 Yes, yo, you've been listening to the sounds of VDJ Khalifa himself. This is Social Friday on Why In The Morning. Hope you got blessed through the gospel interlude right there. Shalatisara and go check out a music up with Vo and if you want to recap of the wise words, Zinyazilkwa kwa interview, head straight to our YouTube panel. Subscribe to ki upload uta kuna patatu ka notification. Click the bell right there. My name is Barry Mossers or It's Barry Moen, every social media platform. This is a time we've all been waiting for. Our guest is going by the name Matrix. I don't know if they're living in a Matrix. One goes on the name Trixter and the other one is Marcel. Marcel is a normal name, I'd say. But Trixter, question marks. Karimuni san. Yeah, yeah, thank you. Alright, so Mesa jim introduce up a wee kwaolo wa na ona for the first time. We can start with Marcel. Yeah, I'm Marcel and this is Matrix. Matrix is Marcel and Trixter. So I think there's a Matrix. Oh, okay. That's Matrix. That's Matrix. I thought you guys took the blue pill. We also took the blue pill. You also took the blue pill. Both of them are Marcel. Alright. So Trixter, you want it? Yeah, mini Trixter. I go by the name, stage name in Trixter. Half of Matrix here. Okay, Trixter. Yeah. Trixter. Uki skende ma mese ma wujama ni Trixter. Ogopa wujama. Why the name? Why did the name come from? So I do a Trixter ni William say. Trixter. Mjanz. And also I do a Trixter ni narrative ya ni. I do a ni narrative ya ni. Kwa zuna pata kuna yo puwa Trixter ni Trixter. It could mean many things. So the fan as it translated according to Nyanana. We have no teacher Kulia. It goes. Alright. That is the art right there. Marcel. Yes. Nakumbukatu ni ke kwa na kongomaflani. Kitambu ilitrend sana. In kwa ma ilikwene twa fboy. Yeah. Na riko gen. Alright. This song was really... Iligusa wa say sana. Wengine wali kwa rap the wrong way. The guys you were talking about on the song. Thanks for lighting this. Tell me what was this... What was going on with Riko Gang and Marcel? With Riko Gang it was 2018 and July. Riko Gang is a group of my brothers. Trandrans, Harry Craze and Gracie and Gigi. So the three of them, Trandrans is my broso. I've been working with Trandrans for a while. Just recording songs and just vibing here. It's also an artist as I am. Is it bro bro bro? It's my younger bro. Bro bro. So it's Trandrans in the family. Yeah it's Trandrans in the family. So we got together with Harry Craze and he came up with the song and then he invited me in here so that we do the song together. So we did the song. We wanted a new vibe. At that time it was only Lambalolo. So we wanted a new vibe. So we just went ahead and did the video and released the song. The people loved it. Not so much went into the video. Like you guys were just having fun with the video. Okay. We just made up the storyline mostly. We just invested mostly in the storyline. We didn't do much in this case. But we just invested most in the storyline. It was a storyline that was supposed to tell us story. So that you stay away from people like that. I get you. This song has up to a million views now. And when you look at the video there was a moment in time when I was in Kenya when I saw that a million views were in the video. But that has changed. People are just using what they have but still getting the views. What do you think is happening? I think Gengetronili revived Kenyan music. Kenyan music was in the gutter. For a minute Kenyan music was in the gutter. So Gengetronili Patiawa say you guys were excited. What's this? It's a new sound. Guys are like what's this? So long ago we had been listening to guys from abroad our Niger brothers. Migo Salsa. Our Niger brothers. From Migo to Niger to S.A. But now at least we want to come up here. And guys want to listen to Kenyan music. Which is a good thing right there. I like. On your YouTube channel right now and there's something premiering in two hours. What is premiering in two hours? Okay. It's a freestyle that I did. There's a friend of mine called Martin C.L.L. Sharrots Martin C.L.L. Sharrots to you. I did a freestyle on loud radio. So we made the video. We made the lyrics for the video. So we jammed the video and the lyrics so you can get what I'm saying. So it's a video. It's a freestyle. And also there's a song that just premiered a couple of hours ago. Nine hours ago to be exact. That is the reason we are here actually. We do this. This is trickster of the matrix. In particular. Before you tell me about we do this. What I'm getting is that matrix is not really a group. Mi kama kimu mmentivi. Sazine masel anafanyam tuza ke pali. Sazine trickster anafanyam tuza ke pali. Sazine mmosha. Metrix ni one group. You'll find that before we came together we had a kwa na misakuna project. You see before I was in trickster I was working mostly with Riko Gangia and doing my solo projects in the same studio. So there are some projects that I did. So we did want them to just go like that. Because they're like I feel it. So we've been doing songs together since last year and since Kamute. So matrix is one group. So we're doing songs together. It's just that the projects that we did just before we met and they want them to just go like that. Zipote evo ju a group has been birthed. Alright. We do this. Tell me more about this freestyle. Was it recorded during this COVID-19 period? So basically we do this it's a single. It's a single basically for guys who just do it. So we do it when we do it I can't do it because of this. Just do it. So this is an encouragement to we do it when we complain about how easy it is. Alright. This animation right here this is shout out Pagafly. Alright. Alright. This is a very dope idea. Just the animation and the visualizer concept itself. Video Zimenda places. It's not the traditional way we used to know it. Alright. Let's go back to the sound. Would you describe the matrix sound as gengeto? Not really. Describe it. I would describe it as fresh Kenyan urban music. Fresh Kenyan urban. Fresh Kenyan urban. Wow. Those are powerful words right there. How would you describe the matrix sound? Matrix is fresh Kenyan urban music. Fresh Kenyan urban music. Let me tell you why. Matrix is urban music. We just don't do one genre of music. Because let's say if you're an artist you can draw a car and it can be built and you can still paint. Where can you just do both? You're still an artist. There's still an artist. One is an engineer but one is just an artist. We take that freedom to a whole another level. We just do whatever we feel like. Kuna skuzingine na umukawana dai you're in a lovey-dovey. Skuzingine, most of the times it's trap. Most of the times it's trap. Ukuyo trap. You wanna be in that gengeto and vibe just dancing. We have a very wide audience in the urban area. People don't just listen to gengeto. We listen to hip-hop too. You also have a girlfriend, you want to play her some R&B, right? Ume skiawa. Ume skiawa. I see you man. You lead music to play for your girlfriend and you lead music to listen to with your dad. So you need mature music. So make mature urban music. Mature urban music. The 254 scene as it now nani bamba sana na trend YouTube. Ngo maza Kenyan nozina chiazwa apa ewi. Wasona drop albums left, right and center. But kuna jig flani kitu flani aifit kuna jig flani that doesn't fit the streaming money. Is it real? Are people making the streaming money? Is it possible to make the streaming money from the 254? I believe it's possible. If you have the right foundation it's something that if you're treating your music as a business it means you have to make the foundation for your business. For you to earn money through streaming you'll have to make your own foundation. You know sometimes artists are taking advantage of other people. They stream your music out there and then they take you on streaming. They get the money from your music. But then if you make the right foundation let's say like doing yourself getting a trusted distributor or aggregator. The first step is getting a trusted distributor or aggregator. So after you get a distributor or an aggregator you read the terms and conditions and then you go back to pushing your music so you get the streams. How is the pushing like? Is it the same the same way you were pushing your music 5 years ago? Is it the same way you're pushing it right now? I'm happy to see me change. Kuna machmo platforms but obviously social media mefungu is a whole world class for us as artists. We have Instagram we have Tik Tok I've worked with you guys and this is the first time we meet. How funny is that? I want you guys to be actually also demos and songs together but this is the first time we meet. So thank you very much guys for coming in the morning and why to fight for in particular something premiering in 2 hours there's something that dropped 9 hours ago we do this and we'd like to know the future what the future holds for the matrix. We're finishing up on our debut mixtape it's called cut up in the matrix blue pill red pill I see that I see the old play. The matrix half of it is available on all online platforms and Spotify we search for trickster we search for trickster all of the songs individual we search for pata that is matrix k-e another thing that got my attention is the use of vernacular in your titles in your songs you'd like to place some friends some jam from time to time what is the power of this and what drove you guys to represent for your culture like that maybe we can start moving what is the future? for me music is I have to keep it real with my music and music is a reflection of me and I open up so I have to so it's an influence too on our music because we try to we have to love ourselves kwanza as much as Ndeo ni ni ni nisi sindotinaiza promote we are the ones who can make it look good because it's ours what is your favourite new folk artist? Wad Baba Wad Baba is Aba tell me some folk music folk music like vernacular isanda giheram susano we susano we is dope for me the use of vernacular when someone speaks your language the deal is halfway done alright so you are African so if I speak African language of my lyrics I'm already rapping so if I add my vernacular language it's going to mean that I'm going to get more people because the deal was halfway done it's for him art is out here using vernacular even if I don't understand maybe kikamba o kikuyu but when you speak kikamba in your song it makes me kisswa gili if we say akuna interest we say akuna interest pia kuske we don't want anyone to feel left out so it is in the everyone can jump in magic is like magic is actually as you said it's a movement it's like a social cultural political environment in which something develops I appreciate you guys so I want to give you an opportunity to introduce you to the new fan but I'll give you the time let me talk to the fans alright beyond Facebook at Y254 you can ask us at Y254 the question is simple what is that crazy thing that a teacher did Kamuni PTIA for 4 system Kamuni group of schools your views and comments are also inviting we'd like to know on the other side how the other side felt like VDJ Khalifa is in the building DJ for social Friday is going to be sung as the music and it's a mati kwa sasa it's matrix there let's get it man I'm going to introduce you to go okay okay let's go just to concentrate into the eyes it's a simple thing the title of the song how they can stream it on YouTube you're listening to songs today we wrote the list one it's called we do this get us on YouTube go to matrix KE search matrix KE the other song dropping today it's a freestyle called strictly business go to YouTube matrix KE we still already have 8 videos already on our channel so go catch up kenda pali kenda pali YouTube kwa sayoengi wako YouTube pali just search matrix okay so for social media for Instagram matrix KE for him the rapper the trapper the underscore the trapper and then for me the underscore the trapper for me it's muscle matrix muscle underscore matrix and we're also on Facebook matrix KE the same thing matrix KE everywhere let's listen to their music love it don't forget to keep requesting it so we can have it on rotation