Radio & Weasel spill the beans

P: What prompted you (Weasel) to leave Leone Island after having been nurtured by Chameleone to team up with Mowzey Radio to form Goodlyfe Crew?

W: I felt it was time to move on and establish myself as an artiste having worked under Chameleone for years. The fact that Radio and I had something in common made us blend well and hence our decision to form Goodlyfe Crew. I have no plans of going back to Leone Island to work under my brother; I have become my own man now.

P: Is there sibling rivalry between you and Jose Chameleone?

W: On the contrary we are good friends and he is happy for me. In fact we intend to record another collabo soon. It’s the media fuelling rumours about a fall-out so as to sell the papers.

P: If your relationship is okay why did you release a dis-track, Teacher directed to Jose Chameleone?

W: Did I hear you mention dis-track directed at my elder brother? I would never do such a thing no matter how sour our relationship is. You can always call Chameleone to clarify this. The song Teacher sends out a message to seasoned artistes to strive and share their skills with upcoming musicians as well as wishing them well and giving them the necessary support.

P: If you want us to believe you, why did Jose Chameleone team up with his erstwhile enemy Bebe Cool to record Bogolako remix to reply to your song, Teacher?

W: Why would legends like them fight their juniors whom they have mentored for years? After all our market and theirs are totally different. As much as they sing for Ugandans, we on the other hand sing for Africa. All the same I challenge anyone who has proof that they actually dissed us by mentioning our names in the song to table their evidence.

And for your information Bebe Cool and Chameleone have always been good friends. The issue of enmity is just a publicity stunt to give the media something to write about.

P: You call them legends who mentored you, why then did you publicly abuse Bebe Cool and even went ahead to record a track Zuena — a song wooing Zuena Kirema (Bebe’s wife) by expressing your love for her — after she had split with Bebe on infidelity rumours?

R: Zuena is a positive song that revolves around a beautiful woman who is any man’s dream. After doing some soul searching we came up with the name and it’s a coincidence that Bebe’s wife happens to be one of the many Zuenas on earth. If you listen to the song keenly it has nothing to do with Bebe or even his wife.

Each day we hear artistes coming up with compositions comprising names of their choice. If today we decide to release a song titled Wahu, does it mean that it is directed to Nameless?

W: Nevertheless, if I were Bebe would be proud of the song because of its positive message, which he may have misunderstood.

P: How did the two of you meet?

R&W: At Leone Island where we worked as back-up artistes for Jose Chameleone in 2005. With time we decided to move on as a group and establish ourselves as Radio and Weasel.

P: What do you think of the local music industry?

R&W: We think that despite immense talent, Kenyan musicians lack competition. They are not aggressive as their Ugandan and Tanzanian counterparts.