gratitude is a must: the Koffee thread

pretty great! I kind of wish they'd actually done a real remix so it would feel a little more necessary, but Govana's verses are great. Good video too

NYC show pushed to September

Yep.
https://urbanislandz.com/2019/06/01/koffee-writing-songs-rihannas-dancehall-album/?fbclid=IwAR0Et2Q-M4q8qwu_6V10NpEQYdzXxuyYB2ViqTpuqAvR3DZwWZ7uEDjJsAw

as much as I want that to be true, I'm gonna stick with my believe when I see it approach to R9

Missed this completely, dropped a month ago: Koffee and Chronixx jumping on Sheeran & Bieber’s “I Don’t Care”...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V00H7l7BgN4

(wish they had left S&B’s vocals off completely, but still not a good song anyway)

So Burna and Koffee performed on Kimmel days apart? Missed opportunity if there ever was one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BtonHilG0E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQF69A3oGjM

Love this obvs

Very unexpected feature, but Gunna sounds good I think? Lyrics not exactly on point but whatever. Izy Beats has quite a resume building (he produced that nice Jorja Smith/Burna tune too).

Is she a fan of known coffee lovers The Descendents?

Attitude is a must
On our endless quest
To play hard, play fast
You must sacrifice

odd but enjoyable video for the Daniel Caesar "Cyanide" remix, gives her verse the spotlight and reduces exposure to Caesar's questionable pas-tois (though I basically dig the song):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnWdA_uwYU

really looking forward to her taking over in the coming decade

Apropos of her feature on the J Hus album:

when u hear the other tracks i did with her. KMT it’s looooooong ! https://t.co/M9stGiWj1y

— JAE5 (@JAE5_) January 24, 2020

She is awesome on that track (outshines J Hus imo!). It's funny how very slowly her and Burna Boy are moving toward appearing on the same song together. V pleased about Jae5's involvement in her album, assuming that's what's being implied here

So she won the Grammy last night, and coincidentally I happened to hear "Toast" on the radio and look her up right after she'd won. Late to the party, I know. Great track and the whole EP is good.

I made a joke on the Grammy thread, but it is genuinely cool that she won as I swear if there's a Marley nominated it literally always goes to them whoever the hell they are. Anyway: delighted you discovered Koffee

1st ever female reggae Grammy album winner

oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit this tiny desk is fire on contact
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/27/799347132/koffee-tiny-desk-concert

love the 70s studio rat sound on Rapture and absolutely love her vibe as a human
the backup singers rule too

they softened Toast a bit too much for me, but I really dug "W"

Was W originally written for Rihanna? I always get that impression when I listen to it for some reason.

do you mean the lyrics?

Lyrics, melody, hip hop adjacent toned down reggae sound, gunna feature, etc. It all sounds like something she (and the team) might have attempted to write for Rihanna but used themselves when she (or her team) turned it down. But it's just a hunch, nothing more

yeah I can kind of hear what you're hearing, though I think there might be a few too many word per bar for someone who's more of a singer than rapper. I have mentally filed that Rihanna "reggae" album under 'so not gonna happen' (of course I will be thrilled if it materializes)

Didn’t Rihanna “hire” her for exactly that purpose, or is that what you’re referring to?

yes there was a rumor (mentioned upthread iirc) about her being one of the many JA musicians said to be involved in the possibly mythical R9 "reggae" album

i am, as the kids say, "here" for a Rihanna/Koffee single in 2020

Well yeah

More realistically I am already there for a Koffee/ Burna Boy collab

Koffee-free content, still relevant:

Last night I dreamt I saw the new Rihanna video premiering on TV, and it was a South African-inspired dance track, supposedly amapiano, though from what I could pick up it didn’t really sound like that.

ha ha. W sounds like something someone like Koffee might have written if they wanted to make a 2020 Bitch better have my money/Work for her. If it was turned down it was probably because it's not as outright swaggy as those two are. But it's not too far off either. I'm sure Koffee would have added some words for her own version.
Anyway, W is one of the serios growers of late 19. It didn't make too much of an impression on me at first but it has staying power. I suspect it will be with us until summer at the very least, unless she drops something bigger inbetween.

*serious

finally a new tune!

"Lockdown":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSzv3K3Keyg

this rules

otm

get thee to the summer jams thread

so great, she makes it seem so effortless

I'm enjoying how massively beloved she is by the rest of the music community too. Popcaan making a silent cameo in this video, Aidonia has a line in a new song: it's a celebration, Koffee play "Toast"

banger

koffee is the god
lack of ppe/social distance in the video makes me nervous tho tbh

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/jamaica/

No need to be complacent of course

“Pressure”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2spuHgAt5g

I listened to this last night on the worst possible speakers -- glad to discover there is actually bass on it! It makes for a nice b-side to Lockdown

nice way of putting that it’s not as good as “Lockdown”!

lol true, it's definitely just "solid"* while "Lockdown" is already one of my faves for the year.
But I did also mean thematically it works as a mirror image of Lockdown's joy in freedom to touch, release from confinement, and being financially stable.

*tbrr though I'm glad she's still putting out straightforward reggae. As a genre partisan it's nice to have someone with such a high profile repping for it.

I know everyone knows this already but: koffee has the best voice in the world

otm XD

where will we GO

has it been mentioned yet that “Lockdown” is THE summer jam?

koffee is the god
lack of ppe/social distance in the video makes me nervous tho tbh

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), zaterdag 18 juli 2020 1:12 bookmarkflaglink

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/jamaica/

― rob, zaterdag 18 juli 2020 2:16 bookmarkflaglink

No need to be complacent of course

― rob, zaterdag 18 juli 2020 2:17 bookmarkflaglink

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/25/sport/usain-bolt-covid-19-coronavirus-birthday-spt-intl/index.html

good vibes are here again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvOABOa3IrU

yeah this is better than I gave it credit for on day one (didn't help that it was competing for my attention with the maximalist new Rema). There's something subtly sophisticated about how the production creates space(s) for her voice, but does so differently on every new track; the title track is particularly good at this but I hear it on Runaway and Where I'm From too. Very much agree about the flow too

one thing: if you are surprised to find yourself loving "Lonely" you should probably check out Chronixx if you haven't before :)

Being bedridden sick was probably not the best way to enjoy Koffee but I couldn't shake off the feeling that the last three previously released songs are still the strongest, followed by the two immediately before it. The impact of the album is completely overshadowed by the impact that the singles and EPs had.

Oh my wife is right, that is her singing "fiesta forever" (Lionel Richie quote) in the great song "West Indies." "Where I'm From" and "Locked Down" and a bunch of others are faves of mine also. Her best cuts have a pop catchiness but with rhythmic power that's not watered down.

Koffee is back to save us all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA32XOdGA0w

this is so so good, I really missed her <3

really beautifully bass-heavy production by GuiltyBeatz, intriguingly enough

should note she appears to be going by Original Koffee now, which might be necessary for finding this on yr streaming