Cuban and Dadre

Cuban and Dadre 

 

“In 2010, Capsicum singer-songwriter Cuban Cohiba played me a song entitled “Don’t Cry” which he had recorded as a demo with Busyradio deejay Black Ice,” says Capsicum CEO and A&R Director Roger Meltzer. “I loved the hook but felt the track needed to come up a little in tempo and would also work better as a fusion of one-drop reggae in the chorus and dancehall in verses.

 

“In my mind I could just see Cuban making his seductive but unwelcome pitch to a recently-jilted woman who considers his timing completely insensitive when all she wants to do is tell him her tale of woe, and what he wants is....well, that’s obvious. To make the comical aspect of their different agendas work, I decided to write the woman's part in patois.

 

"Cuban was gracious enough to let me re-write the verses of the song and keep his chorus. Then I approached one of the most creative soca-dancehall-calypso producers I know, Joseph Everton "Reality” Weekes, and asked him to help me build the new track which he agreed to do.

“Now I also knew that Dadre, like Cuban, usually writes her own material. But I was very aware of Dadre’s DJ skills after hearing her work with our debut album’s co-producer Osborne “Ifield” Joseph, so I asked her if she would try the duet part working from my verse lyrics in patois and she graciously agreed to give it a shot.

 

“I’m still tinkering with the tune,” explaines Meltzer, "but I feel it’s time to let folks hear it for themselves.” 

 

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