![]() “I remain grateful to TT and to all the opportunities it has given me. Her constant work has opened the doors to many collaborations with local artistes that will come to light this year. But in the midst of the chaos we found a way to go after them and I'm so glad to be a part of all of that.” With this we have realised the great amount of talent that exists here and we want to be a channel for all these young people to follow their dreams, since as immigrants our situation is different, we had to put everything aside to work and improve our future. “We also have a space for singers to present their songs and show their talent. Maaya Real seeks to continue growing within local music and is creating, together with the Los Insoportables crew, a movement of Latin hip-hop culture in TT with the so-called "street combat," where young people from different parts of the island come to measure themselves in freestyle battles and show who is the best. Maaya Real: “Mojito is a song dedicated to my people from the Caribbean who are opening the doors for us and teaching us beautiful things in life.” “Definitely local production and of which we feel very proud for its scope,” she said. “Together with the entire Real team we put on our best show and showed that we live for music,” she said,Īmong her recent songs, the release of her video Fake Love stands out, It's a song written about love that is not real and hurts. Maaya Real was part of the opening of the first Latin music festival held in TT – Fiesta Latina with the presentation of Nacho. It has good reach on digital platforms, we also premiered our first new local artist collaboration video Gun on my Hip featuring Miserebel. “Many things have happened in the last two years, I premiered several important projects such as Mikaela which was a collaboration with two international artistes Armoniko Soul and Dilinyer, a quite ambitious project that was recorded entirely in TT under the production by Louispapi films and Jpromediatt. ![]() It was uploaded to the group’s YouTube channel in March 2014, and has over 5 million views and over 47 thousand likes as of April 2019.Venezuelan singer Maaya Real launches her single Mojito. The music video was directed by Jim Swaffield and features the group lip-synching the track in alleyways and s giant “IT” sculpture in a white room. The upbeat hip-hop /slow pop track adds an uplifting easy going mood, as well as lyrically being fairly upbeat with the band showing off their musical talents. So Lou Reed, instead of saying no altogether, he was like, ‘Yeah, nice! Give me the motherf**king money.’ Like Smokey in Friday.” The song tackles issues around New York politics – referencing David Dinkins in the track, who was New York’s first and only black Mayor in history. Anita Baker don’t let nobody use her sh*t, period. “So Lou Reed could have easily said, ‘Oh yeah, a rap group use my sh*t? Alright.’ No. Here’s what happened – and I take back saying ‘F**k Lou Reed,’ because Lou Reed has every right to say ‘Give me my motherf**king money,’” he told an audience in the UK. ![]() ![]() Because we didn’t see no money from that f**kin’ record yet. ““That was on our first album and the sample is Lou Reed. The band members consisted of MC and primary producer Q-Tip, MC Phife Dawg, DJ and co-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad and MC Jarobi White, and were 19 when the song was originally recorded in 1989.Īs the track samples some of Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side”, Phife Dawg spoke to an audience in the UK back in 2011 about the profits from the track. The third single from hip-hip collective “A Tribe Called Quest” shows off “Can I Kick It?” on their debut album “People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm”, released in 1990. ![]()
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