 Welcome back to e-sakut guys. Remember to send in your comments, requests and we'll be sampling them at the end of the show. So you can like our Facebook pages, e-sakuts, Instagram and Twitter and remember, siku like peke ake, tuna share. So in studio right now, I have one of the baddest and I mean the baddest dancehall artist. You may know him from one of his hit songs that made him break out in Aito. They called me Suga, they called me Daddy. Yeah, I bet everyone knows that song and many more that you talk about right now. I'm talking about the one and only Serone. Welcome Serone and thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, it's an honor man. Yeah, how are you? Bless up. I'm good, I'm good man. I'm excited, yeah and uh let's do this. Yeah, so I want us to talk a little bit about your musical career, just an overview. All right, so I started music from, I started as a songwriter, I was in the background just writing songs for other people but for 2015 that's when I decided to go out as a solo artist and I did Suga but for me my goal was always to do worldwide music. I believe the world is too big. Which is worldwide by the way. Yeah, for me my music, I believe it's great and it's international so that was always my goal from day one. So I did Suga, I'd go bigger and then yeah that's been my musical journey, I've worked on different singles and right now I'm working on my debut album and we did a tour last year. We were in Kakuma, Naro, Konakuru, Machakos, so many places and just trying to see what people like and what people prefer in terms of music and yeah and among all that I also worked with an artist by the name of Leo from Austria and the song got big and yeah that's why we're here today. We were actually supposed to be with Leo and you today but he apologised for not being here today because he had some personal issues which we accepted his apology. So the song that you did with Leo Mama Sita, so how did that collaboration come in? Well interesting thing music just cuts across everywhere so Leo was in Okunda in a club and he was dancing and he had the song playing and everywhere he went he was like ah who's that artist so which song? They call me Suga, they call me daddy so yeah and that explains music is international. Yeah yeah so he heard it, he sajamde it and then he come sure it's Serone and then he hit me up so he sent me an inbox on IG and then I gave him my email and then we started talking his team talked my team and before you know it he came over to Nairobi went to the studio uh we did the audio then we went back to the coast we did the video and then he launched it in Vienna Germany and basically in Europe and South America and the song blew up yeah so right now he's here in the country trying to spread the love to to the Kenyan fans and yeah it was amazing it's still amazing and it's a work in progress and the learning process as well. So how was mama Sita received by your fans and also his fans in Europe? Well the fans in in Europe for more I've seen I get a lot of Instagram followers from from elsewhere so many of his fans were like I love the vibe it was more of trying to bring the two worlds together I believe as a musician it's not doing what is comfortable for you every day it's to challenge is to throw musicians in one room and see what happens and we wanted to create something that would also represent from both worlds so the reception from his country was crazy because the video was done in Ukunda the natives were there their vixen was afrikan so for that was really amazing for my fans they were more like oh serene now you're singing again you're trying I know my fans really loved it and they're like yo why are you not bringing the song here why are you not pushing the song here but now I was like uh we're gonna the time is gonna come and the time is now so now Leo is in the country and we're trying to let people know about the story of how we done it and uh do the tour here in Africa and also do similar in in in in Europe so I'm honored man yeah so we're talking about your fans saying that yeah you're not promoting the song you're not bringing the song to them yeah so I want to tell them he is bringing the song to you because he's here today I mean yeah for the very first time live on y2o yeah so um we were talking with you and this is a discussion that has been ongoing and I think now I don't want to say it's getting tired but people just need to act on the play ke thing and just not talk about it so what's your take on that and what are you doing as an artist well interesting thing is a musician you usually get one talent and then god gives you more so I'm also a filmmaker the video mama Sita I did the video I did a short film I'm working on a movie but uh I've been in the discussion with other musicians I've done a song with Kolo and Joakali and before the recording session we're just talking about uh what can we do rather than just talk about it so we came up with an interesting idea as a filmmaker I'm doing like an offer to all my fellow musicians yeah and we're trying we we discuss like what is the minimum budget that a musician can have for for video and most of my friends are like 50 000 is minimum for you to have a decent video so we said okay fine for 50 000 let's multiply that for three video we're doing like 50 50 000 three videos and then quality video quality video so shooting with a red camera drawn and all that so it's pretty amazing then gets who was in the room with me as a studio it's called Antioch Studios if you watch my vlogs I did a song there he has a state of the art equipment so he was like okay fine also I'm gonna be part of this and I'm gonna do audio sessions for a thousand shillings so if you have a thousand shillings you can book a session and record your song if you're 50 000 and the interesting thing is now we're getting more publicists are coming on so we're trying to make it more like a campaign I have a friend from Canada who has a portal play Kenyan music so it's a website so if you have your music just such play Kenyan music dot com submit the music there he's gonna work on like a networking where he plays Kenyan music to the world so as we're doing the two in Germany yeah no for free now that's for him it's for the project that we're working on yeah so if you're watching and you're interested highlight me on instagram i am underscore serene so all the artists out there this is a one-time deal that you cannot afford to miss out yep yeah so but of course you have to have talent yeah I don't know the day it's not just anything when you're in the studio like for example Kolo he's gonna be around the studio if you find him there's so many artists who lopa is also around the building so we're trying to make musician also because people complain ah he's mzingi but I don't know the day the new generation that's the future technically they are literally the future so if you don't nature the sound that they're creating the sheng that they're talking about if you if you hate on it then you're killing it so if you're saying you're playing Kenyan music and you're not supporting the the new generation then you're just an hypocrite okay I have just one question for you on the new generation yeah um it's not about the sheng what about what about the the video like dati dancing yeah the language they are talking uh huh you know that is the main problem actually in my in my perspective yeah well for me what I think is yeah if you understand that it's dati language that means you also talk like that you know it's not arabic you can't go like what are they saying if you understand that means you relate so it's just a matter of like the older generation I feel the more like so they're gonna come in sing a nice song and pretend they don't talk about those things but this young generation what about the younger people you'll be surprised that is what people go through on a daily basis when they wake up when they listen to they don't listen to spiritual music they listen to their music so whatever goes in them is what comes out and that's why the music is blowing up because they are real and I think as a musician that is the most important thing if you sing about a girlfriend who broke up with you and if it's true the song is gonna be legit so most of the artists kind of have like their gospel but they don't feed gospel to them so the songs that come out they're not gospel but the young generation the guy who was here that's what they listen to I mean when they're vibing in the club in the studios that is it so when they translate it into the music it's pure realness and then the music is real and then the number start coming in and then the people go like oh why are they doing this why are they doing this but at another day it's about being real people stop pretending yes just be real if you're a dancehall artist be a true dancehall artist if you wake up in the morning smoke weed talk about that that's what you go through don't start talking about God and you know with God I mean be real and cars and money and don't talk about yo I'm balling I'm a dance and you're single you know I mean it would be fake you know if you watch a movie like straight out of Campton there's a line where Dr. Dre told EZE like cruising down it was like yo yo yo you can't sing this line you don't have that car let EZE do it because he owns that car yes so when someone says like yo I'm balling and that's why you see for me I feel like the new generation and secular music is more impactful is cause what we're seeing about is what we go through if I say yo mama seat yeah like Leo when you're singing mama seat we were jamming with the girls in the studio you know we're in the beach that was real so when we look at the music that's why he's coming to Kenya he wants to feel the real Kenyan vibe hang out with the real Kenyan girls hang out with the real producers walk with a real artist so that when he comes to the song it's real it's not fake he wants that saying ah kenya kuna matata he'll be like yo he's like a randa you know so yeah that's my two cents about it yeah so people say that there is no content no content in Kenya so you disagree totally with that because if someone can contact you all the way from Europe and talk to you and tell you i want to do a collab with you then that means there is talent exactly yeah and i'm an example of that yes so talking about your music there is this diss track red sun diss track yes and chat at waters why why did you do a diss track for red sun wow so last year if you have no copy we were in the studio so many things were going on and i was trying to come out as a dance artist as an afro dance artist because we have a festival in colombia called dance all paradise and they're taking so many african artists right now and jamaican artists so we were trying to create that vibe and in the process so many of my fans are like oh yo man we got this artist in your country and yo he's launching an album but i can't find it i'm like okay oh yo can't you do this song with this guy you say he was in this country but i was there he wasn't there so at the end of the day okay fine the dance all track was called bring it back and for me as we were discussing is about legit if you talk about if i say i'm doing a song with an austrian it should be real if i'm doing a if i'm coming here i'm talking about something it should be real so for me it was me calling me out and going like yo bro you need to bring it back dance all music when you are growing up was the biggest genre back in the day dance all was it and i feel every musician has a role to play and red sun and his generation never played that role because if you look at Nigerian music two-face did his part and then he left another artist came and picked it from where he was so if if red sun had a responsibility to take music to this level and he didn't then he failed and for me i feel it was me calling him out and going like yo one of the reasons why people are not playing Kenya music is because one you never played your part every musician has a role to play we have a role to mentor the new artist the older generation have a role it doesn't have to be sitting down it's just you play your role i mean if you get an opportunity to walk with someone personally do it and then in your job like he had a role to push dance all music to the world he says he's international he says he has five albums he doesn't have one album published he's just been lying and i mean we could go back all over that so listen to the district if you think i'm lying if you're a red sun fun it has facts you know it's about facts it's about calling it out as it is that's what he respond well he blocked me on instagram and then he tried to reach out to our people he tried to act like he and his thighs reply but we know he heard it but one thing you know it's about winning the war it's not about the battle so this is just the beginning at the end of the day you can only have one dope artist you can only have competition that through competition is through is the only way music gets to grow yeah we don't have to like each other but we always have to bring our best so if you don't bring your best someone else is gonna bring their best and it is their right to come and say you're bringing your best i'm better than you so you should step aside and let the people other people take over so our topic of discussion today was what are some of those myths and beliefs that your parents told you and you came to realize that they want they were not true when you grew up ya kone gani this is funny one yes i don't know if it's true i still haven't but it's yeah um i don't know my parents used to tell me that so that to send it trips from ambasa and see to what i'm gonna go up so we grew up and it was a kaisha funny interesting so where can people find you on social media yo you can find me on instagram serene i am underscore serene facebook i am underscore serene twitter as well yeah check out my page you can also follow me on youtube serene music like my page subscribe i'm doing music videos i'm doing vlogs weekly vlogs we'll have a vlog about this next week get to know what happened behind the scenes anyway so that's where you can find me yeah and remember he has that offer and his team you know three videos for 50 000 i bet for anatis that's a big deal so don't forget about that then once again i want to leo send his apology and will be video explaining why he did not make it to come to the interview and we will be watching it and then check out mama sita as well yes leo featuring serene it has over half a million views on youtube check it out check out leo's music as well he's done music with shaggy ll cool j jan paul he's a big artist he said when he comes back to Nairobi he's gonna be here on y244 so check out the video as well mama sita serene featured by leo abere papa leo leo abra unfortunately i couldn't come yeah sometimes life is hard um i have some private problems my girlfriend is in hospital and i hope you understand that i did not come to your interview but big up to you and big up to kenya i love kenya it's for me the best country after austria and i loved kenyan music and i hope see you again soon bye