Within the article Miss Minaj speaks of her pride for her T&T heritage and her intentions to work with a couple of the local big-name artistes.
“One thing I always do, and I’m gonna do more, is just say I’m from Trinidad.”
“But I do remember them playing a lot of Bob Marley when I was little,” she added. “I heard the accent. And my aunts would play a lot of calypso in the house. We would also go to Labor Day in New York.”
“I actually wanted to do a track with Destra and Machel for my album, but we didn’t get it together in time. I didn’t want to put them on something with me and dilute their true essence. I want it to be an authentic-sounding song. I went on the computer and I googled Machel’s stuff, and I really liked the song ‘Congo Man’.
(“Congo Man”, of course, is actually a version of the Mighty Sparrow’s 1965 classic, which Sparrow remade with Montano in 2008.)
“I will definitely work with them sometime soon. With Destra, I’ve never even spoken to her, but I always hear her and I love her voice. I ‘rep’ Trinidad proudly and once my album comes out, I think I’ll be in a better space to bring Trinidad to the world. You know, the music, the culture – everything.”
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