Kenyan music group Matata who are based in Oslo, Norway have a few words of advice for their Kenyan counterparts, ditch Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) and get international publishers!
Taking to their official Instagram page the 5 member band shared their sentiments urging Kenyan artists to be smart and start earning their rightful dues instead of crying on social media on a daily.
Sharing to their over 44.4k followers the group took to their Instagram stories to write, "dear fellow Kenyan artists, you all can keep complaining about MCSK paying pennies or you can get yourself an international publisher."
The group went on to reveal that due to having a good and credible publisher who collects their royalties and hands in their rightful cut in the short span of 3 years that they have been in the industry they have made over 5 million in royalties.
"We have been in the scene for only 3 years and we have done made over 5M in publishing royalties! Stay woke!" The last part of their words of advice read.
A week ago, Kenya's biggest music band Sauti Sol threatened to exist from MCSK after they received peanuts for royalties
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Sauti Sol took issue with the Music Copyright Society of Kenya in what the band terms as the organization not appreciating Kenyan musicians.
In a tweet bashing MCSK posted on Tuesday, April 18, Sauti Sol threatened to withdraw its membership in the organization.
"We are going to withdraw our membership from the society as it does not serve our best interests entirely." The tweet read.
The group went on to angrily add "why does MCSK always act like they are doing Kenyan musicians a favor? Let's get a few things clear: 1) The royalties collected are NOT their direct income but yours.
They are working for you!2. They are supposed to distribute nothing less than 70% of all royalties collected to the members and provide credible statements of account to that effect.
They can NOT operate without a license. So the question is, do they have a license from KECOBO or not?"
A week before that, MCSK began distributing royalties owed to Kenyan musicians, Sauti Sol's Bien revealed he'd received only 14 thousand shillings on his M-Pesa.
He posted a screen grab of the text on his Instagram page mocking MCSK as he revealed how he couldn't wait to spoil himself with his hard earned money.
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