Shaggy within the temper for carnival with new EP and music video
GRAMMY-award-winning artiste, producer, and songwriter Shaggy’s soca-inspired EP Within the Temper is about to be launched on Might 12.
The seven-track mission kicks off a brand new partnership with Shaggy’s label, Ranch Leisure, and VP Data.
For Within the Temper, Shaggy drew inspiration from the vibrancy of Caribbean Carnival celebrations and blended the fast-paced exuberance of Trinidad and Tobago’s soca music with trendy dancehall and EDM.
Led by the revelrous singles “Temper” that includes Trinidadian star Kes and “Don’t Run” with Vincentian singer Skinny Fabulous, the mission is about to gas events and parades from Port of Spain to Notting Hill.
In anticipation of the EP’s launch, Shaggy has as we speak unveiled a music video for “Temper,” directed by Maya Cozier. It options Shaggy and Kes taking part in fun-seeking mechanics, folks feteing within the streets, and the 2 artists acting at Kes’s IzWe Competition in Trinidad.
Within the Temper finds Shaggy enlisting expertise from throughout the Caribbean and its diaspora so as to add to the magic; fellow Jamaicans Konshens, Future Fambo, and Noah Powa provide some dancehall edge, whereas Trinidadian sensations Bunji Garlin, Kes, and Patrice Roberts, in addition to Skinny Fabulous, assist drive the mission into pure soca splendor.
Although Trinidad & Tobago Carnival has ended, Shaggy, managed by Martin Kierszenbaum/Cherrytree Music Firm, envisions his newest mission will preserve the get together going year-round: “From the beginning, I needed to seize the Carnival expertise in these seven songs, and whereas soca has traditionally been extra seasonal, Within the Temper gained’t be restricted to anybody season. Its hybrid sound may be performed anyplace and anytime folks wish to get pleasure from themselves.”
Within the Temper will likely be out there on all streaming platforms on Might 12 through Ranch Leisure /VP Data.