 Okay. Ah, there you go. Ta-da! Yes, so here they are. We just played a song by them. It's one of the beautiful colors. And by there, just so you know, my name on social media is Color Me Vow. So I appreciate colors very, very much. Yeah. Awesome, awesome. Kaibuni Sana Studio. Thank you. Please do start by introducing yourselves to the people. Okay, so my name is Main. From the group Prince Kru Empire, I'm an artist, a rapper. And yeah, that's who I am. And you are? My name is Prince Park. I'm also an artist and the Prince Kru Empire. I'm a rapper and also I do vocals. Yeah, sometimes. Oh! Say, what happens if I just feel some thirst and I want you to sing for me? What do you do? Just a little bit. Unfortunately, Lisa is not at home. I tried to look at her and she said she's not at home. I'll forgive you, I'll forgive you. But the next time you see me, you'll know what's up, right? Okay. So please introduce the other two who are not in front of the screens today. Yeah, okay. So the other two, one is called Telvinsky. He's also a vocalist. He's the one who does most of our hooks, all the choruses in our songs. And the other one is Starborn. A very dope rapper. Yeah, he's also a good songwriter and even a vocalist who doesn't know how to sing but he's okay. Apparently one of them is Shy. Starborn. Lies! He's the shyest one in the group. Oh please, lies. I could have sworn guys I've interviewed him before but either I know another Starborn or I know another star or something but I was very convinced. But kumbesukwale. How do we find you guys in unity on social media? You'll find us on PrintScrew. On YouTube it's PrintScrew Empire. On Facebook the same PrintScrew Empire. Instagram it's PrintScrew. And Twitter is PrintScrew Empire. PrintScrew EMPR. So that's all our social media handles. Tatupatahuka. Can I start by asking you a question? This is based on my own personal curiosity. First of all, shout out to Lorna the Rapper and Monacoa TV. Hey, I'm a fan. I'm not a fan of Gospels, but I'm a shifty side of them. I'm not. I'm not a fan of Gospels. I'm not a fan of Gospels, but I'm not a fan of Gospels. Maybe he's not that open with it yet but I'm saying Gospels are just moving to this other side. What are you still doing on this other side? Qua-qua-qua-quaa! Ha ha! Well, I don't know about other people. I told you about those people who have ditched Gospels and are secular. We don't know their purpose in Gospels. But for us, we feel like I don't think it's Gospels but it's still Gospels. We feel like there is a generation that is yearning for the Gospels music and for us, we sing for a younger generation that is coming up because as you can see right now, so many people, yes, are Gospels or secular and they target audience with the young people. So for us, even as by the music we do, let's say hip-hop, Gospels or let's say Afro, it's a sound that really connects to the young people. So for us, we still believe there is grace that the young people will be saved. I like that. Do you feel compelled to be in the Gospel industry? Because there are some people who are interviewed. No Kim's keys are Anasema, OK, Alians on a secular. But Jo Baba can be reverent. I'm not sure. Is it compulsory because maybe your family member is a deacon somewhere or has some type of role in the church. Now you must and must and must be in the Gospel industry. I can say that growing up in a Christian household does play a role. But considering now we are grown-ups, I mean you can make your own decisions. Atacama you and your father's household and your mother's household. Them being a bishop or a reverend or a pastor does not really should not really like force you or make you feel obligated to now, OK, since I'm an artist and my dad is this type of person at church, I have to do this to maybe uphold the image that he already has. So I don't think that being grown-ups you can make your own decision. Like for us now as much as yes, I personally have grown-up in a Christian household. His dad is a pastor. I knew it, I knew it. But when you look at our story, we didn't really it's not really that it started being a Gospel group because of our backgrounds. But our backgrounds play a role. But then as we moved on or as we grew up we realized that we're not really doing this because of our parents, but it's because of the knowledge that we have of the Word the knowledge that we have of God and the whole salvation the whole salvation thing and we just want to do it to uphold the Gospel. Very diplomatic answer. A while ago we had a question on our socials and we were just trying to check our mental health. So we asked what do you do to feel better when you're down and not one said I pray. I'm quite sure maybe even all of them do pray, but when they're feeling down it's either music and I don't know exactly what kind of music it is so it could be either secular or Gospel but music, I love to scam to me it's quite external things and I'm not again condemning you I'm just trying to convey a message so someone will probably want to take a sip or something to feel better, to feel relaxed. Is this alarming because these are all young people and life is beating all of us, young or old the economy is ridiculous as we are speaking we are in a transition so it's a bit iffy even on the ground is it not alarming that when things go, when push comes to shove it's not actually sleep I think it's for me I think is it this error, this generation we have become so we have become so secular than that we no longer even consider God in anything that we do I can say that especially the young people don't like squeezing even the people when you grow up you are in Christian households so easy they are no longer going to church they are no longer praying the trend has become I don't know so when you are down the only thing you feel and rely on to calm themselves down is either leaker maybe share but at the end of the day it has not changed anything no but at the end of the day you will find people are growing when I was 15 years ago I am not the same I am not thinking like I was 15 years ago the same way my age right now I won't be by the time I am reaching 35 I will be thinking different I am mature enough so I will see life different so you see people they don't think about the future they are just thinking about right now it's a trend it's peer pressure is also there so you will find that by the time it reaches 30 they need to catch up with life now people go back to God because at the end of the day people need God God does not need us we are the ones who need God we've had a conversation once talking about how there are some second or first world countries that are even removing the word God from their constitution but if God is there God if you are there if you can hear me even if please let me take it back when I was growing up when I was younger than I was and I was looking at Christianity at the time it wasn't really at the region Bible pray every day if you want to grow but it doesn't make sense it wasn't that for me it was so so let's emulate them and perhaps maybe because I used to see them on TV I think wow you done made it you don't need anything else and then a scandal comes out or you know we are human but at the time I was young like you said I was thinking a bit different then but that's how some people are thinking now just because you said you are a gospel artist or you are fully in this particular limelight now when you make a mistake it affects my view of the whole of Christianity as speak to those people yeah so just speaking to those people then I'd say that being a Christian like Christians are supposed to support each other yes and that's what the fellowship is for but then the only person that we should look up to is Jesus because he's the one who God gave to us as a beacon of hope the person we should all look up to and you know when people now base their faith on someone else another human then that's where they lose direction because you forget that yeah this person is just a messenger of the gospel it's not that they are the gospel so at the end of the day they are still human and they will fall they will fall into temptations they will do mistakes but it's not really it's not really them that you should be looking at but it's Jesus who you should be looking at so I really suggest urge people to when you're when you're building your faith you need to base your faith on the Word of God you need to base your faith on Jesus himself and not other people because like as you all know people will fail you time and again people will fail you but then we should not really like the only reason that even the church exists is so that we can be able to support each other when we fall not to bash each other like when a big artist let's say a well known gospel artist I met Julie Kano for a while they've been putting out hit songs, gospel songs people are getting a change of heart and all that but then something happens and one of their flaws come to light and it will be a flaw not just a flaw as if we don't have it exactly so you see the only difference between the two of us I'd say is that they are well known meaning they're in the public eye meaning anything they do it's very easy for it to be known to other people but then the other person who is not in the public light they can still be in the same boat making the same mistakes maybe even worse because they're not in the public light no one knows and it's safe for them so I can say that people shouldn't be judging each other as Christians we're supposed to be supporting each other I may fall today but you should be there to pick me up and show me the right way to go I like that there's a fellowship like you said you help me I help you and we do it all to the glory of God yes hashtag is Thursday vibes about the returns because yes it's gospel you're an inspire but it's business at the end of the day we're trying to make money out of it come on please everyone has to eat everyone has to look nice it was planned so how do you plan out your group let's say so it's a good question because a lot of people like now because gospel is no more gospel is not paying you know gospel has no shows but they forget that there are so many ways to earn either you're in gospel or you're in secular so for us we are actually we earn through our digital platform streams whereby our music is being distributed on digital platforms on iTunes Spotify and Deezer those are platforms that are not free those are platforms that when you want to stream a song you have to pay for it it's not like YouTube whereby you can stream or you can watch a view for free of which also YouTube it pays but for us our YouTube is not that well subscribed but we really earn from the digital platforms streaming platforms also some of the shows that we go to churches we perform those are like our earning places where we get our money from I did not know churches pay like you if they ask you for an event they actually pay but they don't pay you in exposure talking about just cash it's the real exposure especially in Gittambu and I guess it depends you just present yourself because there are some churches I can say they take advantage and if they ask you for an event you change us they forget that these videos we shoot they cost us money the studios we go to they cost us money so before they even decide to book us we have to sometimes we have to this and this and this smart putting your foot down before any shaky things happen yes hashtag is Thursday vibes when you pen down lyrics and I'm asking because if I could translate it to myself there's a danger of me watching someone I look up to whatever capacity it could be presenter money news anchor or whatever there's a danger that if I watch them enough I'll start doing things they do my body language will somehow morph gratitude and sort of I don't know when you pen your lyrics as much as you look up to people both locally and internationally where are you getting your inspiration from where are you looking where are you getting it from I can say and we even have a discussion about this a while back and personally when I write my lyrics I feel like they just come from I'd say the Holy Spirit because sometimes I just write and it's like after I'm done writing I'm like I'm the one who wrote this I don't even know how it happened sometimes I can just say that it comes from above it's the it's the miracles from above the it also comes together differently from different places the music you listen to the people you talk to the places you go, the books you read so everything just all the information you gather from out there stays in your head and now that's where you start writing from because you see our process is different from probably other peoples when we're writing our music what we do mostly is we get different beats we listen to the beat and then we're like okay I want to write to this beat so the beat also comes into play in the kind of song that you will write so I mean it's a different process for everyone so it's not really forced it's not like one day you'll have writer's block you will, I personally I was writer's block what do you do when you do I just stop do other things and get back to each one I can so it's okay this is just me imagining you've tried, you've tried it's not coming together so in the process you will see something and then suddenly now the pieces will come together what you were looking for previously it's magic it's magic and then when it comes like that you have to find a way to put it down because it can disappear I get it how do you manage all the characters in the group because it's not easy first of all being more than one person I mean it's easy to manage yourself I tell I'm saying this because I don't want to disappoint if I'm disappointed it's very inevitable so how do you manage all the characters like for example sometimes when someone comes to me it's a challenge for me to just listen because where I come from we're problem solvers so you tell me something I will immediately think of five ways of how we can fix it but maybe you don't want to hear all that you just want someone to listen and say yes there's a bit of me that I'm working on so how do you manage because I'm not good you've stayed long enough so how do you manage all those characters without finding friction somewhere what I can say is I really thank God like all of us we have like same what can I say belief system we have same desires yes everybody has their own like their own vision out of the group we have one vision of the group and they have their different opinions or let's say desires, visions of their groups of their personal lives but we come together in the group group matters now you'll find like when it comes with an idea I can relate with it it's so easy for me to relate with this idea because I find like oh looks like we are thinking the same it's like we are thinking like the same we share with it another thing that has plagued apart for that to grow is because we did not just came and then to commit we met in high school same class it's because he was I was so we grew before even the group started we were friends before so we created that bond it grew we are just like brothers it's like when I ask you your relationship with your mother let's say for example you have some misunderstandings yes you love some misunderstandings but at the end of the day she's your mother that's the same with us there are issues but at the end of the day you have to do this my mother is very African so I was like always in Mongolia you cannot I was almost okay I got some of your siblings yeah but I get it I get it there's always going to be a point where you don't agree on a particular thing but that doesn't mean you stop being friends don't be business partners and all this tell me about the collabs you guys have had because I've seen the one with the loner the rapper and I told you I'm a very big fan they were in a group once but I think kind of people just grew on their own you guys but that's a different question it's like with the features some of the features that we've done we haven't done a lot of features of collaborations with different artists I think we only have three main features that we've done so we've worked with we've worked with Milome who was in the group called T412 and we've also worked with another lady called Janet she was also a wonderful vocalist that we've worked with and we also worked with another artist called iCruz so those are the only three features that we've done because someone may ask why we don't do a lot of collaborations and it's not that we don't want to it's because probably the time just has not yet come to work with different people because you find that sometimes we try to reach out to some people but then because of circumstances it's not able to work out but that is why we believe in ourselves and we believe in the way we work so if we want to work with who can I say let's say just one of the big names that you know in Gosfell for example if you want to work with them we reach out to them and then things don't go the way we want then we're like ok what do we do now we still have our own music we still have us so let's do us let's make our own music and that's how we work I see it there when they'll be haunting you down I once had you may ask her for collaboration but if you're not in tune with her sound then it's not very big possibility it might sound very choosy and slightly bougie because if you cannot force a synchronization you really just cannot so how do you deal with that what if someone approaches you and I think it's also happened with some of the collaborations that we've also been able to look out for so there's also like I can say work ethic because sometimes you want to work with someone but then they're not really up to the task and we've faced this before because you want to work with a certain artist so you know you plan the studio time everything is everything is written down everything is well planned but then when it comes to their parts you find that they're really slacking and they're not able to probably keep up with our pace sometimes as much as it's not really even about us clicking or us vibing sometimes it's just about probably how hard are you willing to go right go hard or go home okay alright is there a time where you've ever felt and I'm asking you personally is there a time you felt that you are doing way above and beyond everyone else like yes they're all artists they participate in the group again they have their own individual talents so to speak that still assist in the group so you see for example would it be would it be your mandate to make sure what don't you want to interview or we've been paid on time or the money hey money way money can divide people whoa whoa whoa it's your job to make sure everyone feels satisfied with what they've gotten no one has gotten more than they should have you ever felt like you're going way above and beyond everyone else in the group well something like that has never happened personally to me and I feel like if it ever happens I feel like we have already mastered on how we can handle such situations when it comes to finances or money in the group because the money in the group we don't always for now because we have not been like we have not blown to an extent whereby we can now be giving each and every person paying people their money so that they can use it personally so what we do mostly is when we get the finances we put it in our account and then it pushes a project ah that's smart ok so it literally comes back to the company how does it feel to hear someone has accepted salvation because of something you guys did or because of a vocal or because of a verse how does that feel it feels so good and it feels so like encouraging and motivating because what we are doing is basically that's the goal for example if I come to sing to you or I preach for you to get saved for me it's a motivation for me it's a joy and also I feel encouraged whereby what I'm doing it has an impact and an influence to a certain person or people very very short and sweet it is a goal and it feels really good what would you like to tell the fans I know every time I have this much fun time is about to run out I knew it so what do you want to tell your brand new fans your day one what do you want to say to our day one fans we really appreciate you for sticking with us all this while I mean we've been we've been doing this for several years for a couple of years there's people who've been with us the whole time and so we really appreciate you to all our new fans who've joined the wagon we also feel much welcome we have a lot planned we have a lot and you know just continue sticking with us you know this is the royal family and welcome I like that oh is it anyone up to joining like if someone was watching and they would oh I want to be part of that group they sound so cool no we're not sticking in but yeah you can definitely work with us but just in a different way that's a very diplomatic answer I will take it you have something to say for me I guess everything is okay you're very brief with your words is he always like this I don't know look your boy has you your boy really has you one more time with the social media handles and if you can give me the individuals as well as the two who are absent okay so prince screw empire prince screw with the K on all platforms Instagram, YouTube, Facebook Twitter and personally mine is main underscore K E that's M-A-Y-N-E underscore K E the other one is Telvinsky, Carl that's Telvinsky with an S-K-Y Carl K-A-R-L the other one is they know Stubborn so it's D double N-O underscore Stubborn yeah and then mine is prince spark underscore K E again with the briefness alright final question what we're asking in our socials which is what is the dumbest thing anyone has ever done or said to you what is the dumbest thing anyone has ever done or said to you the dumbest thing I can't think of anything right now look at him avoiding eye contact one of those children that he says he's asking one of the dumbest thing anyone has ever said or done to you the dumbest thing I don't know I don't know where can I think of something there was once when my sister was finishing high school my sister is a lot taller than me and then at the time she was a lot happier than me so I think she drastically lost weight after high school I don't know what kind of transition that usually is so we meet her friends some random time and then they look at her and they're like hey bro you've stopped eating and they look at me like why are you eating all her food I'm like honestly I am smaller than she is where am I taking the food that's always really dumb for me yes but let me just shout you out people who are talking to us or interacting with us on our social media handle that's Kate Justice Ivy Eliza Gishira Benjamin Mogo Anjali Murroki Sky T. Karish Pandaboy Joki Waweru Leon Kesh Tony Cruz Femines Kefa K3 Caroline Makoha Morevi Grammixen Phillip Edgar Hanson Jacob Kapash Rashbashi Rwendo Abusia Zige Rama There is Racha Jose Bashelle Candy and a couple of others Remember the hashtag is Thursday Vibes with Compton and I want to thank you for allowing us into your homes into your space Salam Ka-blah-to-em-de Salam Telvinsky Salam My mom salam all the fans thank you man thank you we love you very very much and thank you for being with us the whole time and Stephanie and I wish you a fantastic day and fantastic weekend but maybe need to go on a vacation on hashtag social Friday meanwhile do not touch that dial you have a con tent you don't want to miss anything in fact just let your TV run have a good one bye bye you know what I want and you give me what I need I just thank you for your deeds by your grace Lord me name is Saksit colleague Godspeed kua devon name is Sisi Nasi Rudi gift and squaki like it that you have it doesn't have to be finance or a big house man you're alive now sika makawa I just wanna thank God for everything I recall I used to pray I recall I used to ask God to give me closeness giving me a wardrobe Jesus you've been faithful you've given me all I need you've granted the lady you have given me but I'm so great I'm so great I thank her for the love I thank her for the gift of life everybody give me that I thank her that I woke up in the morning that's what's up she always got my back even when I'm in the dark remember some don't even have every morning when I wake up I give him thanks I give him thanks man I give him thanks you complain what you didn't get if you forget what you have you're losing now you want it back then girl you woke up can't you see that roof over your head clothes in your wardrobe food on your table shoes you got labels others don't even have place they can't go be grateful no matter what even if they big or small I recall I used to pray every every night and day for the things that I had now I recall I used to ask God to give me closeness giving me a wardrobe Jesus you've been faithful you've given me all I need yeah I don't take them for granted the lady you have given me but I'm so great I'm so great