 Bensol will be exiting soul generation. Napale uli tupeleka na mafumba tu ku elewa. Unaeza tu elezea sasa. What's up guys, welcome to SBM Bars. My name is Liz Jackson and today I'm hanging out with the one and only Suda. Wadudini eten na? Suda una pendah? Na pendah. So Bensol tu bekutaftasana. Finally you're a busy man, tu bekutaftasana. Maisha kisani kwa busy. Nakini asantini kwa kwa resilient. And thank you so much for having me today. Ani ni a beautiful day. Nima furai, it's a beautiful morning odo kuna kabaredi, but jo to yako, ni nice care. Nice care. Hey Bensol, how was Eldoret? Eldoret was the lead. Nia nili yandatui ani by chance. I was actually, nili kwa na shubu siya, so ni kasema nipiti Eldoret, ni hangout na mabruwa nga kinanviri na nabiyen. Eyo shuili weza mbaasaana, bigger posiwa Eldoret, mafanzu e tuwote, tunawapenda wo. All right, so Bensol, the main reason e tu kwa pa, you have something enye umeku kutupangia and it's coming on for 20, but before anything, let's talk about the title of the album, The Lion of Suda. What does that mean? The Lion of Suda, ni obviously, oto na juo Suda e me toka api Suda one time. It's just the reason why I call the album The Lion of Suda niju, inafakuni introduce to a different era of Bensol enye. Bensol me nyesasa me jitambuena we enye. I run my own empire, ni kuna kampania ungun du pede, tekweni to the Lion of Suda. Toko nusa merchandise, halafu kama yo atu apu enye muliyona ni kishini shelingi. Yo shelingi, inayo introduce kwa currency flania, the Suda coin, the Suda currency. So ni witu mingizi enye zi kwa around, yo jina the Lion of Suda enye, it had to be called the Lion of Suda kwa sababu. It's also my first album. Nene onisha na watu, asa si ule Bensol enye mkwame zoya kudilne, se enye neskia to yo base ni anlayon. Wewe nani asubu hi, 77 baby girl. Bensol, this being your first album, what made you sit down and say, you know what, I'm going to release my first ever album. Well, I've been planning over time to put out music as an album, like to put out like a big project of big body of work and you're gonna so many songs and over the times, there's a time nil kwa atakutua in 2020, COVID ka happen and then 2021, so many experiments, 2022 gigs na ni ni collecting the album, so 2023 na nandio the perfect two time ni any. Siya tini kitu enye nil kwa na panga, this time la zimandion tatoa. Ni wime hapen ni any in the right time, right timing, timing is everything. That's why na toka for 20 in the A.M. Haftupatane for 20 in the P.M. at the alchemist na futua chani for 20 in the A.M. Kilamtama fulai. Bensol, is there anything symbolic about 420? 420, it's a beautiful day. Otoa ki Google, una jua ina manisha ni ni, it's the day of the greatest, greatest medicine. So alba wene yungu kuna gomapua za hizi na piganio like your movement kwa sababu. I feel like kama dunia already ime illegalized na imefanya. So many places guys are doing business with it, like guys are creating amazing medicine from it and it's helping like a lot of families and a lot of guys. Bona kandre to na jikaze, we have the best weather, we have the best everything. And nisi situ tu makaliatu. We need to think about it and talk about it. So that's why on the album nikuna song kada zanyu zinongerilea your movement and free it up, set it free for the people. All right Bensol, are there people who are instrumental in the album making? Yeah, I wanna bigger up my brothers in terms of producing the album. I wanna bigger up Hendrix Ham, Mixmaster, producer on the album, GL producer Kutoka Malawi, he did some songs on the album. Motoria, Namjua, Msaniwenyum Noma, he also like produced the song on the album. Big up, so fresh and bigger up Afronautik, bigger up Fancy Fingers for being like amazing producers on the album. And then bigger up all the artists on the album and bigger up Kila Monea on the album and then Kujaka Deliver and the songs made it to the album. And bigger up Tulifanya songs on the album Zina Kujatu and also bigger up my team, bigger up Steff, bigger up Nangeru and the whole soul generation gang kwa sababu kama siwa inga happen Ya ya ya So after you release the album on your phone 20, are we expecting like a live performance of somewhere tu taku kachu api na jo tu taku ja alkemis but bungela show bensul? Ya alkemis, siyati nibash peke nina perform set kubosana, most of the new songs and then also nina introduce vitu mingis anasone za penda first of Kujaka ya alkemis first and then on 30th ya April, ita kwa Uganda so wasa wangwa Uganda let's link up apolugogo to pick a blanket ya Uganda and then me watu wangwa London watu wangwa Europe wida ya tunaku ja tunaku jevi baya sana na yo album bensul? kuku ndeleza yo movement kweli ah, ukwemi kwa nasi ndo me shika zahidi ay urejue ni even the best ones wana tumianga ukwewe most of iti na toka Uganda meaning that it's something that all african countries need to listen to and understand that sisi ndo superpowers we have like the best lands we have like the best and the most richest continent in the world if we don't take control of it right now wasa watu kujatu ku take control over time and tuta kwa late niki tu inyineza zahidi in so many ways atu ukwewi nanda kupreti uo message bi basa na halalo ui alright so bensul tunajue you have a very strong pen like you write your lyrics so kwa hi album are you the only person who can write your lyrics well actually most of them nimi ziandika but no man is an island and then also I'm writing these songs for so many people I can't do it alone ma song zingineza nimi ziandika in terms of like having co-writers song ziandika nimi me fanya na most of all the artists actually when you are featured kwa hi album pia bien na li kwa very instrumental in terms of traketi chini na hetu na la inisha na tufanyange uo for all our projects kipata kia nga leta projecte bien nikuwa pwa very instrumental in terms of song writing na pia e kwa albumen kwa very instrumental in terms of song writing so expecting ni vitumzuri na mnajuak kalamia kini deep sana ni ayazi isha wino imeja alright so nikiangali apale kwa mutandao I was just googling your name we have to google you, you are a very big celebrity and there is a comment that you made someone ask you would ben sol be exiting soul generation na apale uli tupele kana mafumba tu ku elewa wneza tu elezea sasa see watu ona ichukulia ne ni kama ni kituku bobath contract iki se mamuna isi vitu for a certain period of time iyo period of time iki fika it means contract ineja so it's up to me to decide if kama na taka ku renew, kama na taka kwendele in a certain way and for me na feel soul generation it's a beautiful space to be for any artist in the world so na taka ku create space for any upcoming artist onyo ako ter na onyo wana feel waneza pateyo chance ya ku ku soul generation jilete size ku sababu ku taku wana slots po manpower size ya ku shugulikia wasani meaning that contract iku tu iki isi evi mimi na taka ku taku ni create a space misa ni mingi na taya jengu eveni wame ni jenga so see manigangu tuko tight vibhaya sana and expect a lot of things even after a lot of collaborations between me and anybody wana kwa na our soldier even after our contract ends tukana songs ya ni a gazillion of them ni ngumusana ku kutotwezo songs pamoja and would you credit your success to soul generation? part of it for sure ya kwa sababu like everything happens for a reason it took me somebody else kufika soul generation and also it took soul generation to take me to a certain level in yasasa ni naendele in asasa even like greater success so wame kwa a big like support and a big like so instrumental in my success na sezi wa downgrade in any way wame ni sa idea manzawa le ni watuongu a deep kabisa wa ni mabruongu ondani speaking about your music and crossing borders in Africa iimuaka kuna any international hit record na ya umetupangia? kuna anguama kwa na nime fijam na Nigeria so expect to you and then also like in terms of the sound on the album kuna so many Pan-African songs zene na jwa ziki skizwa na msi orete kutukainu in the world that are at understand as it amguza in a certain way ni make lea a very international album but also very balanced in terms of kuna manzaki suahili manzaki kenya zene na feel ei ni awa kenya na kuna manzengine zene ni awa kenya bado lakini to me yon do target market ni Pan-African I would want to ask ya like what have you put in place to market the album and I'll put reference to one of the album he may come out in a time less by Davido. He's really pushing it and like you as an artist Ben Sol what different thing are you doing for this specific album? I just easy to amount to Nigeria, South Africa and then also like we have also partnered with some very international distros zene zene na to say diya kupushi muziki all over the world. So this time na feel it's the perfect time kwa sababu easy if it is at the same time and then also ni kuna amazing international acts on the album and then also through association yon guna kina BN na nini baya sana kuna kupigezo mangoma uko inje. So what to our states or to our Europe expect us in that space ya ni tukujani vibaya sana so I feel yoni marketing strategy pwa sana any what ni enda tunafanya all those interviews, media tours and tunajituma kama e album like previously before like the beginning of the year til kwa e say mimi na nviri na polycap did amazing business then it may pick up a meeting zengina amazing sana, collaborations zengina beautiful sana so it's just a matter of time wachu uko tunza kuna istafrika especially Kenya blowing up in those spaces kwa sababu they have all the text man tukuna songs zengina even better even better ya ni and pala kwa instagrame uluweza kupost picture na malimu Rachel na ukasema kama kote alifanya Rusi next what's cooking ah mapezi somebody new ya ni squeeze ikisha yungine unuga raka una inject yungine so ila yungine elisha ben so misiri kwa tbibaya ineza kwa imeshi ineza kwa ijeisha ineza pina takawata sasa wapige research wada mbe wana filaji imesha mejeisha stafanio research narisi ya but at this moment I am putting all the pressure all the effort in unikon now everything main sejango into pushing that album so ya you know my first baby although my first baby piano in the left is over I was actually coming to that question and it's good that you've brought it up ya ben sol lazima tukpe props the first time that this story came up you owned it, you owned the story and right now are you in a healthy space where you're able to co-parent and have you met her? ah he's of it to that already we're in a good space and I can grow such an intelligent child amen amen so ben sol tukifunga nata kawambia watuwek they can preserve the album alafu what important dates are they supposed to mark for the album so you can already the album is on all the distros and you can know the platforms you can spotify actually spotify but you can do apple music boom play, audio mark titles what is it actually you can make a pre-add there's no link for that enda pre-add umgoja ya ni kuja ya ni kutandike kumalize kutengenezesiku experience that album live in it, I've made it for all of us for me and you and don't forget for 20 for 20 to talk up a live alchemist and then also I'm about to release to drop the music video for somebody new so watch out for that suggested dates how many ties how many church university did alright guys speaking to ben sol about the lion so make sure follow him on social media so that was ben sol my name is dis Jackson, see you on the next one