 What's up everybody? Welcome to SPM Buzz. My good name is Ms. Kithingi and right about now I am hanging out with the stars on Buzz. Just before I introduce them guys, make sure you subscribe to SPM Buzz. We are heading to 200K subscribers. So make sure you bless us with that subscription. Now today I'm hanging out with the usual suspects. I think I've interviewed you guys for quite a number of times. Introducing to you, hat the band. So guys as you can see they are so psyched up because we have two rehearsals. So it's amazing how the three of us meet! How you guys doing? I am glad to be here will you? Choose the good and not stay late all the day. Wodaster. father's day. You know it's it's it's amazing how the three of you are fathers and it's all because you meet these boy bands normally there are relationships but it's so it's so amazing that I actually find out found out that you guys are dads but how was father day father's day for you so you guys spend some good time with your kids father of two girls ah yeah yeah me and my dad are girls I wish I had a father I wish I had a father but father's day is over as in being a father teaches you a lot of things especially in the industry because when you are in McDonald's but right now you have someone who looks up to you you look up to me and say hey dad, why are you looking at me and she says, wow shit and she says, I am looking at you so father's day was amazing it's it's good to be celebrated and to also celebrate our fathers the joy we are going to find out yeah man can you share school fees with your kids not to complain, what is it? fun fact is I am going to go to school I am going to go to school I am going to go to school my dad is a good man I am going to go to school I am going to go to school I am going to go to school and hence the idea of doing our work sharing my school fees it's better to do it at least I am going to go to school I am proud of the billionaires that are going to go to school and I am going to go to school Modekai, is there something that you knew you are going to probably instill in your child that you know your father but as you go on to become a father you had to improvise How do you improvise? Honestly, I'm not ready to improvise. I have ups and downs. I have surprises. I realize that I'm not good enough. I have to improvise. It's important for me to be natural. I have to be responsible. I have to respect. Improving is important. I can improvise. I'm a little bit shy. I want to improvise. I'm not good enough. I'm not good enough. I'm not good enough. It's a very, very, very amazing experience. There are many grounds. Nice. OK, so happy belated for the day. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but let's talk about where you guys are here today because I know you guys have a show on Saturday. What's going on? Where's the show? What are we getting from the show? Yeah man, so on Saturday we'll be performing at Folk Fusion, Sindiotna Headline, and we've been wanting to perform on that stage for a minute, plus we've not performed since I think with a band since like February. Oh wow. Yeah, so we are really excited, and coincidences on February to perform in the same place on Zanagadans, and for Folk Fusion we'll be in the same venue on Zanagadans, so we are really excited. We are happy that Ajit Okeze will come, the band is ready to make a rehearsal, it sounds really amazing. So we are in Sitko Redim as the stages are home, that's why we like to spend most of our time. Guys, make sure you come through to Anzana Gardens on Saturday. Why did you guys not perform for all this time? Actually, we've been working on an album since December, and we had a process album. We did put my music at Nafanya, and our individual project at Shule, and we did DJ, we did Cyproducer, we did a rehearsal and we did music. So we built our individual power and we put more effort to the band, so we put it into work here. Yes, yes, and... By the way, we'll be graduating. Hey, how are you doing this summer? I'm doing good, but my brain is not working. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How did you graduate? I graduated until the last day. I believe I graduated last month, every day is a learning day. So I graduated as a certified producer now. Producer Ali Bard. Producer Ali Bard. Namaste. Very nice, very nice. We're not talking to you guys. I'm not talking about Saltisol in Ezekwani Mekose Asana. Because now you see that's a boy band that was doing the same thing as you guys. We were looking at your amazing work, both of you. But now you guys have been left alone as the boy band that has been there for a while. What are your thoughts about Saltisol deciding to pursue their solo careers? And do you guys feel any sort of pressure? Now, we are looking at you guys and I'm not talking about you guys. Do you guys feel any pressure? No, honestly, there is no pressure. Because we believe, as in this arts thing, everybody has their own way of doing things, their own path that they need to follow, their own things that they need to accomplish. Now, you have to be different from anybody else. Now, one may push boundaries, truth be told, one may be good job or not. They've done the best. Now, do you guys feel any pressure? So, there is no pressure, as in, you guys are looking at your own music, you have a clean music, you have a soft music, you have a motor music. Yes, I expect more from you guys, I expect you guys to project your own music, you have individual projects, you have your own music. Yes, man, I want to work with you. I mean, you guys have worked closely with Saltisol in the past. What is it that you're going to miss from that group, just seeing them together on stage and working together? I think your chemistry, you know, being in a band is not easy. You have to ensure everybody is comfortable at every single time. You have to be as humble as you can be and you still have to be your best. And maybe your best sometimes is not somebody else's best. There are some who are vanishing, and some are trying to change it, and some are not. So, I think them being able to do it for that long time, I think it's amazing, I think it's an intermission, I think it's their presence on stage and their workmanship. So I think that's the best. I think that's the best. I think you guys are the best. I think that's the highest. How high are you? I mean, we are going to miss out, it's all, of course, seeing them on stage, but also there's a question I was asking you guys earlier on, because I've seen Modekai do collaborations with other artists as a solo artist, but I haven't seen the true view. What's up? Yeah, but I think there's a time I did, I did, I've done one piece of poetry called Click Click Bang. I did that by myself and there's another poetry project I did with Mastercard, I think it was about COVID and those things. And there's more coming in our, in the album that we just finished, I'm recording and producing. For us, the amount of projects we have, if we release a song every day, we can do it for two years. The last time I spoke to Bien, he told me he writes music every day. Is it the same case as you guys? Yeah, yeah, every single day. Modekai is like a studio, he's like a studio for me and Dika. I have to sing every single day, I think there's a lot of projects. Yeah, it's time too. But the thing is, I have to show up. I have to go to the studio and Dika, so any project Yeah, every single day, even as you create, Do you guys think it's easier working as a group as compared to solo careers? Would you guys hack it if you went solo? So, I believe in the life of Nakuwaga. I don't think it's hard for me to work with Adam. I have a strong personality and design here. So, I think it's easier for me to work with a solo artist. All right, let's talk about your collaboration with Zuchu from Tanzania. I have a collaboration with Harte Band. What? I'm like, how did you guys get to do this? I heard she reached out. Is that true and how was it? Yeah, I finally reached out. How was the reception of her just wanting to do a collaboration with you guys? How was it? I think it's always amazing for another artist to appreciate you as an artist. I would like to work with you. There are two brands coming together to do one piece of work that will be even more glorious when we come together. So, when she reached out to us, she said, okay. So, she's listening to her music. She said she loves it. Yes. This is it. Oh, really? Yeah, we did it, I think, last year, maybe the year before. No, no, after. I think even after. Sometime last year, I think. And there's also other collaborations from Tanzania. Because people in Tanzania listen to her music big up to all Tanzanian people. People listen to her music. How are you guys anticipating the kind of reception this song is going to get? I think this is the first collaboration with Tanzania and Fania. Oh, yeah. How could I forget the legends? But yeah, because we're new age, to say my new age. Is it new or new age? How are you guys anticipating this collaboration? Because I mean, both of you have stars in your own ways. How are you guys anticipating this reaction from the fans, especially? Okay, first thing first, let me talk about the song. The song is dope. The way you wrote the song, the way you just interpreted it, So we're gonna call it the day, so I'm talking about I'm out in the middle of a performance. We're old-fashioned, we're common. We're from Fania, you were not born in the middle of a performance. There are fans, too. Sometime I'm trying to connect with the fans, and the fans are very busy. They're busy, too. I just want to suggest to introduce these people and meet them and share feedback. But this is Kali. I think it's Kali. I'm not Kali. Too many people are saying Kali. I don't know Kali, but this is Kali. That's a Kali. It's Kali. Yes, yes, yes. Now allow me to ask this, because just the other day we saw again that, hey, MC Dance. Allow me, allow me. MC Dance. We saw that, you know, Diamond and Zuchu are getting more streams from YouTube here in Kenya as compared to Tanzania. Why do you guys think that Kenyans are consuming their music actually more than even their Tanzanians? Why do you guys think that? Let me answer that, you know, the moment I saw Zuchu talking about our song and then he comments that I'm an honest man, I don't want to find a solution to this matter. I'm not a modern person, I think I'm an old man. Sometimes the king is too cheap. The king is too cheap, I'm not saying that I'm not good at music. I don't know. So you mean to say the first thing first, let's learn to appreciate our own, let's learn to encourage our own. But also on that point, there's a friend of mine from the States, and it's Mike. I come from Kutembe and I've been here in 25 years. I know that Kenyans in the diaspora want to consume a lot of Kenyan music. And they're asking for Kenyan artists. So I'm here to show Kubu Asana. There was a very big Kenyan festival in the UK. It was the most expensive Kenyan event in the UK. And I've been in communication with all these people and they're saying people in the diaspora are really consuming Kenyan content. And even here in Kenya, there's a spike of Kenyans consuming Kenyan music. I'm speaking in our language. So like a lot of Kenyans are consuming Kenyan content. So, and I feel it's gotten to that point whereby society is up to us as artists to do our level best and release quality and quantity and for the fans who are outside there to make sure they support in any way possible. Come on you can show, come on you can stream, come on you can share. Now, to endelize your culture, because art, sports, Zewsidea can preserve culture. They do? Yeah. So, to endelize we will. Talking about quality and quantity. What do you think about what you are saying? Netizens are saying that some are saying that we support music that should not be supported because it's not quality. For example, Kaveve Kazoze, that lady has been trending for quite some time now, but people are saying this is not talent. She has been doing it for a long time, but she has been doing it on a platform and she has been doing it for a long time. She has been doing it for a long time. Do you guys have the same sentiments that Kenyans have a tendency of not supporting quality? Well, I feel, I feel like this is art and art, art is subjective. When you are doing a skier, you can do a skier song, you can do a touch, you can collect, this is it. At the end of the day, if you are going to do a skier, you can do a skier, you can do a side day, you can do a do-near. We need also songs that are fun. When you are doing a skier, you can do a do-near. That's part of art. I take it as though every artist has their own path, they have their own way of doing things, they have their own niche that they need to accomplish. If you are an artist who is not doing a skier, you are going to be in a big decision to do a skier. If you are a skier, you are going to make a decision. That's at the end of the day, the expression, it's important to express. If you do not do a skier, you have to ask for the difference in your buying and buying. If you are doing a skier, you are seeing the diversity in your product. Yes sir, we are selling a feeling. So we are talking about sadness, about happiness. I guess the question is, what are the categories of music? So we are talking about heat. We are talking about music. What are the categories? We are talking about gospel and secular. Really? Gospel and secular. Okay, now John Raz. Exactly. So I will explain to you, to give the first part about how it is said in music. It is like this, you can see how the music can be heard strategetically in the song, and can't really hear the nature of the song. It's like that. So it's like this. If we want to remove the music, we have to let the music know that it is there. And we can hear it. So that's the ending, to focus on. So that is the ending. So it is said that, we are talking about song and music. Is it about something else? Yes, song and music. So that is the end of the question. So we are talking about music. So we are talking about music. So that is the end of the question. They have been the proposed bill of 15 percent for so many years now you're eating the fruits of your labor but now someone wants to come and pluck things. But they said they might consider to reduce sequitur. What are your thoughts? I think with the number of members, it's a good thing to reduce but we still need structures in the industry we're a high-tech industry for no reason. We're not producing anything. If we're producing something, we don't have the money. There is a structure. We have food, we have food, we have fruits, we have fruits, we have chocolate, we have processing and we have fruits. So peer music and I need the same thing. We need them to come and help us build these structures because if they start taxing it, it means it's an industry. There's no industry without structures. And we can't talk about revenue where us, bad or okunyuma, hakuna vitwa ziko in order. So one has that 15 percent of 10 shillings. But you can help us make structures and get 15 percent of 20 billion. A weird thing is that in the entertainment industry by itself, in 2019 it was valued at 212 billion. So where is that money going to? We need those structures to be in place to ensure we know where all this money is going to so that when we're taxing it, we know what exactly we're taxing. We're taxing bundles, we're taxing post, we're taxing content creators, we're taxing camera, we're taxing this, it's a structure. Talking about the structures, they had Talantahela, their Putin artist, but who are revoked? Talantahela is a talent in the studio, he has a project in the studio, he has a vision in the studio. He's a great client, he's a great guy, he has a lot of money. He has a good idea, he has a good idea of SimSani, he has a good idea of Meza. He has a lot of money, he has a good idea of the story, he has a good idea of the story. You see now with Talantahela, they put in artists there, people who are in the entertainment industry, they commit. We had the likes of... They don't use the likes of who? The likes of Acothea, Churchill, Ketak Trace, Aziad. I mean, they were quite a number, but I mean they were revoked, yes, because they said these are people who have not been vetted. The procedure has not been followed. Do you guys agree with what was said? I don't mind, Miss Mindy, I think we're following up because that's the MSSK. I know that we're following up, I think we're following up because we're following up, I think we're following up. But I feel like if it's not for us, we'll be planning out. If it's not for us, we're coming. I'm not sure if it's because of the message of the people. I think if it was through the country, it would grow. If it was true, it would be a real thing. I think it's the message that we share. But it's not what we share. It's kind of crazy. I was actually thinking, was there any musician on that council? Did you feel represented? So I am representing myself. We are representing ourselves by just airing what we think. So, as in to what you are going to do, you are going to generalize everything. If it's a structure that is a music structure, it's a music structure. You can move forward. Lately, I've been looking at the female vocalist or the musicians. Is there an artist that you guys feel had amazing vocals but they don't release music anymore? Who are the female vocalist musicians? I'm a singer. Of course, I'm a singer. I have vocals from here to Timbukutu. I love listening to Sanepe's music. I'm a singer. I like to sing and play. I'm a singer. I'm a singer. Do you have any interests in singing? I'm a singer. I'm a female vocalist. I'm a female vocalist. I'm a mother nature. I'm a mother nature. I have feelings. I have interest in the female figure and the balance. Sometimes I feel like I'm a singer. I'm a singer. I'm a singer. I'm a singer. I'm a mother nature. I'm very good at singing. I'm a woman. I'm a woman. I'm a woman. I take the responsibility of raising people to sing. I'm a woman. Yes sir, I have been in the South Academy for four years. So like I have also... When I was a kid, I had a lot of friends. So there's so many who are coming who I identify with. They have something, they have a voice and they have a voice. So watch this space. Oh nice. Okay. All right guys, please tell us about the new song. Where we should find it, any water we are expecting to be any. All right. 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