we congolese like biased comparison so much,i love fabro and always credit him for becoming the unexpected third leader back in the days,but we have to take into account a couple of things,first heritier stayed in maison mere almost as much as fally ferre and fabro combined in their groups,so he used some of his prime years being a band member
then,fabro started solo career at the good end of the start of the strong demise of congolese music,he was unlucky to start when europe ban of artists appeared but still had opportunity to experience playing music when performing in DRC meant something
and in heritier's last appearance, heritier started with positive words about him saying he's a great artist and the little brother of his friend chirstian decorne and said that if people want to compare them they should compare their main concerts of their career to see who has a higher level,and here fabro is reacting about that argument trying his best to belittle heritier
heritier started in the period where kinshasa lost its prestige,collapse of sponsorship,young generation by far bigger fans of urban music than rumba,ever decreasing mentality of fans...and was stuck in that strong polemic with maison mere which was proportional to his importance in maison mere,like with ferre,which created a great diversion in his career,with many people only giving a proper eye on retirada 2 3 4 years later and being a controversial hot tempered guy himself he helped wonderfully the diversion from focusing on his career properly,and also making the strategic mistake to neglect generiques until the mi ange one
so now fabro is pushing the i did x y before him and heritier replying with i am doing now and politely insinuating that he is doing better than him now
all in all for me even if fabro had a pretty good period of success when he understood that generique success was a massive career booster,heritier still represents something bigger,despite his childish attitude at times
and also its fabro who started all this,if he could convince philo to return without dissing heritier for no reason all this would not have happened