People are only saying Danger De Mort & Everybody are classics simply because the standard and quality of music these days have dropped big time.
For me personally a classic album is if there’s no skippable tracks or at least 1/2 songs I can skip. There’s a lot of albums that become classics due to how it’s aged over time and also the commercial success is a factor as well as long term impact. Internet by JB Mpiana is an amazing album but as you said there’s some songs that I can skip ( I still don’t understand how they messed up the générique. When I look at Koffi his album run from 1990 to 2003 were all classics people debate about Attentat but again that album has aged better over time.
Would you consider A La queue leu leu a classic because it wasn’t as well received compared to Maison Mères previous projects.
Danger de Mort is a hopeless album and in the last 30 years would only consider Ultimatum as a classic album by Koffi. As for Werra, i actually prefer "A la Queue leu leu" to "Operation Dragon". However, the former suffered because Operation Dragon raised expectations to an unprecendent level that Werra couldn't reach. It doesn't help matters that "A la Queue leu leu" was released in Dec, 6 months after the back to back zenith concert where all the songs had already been introduced. Thus, it suddenly looked like old material. In general, like Koffi's "attentat", you release an album and then do a mega concert rather than a mega concert and then an alum with the same material
Koffi got a lot of classics. I would say his last is even BEK.
I didn't knew that Didier Oasis was that tall eh. Mutombo Dikemba akosa. Gemerose looks like a student here. I wouldn't have recoginzed him if Blaise Bula didn't mention is name. Did Titi Kongolo made it on the Europe-list ? Faut sentir aspect, atie na kerly. I never knew who Dider Six was, but was often hearing his name. It's only now that I discovered that he came from Ponderation 8. He's a great dancer
So sad that Himalaya, Willy Star and Reagan passed away. Reagan's aunt was really evil by bringing him to Koffi, only to be dumped a few months later, because Koffi prefering Kerozene above him.
Doudou Nkunku was a good journalist. So sad that almost their generation left to settle in Europe. In some Western countries you would see them upgrade by becoming a director and coaching the young generation. Now we are left with journalists on tv that just ask questions like "who's the number one artist in Congo right know ?" and creating polemic.
The image of Werra-fans singing at FIKIN about Blaise Bula being better than JB, reminds me of an image when Desi Mbwese was performing at FIKIN in 2001 and the same fans singing that he's better than JB. Back at that era, when what ever artist would perform the same day as JB or Werra at FIKIN, both fans would scream about being either better than JB or Werra
Like Defao said in Fogy "Type K aleki nioso". Back at that time many artists were hyping Jose Kongolo's nightclub Type K up in concerts. Someone needs to create a documentary about to nightclubs and restaurants within in the Congolese diaspora in Paris and Brussels from 1980s till the 2000s. Dalida is so lucky that Dadju became a known artist. Many women of her time are unhappy, broke, sick or/and became a sister in christ
One Question: what did dalida do to get so many shoutouts in 90-00 tracks. A lot of tracks you would hear already dalida mama ya dadju mentioned.
He says his album is ready but he was waiting for somebody who is ferre without naming him and that now that ferre released poster and tracklist he'll just wait for release date so that he can be on ferre's back and battle with him
Lol. Thats the case, when your life is boring and you do not have a purpose in life.
Koffi doesn't have 816 songs. Songs in group albums should not count, I know Koffi with his greed would include group album songs (like he's put every single Quartier Latin member's songs as his in SACEM). Even in his solo albums, he's lying about the fact thst he wrote them all. My elder Eldorado, Do Akongo, Wazekwa, Bourman Idolo, Vigas, Djodjo Lina are the minds behind many of those songs (even though Koffi in his own right is a great songwriter). Koffi is someone that needs to ridden off our music because aside his talent, he represent corruption.
Thats very mean. Koffi is wrong but thats the system. From Back in the days til now Fally/Ferre… Even in america does it happen…
Songwriter Vigas claims to be person who introduced the style of fast singing in Congolese Rumba. I am trying to find the full interview on youtube, but I can't find it anywhere
But didnt Koffi already doing before or did he write for Koffi too? Maybe some other singers did it too but just Koffi came to my mind
There’s two clips that’s available on YouTube which is Tsiane and Willy Bula’s song Ma Fille. My question is was there a VHS of the album with the other clips? Because 20 years ago I was at someone’s house and I saw a VHS of Koffi’s and it was the same cover as the cd of Pas De Faux Pas but I never asked to actually see the tape so I don’t know if it was actually the clips or it could’ve been a concert, till now I regret not asking to watch the tape smh.
Good Question. I know that there is a video of the generique, too. We had VHS were only ma fille and pas de faux pas was recorded.
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