to tell him they should fool jb to make him come to a reunion between them 3 and poison him because he is a threat to them and koffi himself added that indeed jb was the main man in wenge and his charisma and efforts were hiding the fact there was some poor singers in wenge and when the group split these guys got exposed so he is going on tv to reveal all this in shock interview and he replied to koffi "with all due respect,think twice before going on tv to say that and why did not you say it when you and werra were still getting along but now that you falled out you want to say that? and why did not you tell jb then? and roger adds he told him since you have let it go for years keep it for you and i will keep it secret aswell because it would be too risky for me to said such serious things at that moment and today he is saying that because he sees how all of a sudden maison mere and quartier latin guys talk well of each other and attack jb exactly the same way and praise each other and he wants to give a wakeup call to werra to remind him who he is trusting more than his own friends given how koffi loved to play between jb and werra depending on his relationship with each other
feel free to add to the list two names come to mind straight away kunzardo(pubic hair in lingala slang) and padache originally viande hachee (minced meat) which was transformed by his friend heritier into padache from mixing his real name patrick with viande hachee
Looks like he is trying to develop a crossover between the old fally and what he was in the recent years lol much more direct talk for him but still way far from the very agressive he could be at times in short he said he thought he had cemented his reputation in africa already so he needed to challenge himself rather than stay in the usual system of doing mainly music for former Kongo kingdom(drc,brazza,angola) and when he did kiname he told warner music he needed to drop something for his african fanbase and they did not really agree but he told them they'll be surprised and when he dropped eloko oyo with the buzz around it the warner guys convinced him to put in on album while it was destined to be the usual folkloric song of fally's rumba albums so in tokoss yes he did something unusual by singing in french and trying some kosa leka english lol (at least he is honest about that) several songs had congolese beat he says he appreciate what congolese rappers are doing in france right now but with that album he wanted to prove that a guy who grew in africa can make it into that level and its a great think that french music has started to accept more and more the artists having success here having a big african vibe into their music and it proves sometimes in music you need some change but unfortunately it seems a lot of us in congo are allergic to change he is also asked about why he has given zero interview in DRC for almost two years now and he says he was getting tired and pissed of how congolese interviews are with journalists never stopping some people who come to say bullshit and letting it go then few times after interview the other guy and say "that other guy said this and that what is your reaction to it" and gives example of himself should he come on tv and say he is now bigger than koffi jb werra they would let him go away with it while its clear that he is not up there and he adds that even his close friends like naty lokole,nana boduga who is married to his marketing director and co did not get special treatment because he needed a break from all those things while trying to aim higher with european press and somebody tells him that poster looks like a koffi poster and he replies that its normal since koffi is his father its not a big deal
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