Kenyan gengetone singer Coco Juma who is part of the Sailors Gang now says that fans and everyone, in general, have underrated their music genre.
Coco said that gengetone artists are trying to do their best but they are not appreciated or even recognized.
In an interview with Plug TV, Coco says that since they joined the record label, the only benefit they received was a phone and nothing more than that.
"I fear no one, I only fear God and that is why I am speaking the truth. Kenyan artists are suffering so much. The government does not care about our careers. All these artists' dreams have been shattered by this record label and the management," Coco said.
"Since we joined the record label, the only benefit we ever received was a phone. It was the company that looked for us. That was the only time I felt good as an artist," an emotional Coco said.
Juma said that the Sailors Gang is still together but cannot work on any project as a gang. "We have been suffering from way back. We will one day do a song together again because we believe that God has good plans for us," he said.
According to Coco, music is music and should not have any language boundaries as it is a universal language in itself.
"People have been saying that gengetone music is dead. What I can say is that the people saying that are the same people fighting against our success. They are not God to foresee our future," Coco.
Advising Kenyansthe rapper said, "Most artists especially gengetone artists use drugs, it is not because they want to. It is because they are facing frustration. we are suffering. Don't see a mad person in the streets and start laughing or judging, you should know that there is something they have gone through to place them at that level."
Critics of the Kenyan music industry have since the inception of the Gengetone music in 2018, continuously bashed the genre, some terming it as merely local content.
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