Yeah. All his albums have generiques. The thing is that Karmapa decided to promote his rumba-songs of his first album more than the 3 tracks (1 generique +2 sebene songs) he recorded in Kinshasa with his band Rive Droit Klass K. The purpose of his first album was to bring Rumba back, which in his opinion started to dissapear on the Congolese music-scene, that used to be dominated by ndombolo. Hence why he came with a reversed "R" on the album-cover, because it stood for Revolution. When looking back to it, it worked. His first album was huge succes and after that you had Monde Arabe, which dominated by rumba's and was a huge succes as well. Than Droit Chemin and Sens Interdit came, which made all the remaining bandleaders (even Werrason) decided to prioritize rumba. Ndombolo almost dissapeared. It's rare to see an album have at least 3 or 4 sebene-songs.
It's only with Karmapa's album Riposte, that he did some effort with the generique-section by recording three and promoting equally like his rumba's, after journalists often started to ask him out of ignorance why he doesn't record generiques. Koffi even used a big part of the generique Kaniama Kasese in his album 13ème Apotre, as Bonaza and Karmapa making different press-declarations that he would sue Koffi for plagiarism, forgetting that it was due to his former atalaku being in Quartier Latin.
In 2011, he released a generique as preview for his album Le Millionaire since his goal was to release it the following year, but it didn't make it on the tracklist (I believe because of the main-atalaku's leaving) and him replacing it by another one. The generique of 2011 was often played on different tv-channels and was doing it well in bars and nightclubs. People also discovering the dancing-skills of singer Tatiana Kruz
Talking about the Ndombolo-genre. Last week, I saw a Cameroonian influencer talking about ndombolo and those born in the 2000s, all replying that the ndombolo-genre doesn't exist, that it'sjust a dance and that it's all rumba. While back in the days people would call it cavacha, later kwassa-kwassa and then ndombolo to distinguish it from the music what TP Ok Jazz, Afrisa, bands of their clan were making and the older generation were making. I remember on social media, several generation Z people complaining about Werrason's show that it was only sebene and not singing, not knowing shows of most artists in 1990s and early 2000s used to have alot of sebene and non-stop singing for 2 hours (with only 2 moments of seben)
