yes aimelia is more hurt with bcbg departure because its  jb who brought him into wenge and he considered himself a strong co-founder of wenge bcbg but what happened is that lias was victim of jealousy of some of the admins because lias success was rising so much that he was approached by their donor sidekicks(he even had a little thing with mpela over that) and guys like seguin who had to position themselves were sent by admins to follow and snitch on him so loads of negative things were reported to jb who as we know like most leaders is not the type to take a week of balancing two versions before making a decision
his clip was shot the last if my memory is still intact it had the first appearance of heritier wearing jb clothes way bigger than him lol but they started snitching to jb that he is about to join quartier latin because he was receiving gifts from koffi and once discussing with champion over a potential move according to them so in most of 1999 jb was already not talking much to lias and the clip was not released for the simple reason that mbuta kiss refused  to pay the money to tv's because lias disrespected once,you guys know that " petit wana akomi tetu nakolakisa ye" thing and jb also wanted to see whether lias would stay or not,then what worsened the thing is that it was reported to jb that lias was seen getting out of the house of a jb sidekick with obvious "spice" on it to win his trust,and from then it became like ok now we'll give him "bouton ya molimo" which is the strongest bcbg 12 in other words  ignoreing until you explode inside and leave,and there was created by seguin and mbuta the plan of recording th without him knowing
all in all both sides had their fault but obviously congolese music as it is always make the leader's side react stronger
i have never heard a band member hurting seriously the leader with a 12 its always the other way round
the admins and many musicians were upset with the way lias received by far more money and gifts than most,even mpela and that he did not respect the code of wenge which is to offer something to admins on major tours and himself also  did not handle well like most a sudden big rise of success,he is naturally a very humble guy but in 99,9999999999 of cases even the most humble lose their heads a little bit with success in congolese music
barakuda was not released makaba wanted to do it in europe in belgium with atomium and all that with a little part to be shot at their family house in bandal and unfortunately him and jb started clashing over PPU concept he did not accept kibens,rio,chai and heritier being recruited while he was in europe

I'm guessing Alain Makaba's place was shaky because he always seemed to be in Europe. He was in Europe during the clips of Pentagon as well. At that time, BCBG toured often so I would imagine his lack of availability would eventually pass JB off.

exactly makaba was like a marginal member of the group and funnily enough when he came back and wanted to use his authority it always created big clash,in 1991 1992 while he was in europe studying jazz wenge 4X4 arrived to do kin e bouger and the group almost splitted because of him insisting that everybody had to be paid,same thing in feux de l'amour same thing in titanic when he came to reclaim financial direction  while it had shifted fully to a private jb and mbuta kiss thing because of him remaining in europe

I’m with Aimelia on QL people never praising a Wenge man over their own unlike Wenge people who insult their own 24/7 to be liked by the other camp. Ferre had many good reason to praise Koffi because MM crossed the line and he had no choice to create new fan for himself. Quartier Latin was created to keep up with young energetic Wenge domination we all know that.

exactly makaba was like a marginal member of the group and funnily enough when he came back and wanted to use his authority it always created big clash,in 1991 1992 while he was in europe studying jazz wenge 4X4 arrived to do kin e bouger and the group almost splitted because of him insisting that everybody had to be paid,same thing in feux de l'amour same thing in titanic when he came to reclaim financial direction  while it had shifted fully to a private jb and mbuta kiss thing because of him remaining in europe

I always say if Makaba remained in kin especially after the split him and Blaise wouldn’t have left so soon and we wouldn’t have ended up with Kibens, Rio and Chai, but he should’ve known better

exactly makaba was like a marginal member of the group and funnily enough when he came back and wanted to use his authority it always created big clash,in 1991 1992 while he was in europe studying jazz wenge 4X4 arrived to do kin e bouger and the group almost splitted because of him insisting that everybody had to be paid,same thing in feux de l'amour same thing in titanic when he came to reclaim financial direction  while it had shifted fully to a private jb and mbuta kiss thing because of him remaining in europe

Did he study Jazz at a music academy? Or did he play alongside Jazz musicians to learn the genre? I always found that strange, because he never actually applied any of that into his music in Wenge or his solo albums.

Aimelia saying that Koffi recruited Lebou because of Alain Makaba, but that's not true. Koffi didn't even know about Lebou, it's Rocky Blanchard who presented him to Koffi. His looks, the way of dressing and playing lead made people immediatly compare him to Alain Makaba when they started notice him after the release of Magie, while he was already around in QL just after Koweit Rive Gauche. Having already played on albums like Pas de Faux Pas & Noblesse Oblige.

Nobody noticed Lebou in 1993 ? Even if he was in the videos of Noblesse Oblige ?

I think they (the three administrators plus Blaise and Aldophe) tolerated Makaba because of his strategic role of Artistic Director in the group. If he was just another singer they could have had him easily replaced during one of his to and fro trips in Europe away from the group.

Aimelia saying that Koffi recruited Lebou because of Alain Makaba, but that's not true. Koffi didn't even know about Lebou, it's Rocky Blanchard who presented him to Koffi. His looks, the way of dressing and playing lead made people immediatly compare him to Alain Makaba when they started notice him after the release of Magie, while he was already around in QL just after Koweit Rive Gauche. Having already played on albums like Pas de Faux Pas & Noblesse Oblige.

Those Wengemen like to give themselves credit for everything.

I find it annoying.

exactly makaba was like a marginal member of the group and funnily enough when he came back and wanted to use his authority it always created big clash,in 1991 1992 while he was in europe studying jazz wenge 4X4 arrived to do kin e bouger and the group almost splitted because of him insisting that everybody had to be paid,same thing in feux de l'amour same thing in titanic when he came to reclaim financial direction  while it had shifted fully to a private jb and mbuta kiss thing because of him remaining in europe

I always say if Makaba remained in kin especially after the split him and Blaise wouldn’t have left so soon and we wouldn’t have ended up with Kibens, Rio and Chai, but he should’ve known better

Makaba should've taken control of the group in the early 90's to be honest. He should've been the Franco of Wenge.

He played himself by staying in Europe so much.

What the hell was he doing over there anyway? What a waste!

Aimelia saying that Koffi recruited Lebou because of Alain Makaba, but that's not true. Koffi didn't even know about Lebou, it's Rocky Blanchard who presented him to Koffi. His looks, the way of dressing and playing lead made people immediatly compare him to Alain Makaba when they started notice him after the release of Magie, while he was already around in QL just after Koweit Rive Gauche. Having already played on albums like Pas de Faux Pas & Noblesse Oblige.

Those Wengemen like to give themselves credit for everything.

I find it annoying.

This is true. Even fans in general give Clan Wenge way too much credit for everything in my opinion.