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How much does it cost to get a shout-out on albums these days? Who do are you supposed to reach out to that can facilitate this? If you're not careful, you can get scammed.

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Mabanga are just too much now, songs don't make sense anymore. It's couplets and the chorus that establish what the song is about, but otherwise it's names. Some verses are just names of donors, it's literally too much lol

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These guys haven't done anything together since Wake Up, right? Crazy how things come full circle, I'd like to see what comes of the collaboration

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Congolese Music / Re: Jules Kibens making gospel music now
« on: October 06, 2026, 15:54 »
As far as I'm concerned, there's no real distinction between Gospel and secular musicians

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Congolese Music / Re: Coming Soon: Jules Kibens - Mokeli
« on: October 06, 2026, 00:39 »
Y'all miss him?

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indeed solid album, damien aziwa could have pulled a decent group career aswell,he had soleil arca diniero titi firenze late celullaire deba oneil and some others but he was not as determined as jolino for example to record several times with the guys

If you were to ask all the major leaders of bands the most important thing to remember or master as you build your orchestra from scratch, in the early years, what would they tell you? I'm always fascinated to know when the leaders of QL and Maison Mere or Heritier and Fabregas realized they made it. That they broke the solo artist curse of the one impactful album then done, it's interesting seeing how they knew they were here for a long career

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and also its a good way to shut down polemic,a lot of maison mere fans were upset because there was an old video of early 2010's and which resurfaced of sam criticizing lyrics of a song saying that a certain part did not make much sense and it happened to be a werra song
so sam decided to clear it out by going on several panels to remind people that if he had a personal problem with werra he would not be at most of werra's recent europe concerts purely as a friend without wanting to be treated like an artist and stuff like that
good thing that nsone and sam themselves know that they have a 45 years old friendship that its not a small dig like that which can ruin it all

I forget they were schoolyard friends, they must look back at those clips like "wow, we came a really long way"!

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Yikes 😂

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he has got mad cocky especially after the guys ran away in france,what lead to pepe kalle's son and co leaving is that he was flexing on them the caption of him having earned 85k dollars of copyright across the world  while they were on a 4 month without salary as they sat at rehearsals like clowns and he was passing the phone on their faces with a big smile
but anyways he's never been good at paying he was taking his friends of the early light musica villanova generations for granted so he was not really taking care of them by the logic that he was on top of his game with ya mado and co so hype would generate money for them without his intervention

Fiston Yampanya is the singer's name and son of Pepe Kalle. When 5eme leadership doesn't share glory like before, what celebrity can you  leverage to sustain you in-between tours when there's no salary? Fabregas is forgetting that Werrason actually gave his artists space to build aura in concerts and with vocals on albums. These guys are hardly promoted, but I understand your point

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Why is he treating his musicians so poorly? Is he just super cheap about salaries or does he like to bully talent to maintain dominance?

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Kakol is the last person I'd personally pay in Wenge Musica MM as a fan lol I do appreciate his loyalty but nah, dude did too many people dirty 😂

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Congolese Music / Re: Koffi Olomide - Gabriel
« on: September 28, 2026, 01:56 »
surely the ritual of  hammering jack daniels before recording koffi must realise that it does not sit well with the body at 70 compared to at 50 so he is forced to cover up with autotune

I've given up on his new music, his voice is just too raspy at that point. He's not taking care of himself to the degree the music demands.

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and that was exactly the target,they could not really care much about taking him back especially as in that department of tenorist heritier had risen to  level of the prepared heir to ferre via rivalry but at least the goal of  "breaking the fence" in rival camp was reached
every of the rebel group weve seen since nouvelle generation les marquis academia or nouvel horizon in brazza for example once one key member leaves early even if you manage to get the group still going there is a noticeable change,bouro leaving changed the whole destiny of academia because the pattern of leaving brutally because of being upset/influenced was opened and before the group even reached 5 years the key singers were sam's cousin guy bazunga and co wayyyyyyyy behind the level of the original academia

Extra Musica Nouvel Horizon never recovered since the first wave of defections (Willo, Bonbon Rouge, Ben Mambrik, and FBI Sosa Mambu). Who knows if Zaparo is coming back? I think they'll be around, but they definitely lost momentum that the new recruits couldn't reclaim.

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R.I.P. Diego Cao and Fiston Bass

Adolphe shouldn't have listened to gossip about Lacoste being big headed, because he risked everything by leaving Wenge Musica Masion Mere to follow Tata.

I don't believe that things would have changed much if Lacoste had stayed, because things were already going downhill while he was still around. From their return to Kinshasa till Lacoste's departure. It's true that Lacoste's arrival in Tonya Tonya created some buzz and boosted them even more, but Tonya Tonya had already succes when they started 2–3 months before he joined

If you could pinpoint exactly where things went downhill, where do you think Adolphe lost momentum beyond repair? Was it just too competitive at the time between the branches of Wenge for there to be BCBG, Masion Mere, and Tonya Tonya? Because they had to also contend with the orchestra of Papa Wemba and Koffi Olomide Olomide as well.

I feel like Felix Wazekwa put a self-imposed ceiling on potential of Cultural Pays Vie by refusing to play the politics of the industry, which cost him Stade de Martyrs and other prestigious concerts in Europe until Olympia. But by then, 5eme was already going and that was pretty much his plateau of popularity

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There's no artist that performed that much at Intercontinental (nowadays Pullman Kinshasa Grand Hotel) than Koffi. I wonder how much performed there in hotel since 1987. Because each year he used to perform at least 3 times. Inter used to have alot of signifiance in our music, performing there was like you reached a certain level. It's a bit sad that Pullman lost his prestige to Rotana Kin Plaza, Hotel du Fleuve and Hotel Hilton.

Was this concert in January 1998 or December 1997 just after Loi's release ? Koffi didn't return to DR Congo until early 1998 right ?  Because I remember that it was said that he of received death threats from different people of Kabila's regime because of some words like "batunaka age na mwana oyo asimbi monduki te", "ba oyo bazalaki na masasi, kasi bakoki koboma nga te", which they saw as an attack to kadogo's (child soldiers who were fighting for ADFL) and Koffi fearing for his life. He was even arrested for a moment to get interrogated only to be released quickly.

I believe that former spokemen Faustin Djata talked about it once in an interview with Teddy Mola or Ado Yuhe, about Koffi being afraid to return and going back through Brazzaville after having performed in Pointe Noire, while him (Faustin) doing different interviews to defend Koffi and clam the public opinion down

Did Koffi invite Tshala Muana as recognition for helping him out because of what happened ?

What made Tshala Muana an important mediator between Koffi and Kabila, was he a big fan of her music? Was she a big supporter of ADFL?

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