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Both of your songs last year<br />
were awesome and they carried<br />
poignant messages. How did you arrive at<br />
those choices?<br />
'Your King Already Reigning' was on repeat<br />
in my head for an entire week. I tried getting<br />
a melody for it. I went to the tent leader and I<br />
told him I don’t have a song as yet but my<br />
first sense was to do a calypso review. Sadly,<br />
the tent leader passed away that same year<br />
so I moved to the South Tent.<br />
The leader there told me he’ll give me a few<br />
writers to hear what they have. He said my<br />
song doesn’t sound too bad but to keep<br />
checking. It might not be the one so he gave<br />
me Mr. Trescot aka Sucu. He told me he<br />
doesn’t like to write for people so just give<br />
them a song, he prefer going with what they<br />
like. I told him I have something but I don’t<br />
know what he'll think about it.<br />
I sent him the chorus of the song and he fell<br />
in love with it. He said, "Wow! I need<br />
somebody who is thinking on the same<br />
wavelength with you. I’ll have the verses for<br />
you by the end of the week." By the next day<br />
he sent me the verses. So this one was a<br />
collaboration between myself and himself.<br />
WOW! Talk about "Your King Already<br />
Reigning' what's the message there?<br />
I think the song met its purpose, it had<br />
people thinking. I really didn’t go there to<br />
beat them down. I was just asking for a fair<br />
chance and I just wanted people to see that,<br />
hey, we have the potential but if you don’t<br />
treat us the right way the art form will<br />
die. We will get discouraged and we will stay<br />
out.
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