A collabo should outlive it's own hype. It should build a legacy.

This is Vay Skai.... Follow her on Facebook page @vayskai and @dopethekenlegacy and see what we built in the past decade.

Collaborations must build legacies. Not just hype. Respect the female  you work with. Respect your self.

One wrong move and you drown. I’ve watched great artists fall because of it. That’s why I’m teaching upcoming artists as well as label leaders how to do it right.

Learn from the success story of *Vay Skai*, Head of _The Legacy_, Bulawayo’s leading modelling movement.

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In the photo with Carnot is Vay Skai aka Mia — multi-award winning model, artist, choreographer, and the first female to join Skynet Empire in 2015. 

2016: After winning _Best Female Artist award_ in Matabeleland North, Vay and I created the song "Dope Theken"

The track hit stages across Bulawayo: performed in Club 263,  Palace Hotel, Esqongweni Tavern, Windermere Hotel, Barbourfields Stadium, White City Youth Arena  and more. 

From that song, we built Dope Theken Legacy — a dance squad where every dancer was also a model and knew how to hype a crowd on stage and online.  

Between 2016-2018, Dope Theken Legacy was our choreography squad for every show. Night after night, we set venues ablaze. Daily, we dropped content online.

Vay became the female face of Skynet Empire. Yes, there were over 20 gifted women in Skynet Empire, but I chose *brains and character over looks and talent*. Vay was the all-rounder. She learnt music production, editing, and every skill needed in the studio. On stage she could lead the Dope Theken dancers or go solo and take money home.

Before I left Bulawayo for Mutare to build more female brands, I told Vay: “It’s time to fly on your own.”

She did. Vay flew higher after I left.

Today, Vay Skai runs The Legacy on her own. From a 17-year-old school leaver doing songs  to a powerful woman shaping Bulawayo’s creative scene through modelling. We celebrate Vay as a template for success. A legend was raised.

Big thanks to every professional in Skynet Empire who worked as a team mwmber to lift these trophies.

This is what real collaboration looks like: you build something that outlives the song, the show, the moment. More than 10 years later, it’s still standing.

Here's one Golden Rule that most men fail to follow and because of that they destroyed their businesses and lost everything:

Never date your colleagues or become intimate with them 

....it's that one rule I follow. I may seem cold hearted but this rule built me an empire.

Over the past decade, we didn’t just build competent female professionals and brands, we learnt a lot from the experience. 

We turned  from a record label into an academy that produces elites, influential men and women who are now leading in societies.

We're greatful, the government recently recognised our meritocracy mandate as we promoted female talent in schools. In 2025, Ministry Of Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture (MORSAC) in Manicaland blessed us with an award. 

More collaborations to talk about:

_The Nothandoes, Madam Ngoda, Ambitious, Miss Shelly, Lia Sheng, Trishy Charts, Nashel, Sheritaf, Queen Raindrop, Blush, Tyra, and many more._