Bien-Aimé Baraza, one-fourth member of the award-winning group Sauti Sol has come out to give major props to Khaligraph Jones for his professionalism.
Bien-Aimé Baraza professionally known by his mononym Bien jumped in a recording booth with Khaligraph Jones a couple of months ago and recorded ‘Yes Bana’ where he sang the hook of the hit record.
The record became an instant hit and success almost becoming synonymous to Arsenal fans in East Africa thanks to Khaligraph Jones’ lyrics on the song.
Talking with the legendary gospel lyricist rapper A-Star –real name Richard Njau– on his CTA(Cleaning the Airwaves) podcast, Bien disclosed that Khaligraph Jones sent him a whopping KShs. 300,000 for his role on the ‘Yes Bana’ record.
Khaligraph Jones paid him after the song became successful.
The Sauti Sol hunk went further to explain that the money sent out to him by the ‘Ojuelegba Refix’ hitmaker was a mere token as an appreciation for jumping on the same record with the rapper.
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Bien-Aimé Baraza confessed that Khaligraph Jones was and is the only Kenyan artiste who has sent him KShs. 300,000 via mobile money. Nobody prior to the OG has ever sent him such an amount of money via mobile money.
“OG is the first artist to send me Sh300,000 via mobile money. He called me and said he would send the cash from the revenues which it had earned,” Bien-Aimé Baraza who got nothing but love and appreciation to Khaligraph Jones said in part.
Bien went to liken Khaligraph Jones to a typical Kenyan man who sent out their money in batches to save the little they can in sending fees. Khaligraph Jones sent him the KShs. 300,000 in batches of Kshs. 50,000 each directly into his account.
“He is such a Kenyan stereotype so he sent the money from his phone. He asked for my account number and wired it in batches of Sh50,000. He is like those debtors that pay you in hundreds,” Bien joked.
Prior to Bien-Aimé working on a project with Khaligraph Jones back one year ago, Khaligraph Jones worked with Sauti Sol on their ‘Rewind’ hit record three years ago.
Since then, Khaligraph Jones has worked with Bien-Aimé on three songs together; ‘Rewind’, ‘Yes Bana’, and Nviiri the Storyteller’s hit record ‘Birthday Song’ that features Sauti Sol and Khaligraph Jones.
Bien-Aimé is really keen on making sure that his studio projects pays dividends at the end of the hard work behind every record and that might be the reason why he considers every record they put out as a “real estate” that pays handsomely every other month, he told A-Star this on his interview with the rapper.
“In the 100 million-plus streams that we have for ‘Midnight Train’, ‘Suzzana’ has a good 42 million, it is the song that pays the bills but there are other songs that ink deals here and there.
As a musician, your real estate and wealth is in your intellectual property. Understand it and put out a lot of art,” Bien shared.
In case you missed the official music video for ‘Yes Bana’, watch and stream it underneath:
