In the prime years of ndombolo it happened that in some countries of africa especially musicians had to pay their own ticket for the way back or from a city to another in that tour while they came in the group,or it would happen that leader "abandoned" them and is already in next city waiting for them and the chefs like alain mpela,ferre and co of then or even heritier or lacoste paying for them thanks to their matolo money to join when the leader is
and in this interview but na filet reveals a story which i used to hear in the industry but i always doubted it was true,despite several group apparently having done this,which is that they were made them to pay 300 dollars each for an american tour,and they were taken somewhere pretending its the american embassy then the admins reported to them that visas were rejected while they did not even have interviews which people applying for visas normally have,and few days after they realised that money was instead used to participate in funding the wedding of one of the admins which was one of the starting point of the revolt which lead to les contremaitre
while they were on angolan tour they had to pay their own ticket from luanda to lukapa ,where the musicians as whole exploded about having to do such things while they had stopped receiving salary for about a year, and ibrator was made the scapegoat for not manageing to calm the musicians and given a one year suspension which he refused to serve in kinshasa since he paid his trip himself to be were he was humiliated and given suspension and him but na filet as the other chef given 6 months which he accepted to return and serve because he felt still had to prove himself having some steps behind his brothers of the light music crop due to his time in prison
