@mvulusi96I remember Kusa's incident kiekiekie! Nobody caught him when dived into the crowd after his dance. Often it is the biggest defenders of the boss are dismissed shamefully, look at Blaise Bula of Wenge BCBG and Herman Ngasski of Extra Musica Zangul.Honestly, Academia was already reeling from Bouro Mpela's absence for the recording of Viagra. They already recruited Mustapha and Sukuzi formerly of Quartier Latin as well as Abilisi from Extra Musica Zangul. Yet, Viagra ended up having a delayed success...Had Depitcho joined, what really would change? Sam was becoming increasingly egotistical, so the other prolific members were not going get the shine they deserved.
Quote from: Wenge1995 on February 02, 2019, 22:31@mvulusi96I remember Kusa's incident kiekiekie! Nobody caught him when dived into the crowd after his dance. Often it is the biggest defenders of the boss are dismissed shamefully, look at Blaise Bula of Wenge BCBG and Herman Ngasski of Extra Musica Zangul.Honestly, Academia was already reeling from Bouro Mpela's absence for the recording of Viagra. They already recruited Mustapha and Sukuzi formerly of Quartier Latin as well as Abilisi from Extra Musica Zangul. Yet, Viagra ended up having a delayed success...Had Depitcho joined, what really would change? Sam was becoming increasingly egotistical, so the other prolific members were not going get the shine they deserved.When Depitcho left, Academia just performed 3 concerts with Bouro still being around and they were about to go to Kinshasa. Those ego-wars didn’t start yet. Mustapha was then still in Quartier Latin at that moment and Suzuki was trying to promote Decompte Final. Koffi’s concert in Laussane was their first concert after Bercy and the second of their Europe-tour, it was somewhere in March 2000. I think that it would boost the polemic of Koffi against Academia and create alot of buzz, because he just performed at Bercy and Depitcho was back in those days was the number two of QL.Those ego-wars started when they went to Kinshasa and them having those staff around them and them not standing eachother of stealing the show during concerts in Kinshasa and other cities of Africa. With also some starting to come late to concerts to show who the real leader was, etc. and it becoming worser when they came back to Europe in the summer for some concerts and to sign new contracts for the concerts they wanted to give with their dancers and new musicians they recruited who stayed in Kinshasa. With Bouro saying that he would leave if they would bring those musicians to Europe, but them not listining to him, saying that they would recruit a new tenorist without problem if he would leave. The problem with Viagra is that they released it to late and they stayed to long in Europe, while they had an excellent tour. (Winning the fara-fara against Werrason, performing twice in a packed LSC, etc.). They received visa’s of 1 year long in Schengen-Area with them spending 10 months while they could have easily returned after 4 or 5 months, being in Europe since November 2000. Viagra was planned for May 2001 and already finished but they prefered to release it the same time on their return to Kinshasa in September 2001, thinking that it would boost the album more. But itwas a big mistake, because JB Mpiana was about to release Internet and Kibuisa Mpimpa was smacking all discs who were on market. With everybody then being focused on the polemic of Werra vs JB and Quartier Latin not reacting against theur attacks e like in 1999 and 2000. Which was like they were talking against a wall. With Lebou Kabuya & Suzuki also leaving the band while they just released the album.
I heard one of the main reasons why Jordan stopped being Koffi's attack dog was because JB Mpiana reached out to him and they made peace. Is that true?I remember being disappointed when I saw Jordan not appear in Danger de Mort, despite participation on Monde Arabe and preperation for Danger de Mort.
Quote from: Wenge1995 on April 05, 2020, 21:14I heard one of the main reasons why Jordan stopped being Koffi's attack dog was because JB Mpiana reached out to him and they made peace. Is that true?I remember being disappointed when I saw Jordan not appear in Danger de Mort, despite participation on Monde Arabe and preperation for Danger de Mort. Naa man it was the other way around, he called JB when Koffi and Jb were about to make peace, but Jb was like “ahh kusa you went too far” but eventually Jb forgave him. Jordan was long gone by the time Danger de mort came out. He left before Ferre arrived.