I watched a King Kester Emeneya interview where he says the mabanga phenomena as we know it today began with this song for Willo Mondo.

How true is it?

@Manzambi I think it's a smart way too but again I think as an artist, you have to be creative in the way you mention the names or the song will be boring. Like the names have to rhyme with the other lyrics in a song. And yeah excess mabanga is not good.

So what really happens for the song owners if the song turns out to be a flop? Am sure there should some reparations one way or another. Do the song owners have a pre-recording listen to the song or its up to the musician to chose the best song for this or that donor? I have noticed that the likes of Tabou Fatou have some nice songs to their name whether be it by Ferre, Fally or JB Mpiana etc.

yeah its true. Mabanga already started in 70s with Soki Brothers and Zaiko, but it was then that they were giving to 3 people in a whole song. For example when Papa Wemba just started Viva La Muisca he would gave in a song Ebale Mbonge only shout-out (which was then Koffi Olomide "Olomide!!!!"). The mabanga (citing like more than 10/20 people in a song) started with King Kester Emeneya in 1985 with the Willo Mondo-album when he met guys like Anicet Pedro (RIP), Modogo Gianfranco Ferre, etc. in Paris, also known as "Bana Firenze", they gave him then alot of clothes. I think that it was the same trip when he came back with his "pomper injection-car" (a red bmw).



The same Emeneya came with that style of singing names from 5:13 min. JB Mpiana copied that vocal but I forgot in which song.

I think that there isn't any Congolese artist in Congo that has been mistrested, humiliated and belittled as much as Emeneya, despite having credit for a lot of things people and other leader in general (surprisingly even Werra whowas Emeneya's biggest fan between the leaders) never credited him until he died unlike Papa Wemba whi was way more respected than the King Emeneya. And it is sad thinking about how his life ended ahead of time his son paralyzed and many many ither tragedies that Emeneya faced @Cavalier Soltaire flop can happens but the even more smarter way is making private sings for donors. That is like the ultimate money move

The zero kilometre BMW he liked talking about? Lol

hahaha yeah. First when he arrived he borrowed the same red BMW from his cousin Jose Mubiala, because his car when then with the boat on the way to Matadi. Then when the car arrived in Matadi, they put it on a freight train to Kinshasa and a truck bringing it from the trainstation to Bandalungwa where he used to live. It was a big event when it arrived in Bandal, there was a big crowd event to watch how Emeneya went to test his car.

When King Kester Emeneya arrived in Kinshasa in 1997 until 2010 when he became sick for the first, journalists used often to attack him for not having an expensive car like JB Mpiana, Werrason and Koffi Olomide who were after every Europe-tour coming back with a new one and bragging about it (espcially Koffi). Emeneya then claimed they didn't bought those car, but that those cars were autolease (which was also true) and some of them were stolen by their fans living in Europe.

Werrason used to praise Emeneya often in interviews from the start of Maison Mere in 1997 until Kibuisa Mpimpa. After performing at Bercy, Werrason said in an interview that he felt Emeneya presence in him.

 Emeneya was like a mentor of him and Werrason used before Intervention Rapide often to visit him at King Ranch. Emeneya himself was also often praising him interviews calling him "petit frere propre". He defended Werrason against Wemba, since that Werrason couldn't react because of Wemba being elder, by saying in the song Washington by saying "Mopaya akoki kosomba zamba te" as reponse to Wemba's attack to Werrason in the song Maria who said "kala te nako somba zamba, ba niama nioso bazala ya nga". Then after Kibuisa Mpimpa something went wrong behind the scences (I don't know what), but those shegues hanging around King Ranch started to call Werrason a fake guy and an ungrateful person with Emeneya in private. I remember Emeneya once being furious in 2001 saying that the Werra-JB beef was fake and revealing that they meet eachother in the night.

In 2004 when Emeneya was promoting his upcoming album "Avantage ya Goal" (which became Jour Le Plus Long), he said that nobody who release their album before Avantage ya Goals, because his album will be the bomb, etc. and Francis Kakonde then asking even your "petit frere propre" and Emeneya then jocking, he will say "everybody want to c*ck feel me" (I wonder if he knew what he was saying in English). Then Sam Pengo Mbey (who was a Emeneya-hater) asked to Werrason if he would release his album before that of Emeneya and instead of being diplomatic or jocking, he immediatly said seriously "in music there isn't family, a big brother or little brother", this thing made Emeneya more furious in private and also his fans with them having regrets of having supported Werrason in the early days of Wenge Maison Mere. In 2011 when Emeneya recovered, an journalist asked him if Werrason visited him in the hospital and why they weren't close again in the past and Emeneya reacting with proverb and the journalist having something like ok (not understanding what he wanted to say with that).