00:00Back to Marshall's press conference today now.
00:02The Soka icon also fielded questions during his media conference today
00:05about his performance at the state-managed Flavor Village
00:08at the Queen's Park Savannah on Carnival Friday, which was free to the public.
00:13I'll tell you this. We have not yet been paid.
00:18We have also agreed to wait until whenever.
00:23We have also paid our people who performed out of our pocket for that.
00:27And we understand the financial burden of the country right now.
00:33So we actually even went lower than a third of what we charge.
00:39Lower than a third, I can promise you that.
00:42Montana went into further details about his concert at the Flavor Village,
00:46which he said was a government initiative for the people
00:48who didn't have the opportunity to see Carnival.
00:52It's not like we could get up and mobilize our entire unit for free.
00:56People work for us, so we must get paid, because we have to pay those people.
01:01In those situations, we don't pay ourselves.
01:05So that's the system.
01:08And I think most of the artists across the board understood that.
01:12Because this was a government initiative that we saw
01:15that was actually doing something for the people
01:19who didn't have the opportunity to see Carnival.
01:26There were some artists who didn't have shows.
01:28That was helping them too.
01:31So why would we look at something that is doing good
01:35and not...
01:36If I had not performed,
01:38they would say Marshall Philly too good.
01:40To be sure there was nothing but there,
01:44there was something for the people,
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